| Description |
x, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-271) and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. One Biographical Backgrounds And Folklore Contexts -- "In the beginning lore and literature were one": B. A. Botkin's Literary Legacy / Lawrence Rodgers -- Lore for the Folk: Benjamin A. Botkin and the Development of Folklore Scholarship in America / Ronna Lee Widner (Sharpe) -- "Ben Botkin Bulldozer": Toward a Reassessment of A Treasury of American Folklore / Jerrold Hirsch -- Benjamin A. Botkin (1901-1975) / Bruce Jackson -- Obituary: Benjamin Albert Botkin, 1901-1975 / Ellen J. Stekert -- Growing Up in Folklore: A Conversation with Ben Botkin's Children / Daniel Botkin -- pt. Two Botkin And His Contemporaries -- "Twistification": Work and Friendship between Two Pioneers of the Folk Revival, Benjamin A. Botkin and Ruth Crawford Seeger / Judith Tick -- Benjamin Botkin and Play-Party Scholarship in America / Nancy Cassell McEntire |
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Of Philosophy and the Folk: Intersections in the Thought of Charles Seeger and Benjamin Botkin / Taylor Greer -- No "urbanized fake folk thing": Benjamin Botkin, Sterling Brown, and "Ma Rainey" / Steven B. Shively -- Reading Sterling A. Brown through the Alembic of Benjamin A. Botkin and Folk-Say / John Edgar Tidwell -- pt. Three Botkin In His Own Words -- Essays -- Intimate Notebook: City Summer (1934) -- Introduction to the Folk-Say Series (1935) -- Regionalism: Cult or Culture? (1936) -- WPA and Folklore Research: "Bread and Song" (1939) -- Paul Bunyan Was OK in His Time (1946) -- Applied Folklore: Creating Understanding through Folklore (1953) -- Poems -- Vernal Equinox (1926) -- Sanctuary (1926) -- Spectacle (1927) -- Going to the Store (1928) -- Track Lover (1929) -- Classroom (1929) -- Home Town (1930) -- Meteor (1930) -- Highway West (1937). |
| Subject |
Botkin, Benjamin Albert, 1901-1975.
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Botkin, Benjamin Albert, 1901-1975. |
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Folklorists -- United States -- Biography.
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Folklorists. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Folklore -- United States.
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Folklore. |
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United States -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Rodgers, Lawrence R. (Lawrence Richard), 1960-
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Hirsch, Jerrold, 1948-
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| ISBN |
9780806141114 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0806141115 hardcover alkaline paper |
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