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Title Between the Cracks of History / Francis Edward Abernethy, editor ; Carolyn Fiedler Satterwhite, assistant editor ; illustrations by Cynthia Fisher.

Publication Info. Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 1997.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019.
©1997.

Item Status

Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; 55
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; 55.
Contents Between the cracks of history -- Classroom definitions of folklore / F.E. Abernethy -- Defining folklore for my students / Joyce Roach -- Folklore and cinema / Jim Harris -- Toward a definition of folk culture / Joe S. Graham -- Folklore fieldwork on the Internet : some ethical and practical considerations / Jan Roush -- Beginning within : teaching folklore the easy way / Rhett Rushing -- Honored dead : the ritual of police burial / Phyllis Bridges -- Meaner than Hell! / Kenneth W. Davis -- Gang graffiti / Ken Untiedt -- Gideon Lincecum, "Killie Krankie," and fiddling in early Texas / Chris Goertzen -- Bluebird mare from Sterling City / Patrick Dearen -- Night the stars fell / Robert J. Duncan -- Rail tales : some are true / Charlie Oden -- Dance halls of East Texas : from oral history / Dennis Read and Bobby Nieman -- Oil field camp / James Winfrey -- Noises in the attic : adventures of some Texas ghosts / Allan Turner and Richard Stewart -- Repo man / John Lightfoot -- Tex-Mex dialect, or, Gidget goes to Acuna / Rebecca Cornell -- Punching sticks, flannel wrapped bricks, and pink powder purgatives : spring rituals / Ernestine Sewell Linck -- When Harley Sadler's tent show came to town / J.G. Pinkerton -- Eating over the sink and other marital strategies / James Ward Lee.
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Summary Annotation Six essays discuss definitions and explanations of folklore, and methods of teaching it. Then 15 additional essays explore Texas folklore related to such topics as police burials, gang graffiti, fiddling, ghosts, dance halls, oil fields, spring rituals, and the dialect spoken along the border between Texas and Mexico. Numerous illustrations and black-and-white photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Local Note Project Muse Project Muse Open Access
Subject Folklore -- Study and teaching.
Folklore.
Folklore -- Étude et enseignement.
Folklore.
Folklore -- Texas.
Texas.
Folklore -- Study and teaching.
Genre/Form Folk literature.
Folk literature.
Folklore.
Electronic books. .
Added Author Satterwhite, Carolyn Fiedler.
Abernethy, Francis Edward.
Project Muse, distributor.
ISBN 9781574410365
1574410369