San Antonio College Library

Selection of tales, songs, riddles, proverbs and other items of folklore from seven regional cultures of the U.S.A.

"Although folklore has been collected for centuries, its possible unconscious content and significance have been explored only since the advent of psychoanalytic theory. Freud and some of his early disciples recognized the potential of such folkloristic genres as myth, folktale, and legend to illuminate the intricate workings of the human psyche. In this volume Alan Dundes, a renowned folklorist who has successfully devoted the better part of his...

Exploring the scope, diversity, and vitality of black culture, here is a fascinating collection of more than sixty articles from some of the most perceptive and authoritative commentators upon the black experience--Zora Neale Hurston, J. Mason Brewer, Sterling A. Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, Willis Laurence James, John Lovell Jr., Langston Hughes, Charles W. Chesnutt, Alan Lomax, Ralph Ellison, A. Philip Randolph, Newbell Niles Puckett, Roger D. Abrahams,...

This book is the compilation of the stories from the Virginia Works Progress Administration who went out "among the coves and hollows of the Appalachian Mountains and record the beliefs, superstitions and traditions of the mountain folk."

"Why do people hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the proliferation of mass culture would eliminate traditions, particularly in America. But modern cultural practices constantly invoke tradition for the development of identity, heritage, and community. In Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture, Simon J. Bronner discusses the underlying reasons for the continuing popularity of traditions, delving into...

Selections are from eighty-three years of the Journal of American Folklore.

"Encompasses folk literature, folk-life, and folk speech, with twenty-seven folk melodies and a complete section of tales about twelve legendary figures including Casey Jones, Daniel Boone and Johnny Appleseed"--Jacket. Also covers folk poetry, riddles, superstitions, proverbs, games, and festivals.