Recently added articles from Western Folklore:
Musical Tradition and the Crisis of Place: Reform Jewish Songleading, Shabbat Shirah, and the New Dining Hall
Oct 01, 2008; ... In June 2000, the songleading tradition at Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute (OSRUI) - a Reform Jewish summer camp in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin - received a jolt. Over the previous half century, the camp's Friday evening song session, called Shabbat Shirah, had become a crucial part of the campers' ...
Local Concerns, Foreign Heroes: George Washington in Israel
Oct 01, 2008; ... It is mid-winter at Valley Forge. Everyone is cold. Frostbite is widespread. Everyone has given up hope. George Washington is depressed. One night, looking for inspiration, George goes for a walk through the camp. He finds one Jewish member of the Continental Army lighting the haunkkiya. . . ....
Musical Trafficking: Urban Youth and The Narcocorrido-Hardcore Rap Nexus
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Beginning in the 1980s, ballads about the illicit drug trade known as narcocorridos became hugely popular in both Mexico and the U.S., where they continue to receive extensive airplay on Spanish-language radio stations. Most discussions of the narcocorrido phenomenon-whether ...
Mirrored Archetypes: The Contrasting Cultural Roles of La Malinche and Pocahontas
Oct 01, 2008; ... As teenagers they played pivotal roles in early contact between European and indigenous American cultures. Both mothered sons that became among the first documented children of mixed European/ Indian ancestry. Neither is believed to have survived until age 30 and most remember these women by ...
Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco
Oct 01, 2008; ... Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco. By Dorothy Noyes. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Pp. x + 326, introduction, maps, photographs, illustration, notes, bibliography, index, acknowledgments. $55.00 cloth, $22.50 paper) This is a fine-grained ...
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: The Book of Scary Urban Legends
Oct 01, 2008; ... Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: The Book of Scary Urban Legends. By Jan Harold Brunvand. (New York: Norton, 2004. Pp. 256, introduction, illustrations. $13.95 paper) Jan Brunvand 's latest volume brings to ten the number of collections of urban legends he has published, beginning with The ...
Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight: Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture
Oct 01, 2008; ... Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight: Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture. By Carol Burke. (Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. Pp. xix + 264, preface, photograph, illustrations, bibliography, acknowledgments, notes, index. $26.00 cloth, $19.00 paper) In Camp ...
Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture
Oct 01, 2008; ... Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture. By John Szwed. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Pp. 283, introduction, notes, bibliography, index, acknowledgments. $47.50 cloth) Crossovers assembles in one volume a collection of thirty essays written over ...
Listening for a Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories
Oct 01, 2008; ... Listening for a Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories. By Patricia Sawin. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 254, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95 paper) In Listening for a ...
The Marrow of Human Experience: Essays on Folklore
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Marrow of Human Experience: Essays on Folklore. By William A. Wilson. Edited by Jill Terry Rudy. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006). Pp. vi + 322, acknowledgments, introduction, author's published works, bibliography, contributors, index. $24.95 paper) It is an honor to ...
Desert Patriarchy: Mormon and Mennonite Communities in the Chihuahua Valley
Oct 01, 2008; ... Desert Patriarchy: Mormon and Mennonite Communities in the Chihuahua Valley. By Janet Bennion. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. Pp xvii + 207, preface, acknowledgments, photographs, maps, chart, notes, bibliography, index, $45.00 cloth) In the promisingly titled Desert ...
Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives
Oct 01, 2008; ... Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives. By Maria Tatar. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 250, introduction, illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 cloth, $17.95 paper) Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and ...
Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment
Oct 01, 2008; ... Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment. By Renée Ann Cramer. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. Pp. xxi + 234, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 cloth) Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of ...
Native American Placenames of the United States
Oct 01, 2008; ... Native American Placenames of the United States. By William Bright. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. Pp. xviii + 600, acknowledgments, pronunciation guide, introduction, bibliography. $59.95 cloth, $29.95 paper) William Bright's Native American Placenames of the United States ...
Suddenly They Heard Footsteps: Storytelling for the Twenty-First Century
Oct 01, 2008; ... Suddenly They Heard Footsteps: Storytelling for the Twenty-First Century. By Dan Yashinsky. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004. Pp. xviii + 318, acknowledgments, preface, appendix, bibliography. $50.00 cloth, $25.00 paper) The blurb on the back cover of Dan Yashinsky's ...
Bodies: Sex, Violence, Disease and Death in Contemporary Legend
Oct 01, 2008; ... Bodies: Sex, Violence, Disease and Death in Contemporary Legend. By Gillian Bennett. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. Pp. xvi + 313, acknowledgments, preface, introduction, notes, bibliographies, index. $45.00 cloth); Organ Theft Legends. By Veronique CampionVincent. (Jackson: ...
Ethnicity without Groups
Oct 01, 2008; ... Ethnicity without Groups. By Rogers Brubaker. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. ? + 284, acknowledgments, introduction, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $47.50 cloth, $22.95 paper) Rogers Brubaker's Ethnicity without Groups offers, in eight self-contained chapters, an ...
Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of Algonquian Literatures of North America
Oct 01, 2008; ... Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of Algonquian Literatures of North America. Ethted by Brian Swann. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Pp xxx + 532, introduction, chapter notes and bibliographies, index. $34.95 paper) Brian Swann's Algonquian Spirit finishes a ...
Inside the Classroom (and Out): How We Learn through Folklore
Oct 01, 2008; ... Inside the Classroom (and Out): How We Learn through Folklore. Edited by Kennedi L. Untiedt. Publications of the Texas Folklore Society LXII. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2005. Pp. xiv + 322, preface, photographs, illustrations, index. $29.95cloth) The twenty-five essays in ...
Living Folklore: An Introduction to the Study of People and Their Traditions
Oct 01, 2008; ... Living Folklore: An Introduction to the Study of People and Their Traditions. By Martha C. Sims and Martine Stephens. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv + 296, acknowledgments, preface, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $26.95 cloth) A common complaint about ...