Folklore & society : essays in honor of Benj. A. Botkin

Author(s)

• Jackson, Bruce
• Botkin, Benjamin Albert

Bibliographic Information

Folklore & society : essays in honor of Benj. A. Botkin

edited by Bruce Jackson

Richard West, 1980, c1966

Note

Riprint. Originally published: Hatboro, Pa. : Folklore Associates , 1966

Includes unacc. melodies

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-192)

Contents of Works

• The folkness of the non-folk vs. the non-folkness of the folk / Charles Seeger
• Folk music, old and new / Willard Rhodes
• The question of folklore in a new nation / Richard M. Dorson
• The ballad scholar and the long-playing record / Kenneth S. Goldstein
• A sampling of bawdy ballads from Ontario / Edith Fowke
• Plugging, nailing, wedging, and kindred folk medicinal practices / Wayland D. Hand
• Negro minstrelsy and Shakespearean burlesque / Charles Haywood
• John Henry / MacEdward Leach
• Some child ballads on hillbilly records / Judith McCulloh
• Slavic influences in Yiddish folksong / Ruth Rubin
• Cents and nonsense in the urban folksong movement : 1930-1966 / Ellen Stekert

• NCID: BA91563699
• LCCN: 66028319
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: [Philadelphia]
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 192 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GR70
  • DC : 781.7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Folklore -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : Folk music -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : Botkin, Benjamin Albert, 1901-