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Suggested Readings

List compiled by the faculty of the Folklore and Ethnomusicology Institutes at Indiana University, and intended as a representative sample of scholarship rather than as a definitive collection of titles.

• Folklore Readings: Reference tools

A. Bibliographic, encyclopedias, dictionaries, guides....

Aarne, Arti, and Stith Thompson . Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography . Tr. and enl. by Stith Thompson. Academia Scientarum Fennica, 1961.

Bauman, Richard ed. Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments: A Communications-Centered Handbook. Oxford University, 1992.

Brown, Mary Ellen and Bruce Rosenberg eds. Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature . ABC-CLIO, 1998.

Brunvand, Jan. American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1996.

Brunvand, Jan. Encyclopedia of Urban Legends . ABC-CLIO, 2001.

Carnes, Pack. Fable Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography . Garland, 1985.

Davey, Gwenda.   Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore . Oxford University, 1993.

Dorson, Richard M. ed.   Handbook of American Folklore . Indiana University, 1983.

El-Shamy, Hasan, Folk Traditions of the Arab World: a Guide to Motif Classification , 2 vols., Indiana University, 1995.

El-Shamy, Hasan. Types of the Folktale in the Arab World: A demographically Oriented Approach . Indiana University, 2004.

Enzyklopädie des Märchens: Handwörterbuch zur historischen und vergleichenden erzählforschung. Ed. by Kurt Ranke et al. Walter de Gruyter 1977-.

Feintuch, Burt ed. Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture. University of Illinois, 2003.  

Garry, Jane and Hasan El-Shamy ed. Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Resource . M.E. Sharpe, 2005.

Gibbs, Laura, trans. and comm. Aesop's Fables . Oxford University, 2002.

Green, Thomas ed. Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Belief, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art . 2 vols. ABC-CLIO, 1997.

Hansen, William. Ariadne's Thread: A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical Literature . Cornell University, 2002.

Hansen, William. Handbook of Classical Mythology . ABC-CLIO, 2004.

Hultkrantz, Ake ed.   General Ethnological Concepts: The International Dictionary of Regional European Ethnology and Folklore. Vol. 1. Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1960.

Internationale Volkskundliche Bibliographie/International Folklore Bibliography , 1917--.

Leach, Maria ed. Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend. Harper and Row, 1972.

Lindahl, Carl, John McNamara, and John Lindow, eds. Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs . 2 vols. ABC-CLIO, 2000.

Mieder, Wolfgang.   International Proverb Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography: Supplement I (1800-1981). Garland, 1990.

MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures. vol. V: Folklore. Modern Language Association of America, 1981-.

Niles, Susan. South American Indian Narrative, Theoretical and Analytical Approaches : An Annotated             Bibliography . Garland, 1981.

Richmond, W. Edson, Ballad Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography . Garland, 1989.

Taft, Michael (ed.), The Centennial Index: One Hundred Years of the Journal of American Folklore , 1988.

Thompson, Stith.    Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Medieval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books and Local Legends. 6 vols. Indiana University, 1955-58.

Wildhaber, Robert ed.   International Folklore and Folklife Bibliography. R. Haberlt, etc., 1929-.

B. Journals

(1) folkloristic

Children's Folklore Review
Fabula
Folklore (UK)
Folklore Forum
Indiana Folklore
Journal of American Folklore
Journal of Folklore Research
Journal of Latin American Lore
Midwestern Folklore
Oral Tradition
Southern Folklore (Southern Folklore Quarterly)
Western Folklore

(2) related fields

American Anthropologist
Anthropological Linguistics
Ethnomusicology
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Language in Society
Poetics Today
Text and Performance Quarterly

• Folklore Readings: Theory and Method

A. Textbooks, general works

Bascom, William Russell ed.   Frontiers of Folklore. Westview, 1977.

Ben-Amos, Dan ed.   Folklore Genres. University of Texas, 1976.

Ben-Amos, Dan and Kenneth Goldstein eds. Folklore: Performance and Communication. Mouton, 1975.

Botkin, Benjamin ed.   A Treasury of American Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People. Crown Publishers, 1944.

Brunvand, Jan.   The Study of American Folklore: An Introduction. W. W. Norton, 1968.

Child, Francis James.   The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Ed. by Helen Child Sargent and George Lyman Kittredge. Houghton Mifflin, 1932.

Child, Frances James. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads . 5vols. Boston: Houghton and Mifflin, 1882-1898.

Dolby, Sandra.   Self-Help Books: Why Americans Keep Reading Them . University of Illinois, 2005.

Dundes, Alan, ed. International Folkloristics: Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore. Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.

Dundes, Alan ed..   The Study of Folklore. Prentice-Hall, 1965.

Georges, Robert. Folkloristics: An Introduction . Indiana University, 1995.

Oring, Elliott ed. Folk Groups and Folklore Genres:   An Introduction . Utah State University, 1986.

Oring, Elliott. Folk Groups and Folk Genres: A Reader . Utah State University, 1989.

Toelken, Barre.    The Dynamics of Folklore. Houghton Mifflin, 1979.

B. Anthologies, collections of essays

Abrahams, Roger and Richard Bauman eds .   "And Other Neighborly Names:" Social Process and Cultural Image in Texas Folklore . University of Texas, 1981.

Bascom, William ed.   African Art in Cultural Perspective; An Introduction . W. W. Norton, 1973.

Basso, Ellen ed .   Native Latin American Cultures through Their Discourse . Special Publications of the Folklore Institute, no. 1. Bloomington, 1990.

Bauman, Richard, and Joel Sherzer eds .   Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking. Cambridge University, 1974.

Dorson, Richard ed.   Folklore and Folklife: A Introduction. University of Chicago, 1972.

Farrer, Claire ed.   Women and Folklore. University of Texas, 1975.

Frisbie, Charlotte ed.   Southwestern Indian Ritual Drama. University of New Mexico, 1980.

Green, Archie ed. Songs of Work. Special Publications of the Folklore Institute,   no. 3. Bloomington, 1993.

Hand, Wayland ed.   American Folk Legend: A Symposium. University of California, 1971.

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara ed. Speech Play: Research and Resources for the Study of Linguistic Creativity. University of Pennsylvania, 1976.

Paredes, Américo. Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border . Edited with an Introduction by Richard Bauman. University of Texas Press for the Center for Mexican-American Studies, 1993.

Sebeok, Thomas ed. Style in Language . MIT, 1960

Sutton-Smith, Brian et al. eds. Children's Folklore: A Source Book . Garland, 1995. [Reissued by Utah State, 1999].

C. Theory and technique

Abrahams, Roger. The Man-of-Words in the West Indies: Performance and the Emergence of Creole Culture . Johns             Hopkins University, 1983.

Bauman, Richard.   Verbal Art as Performance . Newbury House Publishers, 1977.

Bauman, Richard. A World of Other's Words: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Intertextuality . Blackwell, 2004.

Bausinger, Herman.   Folk Culture in a World of Technology. Tr. by Elke Dettmer.   Indiana University, 1990.

Briggs, Charles.   Competence in Performance: The Creativity of Tradition in Mexicano Verbal Art.   University of Pennsylvania, 1988.

Degh, Linda. American Folklore and the Mass Media . Indiana University, 1994.

Dorson, Richard .   American Folklore. University of Chicago, 1959.

Dorson, Richard.   American Folklore and the Historian. University of Chicago, 1971.

Dorson, Richard.   Folklore and Fakelore:   Essays Toward a Discipline of Folk Studies. Harvard University, 1976.

Dundes, Alan. The Morphology of North American Indian Folktales .   Helsinki, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia [sold by Akateeminen Kirjakauppa] 1964.

Dundes, Alan.   Interpreting Folklore. Indiana University, 1980.

El-Shamy, Hasan.   Brother and Sister.   Type 872*:   A Cognitive Behavioristic Text Analysis of a Middle Eastern Oikotype. Folklore Publications Group, Indiana University, 1979.

Fine, Elizabeth.   The Folklore Text: From Performance to Print. Indiana University, 1984.

Foley, John Miles. How to Read an Oral Poem . University of Illinois, 2002.

Foley, John Miles. The Singer of Tales in Performance . Indiana University, 1995.

Gilet, Peter. Vladimir Propp and the Universal Folktale : Recommissioning an Old Paradigm--Story as Initiation . Peter Lang, 1998.   

Herzfeld, Michael.   Ours Once More: Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece. University of Texas, 1982.

Hobsbawm, Eric and Terrence Ranger eds.   The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge University, 1983.

Honko,   Lauri ed. Thick Corpus, Organic Variation and Textuality in Oral Tradition . Studia Fennica Folkloristica 7. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2000.

Hufford, David .   The Terror That Comes in the Night: An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions. University of Pennsylvania, 1982.

Janelli, Roger, with Dawnhee Yim. Making Capitalism: The Social and Cultural Construction of a South Korean Conglomerate . Stanford University, 1993.

Kapchan, Deborah. Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition .             University of Pennsylvania, 1996.

Krohn, Kaarle. Folklore Methodology . University of Texas, 1971.

Lawless, Elaine.   Holy Women, Wholly Women: S haring Ministries of Wholeness through Life Stories and Reciprocal Ethnography . University of Pennsylvania, 1993.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. The Raw and the Cooked. Harper and Row, 1969.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. The Savage Mind . University of Chicago, 1966.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude.   The Origin of Table Manners . J. Cape, 1978.

Limón, José. Dancing the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas . University of Wisconsin, 1994.

Lord, Albert B. The Singer of Tales . 2nd edition, edited by Stephen Mitchell & Gregory Nagy. Harvard University, 2000.

Paredes, Américo and Richard Bauman eds.   Toward New Perspectives in Folklore. University of Texas,   1972.   [Re-issued   by Trickster Press, 2000].

Propp, Vladimir. The Morphology of the Folktale. Ed. with an introd. by Svatava Pirkov-Jakobson, tr. by Laurence Scott. Indiana University, 1968.

Schrempp, Gregory.   Magical Arrows: The Maori, the Greeks, and the Folklore of the Universe. University of Wisconsin, 1992.

Stewart, Susan.    Nonsense:   Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature. Johns Hopkins University, 1979.

Stewart, Susan. Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation . Duke University, 1994.

Weigle, Marta .   Creation and Procreation: Feminist Reflections on Mythologies of Cosmogony and Parturition. University of Pennsylvania, 1989.

Wilson, William.   Folklore and Nationalism in Modern Finland.   Indiana University, 1976.

D. History of folkloristic thought

Bauman, Richard and Charles Briggs. Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Production of Social Inequality . Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2003.

Boatright, Mody.   Mody Boatright, Folklorist: A Collection of Essays. Ed. by Ernest Speck. University of Texas, 1973.

Bronner, Simon.    American Folklore Studies: An Intellectual History. University Press of Kansas, 1986.  

Brown, Mary Ellen. T he Bedsman and the Hodbearer: The Epistolary Friendship of Francis James Child and William Walker.   Aberdeen University for The Elphinstone Institute, 2001.

Brown, Mary Ellen . William Motherwell's Cultural Politics . University Press of Kentucky, 2001.

Cocchiara, Guiseppe.   The History of Folklore in Europe. Tr. by John McDaniel.   Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1980.

Cochran, Robert. Vance Randolf: An Ozark Life . University of Illinois, 1985.

Dorson, Richard M.   The British Folklorists: A History. University of Chicago, 1968.

Feldman, B., and R. Richardson eds. The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860.   Indiana University, 1972.

Holbek, Bengt . The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Danish Folklore in a European Perspective. Soumalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1987.

Hustvedt, Sigurd. Ballad Criticism in Scandinavia and Great Britain During the Eighteenth Century . The American Scandinavian Foundation, 1916.

Hustvedt, Sigurd Benard. Ballad Books and Ballad Men: Raids and Rescues in Britain, America, and the Scandinavian North Since 1800. Harvard University, 1930.

Karpeles, Maud. Cecil Sharp: His Life and Work .   University of Chicago, 1967.

McDowell, John, Inta Carpenter, Donald Braid, and Erika Peterson-Veatch, eds. Stith Thompson's A Folklorist's Progress: Reflections of a Scholar's Life . Special Publications of the Folklore Institute, no. 5, 1996.

McKay, Ian. The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia . Montreal: McGill-Queen's University, 1994.

Motherwell, William .   Minstrelsy:   Ancient and Modern. Singing Tree Press, 1968.

O'Sullivan, Sean.   Handbook of Irish Folklore. Folklore Associates, 1963.

Sydow, Carl Wilhelm von.   Selected Papers on Folklore. Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1948.

Zipes, Jack.   The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World. Routledge, 1988.

Zumwalt, Rosemary. American Folklore Scholarship : A Dialogue of Dissent . Indiana University, 1988.

E. Public arts and culture

Bauman, Richard, Patricia Sawin, and Inta Carpenter. Reflections on the Folklife Festival: An Ethnography of Participant Experience . Special Publications of the Folklore Institute, no. 2, 1992.

Baron, Robert and Nicholas Spitzer, eds. Public Folklore . Smithsonian Institution, 1992.

Cantwell, Robert, Ethnomimesis: Folklife and the Representation of Culture. University of North Carolina, 1993.

Feintuch, Burt ed. The Conservation of Culture: Folklore and the Public Sector . University Press of Kentucky, 1988.

Hufford, Mary ed. Conserving Culture: A New Discourse on Heritage . University of Illinois, 1994.

Jones, Michael Owen ed. Putting Folklore to Use . University Press of Kentucky, 1994.

Kurin, Richard. Reflections of a Culture Broker: A View from the Smithsonian. Smithsonian Institution, 1997.

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage. University of California, 1998.

Whisnant, David. All that is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region . University of North Carolina, 1983 .

F. Ethnography and fieldwork

Alver, Bente,   Creating the Source through Folkloristic Fieldwork: A Personal Narrative . Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1990.

Briggs, Charles, Learning how to Ask :   A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the Role of the Interview in Social Science Research . Cambridge University, 1986.

Clifford, James and George Marcus eds.   Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography: A School of American Research Advanced Seminar . University of California, 1986.

Finnegan, Ruth. Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts: A Guide to Research Practices. Routledge, 1992.

Georges, Robert, and Michael Owen Jones. People Studying People: The Human Element in Fieldwork. University of California, 1980.

Goldstein, Kenneth S.   A Guide for Fieldworkers in Folklore. Folklore Associates, 1964.   Reprint:   Gale   Research 1974. Series: Memoirs of the American Folklore   Society, vol. 52.

Ives, Edward. The Tape-Recorded Interview . A Manual for Fieldworkers in Folklore and Oral History . University of Tennessee, 1995.  

Jackson, Bruce. Fieldwork . University of Illinois, 1987.

Lomax, John. Adventures of a Ballad Hunter . Hafner, 1971.

• Folklore Readings: Expressive forms and genres

A. Verbal

(1) story and tale

Ancelet, Barry Jean. Cajun and Creole Folktales : The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana . Garland, 1994.

Abrahams, Roger .    Deep Down in the Jungle...; Negro Narrative Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia. Folklore Associates, 1964. [revised, Aldine, 1970].

Azadovskii, Mark.   A Siberian Tale Teller. Tr. by James Dow. University of Texas, 1974.

Bauman, Richard. Story, Performance, and Event: Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative. Cambridge University, 1986.

Dégh, Linda.   Folktales and Society; Story-Telling in A Hungarian Peasant Community. Tr. by Emily Schossberger. Indiana University, 1969. [revised 1989].

Dolby Stahl, Sandra . Literary Folkloristics and the Personal Narrative. Indiana University, 1989.

Dorson, Richard. American Negro Folktales . Fawcett Publications, 1967.

El-Shamy, Hasan. Folktales of Egypt. University of Chicago, 1979.

El-Shamy, Hasan. Tales Arab Women Tell: And the Behavioral Patterns they Portray . Indiana University, 1999.

Finnegan, Ruth. Limba Stories and Story-telling . Oxford University, 1967.

Hurston, Zora Neale.   Mules and Men . J. B. Lippincott, 1935.

Luthi, Max..   The European Folktale: Form and Nature. Tr. by John D. Niles. Indiana University, 1982.

Maspero, Gaston. Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt. Edited and with an Introduction and Motif-Type Classification by Hasan El-Shamy.   ABC-CLIO, 2002.

Mills, Margaret. Rhetorics and Politics in Afghan Traditional Storytelling . University of Pennsylvania, 1991.

Mullen, Patrick.   Listening to Old Voices: Folklore, Life Stories, and the Elderly . University of Illinois, 1992.

Narayan, Kirin.   Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching.   University of Pennsylvania, 1989.

Nøjgaard, Morten, et al. eds..   The Telling of Stories:   Approaches to a Traditional Craft; A Symposium. Odense University, 1990.

Roberts, Warren. The Tale of the Kind and Unkind Girls ; Aarne-Thompson 480 and Related Tales . De Gruyter, 1958.

Seitel, Peter. See That We May See: Performances and Interpretations of Traditional Tales from Tanzania. Indiana University, 1980.

Thompson, Stith. The Folktale . University of California, 1977.

(2) ballad and epic

Barry, Phillips. British ballads from Maine : The Development of Popular Songs with Texts and Airs . Yale University 1929.

Buchan, David.   The Ballad and the Folk. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972.

Coffin, Tristram. The British Traditional Ballad in North America . University of Texas, 1977.

Entwistle, William. European Balladry . Oxford University, 1939.

Gerould, Gordon Hall.   The Ballad of Tradition. Clarendon, 1932.

Gummere, Francis Barton. The Popular Ballad. Houghton Mifflin, 1907.

Honko, Lauri. The Kalevala and the World's Traditional Epics . Finnish Literature Society, 2002.

Hustvedt, S. B.   Ballad Books and Ballad Men; Raids and Rescues in Britain, America, and the Scandinavian North Since 1800. Harvard University, 1930.

Johnson, John.   Son-Jara:The Mande Epic. Mandekan/English edition. Indiana University, 2003.

Johnson, John, Tom Hale and Steven Belcher, eds. Oral Epics from Africa: Vibrant Voices from a Vast Continent . Indiana University, 1997.

Laws, Malcolm. American Balladry from British Broadsides : A Guide for Students and Collectors of Traditional Song . American Folklore Society, 1957.

Laws, Malcolm. Native American Balladry, a Descriptive Study and a Bibliographical Syllabus . American Folklore Society, 1964.

Leach, MacEdward and Tristram Coffin ed. The Critics & the Ballad . Southern Illinois University, 1961.

McDowell, John. Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica. University of Illinois, 2000.

Oinas, Felix ed. Heroic Epic and Saga: An Introduction to the World's Great Folk Epics. Indiana University, 1978.

Paredes, Américo.   "With His Pistol in His Hand:"   A Border Ballad and Its Hero. University of Texas, 1958.

Stone, Ruth. Dried Millet Breaking: Time, Words, and Song in the Woi Epic of Kpelle. Indiana University, 1988.

(3) myth

Barthes, Roland. Mythologies . Hill and Wang, 1972.

Benedict, Ruth.   Zuni Mythology. Columbia University, 1935.

Boas, Franz.   Tsimshian Mythology.   Based on texts recorded by Henry Tate.   Johnson Reprint, 1970.

Dundes, Alan ed.   Sacred Narrative, Readings in the Theory of Myth. University of California, 1984.

Georges, Robert ed. Studies on Mythology . Dorsey, 1968.

Jacobs, Melville.   Content and Style of an Oral Literature: Clackamas Chinook Myths and Tales. University of Chicago, 1959.

Lincoln, Bruce. Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship . University of Chicago, 1999.

Maranda, Pierre ed. Mythology: Selected Readings . Penguin, 1972.

McDowell, John. "So Wise Were Our Elders": Mythic Narratives of the Kamsá . University Press of Kentucky, 1994.

Schrempp, Gregory, and William Hansen eds. Myth: A New Symposium . Indiana University, 2002.

Sebeok, Thomas ed. Myth: A Symposium . American Folklore Society, 1955.

Von Hendy, Andrew. The Modern Construction of Myth . Indiana University, 2002.

(4) conversational

Dègh, Linda. Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre . Indiana University, 2001.

McDowell, John.   Children's Riddling. Indiana University, 1979.

McDowell, John.   Sayings of the Ancestors: The Spiritual Life of the Sibundoy Indians.   University Press of Kentucky, 1989.

Oring, Elliott. Jokes and their Relations. University of Kentucky Press, 1992 .

Taylor, Archer.   English Riddles from Oral Tradition. Octagon Books, 1951.

Taylor, Archer. The Proverb, and An Index to The Proverb . Folklore Associates, 1962.

Yankah, Kwesi.   The Proverb in the Context of Akan Rhetoric.   Peter Lang, 1984.

(5) oral literature

Davis, Gerald .   I Got the Word in Me and I Can Sing It, You Know: A Study of the Performed Afro-American Sermon. University of Pennsylvania, 1985.

Finnegan, Ruth. Oral Literature in Africa : Clarenden, 1970.

Finnegan, Ruth. Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance, and Social Context . Indiana University, 1992.

Haring, Lee. Verbal Arts in Madagascar: Performance in Historical Perspective. University of Pennsylvania, 1992.

Hansen, William ed. Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature . Indiana University, 1998.

Hymes, Dell .   In Vain I Tried to Tell You: Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics. University of Pennsylvania, 1981.

Johnson, John. Heelloy: Modern Poetry and Songs of the Somali , 2nd edition, revised. Haan Associates, 1996.

Bruce A. Rosenberg. Can These Bones Live? : Te Art of the American Folk Preacher.   University of Illinois, 1988.  

Yankah, Kwesi. Speaking for the Chief: Okyeame and the Politics of Akan Royal Oratory . Indiana University, 1995.

B. Material culture

Briggs, Charles. The Wood Carvers of Córdova, New Mexico : Social Dimensions of an Artistic "Revival" .: University of Tennessee, 1980.

Burrison, John. Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South. University of Georgia, 2000.

Burrison, John.   Brothers in Clay: The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery. University of Georgia, 1983.

Carter, Tom ed. Images of an American Land: Vernacular Architecture in the Western United States. : University of New Mexico, 1997.

Evans, E. Estyn.   Irish Folk Ways. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1957.

Glassie, Henry .   Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States. University of Pennsylvania, 1968.

Glassie, Henry.   Folk Housing in Middle Virginia: A Structural Analysis of Historic Artifacts. University of Tennessee, 1975.

Glassie, Henry.   The Spirit of Folk Art: The Girard Collection at the Museum of International Folk Art. Abrams in association with the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1989.

Glassie, Henry.   Turkish Traditional Art Today.   Indiana University Turkish Studies Series.   Indiana University, 1993.

Glassie, Henry. Material Culture. Indiana University, 1999.

Glassie, Henry. The Potter's Art. Indiana University; Material Culture, 1999.

Glassie, Henry. Vernacular Architecture. Indiana University; Material Culture, 2000.

Glassie, Henry. Art and Life in Bangladesh. Indiana University, 1997; Dhaka: Bangla Academy, 2000.

Hunt, Marjorie. The Stone Carvers: Master Craftsmen of Washington National Cathedral. Smithsonian Institution, 1999.

Jones, Michael Owen.   The Hand Made Object and its Maker . University of California, 1975.

Jones, Michael Owen. Craftsman of the Cumberlands: Tradition and Creativity . University Press of Kentucky, 2003.

Klein, Barbro, and Mats Widbom eds. Swedish Folk Art: All Tradition is Change. Abrams, 1994.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude.   The Way of the Masks. Tr. by Sylvia Modelski. University of Washington, 1982.

Pocius, Gerald. A Place to Belong: Community Order and Everyday Space in Calvert, Newfoundland. : University of Georgia, 1991.

Rinzler, Ralph and Robert Sayers.   The Meaders Family, North Georgia Potters. Smithsonian Institution, 1980.

Roberts, Warren.   Log Buildings of Southern Indiana. Trickster Press, 1984.

Roberts, Warren.   Viewpoints on Folklife: Looking at the Overlooked. UMI Research Press, 1988.

Sayers, Robert.   The Korean Onggi Potter. Robert Sayers with Ralph Rinzler. Smithsonian Institution, 1987.

St. George, Robert ed.   Material Life in America 1600-1860. Northeastern University, 1988.

Upton, Dell, and John Vlach .   Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture. University of Georgia, 1986.

Vlach, John. Charleston Blacksmith: The Work of Philip Simmons. 2nd ed. University of South Carolina, 1992.

Yoder, Don.   American Folklife. University of Texas, 1976.

Yoder, Don.   Discovering American Folklife: Studies in Ethnic, Religious, and Regional Culture. UMI Research Press, 1990.

Zug, Charles.   Turners and Burners: The Folk Potters of North Carolina. University of North Carolina, 1986.

C. Song and music

Abrahams, Roger.   A Singer and Her Songs:   Alameda Riddle's Book of Ballads . Music edited by George Foss. Louisiana State University, 1970.

Blacking, John. Venda Children's Songs: A Study in Ethnomusicological Analysis. Witwatersrand University, 1967.

Blacking, John .   How Musical Is Man? University of Washington, 1973.

Bronson, Bertrand.   The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads; With their Texts According to the Extant Records of Great Britain and America. Princeton University, 1959.

Brown, Mary Ellen.   Burns and Tradition. University of Illinois, 1984.  

Cochran, Robert. Singing in Zion: Music and Song in the Life of an Arkansas Family. University of Arkansas, 1999.

Coplan, David. In the Time of Cannibals: The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants . University of Chicago, 1994.

Feld, Steven.   Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression. University of Pennsylvania, 1979.

Glassie, Henry, Edward Ives and John Szwed.   Folksongs and their Makers. Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1970.

Green, Archie. Only a Miner : Studies in Recorded Coal-Mining Songs . University of Illinois, 1972.

Harker, D .   Fakesong: The Manufacture of British "Folksong" 1700 to the Present Day.   Open University Press, 1985.

Hood, Mantle.   The Ethnomusicologist. McGraw-Hill, 1971.

Ives, Edward.   Larry Gorman: The Man Who Made the Songs. Indiana University, 1964.

Ives, Edward .   Joe Scott : The Woodsman-Songmaker. University of Illinois, 1978.

Keil, Charles.   Tiv Song. University of Chicago, 1979.

List, George .   Music and Poetry in a Colombian Village: A Tri-Cultural Heritage. Indiana University, 1983.

Lomax, Alan. Folk Song Style and Culture . American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1968.

McAllester, David.   Enemy Way Music: A Study of Social and Esthetic Values As Seen in Navajo Music. Kraus Reprint, 1973.

Merriam, Alan.   The Anthropology of Music. Northwestern University, 1964.

Nettl, Bruno.   The Study of Ethnomusicology:   Twenty-Nine Issues and Concepts. University of Illinois, 1983.

Nketia, J. H. Kwabena.   The Music of Africa. W.   W. Norton, 1974.

Paredes, Américo and George Foss. The Décima on the Texas-Mexican Border. University of Texas, 1968.

Ritchie, Jean. Singing Family of the Cumberlands . Oxford University, 1955.

Rosenber, Neil. Bluegrass: A History . University of Illinois, 1985.  

Seeger, Charles.   Studies in Musicology 1935-1975. University of California, 1977.

Sharp, Cecil James.    English Folksongs, Some Conclusions. Wadsworth, 1965. [revised 1970].  

Sharp, Cecil James, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians . Oxford University, 1973.

Stone, Ruth . Let the Inside Be Sweet:   The Interpretation of Music Events among the Kpelle of Liberia. Indiana University, 1982.

Waterman, Christopher.    Juju:   A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music. University of Chicago, 1990.

Wilgus, D. K.   Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship Since 1898. Rutgers University, 1959.

D. Ritual, festival, and belief

Babcock, Barbara ed. The Reversible World: Symbolic Inversion in Art and Society . Cornell University, 1978.

Bakhtin, Mihail.   Rabelais and His World . Tr. by Helene Iswolsky. MIT, 1968.

Bricker, Victoria. Ritual Humor in Highland Chiapas . University of Texas, 1973.

Brown, Karen McCarthy. Mama Lola: A Vodou Princess in Brooklyn . University of California, 2001.

Cohen, Colleen, Richard Wilk, and Beverly Stoeltje eds.  Beauty Queens on the Global Stage: Gender, Contests, and Power . Routledge,   1995.

Dundes, Alan, and Alessandro Falassi.   La Terra in Piazza: An Interpretation of the Palio of Siena . University of California, 1975.

Falassi, Alessandro ed. Time out of Time: Essays on the Festival . University of New Mexico, 1987.

Flores, Richard. Los Pastores: History and Performance in the Mexican Shepherd's Play of South Texas . Smithsonian Institution, 1995.

Glassie, Henry.    All Silver and No Brass: An Irish Christmas Mumming. Indiana University, 1975.

Guss, David. The Festive State: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism as Cultural Performance . University of California, 2000.

Jackson, Jason. Yuchi Ceremonial Life: Performance, Meaning, and Tradition in a Contemporary American Indian Community . University of Nebraska in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, 2003.

Levin, Lawrence.    Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom. Oxford University, 1977.

Nájera-Ramírez, Olga. Haciendo Patria : Charrería and the Formation of a Transnational Mexican Community . CLRC, University of California at Santa Cruz, Chicano/Latino Research Center, 1997.

Titon, Jeff, et al. eds..   Powerhouse for God: Speech, Chant, and Song in an Appalachian Baptist Church . University of Texas, 1988.

Turner, Victor. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure . Aldine de Gruyter, 1995.

Wiggins, William. O Freedom! : Afro-American Emancipation Celebrations . University of Tennessee, 1987.

• Folklore Readings: Regional studies

Bianco, Carla .   The Two Rosetos. Indiana University, 1974.

Boatright, Mody .    Folk Laughter on the American Frontier. MacMillan, 1949.

Boatright, Mody.     Folklore of the Oil Industry. Southern Methodist University, 1963.

Boddy, Janice.   Wombs and Alien Spirits:   Women, Men and the Zâr Cult in Northern Sudan.   University of Wisconsin, 1989.

Bronner, Simon. Folk Nation: F olklore in the Creation of American Tradition . Scholarly Resources, 2002.

Crowley, Daniel. I Could Talk Old Story Good; Creativity in Bahamian Folklore. University of California, 1966.

Dorson, Richard.   Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers; Folk Traditions of the Upper Peninsula. Harvard University, 1952.

Dorson, Richard.   America in Legend: Folklore From the Colonial Period to the Present.   Pantheon Books, 1973.

Falassi, Alessandro.   Folklore by the Fireside: Text and Context of the Tuscan Veglia. University of Texas, 1980.

Glassie, Henry.   Passing the Time in Ballymenone: Culture and History of an Ulster Community. University of Pennsylvania, 1982.

Joyner, Charles.   Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community. University of Illinois, 1984.

McDowell, John, Robert Dover, and Katharine Seibold eds. Andean Cosmologies Through Time: Persistence and Emergence . Indiana University, 1992.

Montell, Lynwood. The Saga of Coe Ridge: A Study in Oral History . University of Tennessee, 1970.

Randolph, Vance. Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark folktales . University of Illinois, 1976.

Roberts, John. From Trickster to Badman : The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom . University of Pennsylvania, 1989.

Sokolov, Iurii Matveevich.   Russian Folklore. Tr. by Catherine Ruth Smith. Macmillan,   1950.

• Folklore Readings: Related works

Appadurai, Arjun ed. The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge University, 1986.

Bourdieu, Pierre. The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field . Stanford University, 1996.

Bourdieu, Pierre.   Outline of a Theory of Practice. Tr. Richard Nice.   Cambridge University, 1977.

Bourdieu, Pierre.   In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology. Tr. by Matthew Adamson. Polity, 1990.

de Certeau, M.   The Practice of Everyday Life . Tr. by Steven Randall. University of California, 1984.

Coley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 . Yale University, 1992.

Frykman, Jonas and Orvar Lofgren .    Culture Builders:   A Historical Anthropology of Middle-Class Life. Tr. by Alan Crozier; foreword by John Gillis. Rutgers University, 1987.

Gans, Herbert . Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste. Basic Books, 1974.

Geertz, Clifford.   The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays.   Basic Books, 1973.

Guthrie, Stewart. Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion . Oxford University, 1993.

Hansen, William. Phlegon of Tralles' Book of Marvels. Exeter Studies in History . University of Exeter, 1996.

Hansen, William.    Saxo Grammaticus and the Life of Hamlet: History, Translation, and Commentary.   University    of Nebraska, 1983.

Hayward, R.J. and I.M. Lewis. Voice and Power: The Culture of Language in North-East Africa . School of Oriental and African Languages, 1996.

Hebdige, D.   Subculture: The Meaning of Style. Methuen, 1979.

Hymes, Dell.   Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach. University of Pennsylvania, 1974.

Ivy, Marilyn. Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan . University of Chicago, 1995.

Janelli, Roger and Shima Mutsuhiko, eds. The Anthropology of Korea: East Asian Perspectives . Senri Ethnological Series, No. 49. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 1998.

Johnson, Allen and Douglas Price-Williams. Oedipus Ubiquitous: The Family Complex in World Folk Literature. Stanford University, 1996.

Robinson, Jennifer. Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan . University of California, 1998.

Schein, Louisa. Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics . Duke University, 2000.

Tamanoi, Mariko Asamo. Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women . University of Hawai'I, 1998.

Trumpener, Katie. Bardic Nationalsim: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire. Princeton University, 1997.

Vernant, Jean Pierre.    The Origins of Greek Thought. Cornell University, 1982.

Vlastos, Stephen ed. Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan . University of California, 1998.   

Voloshinov, V. N.   Marxism and the Philosophy of Language.   Tr. by Ladislav Matejka and I.R.Titunik.     Harvard University,

• Ethnomusicology Readings: Theory and Method

• Ethnomusicology Readings: Regional Studies

African American Music

Africa

East Asia

Harris, Rachel A. 2004. Singing the Village: Music, Memory, and Ritual among the Sibe of Xinjiang . Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.

Hahn, Tomie. 2007. Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance . Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.

Howard, Keith, ed. 2006. Korean Pop Music: Riding the Wave . Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental.

Liang, Ming-Yüeh. 1985. Music of the Billion: An Introduction to Chinese Musical Culture . New York: Heinrichshofen.

Park, Chan E. 2003. Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Rees, Helen. 2000. Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern China . New York: Oxford University Press.

Witzleben, Lawrence J. 1995. "Silk and Bamboo" Music in Shanghai: The Jiangna Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition . Ohio: Kent State University Press.

Yano, Christine. 2002. Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song . Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Yung, Bell, Evelyn S. Rawski, and Rubie S. Watson, eds. 1996. Harmony and Counterpoint: Ritual Music in Chinese Context . Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Jewish Music:

Latin America/Caribbean

• Ethnomusicology Readings: Technology, Media and Music