- 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.