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Table of Contents:

• Fifteen Mexican tales / by R. Aiken
• Two treasure tales / by J. F. Dobie
• Shivarees and charivaris: variations on a theme / by E. B. Atwood
• Freud's myth of the primal horde / by W. M. Hudson
• Folklore of the South and racial discrimination / by J. M. Lacy
• Texas stream names / by J. Q. Anderson
• Social customs in O. Henry's Texas stories / by E. H. Long
• The cowboy in the British West Indies / by R. D. Abrahams
• Adam's rib / by G. D. Hendricks
• "The Texas Rangers" in Aberdeenshire / by K. S. Goldstein
• Folksong and folksong scholarship: changing approaches and attitudes. Introductory remarks / by R. D. Abrahams ; On a peak in Massachusetts; the literary and aesthetic approach / by T. P. Coffin ; Folksong as an anthropological province; the anthropological approach / by J. Greenway ; The comparative approach: its aims, techniques, and limitations / by W. E. Richmond ; The rationalistic approach / by D. K. Wilgus ; The transcription and analysis of folk music / by G. Foss.

Author/Creator:

Boatright, Mody C. (Mody Coggin), 1896-1970

Contributors:

Shockley, Martin , honouree

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Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

A good tale and a bonnie tune [by Boatright, M.C.]

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 32

Subjects:

Tales — United States — Texas

Folklore — United States

Folk songs, English — United States — History and criticism

Southern States — Social life and customs

Tales

Folklore

Folk songs, English

Manners and customs

Texas

Southern States

United States

Genres:

Printed books — United States — Texas — Dallas — 20th century

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
(Texana Collection copy 3) Gift: The Shockley Family, April 2004.
(Texana Collection copy 3) ex. coll. Professor Martin Staples Shockley
(Texana Collection copy 3) Bound in brown publishers' cloth with brown spine titles and cover illustration. Retains original dust jacket.
(Texana Collection copy 3) Donated in memory of Professor Martin Staples Shockley.

Physical Description:

vi, 274 pages : music ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 v.32

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

63010979

OCLC Numbers:

327001