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Summary:

Collection of Texas folklore, including 15 Mexican folk tales, with a symposium on folksong scholarship.

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 anthropoligical 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 fold music, by G. Foss.

Author/Creator:

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

Contributors:

Hudson, Wilson Mathis, 1907-2002

Maxwell, Allen, 1915-2012

Texas Folklore Society

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

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

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Good tale and a bonnie tune [by Boatright, M.C.] (Dallas, Southern Methodist University Press [1964] — LCCN 63010979; OCLC Number 327001)

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 32

Subjects:

Tales — 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:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index..
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 274 pages) : illustrations, music.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 no.32 1964eb

OCLC Numbers:

45730443
610202898 [Invalid]