The new encyclopedia of Southern culture. Volume 14, Folklife / Glenn Hinson and William Ferris, volume editors.

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TextSeries: New encyclopedia of Southern culturePublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 402 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780807898550
0807898554
1469616785
9781469616780

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Folklife

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Folklife.DDC classification:

976 22

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F209 .N47 2009eb

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Contents:

Cover Page; Folklife; Copyright Page; Epigraph; CONTENTS; GENERAL INTRODUCTION; INTRODUCTION; FOLKLIFE; Aesthetics, African American; Aesthetics, Historically White; Basketmaking; Bluegrass; Blues; Cajun Music; Car Culture; Cemeteries; Children's Folklore; Country Music; Deathlore; Family Folklore; Family Reunions; Fishing, Coastal; Folk Arts and Crafts; Folk Medicine; Foodways; Funerals; Gardening; Gospel Music, African American; Gospel Music, White; Grave Markers; Hip-Hop; Houses and Barns; Hunting; Hunting Dogs; Legends; Mardi Gras Celebrations; Musical Instruments; Música Tejana

NeedleworkOccupational Folklife; Old-Time String Band Music; Opries; Picking Sessions; Pottery; Powwows; Public Folklife Programs; Quilting, African American; Quilting, Historically White; Religious Folklife; Rootwork (Hoodoo, Conjure); Stepping; Stories of Personal Experience; Storytelling; Voodoo; Wood Carving; Zydeco; Bar and Bat Mitzvahs; Barbecue; Basketmaking, Lowcountry; Basketmaking, Native American; Bluegrass Festivals; Buckdancing, Flatfooting, and Clogging; Church Dramas; Cockfighting; Coon Hounds; Dancing, American Indian Traditions; Decoration Day; Decoy Carving

Dinner on the GroundsDogtrot House; Easter Rock; Face Jugs; Fiddle Contests; First Monday Trades Days; Ghost Stories; Ginseng Hunting; Gourd Martin Houses; Gumbo; House Parties; Jack Tales; John the Conqueror Root; Juke Joints; Line Dancing; Los Matachines; Lowriders; Marching Bands, HBCU; Marching Bands, New Orleans; Mardi Gras Indians; Moonshining; Mules; Outbuildings; Porch Sitting; Pottery, Alabama; Pottery, American Indian; Pottery, Georgia; Pottery, North Carolina; Proverbs; Quartets, African American; Quinceañeras; Religious Road Signs; Ring Shouts; Roadside Memorials

Rolley Hole MarblesShotgun House; Shout Bands; Smokehouse; Southern Soul Music; Square Dancing; Talking Out Fire; Traders; Two-Stepping; Walking Sticks; Womanless Weddings; INDEX OF CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Summary: Demonstrates how folklife remains a vital part of communities' self definitions. The entries demonstrate that southern folklife is dynamically alive and everywhere around us, giving meaning to the everyday unfolding of community life.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Demonstrates how folklife remains a vital part of communities' self definitions. The entries demonstrate that southern folklife is dynamically alive and everywhere around us, giving meaning to the everyday unfolding of community life.