Books in the Folklore and Society series

This book explores not only the meaning of dance in African American life but also the ways in which music, song, and dance are interrelated in African American culture. Beyond that it has been, finally, one of the most important means of cultural survival.

Presenting an exploration of tin men and their creators, this work contains interviews with craftspeople, gallery owners, collectors, and Sheet Metal Workers' International Association officials, linking tinsmith artistry to issues of craft education, union traditions, labour history, and social class.

George Magoon (1851-1929), a notorious   moose and deer poacher in Maine, was the hero of scores of funny stories of   how he outwitted game wardens. Preserving these oral histories, Edward Ives   documents Magoon''s life and explores his significance as a folk hero within   the context of the conservation movement, the cult of the sportsman, and Maine''s   increasingly restrictive game laws. "A rich and subtle book, an   important work by a major scholar. . . . It is a major contribution to folklore   studies, and to history and American studies as well."   -- Journal of American Folklore  

Winner of the Carr P. Collins Award and a Miss Ima Hogg Historical Achievement Award, Last Cavalier is the never-before-told story of the remarkable life and career of John A. Lomax, pioneering American folklorist, canny businessman, influential educator, and patriarch of an extended family of artists, performers, and scholars.

Integrating photographs, firsthand observations, and interviews against a backdrop of ethnic practices and traditions, this title explores how Polish Americans creatively adapted the rural peasant folklore of the old country to life in multicultural, urban America.