Encyclopedia of American Folklore

Linda Watts

Description

Folklore has been described as the unwritten literature of a culture: its songs, stories, sayings, games, rituals, beliefs, and ways of life. Encyclopedia of American Folklore helps readers explore topics, terms, themes, figures, and issues related to this popular subject. This comprehensive reference guide addresses the needs of multiple audiences, including high school, college, and public libraries, archive and museum collections, storytellers, and independent researchers. Its content and organization correspond to the ways educators integrate folklore within literacy and wider learning objectives for language arts and cultural studies at the secondary level.


This well-rounded resource connects United States folk forms with their cultural origin, historical context, and social function. Appendixes include a bibliography, a category index, and a discussion of starting points for researching American folklore. References and bibliographic material throughout the text highlight recently published and commonly available materials for further study.


Coverage includes:

• Folk heroes and legendary figures, including Paul Bunyan and Yankee Doodle


• Fables, fairy tales, and myths often featured in American folklore, including "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Princess and the Pea"


• American authors who have added to or modified folklore traditions, including Washington Irving


• Historical events that gave rise to folklore, including the civil rights movement and the Revolutionary War


• Terms in folklore studies, such as fieldwork and the folklife movement


• Holidays and observances, such as Christmas and Kwanzaa


• Topics related to folklore in everyday life, such as sports folklore and courtship/dating folklore


• Folklore related to cultural groups, such as Appalachian folklore and African-American folklore


• and more.

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• Social Science
• Folclore
• América
• History of the United States
• Social sciences
• Folklore of the United States
• American
• History
• American History
• Folklore
• Culture

Informations

• Publié par: Infobase Publishing
• Date de parution: 01 juillet 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781646930005
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Encyclopedia of American Folklore
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Contents Entries Copland, Aaron Abraham Lincoln and American folklore Administrative Professionals' Day/Week African-American folklore Agee, James aging and American folklore AIDS folklore Quilt, AIDS Alger, Horatio Allen, Ethan Allen, Paula Gunn Earhart, Amelia American children's folklore American folk history American folk humor American Folklife Center American Folklife Preservation Act American Folklore Society American maritime folklore American Memory Project Anansi Andersen, Hans Christian "Androcles and the Lion" Anglo-American folklore animals and American folklore Annie Christmas anniversaries Anthony, Susan B. Appalachian folklore April Fool's Day Arbor Day Archive of Folk Culture arts and crafts movement auctions Babe the Blue Ox ballads and American folklore Bambara, Toni Cade bar mitzvah/bat mitzvah Barton, Clara "Beauty and the Beast" Bigfoot Billy the Kid birthdays Black Bart Bloody Mary bodylore Bonnie and Clyde Boone, Daniel Borden, Lizzie Boss Day "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" Brer Rabbit Brown, John Brown, Sterling Allen Buffalo Bill burial customs Butch Cassidy Cable, George Washington Cajun folklore Calamity Jane camp folklore campus folklore Capone, Al Carson, Kit Casey Jones cemetery folklore changelings Lindbergh, Charles Chavez, Cesar Chesnutt, Charles Waddell Chicano folklore "Chicken Little" Chief Joseph childbirth/pregnancy folklore Chinese-American folklore Christmas Christopher Columbus and American folklore Cinco de Mayo "Cinderella" Citizenship Day city folklore Civil Rights movement and American folklore Civil War and American folklore Colonial Williamsburg Columbus Day computer folklore conjure/conjuring and American folklore Connecticut Yankee conspiracy folklore Cooper, James Fenimore courtship/dating folklore cowboys and American folklore Coyote Crazy Horse creation/origin stories and American folklore Crispus Attucks in folklore cultural groups Custer, George Armstrong Danish-American folklore Davy Crockett The Devil and American folklore Dillinger, John disability and folklore Disney, Walt Douglass, Frederick DuBois, W. E. B. Dunbar, Paul Laurence Dutch-American folklore Earp, Wyatt Earth Day Easter Easter Bunny Edison, Thomas Einstein, Albert Election Day Ellison, Ralph Emancipation (Proclamation) Day "The Emperor's New Clothes" ethics in folklore ethnicity evil eye fables and American folklore fairy tales and American folklore fakelore family folklore Father's Day Faulkner, William Febold Feboldson Filipino-American folklore Finnish-American folklore Flag Day flight architecture, folk art, folk artifacts, folk beliefs, folk crafts, folk culture, folk customs, folk folk drama games and pastimes folk heroes and American folklore folk legends medicine, folk folk motif museums, folk music, folk folk myths folk narrative photography, folk region, folk religion, folk folk rhymes folk riddles rituals, folk speech, folk toys, folk folklife folklife movement research, folklife folklore festivals, folklore fieldwork, folklore folklore in American literature documentary folklore in everyday life death flowers holidays/observances Ibo Landing slavery folklore of the American frontier atomic/nuclear era folklore transcontinental railroad Underground Railroad, folklore of women's movement suffrage, women's World War I World War II folklore studies folklorism folkloristics folktales food/foodways Ford, Henry Franklin, Benjamin Roosevelt, Franklin D. French-American folklore Friday the thirteenth "The Frog Prince" gardening gay/lesbian folklore gender and folklore George Washington and American folklore German-American folklore Geronimo gestures ghost stories and American folklore ghost towns ghosts gold rush and American folklore "The Golden Goose" "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" graffiti Grandparents Day Great Depression and American folklore Greek-American folklore Greenfield Village, Henry Ford Museum and Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Groundhog Day Halloween/All Hallows' Eve "Hansel and Gretel" Hanukkah Harris, Joel Chandler haunted houses Hawthorne, Nathaniel Headless Horseman Henry, Patrick Hiawatha Hill, Joe hillbillies hippies historic preservation historical events hoboes Houdini, Harry Hughes, Langston Humpty Dumpty Hungarian-American folklore Hurston, Zora Neale Icelandic-American folklore immigration and folklore Inauguration Day Independence Day/Fourth of July industrialization and folklore insider/outsider Irish-American folklore Irving, Washington Italian-American folklore "Jack and the Beanstalk" Jamaican-American folklore James, Jesse Japanese-American folklore Japanese-American internment Jersey devil Jewish-American folklore Joe Magarac John Henry Johnny Appleseed Johnson, James Weldon Jones, John Paul jump rope rhymes Juneteenth Shelley, Kate Kidd, Captain William Kilroy Kingston, Maxine Hong kitsch Korean-American folklore Kwanzaa La Llorona Labor Day Latvian-American folklore Lewis, Meriwether and William Clark Lithuanian-American folklore "The Little Mermaid" "Little Red Riding Hood" living history museums Locke, Alain Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Loup-Garou luck/fortune Ma Barker magic and American folklore Mardi Gras Martin Luther King Day material culture May Day Melville, Herman Memorial Day mermaids and American folklore Midas Midwestern regional folklore Mike Fink minstrelsy Liberty, Miss Momaday, N. Scott monsters and American folklore Mormon folklore Morrison, Toni Mose the Fireman Mother Goose Mother's Day Mystic Seaport and Preservation Shipyard naming/names Native American folklore New Year's Eve/Day Northeastern regional folklore Northwestern regional folklore Norwegian-American folklore nursery rhymes Oakley, Annie occupational folklore Old Stormalong Sturbridge Village, Old oral folklore oral history oral tradition and American folklore outlaws and American folklore Ozarks folklore parades Parks, Rosa Passover Patriot Day Patriots' Day Paul Bunyan Paul Revere's ride Pearl Harbor Day Pecos Bill Pennsylvania Dutch/Pennsylvania German folklore "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" Pledge of Allegiance Pocahontas Polish-American folklore politics and folklore poplore Portuguese-American folklore prediction Presidents' Day Pretty Boy Floyd "The Princess and the Pea" prison folklore protest in folklore proverbs public folklore Quaker folklore Ramadan "Rapunzel" Revolutionary War and American folklore "Rip Van Winkle" rites of passage Robin Hood Robinson, Jackie rodeo Rosh Hashonah Ross, Betsy "Rumpelstiltskin" Sacajawea Saint Patrick's Day Saint Valentine's Day Salem witch trials Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Sam Bass Sandburg, Carl Santa Claus Scottish-American folklore Seattle Shaker folklore Silko, Leslie Marmon "The Sleeping Beauty" Smithsonian Institution "Snow White" solstice Southern regional folklore Southwestern regional folklore Spanish-American folklore sports folklore Stagolee Stanton, Elizabeth Cady Starr, Belle Steinbeck, John Stephens, Ann Sophia stork, the Stowe, Harriet Beecher Styron, William Sundance Kid supernatural, the superstitions Swedish-American folklore Sweetest Day Tar Baby terms Thanksgiving Roosevelt, Theodore "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" "The Three Little Pigs" toasts/drinking Tom Joad Toomer, Jean Tooth Fairy "The Tortoise and the Hare" tricksters and American folklore Truth, Sojourner Tubman, Harriet Turner, Nat Twain, Mark UFO folklore "The Ugly Duckling" Uncle Remus Uncle Sam Unsinkable Molly Brown urban legends vampires and American folklore vernacular culture Vesey, Denmark Veterans Day Vietnam War and American folklore voodoo and American folklore Washington, Booker T. weather folklore wedding/marriage folklore werewolves and American folklore Western regional folklore Whitman, Walt Wild Bill Hickok William Tell Windwagon Smith worldview Wright, Wilbur and Orville Xerox/fax folklore Yankee Doodle Yankee Peddler Yom Kippur Support Materials Starting Points for Researching American Folklore Selected Bibliography of American Folklore
Entries
Copland, Aaron

Very possibly the American composer most immersed in folk material, Aaron Copland wrote some of the best-known compositions among the nation's classical music.
Copland was born to immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York, on November 14, 1900. Although he was not raised in an especially musical household, by his teens Copland resolved to become a composer. This aspiration took the young man to France, where he developed his skills with a musical expert of the day, Nadia Boulanger. Paradoxically, though, once Copland conducted his training in France, he returned to the United States determined to create uniquely American pieces.
This objective inspired Aaron Copland to familiarize himself with America's indigenous musical traditions. While he made a study of such musical forms as blues, jazz, and ragtime, in time, it was American folklore that would hold the greatest promise for Copland's work. His body of writing would bear the influence of such genres as cowboy ballads, church hymns, and a variety of other folk forms. By incorporating elements from this music as themes or motifs within his classical compositions, Copland brought to fruition the works for which he is remembered today. In his three ballets, Copland demonstrated a fondness for the American West and its lore. These works are the popular pieces Billy the Kid (1938), Rodeo (1942), and Appalachian Spring (1944). Copland composed additional pieces celebrating America's heritage