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9780807826058

Torching the Fink Books: And Other Essays on Vernacular Culture

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807826058

  • ISBN10:

    0807826057

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-04-01
  • Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Summary

Twelve essays by legendary figure in American folklore studies. Woven through the Foreword is Green's biography, key to understanding his unique mix of activism and scholarship.

Table of Contents

Foreword. In Good Spirits vii
Robert Cantwell
Dutchman: An On-the-Job Etymology
1(7)
Hillbilly Music: Source and Symbol
8(39)
Laborlore
47(4)
A Folklorist's Creed and a Folksinger's Gift
51(15)
Austin's Cosmic Cowboys: Words in Collision
66(42)
Tom Benton's Folk Depictions
108(26)
The Archive's Shores
134(17)
Stitching Patchwork in Public
151(20)
Remembering Jack Fitch, Pile Butt and Artist, on Labor Day 1994
171(5)
Kelly Girl
176(2)
Torching the Fink Books
178(5)
Peter Tamony (1902-1985)
183(16)
Afterword. Looking Back 199(18)
Bibliography of Archie Green's Writings, 1959-2000 217(16)
Index 233

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