A good tale and a bonnie tune / edited by Mody C. Boatright, Wilson M. Hudson [and] Allen Maxwell.

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

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Boatright, Mody C. (Mody Coggin), 1896-1970, Maxwell, Allen, 1915-2012
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Denton, TX : University of North Texas Press, [2000, ©1964]
Series:	Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 32.
Subjects:	Tales > Texas. Folklore > United States. Folk songs, English > United States > History and criticism. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology. Folk songs, English Folklore Manners and customs Tales Southern States > Social life and customs. Southern States Texas United States Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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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.

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