Singers and Storytellers
Mody C. Boatright, Wilson M. Hudson, and Allen Maxwell, eds.
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Imprint: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society
Pages: 298
Print ISBN: 9781574411072
eBook ISBN: 9781574411072
DESCRIPTION
J. Frank Dobie leads off with "Storytellers I have known," followed by Mac Edward Leach's "The Singer or the Song." Americo Paredes offers a translation of Vicente T. Mendoza's "Some Forms of the Mexican Cancion and "Folklore and History." In addition, essays on oil promoters, the folksay of lawyers, old Thurber, ghost stories, prayer meetings, Belle Starr, removing warts, the German-Wends in Texas, and other folklore from around the state.
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