Folklore: New Books, Folk and Country Music

Subject: RE: Folklore: New Books, Folk and Country Music
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 02:43 PM

Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry
Holly George-Warren. Oxford University Press.

Subject: RE: Folklore: New Books, Folk and Country Music
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 12:47 PM

There Was a Woman Domino Renee Perez.
La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture. The 'Weeping Woman' has affected popular culture in Mexico, including politics.
University of Texas Press.

Subject: RE: Folklore: New Books, Folk and Country Music
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 01:09 PM

oops, lost my close bold. Sorry.

Subject: Folklore: New Books, Folk and Country Music
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 01:08 PM

New and re-printed books advertized in Journal of American Folklore

Books I would like to get if I could afford them all!

Working Girl Blues Life and music of Hazel Dickens, by Hazel Dickens and Bill C. Malone. With discography.
Sing It Pretty A memoir, Bess Lomax Hawes.
The Hayloft Gang Story of the National Barn Dance, ed. Chad Berry.
The Never-Ending Revival Rounder Records and the Folk Alliance. Michael F. Scully.
Robert Johnson, Lost and Found Interpretation of lyrics. Barry Lee Pearson and Bill MCulloch. New in paperback.
Country Music Humorists and Comedians. Loyal Jones.

The above all in the Music in American Life Series, University of Illinois Press.

If Beale Street Could Talk Robert Cantwell. Music, Community and Culture.
University of Illinois Press.

Linthead Stomp Patrick Huber. The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South. Textile mill workers and their influence on early country Music.
University of North Carolina Press.
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Ed. by Bill C. Malone. Much about jazz, rock, folk, blues and spiritual music.
University of North Carolina Press.

I would be interested in comments from anyone who has read one or more of these books.