Depicts items of folklore associated with American holidays and festivals, reflecting the culture of the United States from colonial times to the present.

Depicts items of folklore associated with American holidays and festivals, reflecting the culture of the United States from colonial times to the present.

Depicts items of folklore associated with American holidays and festivals, reflecting the culture of America from colonial times to the present

Product Description: Book by Coffin, Tristram Potter

Product Description: Tristram Potter Coffin's The British Traditional Ballad in North America, published in 1950, became recognized as the standard reference to the published material on the Child ballad in North America. Centering on the theme of story variation, the book examines ballad variation in general, treats the development of the traditional ballad into an art form, and provides a bibliographical guide to story variation as well as a general bibliography of titles referred to in the guide...read more

Product Description: A book of readings has long been needed to supplement the many col­lections of ballads on the market. The essays included in this volume have been carefully selected to make available in one volume many of the basic studies that previously lay widely scattered in the journal literature...read more

An anthology of readings on such topics as folk literature, speech, and expression captures the moods and personality of the American worker