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This is the best of the Society's papers over the past three years--from lynchings to el pato boat building; from sunbonnets to hammered dulcimers; from jokes about droughts and lawyers to tales of folk, gospel and blues music; from gravemarkers to bottle trees, and more.
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FRANCIS EDWARD ABERNETHY was Regents Professor Emeritus of English at Stephen F. Austin State University, the executive secretary and editor of the Texas Folklore Society, the curator of exhibits for the East Texas Historical Association, and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. In addition to editing twenty-one Texas Folklore Society publications, he wrote Singin' Texas, Legends of Texas' Heroic Age, and all three volumes of the Texas Folklore Society history, published by the University of North Texas Press.
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The title was taken from J. Frank Dobie and Dick Holland, who tell about library corners that contain writings that are forever Texas, and Holland's essay, "A Corner Forever Texas: The Southwestern Writers Collection," is the leading essay in the volume. Part One is about the history of the Texas Folklore Society itself and its "sainted elders" Dob
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- PublisherTexas A & M University Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0929398572
- ISBN 13 9780929398570
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages295
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Corners of Texas
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Corners of Texas (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society LII)
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. xiv, 295 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. ; white full cloth ; dj in mylar. Articles include: A Corner Forever Texas: the Southwestern Writers Collection; John Lomax in Texas: Roots of a Career; J. Frank Dobie and the American Folklore Society; Beautifully Printed and Expressive of Texas: Carl Hertzog and the Texas Folklore Society; Pistol Packin' Mamas: Gun Code for Western Women; "First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lawyers"; Forked Stick Folkcraft; No-Eared Joe: Oil Field Folk Hero; The Boat Called "El Pato"; From African Spirit Catcher to American Folk Art Emblem: The Trans-Atlantic Odyssey of the Bottle Tree; A Hog Race; An East Texas Lynching: The Humphreys/Wilkinson-Greenhaw Feud; Hammered Dulcimers and Folk Songs: The Musical Heritage of the C. A. Lee Family; The Rabbit, the Lion, and the Man: Race Relations in Folklore Fieldwork; Longino Guerrero's Corrido on J. Frank Dobie; Peripatetic Proselytizing; The Sunbonnet as Folk Costume; College Creates a New Breed of Cowboy; Laughing at the Clouds: Texas Drought Humor; The Blues and Jives of Dr. Hepcat; Motorcycles and Majorettes: Grave Markers for Youth in Central Texas; Singing People Are Happy People: A Brief Look at Convention Gospel Music. Contributors include: Holland, Richard A.; Porterfield, Nolan; Stone, Paul; Loman, Al; roach, Joyce; Bridges, Phyllis; Ewing, George; Breedlove, Tom E.; Garza Quirós, Fernando; Graham, Richard; Brett, Bill; Busby, Mark; Schmitz, Jean Granberry; Mullen, Patrick B.; Abernethy, F. E.; Whitsitt, Julia; Jeffery, Janet K.; Mahoney, Sylvia Gann; Williamson, Rana K.; Govenar, Alan; Newsom, Rollo K.; Mason, Richard J. Seller Inventory # 002377
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