The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American folklore
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Published
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
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0313330352 (set : alk. paper), 9780313330353 (set : alk. paper), 0313330360, 9780313330360, 0313330379, 9780313330377, 0313330387, 9780313330384
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3 v. (xl, 1557 pages) : ill. ; 26 cm.
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Available from another library
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Published
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
0313330352 (set : alk. paper), 9780313330353 (set : alk. paper), 0313330360, 9780313330360, 0313330379, 9780313330377, 0313330387, 9780313330384
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [1487]-1504) and index.
Table of Contents
v. 1. A-F
v. 2. G-P
v. 3. Q-Z.
Abakwa --
Abrahams, Roger D. --
Abrams, Clara "Granny" --
Ackee and Saltfish --
Adams, Edward Clarkson Leverett --
Aerosol art --
Africa --
Africanisms --
African, Flying --
Allen, Richard --
Allen, William Francis ; Charles Pickard Ware ; and Lucy McKim Garrison --
Altars --
American Folklore Society --
Anancy/Anansi --
Ancestors --
Anderson, Pink --
Antebellum period --
Anthropology --
Antigua and Barbuda --
Antiphony --
Appropriation of Black folklore --
Arabbers --
Arará --
Architecture --
Armstrong, Louis --
Art, Fine --
Ashanti --
Assimilation --
Atilla the Hun --
Baad --
Babylon --
Bad Man, The --
Bahamian Rushing --
Bahia --
Baker, Houston A., Jr. --
Ballad --
Ballanta, N. G. J. --
Bambaataa, Afrika --
Banjo --
Banks, Johnny --
Baptism --
Baraka, Imamu Amiri --
Barbados --
Barbecue --
Barbershop, The --
Barrett, Rev. Dr. Leonard E., Sr. --
Bascom, William R. --
Basket weaving --
Bastide, Roger Marius Cesar --
Batucada --
Beach music --
Beale Street --
Bebop --
Beckwith, Martha Warren --
Beckwourth, James Pierson --
Beliefs, Folk --
Benberry, Cuesta --
Bennett, Louise --
Berimbau --
"Betty and Dupree" --
Biblical characters --
Big Apple --
Big Drum Ceremony --
Bitch --
Black Bottom, The --
Black Cat Bone --
Black Culture and Black consciousness --
Black Indians --
Black man, The/Negro --
Blacksmithing --
Blake, Eubie --
Blind Boys of Alabama --
Blue Gum Negroes --
Blues --
Bobo Dreads --
Bonds, Nedra Leatrice Patton --
Boogie Woogie --
Bottle trees --
Bourguignon, Erika --
Brass bands --
Brazil --
Bread pudding --
Break dancing --
Brewer, J. Mason --
Briar patch --
Brown, Cecil --
Brown, Sterling A. --
Buckra --
Buffalo soldiers --
Burton, Robert Wilton --
Bush harbors --
Butler, Picayune --
Buzzard --
Buzzard, Dr. --
Buzzard Lope --
Caesar, Shirley --
Cakewalk --
Call and response --
Callaloo --
Calypso --
Campbell, Lucie E. --
Canaan --
Canboulays/Cambulay/Kanneboule --
Candied yams --
Candles --
Candomblé --
Capoeira --
Capping --
Carnival --
Carnival masks --
Carriacou --
Carter, Harold A. --
Carvalho-Neto, Paulo de --
Caul --
Ceramics --
Charleston --
Charters, Samuel --
Cheerleading --
Chenier, Clifton --
Chevannes, Barry Alston --
Chicago blues --
Chitlin Circuit --
Chitterlings --
Christensen, A. M. H. --
Christmas --
Church, The Black --
Clark, Kenneth Bancroft --
Classic blues --
Cleveland, Rev. James --
Cliff, Jimmy --
Cobbler --
Color struck --
Coltrane, John --
Comedians --
Commodification of black folklore --
Cone, James --
Congo --
Congo Square --
Conjure --
Conked --
Conversion narratives --
Conway, Cecelia --
Cool --
Coon --
Cornbread --
Cornrows --
Costa Rica --
Cotten, Elizabeth --
Courlander, Harold --
Cowboys --
Cox, Ida --
CP time --
Cracker --
Cracklin bread --
Creole --
Creolization --
Crossroads, The --
Crowley, Daniel John --
Cuba --
Culture --
Cumina --
Cush --
Cut eye --
Dance --
Dance, Daryl Cumber --
Dancehall music --
Dandies --
Davis, Rev. Gary --
Davis, Gerald L. --
Davis, Miles --
Deacons for Defense and Justice --
Deep Down in the Jungle --
Deities --
"Delia [Delia's] gone" --
Delta blues --
Deren, Maya --
Devil, The --
Dialect --
Dicy, Aunt --
"Different strokes for different folks" --
Divination --
Divine, Father --
Dixie Hummingbirds --
Dixieland jazz --
Dog ghosts and Other Texas Negro Tales --
Dogg, Snoop --
Dolemite --
Dominican Republic --
Dorsey, Thomas A. --
Dorson, Richard M. --
Double Dutch --
Dozens --
Dre, Dr. --
Dread talk --
Dreadlocks --
Dreams --
Drumming --
Drylongso --
Dub music --
Dub poetry --
Du Bois, W. E. B. --
Dundes, Alan --
Dunham, Katherine --
Duppy --
Early, James Counts --
Easter rock ritual --
Eazy-E --
Ebonics --
Ecuador --
Egúngún societies --
Egypt --
Election day --
Encyclopedia of Black Folklore and Humor --
Epstein, Dena J. --
Eshu --
Espiritismo --
Ethiopianism --
Etiological tales --
Evans, David --
Evil --
Evil eye --
Fables --
Fairfield Four, The --
Family reunions --
Fasola singing --
Fauset, Arthur Huff --
Federal Writers' Project --
Feijoada --
Ferris, William R. --
Festivals --
Fiction --
Field hollers --
Field nigger/house nigger --
Fife and drum --
Filhos de Gandhy --
Film --
Fish fry --
Fisher, Miles Mark --
Fishing --
Fitzgerald, Ella --
Flags --
Flash, Grandmaster --
Flying Africans --
Folk foods --
Folktales --
Folly, Dennis --
Food --
"Forty acres and a mule" --
Fox, Brer --
"Frankie and Albert/Johnny" --
Franklin, Rev. C. L. --
Fraternity lore --
Frazier, E. Franklin --
Freeman, Roland --
French Quarter --
Frevo --
Fry, Gladys-Marie --
Funerals --
Funk --
v. 2. G-P --
Gaan Gadu --
Gabriel --
Games, Folk --
Gangs --
Gangster rap --
Ganja --
Garifuna --
Garon, Paul --
Garvey, Marcus Mosiah --
Garveyism --
Gay and lesbian folklore --
Geechee --
Gellert, Lawrence --
Gestures --
Ghana --
Ghettos --
Ghosts --
Gillespie, Dizzy --
Glazer, Nathan, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan --
God --
Gonzales, Ambrose Elliott --
Goopher dust --
Gospel choir --
Gospel music --
Gospel quartet --
Graffiti --
Gran Met --
Granny women --
Grapevine --
Grave decorations --
Graveyard dirt --
Grenada --
Griots --
Gris gris --
Guadeloupe --
Gullah --
Gumbo --
Guyana --
Gwaltney, John Langston --
Hag, The --
Haiti --
Hampton, James --
handy, William Christopher --
Harder They come, The --
Harris, Joel Chandler --
Harris, Trudier --
Haskins, James S. --
Hawkins, Coleman --
Hawkins, Edwin, and the Edwin Hawkins Singers --
Heaven --
Hell --
Henderson, Rosa --
Henderson, Stephen E. --
Henry, John --
Herbalism --
Herc, Kool DJ --
Hero, The --
Herskovits, Melville --
Hicks, Kyra Ethelene --
Higes Knots --
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth --
High John the Conqueror --
High Yaller/Yellow --
Hip hop --
Ho --
Hoecakes --
Hog slaughtering --
Holiday, Billie --
Hollywood, DJ --
Holy Piby, The --
Homiak, John P. --
Honduras --
Hoodoo --
Hooker, John Lee --
Hopkins, Lightnin' --
Horse breaking --
Hot foot oil/powder --
Houngan --
House, Son --
House nigger --
Hughes, Langston --
Humor --
Hunter, Alberta, --
Hunter, Clementine --
Hurston, Zora Neale --
Hurt, Mississippi John --
Hush/Bush Harbors --
Hyatt, Harry Middleton --
Hybridity --
Hyppolite, Hector --
Ice Cube --
Improvisation --
Instruments, Folk --
Ironwork --
Isaacs, Gregory --
Islam, Nation of --
Israelites --
Ital --
Jack, Gullah --
Jack-o-my-lantern --
Jackson, Bruce --
Jackson, George --
Jackson, Mahalia --
Jah --
Jahn, Jahnheinz --
Jamaica --
Jankanoo festivals --
Jasper, John --
Jazz --
Jefferson, Blind Lemon --
Jemima, Aunt --
Jesus --
Jigaboo --
Jim Crow --
Jivin' --
Jockeying --
John Canoe festivals --
John tales --
John the Conqueror, High --
Johnson, Clifton Herman --
Johnson, Frank --
Johnson, Guy Benton --
Johnson, James Weldon --
Johnson, Linton Kwesi --
Johnson, Robert --
Jokes --
Jones, Bessie --
Jones, Casey --
Jook/Juke --
Joplin, Scott --
Jordon --
Juba --
Juke joints --
Jump rope rhymes/games --
Jumping the broom --
Juneteenth --
Junkanoo festivals --
Kebra Negast --
Keil, Charles --
Keiser, R. Lincoln --
Kemble, Frances Anne --
Kennedy, Stetston --
King, Albert --
King, B. B. --
Kitchener, Lord --
Klan, Ku Klux --
Kochman, Thomas --
Kongo/Congo --
Krehbiel, H. E. --
Kumina --
Kwanzaa --
Lane, William Henry/Master Juba --
Laveau, Marie --
Lawman, The --
Laying on hands --
Leadbelly --
Legba --
Legends --
Lester, Julius --
Levine, Lawrence W. --
Liautaud, Georges --
Libations --
Liberation theology --
Liebow, Elliot --
Lindy hop --
Loas/Lwas --
Lola, Mama --
Lomax, Alan --
Lomax, John Avery --
Lornell, Kip --
Love, Nat --
Lovell, John Jr. --
Lynch, Willie --
Lynching --
Macumba --
Magic flight --
Magic shops --
Mambo --
Maracatu --
Mardi Gras --
Mardi Gras costumes and masks --
Mardi Gras country runs --
Mardi Gras Indians --
Marijuana --
Marking --
Marley, Bob --
Maroon societies --
Martinique --
Mashed potato --
Mason, Biddy --
Master, Old --
Master Juba --
Mati --
Mays, Benjamin Elijah --
Mazloomi, Carolyn --
McCarthy-Brown, Karen --
McTell, Blind Willie --
Medicine, Folk --
Memphis Minnie --
Mento --
Merengue --
Mighty sparrow --
Migration --
MInstrels --
Minton, John --
Mintz, Sidney W. --
Mitchell-Kernan, Claudia --
Mojo --
Monk, Thelonious --
Monkey, The Signifying --
Morgan, Sister Gertrude --
Morgan, Kathryn Lawson --
Morton, Jelly roll --
Mother Wit --
Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel --
Mules and men --
Munning --
Murray, Albert --
Murrell, Nathaniel Samuel --
Music --
Mustanging --
Myal --
Mythology --
Native American and African American folklore --
Nettleford, Rex --
New Orleans --
Newton, Huey Percey --
Night Riders --
Nine-night rituals --
Nonverbal communication --
Nuwaubians --
NWA --
Nyabinghi --
Obatala --
Obeah --
Odum, Howard Washington --
Ògún --
Okeh Records --
Oliver, King --
Oliver, Paul --
Olmsted, Frederick Law --
Oracles --
Origins --
Orishas --
Ortiz, Fernando --
Osanyin --
Oster, Harry --
Owen, Mary Alicia --
Oyotunji Village --
Page, Thomas Nelson --
Palmares --
Palmer, Robert F., Jr. --
Paper bag test --
Parchman farm --
Parker, Charlie --
Parsons, Elsie Clews --
Passing --
Patton, Charlie --
Pattyrollers --
Peoples Temple --
Performance styles --
Perry, Lee "Scratch" --
Petro --
Pidgins --
Piedmont blues music --
Pimp, The --
Pimp walk --
Pinkster celebrations --
Plantains --
Player --
Pocomania --
Poetry--
Porch sitters --
Possession --
Pottery --
Powdermaker, Hortense --
Powell, Bud --
Powers, Harriet --
Prahlad, Sw. Anand --
Praise houses --
Prayer --
Preacher, The --
Preacher tales --
Protest songs --
Proverbs --
Public Enemy --
Puckett, Newbell Niles --
Puerto Rican folklore --
v. 3. Q-Z --
Quadroon balls --
Quilting --
Rabbit, Brer --
Braboteau, Albert J(ordy) --
Race records --
Rada and Petro Nations --
Ragtime --
"Railroad Bill" --
Rainey, Gertrude "Ma" --
Rap --
Rastafari --
Rawick George P. --
Reagon, Bernice Johnson --
Reasonings --
Recife, Brazil --
Reggae --
Reggae archives --
Religion --
Remus, Uncle --
Reparations --
Retentions --
Revival Zion --
Rhumba --
Rhythm and blues --
Riddles/riddling --
Ring shout --
Ringgold, Faith --
Rio de Janeiro --
Robinson, Beverly --
Robinson, Bill "Bojangles" --
Rock Steady --
Rose, Tricia --
Rude Boy --
Rumba --
Rumors --
Run DMC --
Sacred harp --
Sacred steel guitar --
St. Louis, Ceus "Tibout" --
St. Vincent --
Saints --
Salkley, Andrew --
Samba --
Samba schools --
Santería --
Sass/sassy --
Scarification --
Scat singing --
Scrapers --
Sea Islands --
Secret societies --
Segregation --
Sermons - Seventh-day Adventists --
Seventh Son --
Shakur, Tupac --
Shango --
Shape note singing --
Sharecropping --
Shashemene --
Shine --
Shout --
Shuckin' --
Signifying --
Signifying monkey --
Signs --
Singing and praying bands --
Singing conventions --
Ska --
Skatalites, The --
Skull, Talking --
Slam poetry --
Slave narratives --
Slavery--
Slide guitar --
Slim, Iceberg --
Small, Drink --
Smith, Bessie --
Smith, Mamie --
Smith, Willie "The Lion" --
Smitherman, Geneva --
Smithsonian Institution --
Soca --
Soca Chutney --
Sororities --
Sorrow songs --
Soul --
Soul food --
Sounding - South, The --
Southern, Eileen Jackson --
Sparrow, the mighty --
Spear, Burning --
Speech, Folk --
Speed, Ella --
Spence, Joseph --
Spirits --
Spirituals --
Sports --
Stagolee --
Steel Pan Drum --
Steffens, Roger --
Stepping --
Stewart-Baxter, Derrick --
Stick fighting --
Storytelling --
Stylin' out --
Suck teeth --
Superstition --
Sweet Honey in the Rock --
Syncretism --
Szwed, John F. --
Taj Mahal --
Tap dance --
Tar Baby --
Techlore --
Testifying --
Texas blues --
Thomas, Henry --
Thompson, Robert Farris --
Thornton, Big Mama --
Ti Malice and Bouqui --
Titanic --
Titon, Jeff Todd --
Toasts --
Tobago --
Tom, Uncle --
Tortoise --
Trains --
Tricks --
Trickster --
Trinidad --
Trip hop --
Tubby, King --
Turkey trot --
Turner, Lorenzo Dow --
Turner, Patricia A. --
Tuskegee experiment --
Twelve Tribes --
Twist --
Two-headed doctor --
Umbanda --
Underground Railroad --
United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors --
Uruguay--
Vaudeville --
Verbal dueling --
Vernacular --
Virgin Islands --
Visionary artists --
Vlach, John Michael --
Vodou --
Wakes --
Walker, Aaron "T-Bone" --
Walter, Little --
Ward, Clara --
Waterman, Richard Alan --
Waters, Muddy --
Westmacott, Richard Alan --
Waters, Muddy --
Westmacott, Richard Noble --
Whetstone-McCall, Sherry --
Whitten, Norman E., Jr. --
Wiggins, William H, Jr. --
Williamson, Sonny Boy, I --
Williamson, Sonny Boy, II --
Witches --
Wolf, Brer --
Wood carving --
Woods, Sylvia --
Woofing/wolfing --
Word on the Brazos, The --
Work, John Wesley, III --
Work songs --
Yams --
Yard sale --
Yawney, Carole D. --
"Yellow Rose of Texas, The" --
Yoruba --
Young, Lester --
Zombies --
Zoot suits --
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Prahlad, A. (2006). The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American folklore . Greenwood Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Prahlad, Anand. 2006. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore. Greenwood Press.
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