Folklore Dump

Here are some links that are of interest to me:

• Bad Archaeology - A Snopes for the people who try to tell you the world will end in 2012 or that the pyramids were built by space aliens.
• Know Your Meme - This is how the youths communicate with one another.   
• John Miles Foley, RIP - founder of one of my favorite journals and author of a number of influential books on oral literature has passed.
• 100 Years of Titanic Songs - not counting Celine Dion.
• Paganfest - who are more ridiculous: pagans or juggalos? Discuss.
• Iran's Epic - new book out about the Shahnameh.   There can't be enough books about the Shahnameh, IMHO.  
• Eefing - American folk tradition.   If you don't know it yet, then start clicking!
• More Titanic Music (NO CELINE DION!)
• Блатная Песня - who doesn't love Russian prison songs?   
• Peasant Culture in Russian Cartoons - look, there's a metafilter about this.

Spring Reading List

I have just recently discovered that because I possess a coveted Boston Public Library card I am able to access on-line thousands of articles in "The Journal of American Folklore," "Western Folklore," etc.   Loading up my Kindle!   It's almost like I am back in academia without all the backbiting and politicking!

Here are the spring folklore books I want you to buy for me:

• The Seven Tengu Scrolls: Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism - Haruko Wakabayashi.   University of Hawaii Press.   
• Miraculous Plenty: Irish Religious Folktales and Legends - Sean O Suilleabhain, ed.   Trans. by William Caulfield.   Scribhinni Bealodis/Folklore Studies Series, Folklore of Ireland Council.  
• Folk Tales of the Maldives - Xavier Romero-frias.   Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.
• Enchanted Legends and Lore of New Mexico: Witches, Ghosts & Spirits - Ray John de Aragon.  The History Press.
• The Magical Imagination: Magic and Modernity in Urban England, 1780-1914 - Karl Bell.   Cambridge University Press.
• The Case of the Animals versus Man Before the King of the Jinn - ed. by Lenn E. Goodman and Richard MacGregor.   Oxford University Press.
• The Irish Fairy Tales: A Narrative Tradition from the Middle Ages to Yeats and Stephens - Vito Carrassi.   Trans. by Kevin Wren.   University of Delaware Press.
• Don't Shoot the Albatross!: Nautical Myths and Superstitions - Jonathan Eyers.  Adlard Coles.
• The Voice of the People: Writing the European Folk Revival, 1760-1914 - ed. by Matthew Campbell and Michael Perraudin.   Anthem World History, Anthem Press.
• The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale - Caroline Sumpter.   Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture, Palgrave MacMillan.
• A Lark for the Sake of Their Country: The 1926 General Strike Volunteers in Folklore and Memory - Rachelle H. Saltzman.  Manchester University Press.
• The Ancient Mythology of Modern Science: A Mythologist Looks (Seriously) at Popular Science Writing - Gregory Schrempp.   McGill-Queen's University Press.
• The Denver Folk Music Tradition: An Unplugged History, from Harry Tuft to Swallow Hill and Beyond - Paul A. Malkoski.   The History Press.
• Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States - Kip Lornell.   American Made Music Series, University Press of Mississippi.
• The Irresistable Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre - Jack Zipes.   Princeton University Press.
• Intimate Distance: Andean Music in Japan - Michelle Bigenho.   Duke University Press Books.
• Villages on Stage: Folklore and Nationalism in the Republic of Moldova - Jennifer R. Cash.   Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia, LIT Verlag.
• A Companion to Folklore - Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem, eds.   Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Anthropology, Wiley-Blackwell.
• Fairy Tales Framed: Early Forewords, Afterwords and Critical Words - Ruth B. Bottigheimer.   State University of New York Press.

Happy readings!