FLFOT! (Folklore Friday on Thursday!)

My Fridays are usually kind of busy - and I sometimes forget about Folklore Friday.  All right, I may have forgotten for many months.   Here are some links updating what is going on in the wonderful world of folklore studies!

• The Boiled Down Juice is collecting stories about Sulphur Springs, Arkansas.   Check them out here
• I saw a guy on the train reading Nancy Marie Brown's new book "Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths."   When I got to work I immediately looked it up and discovered the author's blog God of Wednesday.   Add this one to your reading list!
• Mr. Proverb - Wolfgang Mieder - is the winner of the AFS Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award
• Couldn't make the AFS meeting in New Orleans last month?   Read the report here.
• Indiana University - home of America's premiere folklore program - is looking for a lecturer
• .In more IU news: Professor Portia Maultsby was the Charles Seeger Lecturer at the Society for Ethnomusicology's meeting in New Orleans.
• Another blog to add to your blogroll:  Living Ethnography.   Now this is how to do a blog!
• New issue of JAFL!  

First of Tha Month

On the first of the month, to ensure good luck, you should say the words "rabbit rabbit rabbit" when you wake up.

I always forget.

But I never forget to sing these timeless lyrics:

"Wake up, wake up, wake up it's the 1st of tha month
To get up, get up, get up so cash yo checks and get up."

Here's some folklore books coming your way this month, two of these books I would love to see under my Festivus pole:

• Folk Culture in the Digital Age - Trevor J. Blank, ed.  Utah State University Press.   The last book on this topic by Trevor Blank was pretty good!   I told him so on Bookface.   It's called Folklore and the Internet.   People, read them both.   Might even inspire me to do some real folklore writing instead of this terrible blog.
• Appalachia Mountain Folklore - Michael Rivers.  Schiffer Publishing.
• Signs, Cures, and Withcery: German Appalachian Folklore - Gerald C. Mines.  Paperback version.   University of Tennessee Press.   I'm a squarehead who used to live in Appalachia!   And this book is now in an affordable paperback edition.   I hope my mutti reads this blog.
• Dictionary of 1,000 Chinese Proverbs - Marjorie Lin and Leonard Schalk.  Hippocrene Books, revised edition.
• Legends of the Scottish Saints: Readings, Hymns and Prayers for the Commemorations of Scottish Saints in the Aberdeen Breviary - Alan MacQuarrie, ed.  Four Courts Press.
• Adonis: The Myth of the Dying God in the Italian Renaissance - Carlo Caruso.  Bristol Classical Press.
• Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies: The Life of Folklorist Mary Alicia Owen - Greg Olson.   Missouri Biography Series, University of Missouri.

Online Illustrated Guide to the American Folklife Center

The above picture is from the Illustrated Guide to the American Folklife Center.   It is from a Cambodian wedding ceremony as documented in Lowell in 1987.

The Illustrated Guide serves as a great introduction to the Folklife Center.   If you have ever had to answer the question about what exactly folklorists study, you would be well served to point the questioner to this site.

Octoberfest of Folklore Books

I am wearing my pumpkin colored sweater, drinking a Pumpkin spiced latte, full of Knockwurst and Munich Gold from this weekend's Octoberfest revelry in New Hampshire.

I am afraid all my updates are only lists of books.   But, you know, lists of books are kinda cool.

• Diana - Fay Glinister.  From the series "Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World."  Routledge.
• When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue: And Other Essays in Historical Anthropology - Hermann Rebel.   Berghahn Books.
• Letting Stories Breathe: A Socio-Narratology - Arthur W. Frank.  University of Chicago Press.
• Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions - Raphael Patai and Haya Bar-Itzhak, eds.   M. E. Sharpe.
• Media, Myth, and Society - Arthur Asa Berger.  Palgrave Pivot.
• Warrior Ways: Explorations in Modern Military Folklore - Eric A. Eliason and Tad Tuleja, eds.   Utah State University Press.
• Fairy Tale Queens: Representations of Early Modern Queenship - Jo Eldridge Carney.  Palgrave MacMillan.
• Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liar's Club - Christopher B. Teuton.  The University of North Carolina Press. 
• The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry - Daniel W. Patterson.  Richard Hampton Jenrette Series in Architecture and Decorative Arts, The University of North Carolina Press. 
• Passing It On: Folklore of St. Louis - John L. Oldani.  2nd Edition, Revised and Updated, Reedy Press. 
• Where is My Home?: Slovak Immigration to North America (1870-2010) - M. Mark Stolarik.  Peter Lang.
• Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms - Kay Turner & Pauline Greenhill, eds.  In Fairy Tales, Wayne State University Press.
• Tales of Magic, Tales in Print: On the Genealogy of Fairy Tales and the Brothers Grimm - Willem de Blecout.  Manchester University Press.
• South Central Pennsylvania Legends and Lore - David Puglia.  The History Press. 
• The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures - Karl Bell.  Boydell Press.
• Americo Paredes: Culture and Critique - Jose E. Limon.  University of Texas Press.
• Traditional Stories from Binandere in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea - Anita Tago.  Buai Series 3, University of Papua New Guinea Press.

Folklored: A Don Cossack "kurenj" hut. Quick notes.

Evgenia Samsonova has a very informative blog about Slavic folklore over at Folklored.   I encourage you to check it out!


Folklored: A Don Cossack "kurenj" hut. Quick notes.: The photos below show typical examples Don Cossack hut "kurenj" architecture seen around the southern regions of the Russian steppes. Mov...

Building a Better Folklore Library

I am always on the lookout for more folklore books.   I want them all!    Here are the new releases for July of this year.

• Folklore and Nationalism in Europe During the Long Nineteenth Century - Timothy Baycroft, ed.  National Cultivation of Culture, Brill Academic Pub.
• Legends of the Caucasus - David Hunt.  Saqi Books.
• Saints of Sage and Saddle: Folklore Among the Mormons - Austin E. Fife and Alta Stephens Fife.  Literary Licensing, LLC.
• Pop Mythology: Collected Essays - Laura A. Shamas.   Telemachus Press.
• Transatlantic Roots Music: Folk, Blues and National Identities - Jill Terry and Neil A. Wynn, eds.  American Made Music Series, University Press of Mississippi.  
• Kachina Tales from the Indian Pueblas - Gene Meany Hodge.  Sunstone Press.
• Gawain and the Grail Quest: Healing the Waste Land in Our Time - Jeffrey John Dixon.  Floris Books.
• Spirit Memory: An Ancestral Journey through Aboriginal and European Transformation - Mary Tasi.  Influence Publishing.
• Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen: Travellers' Songs, Stories and Tunes of the Fetterangus Stewarts - Elizabeth Stewart.  Compiled by Alison McMorland.  University Press of Mississippi/Elphinstone Institute.

Hot Folklore Fun in the Summertime: Folklore Reads on the Beach

Summertime.    And the fish are jumping.   Summertime.

Summertime, summertime, sum-sum-summertime.   Summertime.

Hot fun in the summertime.

Here are some folklore books to bring to the beach.  

• Post-Revolutionary Chicana Literature: Memoir, Folklore and Fiction of the Border, 1900-1950 - Sam Lopez.   Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues, Routledge.
• Folklore in Action: Essays for Discussion in Honor of MacEdward Leach - Horace Palmer Beck and MacEdward Leach, eds.  Literary Licensing, LLC.
• The Art of Mythical Composition and Narration: Dagara White Bagr - Alexis B. Tengan.   European Interuniversity Press.   
• American Proverbs About Women - Lois Kerchen.  Booklocker.
• Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome - E. M. Berens.   Indoeuropean Publishing.
• What Happens Next?  Contemporary Urban Legends and Popular Culture - Gail Arlene de Vos.  Libraries Unlimited.
• Tales from 1,001 Nights: Aladdin, Ali Baba and Other Favorites - Anonymous.  Translated by Malcolm C. and Ursula Lyons.   Penguin Classics.
• Yes and No: The Intimate Folklore of Africa - Alta Jablow.  Literary Licensing, LLC.
• Norse Romance I: The Tristan Legend; Norse Romance II: The Knights of the Round Table; Norse Romance III: Haerra Ivan - Marianne E. Kalinke, ed.  Arthurian Archives, D. S. Brewer.   
• Archaeology and Folklore - Amy Gazin-Schwartz and Cornelius J. Holtorf, eds.   Theoretical Archaeology Group, Routledge.