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The Hungry Cowboy

Service and Community in a
Neighborhood Restaurant
BY KARLA A. ERICKSON
Written for readers, scholars, and stu-
dents interested in American culture,
consumerism, and community, The
Hungry Cowboy offers a case study in
how consumers and producers in the
marketplace perform. Erickson pro-
vides insights into the ways that people
make contact in our society and how
they build on the feeting connections
in the service exchange to form more
intimate relationships.
ISBN 978-1-60473-206-1, cloth, $50.00
Garlic Capital of the World
Gilroy, Garlic, and the Making
of a Festive Foodscape
BY PAULINE ADEMA
Pauline Adema examines the role
of food and festivals in creating a
place brand or marketable identity by
scrutinizing how Gilroy, California,
successfully transformed a negative as-
sociation with the pungent bulb into a
highly successful tourism and marketing
campaign.
ISBN 978-1-60473-121-7, paper, $25.00
Voice of the Leopard
African Secret Societies and Cuba
BY IVOR L. MILLER
FOREWORD BY ENGR. (CHIEF)
BASSEY E. BASSEY
This book is an unprecedented tracing
of an African title-society to its Carib-
bean incarnation, which has deeply
infuenced Cubas creative energy and
popular consciousness. To gain deeper
understanding of the material, Miller
underwent kp initiation rites in Ni-
geria after ten years collaboration with
Abaku initiates in Cuba and the United
States.
ISBN 978-1-934110-83-6, cloth, $55.00
Cajun and Zydeco Dance
Music in Northern
California
Modern Pleasures in a
Postmodern World
BY MARK F. DEWITT
Mark F. DeWitt innovatively weaves
together interviews with musicians and
dancers, analysis of popular media,
participant observation as a musician
and dancer, and historical perspectives
from wartime black migration patterns,
the civil rights movement, American
folk and blues revivals, California
counterculture, and the rise of cultural
tourism in Cajun Country.
ISBN 978-1-60473-090-6, cloth, $50.00
Southern Fiddlers and
Fiddle Contests
BY CHRIS GOERTZEN
Chris Goertzen traces fddling and
fddle contests from mid-eighteenth-
century Scotland to the modern United
States and reveals the fddlers lives as
told in their own words to show how
such contests have become living em-
bodiments of American nostalgia.
ISBN 978-1-60473-122-4, cloth, $50.00
78 Blues
Folksongs and Phonographs
in the American South
BY JOHN MINTON
In the postwar period, regional strains
recorded on pioneering 78 r.p.m. discs
exploded into urban blues and R&B,
honky-tonk and western swing, gospel,
soul, and rock n roll. This book covers
a revolution in artist performance and
audience perception through close ex-
amination of hundreds of key hillbilly
and race records released between the
1920s and World War II.
ISBN 978-1-934110-19-5, cloth, $50.00
Haunted Halls
Ghostlore of American College
Campuses
BY ELIZABETH TUCKER
Tucker presents campus ghostlore from
the mid-1960s to 2006, with special
attention to stories told by twenty-
frst-century students through e-mail
and instant messages. As metaphors of
disorder, insanity, and school spirit, col-
lege ghosts convey multiple meanings,
and Tuckers approach combines social,
psychological, and cultural analysis,
with close attention to students own
explanations of the signifcance of
spectral phenomena.
ISBN 978-1-57806-995-8, paper, $20.00
Public Folklore
EDITED BY ROBERT BARON AND
NICK SPITZER
A landmark volume exploring the pub-
lic presentation and application of folk
culture in collaboration with communi-
ties, Public Folklore is available again with
a new introduction discussing recent
trends and scholarship. In discussions of
the relationship between public practice
and the academy, this volume also of-
fers new models for integrating public
folklore training within graduate studies.
ISBN 978-1-934110-40-9, paper, $25.00
Not Just Childs Play
Emerging Tradition and the Lost
Boys of Sudan
BY FELICIA R. MCMAHON
Drawing ideas from folklore, linguistics,
drama, and play theory, the author
documents the danced songs of the Di-
Dinga Lost Boys in Syracuse, New York,
and argues that the playful traditions she
describes constitute a strategy by which
these young men proudly position them-
selves as preservers of DiDinga culture
and as harbingers of social change
rather than as victims of war.
ISBN 978-1-57806-987-3, cloth, $50.00
Troubling Violence
A Performance Project
BY M. HEATHER CARVER AND
ELAINE J. LAWLESS
Troubling Violence traces the creative de-
velopment of a performance troupe in
which women take the stage to narrate
true, harrowing experiences of domes-
tic violence and then invite audience
members to discuss the tales. Perfor-
mance, this book argues, enhances
ethnographic research and writing by
allowing ethnographers to approach
both their feld studies and their ethno-
graphic writing as performance.
ISBN 978-1-60473-208-5, cloth, $50.00
Available in May
Bluebeard
A Readers Guide to the
English Tradition
BY CASIE E. HERMANSSON
This book is the frst major study of the
tale of Bluebeard and its many vari-
ants in English: from the eighteenth-
and nineteenth-century chapbooks,
childrens toybooks, pantomimes,
melodramas, and circus spectaculars,
through the twentieth century in music,
literature, art, flm, and theater.
ISBN 978-1-60473-231-3, paper, $30.00
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Bloody Mary in the Mirror
Essays in Psychoanalytic
Folkloristics
BY ALAN DUNDES
In these seven fascinating essays, psycho-
analytic theory illuminates such folklore
genres as legend (in the vampire tale),
folktale (in the ancient Egyptian tale of
two brothers), custom (in fraternity haz-
ing and ritual fasting), and games (in the
modern Greek game of long Donkey).
Bloody Mary in the Mirror, an expedition
into psychoanalytic folklore techniques,
constitutes a giant step toward realizing
the potential Freuds work promises for
folklore studies.
ISBN 978-1-60473-187-3, paper, $25.00
Bodies
Sex, Violence, Disease, and Death
in Contemporary Legend
BY GILLIAN BENNETT
In this book Gillian Bennett traces the
cultural history of six legends, well-
known in Europe and America, from
medieval times to the present day. Ap-
pearing in broadsides, ballads, myths,
ancient and modern legends, novels,
plays, flms, television shows, and stories
told in the oral tradition, these legends
reveal much about the concerns and
fears of everyday life and demonstrate
the limits of knowledge and power in
the modern world.
ISBN 978-1-60473-245-0, paper, $25.00
Fiddling Way Out Yonder
The Life and Music of Melvin Wine
BY DREW BEISSWENGER
Beisswenger utilizes models from
folklore studies and ethnomusicol-
ogy to discuss how community life and
educational environment have affected
Melvins music and his approaches to
performance. The book includes tran-
scriptions and analyses of ten of Mel-
vins tunes, some of which are linked to
minstrelsy, ballad singing traditions, and
gospel music.
ISBN 978-1-60473-202-3, paper, $25.00
Recentering Anglo/
American Folksong
Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths
BY ROGER DEV. RENWICK
Renwick argues that the business of
folksong scholars is to explain folksong,
and he justifes his argument by present-
ing a case study in each of fve essays
to demonstrate the scholarly value of
approaching this material through close
readings and comparative analysis.
ISBN 978-1-60473-254-2, paper, $25.00
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Birth Chairs, Midwives,
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BY AMANDA CARSON BANKS
Banks examines the history of the birth
chair and tells how this birthing device
changed over time. Through photo-
graphs, artists renditions of births,
interviews, and texts from midwives and
early obstetricians, she creates an evo-
lutionary picture of birthing practices
and highlights the radical redefnition
of birth that has occurred in the last
two centuries.
ISBN 978-1-57806-172-3, paper, $25.00
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