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American Folklore (The Chicago History of American Civilization)
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American Folklore (The Chicago History of American Civilization) Paperback - 1961

by Dorson, Richard M

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  • Title American Folklore (The Chicago History of American Civilization)
  • Author Dorson, Richard M
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 324
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Date 1961-01-15
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0226158594.G
  • ISBN 9780226158594 / 0226158594
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.06 x 5.27 x 0.8 in (20.47 x 13.39 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Social life and customs, Folklore - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 77077491
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.097

From the publisher

Here, grounded firmly in American history, is a skilled folklorist's survey of the entire field of America's folklore-from colonization to mass culture.

Tracing the forms and content of American folklore, Mr. Dorson reveals the richness, pathos, and humor of genuine folklore, which he distinguishes from the "fakelore" of popularizers and chauvinists. At the same time, however, he shows what the creation of spurious folklore (the Paul Bunyan legends, for instance) discloses about our national character. Based upon authentic field collections and research, the examples cited include folkways, jests, boasts, tall tales, ballads, folk and legendary heroes.

"His volume enlarges our understanding of the American past and present through an empirical survey of the extant folk traditions and it also provides us with the means for appreciating what is valuable in these folk traditions."-Virginia Quarterly Review

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A new nation, born suddenly in a seventeenth-century wilderness, possessed neither cultural nor folk traditions to call its own.

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Tracing the forms and content of American folklore, Mr. Dorson reveals the richness, pathos, and humor of genuine folklore, which he distinguishes from the 'fakelore' of popularizers and chauvinists. At the same time, he shows what the creation of spurious folklore discloses about our national character.

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About the author

Richard M. Dorson was Distinguished Professor of History and Folklore and director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University. His many books include Buying the Wind: Regional Folklore in the United States; The British Folklorists: A History; Folklore and Folklife; and Folktales Told around the World, all published by the University of Chicago Press.