| Texas Folklore Society, 1943-1971: Volume II Contributor(s): Abernethy, Francis Edward (Author), Shaw, Charles (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0929398785 ISBN-13: 9780929398785 Publisher: University of North Texas Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 398.060 |
| LCCN: 92-12273 |
| Series: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.34" H x 6.23" W x 9.28" (1.70 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Texas - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The second volume to the Texas Folklore Society history covers from the McCarthy era to the end of the wild and woolly sixties. Includes the publishing history of the TFS books, anecdotes about the gatherings of the Society (including Hermes Nye starting the tradition of the hootenanny at Texas Folklore Society meetings in 1956), and the emphasis on singing beginning at Society gatherings. The Texas Folklore Society was thirty-five years old in 1944, having come into existence under the hands of John Avery Lomax and Leonidas Warren Payne in 1909. J. Frank Dobie held the reins of the Society from 1922 to 1943, when he turned the direction to Mody Coggin Boatright. Allen Maxwell and Wilson Hudson followed as editors of Society publications. These were the years when the Society lost J. Frank Dobie and Leonidas Payne, but it gained such notables as F. E. Abernethy, Jim Byrd, Ed Gaston, William Owens, Am rico Paredes, Mabel Major, LaVerne Harrell, Elithe Hamilton Kirkland, John Q. Anderson, George Hendricks, Martin Shockley, James Ward Lee, Faye Leeper, and Ruth Dodson. |