Between the Cracks of History /  
Francis Edward Abernethy, editor ; Carolyn Fiedler Satterwhite, assistant editor ; illustrations by Cynthia Fisher. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource:   illustrations ; 
 - Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ;  55 .
 - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/> Between the cracks of history --  Classroom definitions of folklore /  Defining folklore for my students /  Folklore and cinema /  Toward a definition of folk culture /  Folklore fieldwork on the Internet : some ethical and practical considerations /  Beginning within : teaching folklore the easy way /  The honored dead : the ritual of police burial /  Meaner than Hell! /  Gang graffiti /  Gideon Lincecum, "Killie Krankie," and fiddling in early Texas /  The bluebird mare from Sterling City /  The night the stars fell /  Rail tales : some are true /  Dance halls of East Texas : from oral history /  The oil field camp /  Noises in the attic : adventures of some Texas ghosts /  Repo man /  Tex-Mex dialect, or, Gidget goes to Acuna /  Punching sticks, flannel wrapped bricks, and pink powder purgatives : spring rituals /  When Harley Sadler's tent show came to town /  Eating over the sink and other marital strategies /  F.E. Abernethy --  Joyce Roach --  Jim Harris --  Joe S. Graham --  Jan Roush --  Rhett Rushing --  Phyllis Bridges --  Kenneth W. Davis --  Ken Untiedt --  Chris Goertzen --  Patrick Dearen --  Robert J. Duncan --  Charlie Oden --  Dennis Read and Bobby Nieman --  James Winfrey --  Allan Turner and Richard Stewart --  John Lightfoot --  Rebecca Cornell --  Ernestine Sewell Linck --  J.G. Pinkerton --  James Ward Lee. 
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<br/><br/> Annotation  Six essays discuss definitions and explanations of folklore, and methods of teaching it. Then 15 additional essays explore Texas folklore related to such topics as police burials, gang graffiti, fiddling, ghosts, dance halls, oil fields, spring rituals, and the dialect spoken along the border between Texas and Mexico. Numerous illustrations and black-and-white photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Folklore--Study and teaching.<br/>Folklore.<br/>Folklore--Étude et enseignement.<br/>Folklore.<br/>Folklore--Texas.<br/>Folklore.--Study and teaching.<br/>Folklore.<br/>Folklore--Texas.<br/>Folklore--Study and teaching.<br/>Folklore.<br/>Folklore--Texas.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Texas.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Folk literature.<br/>Folklore.<br/>Folk literature.<br/>Electronic books.