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Folklore 78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge: The Library of Congress Letters, 1935-1945 Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live The Artistry of Afro-Cuban Bata Drumming: Aesthetics, transmission, Bonding, and creativity Black Rock : A Zuni Cultural Landscape and the Meaning of Place Bloody Mary in the Mirror: Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics Blue Ridge Folklife Bluebeard: A Reader's Guide to the English Tradition Bodies: Sex, Violence, Disease, and Death in Contemporary Legend Cajun and Creole Folktales Collected and Annotated Cajun Country Campus Traditions: Folklore from the Old-Time College to the Modern Mega-University Carolina Piedmont Country Chicano Graffiti and Murals: The Neighborhood Art of Peter Quezada Choctaw Tales Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country Creolization as Cultural Creativity The Florida Folklife Reader From Every Stage: Images of America's Roots Music Ghost Dancing on the Cracker Circuit: The Culture of Festivals in the American South Ghost Hunters of the South Ghosts along the Mississippi River The Glenbuchat Ballads Great Smoky Mountains Folklife Haitian Vodou Flags Haunted Halls: Ghostlore of American College Campuses The Jumbies' Playing Ground: Old World Influences on Afro-Creole Masquerades in the Eastern Caribbean Kentucky Bluegrass Country Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat Made in Mexico: Tradition, Tourism, and Political Ferment in Oaxaca Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco: Readings in Louisiana Culture Miracles of the Spirit: Folk, Art, and Stories from Wisconsin Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore Muffler Men Mule Trader: Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules, and Men Newslore: Contemporary Folklore on the Internet Not Just Child's Play: Emerging Tradition and the Lost Boys of Sudan Organ Theft Legends Ozark Country Peyote Religious Art: Symbols of Faith and Belief Public Folklore Recentering Anglo/American Folksong: Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths Recess Battles: Playing, Fighting, and Storytelling Riddling Tales from around the World Roots of a Region: Southern Folk Culture Santeria Garments and Altars: Speaking Without a Voice Scottish Traveller Tales: Lives Shaped through Stories Shenandoah Valley Folklife South Florida Folklife Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests A Spiral Way: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics Suddenly They Heard Footsteps: Storytelling for the Twenty-first Century Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana Tales of the Bark Lodges Talking Trauma Troubling Violence: A Performance Project Uncle Monday and Other Florida Tales Upper Cumberland Country Vietnam Remembered: The Folk Art of Marine Combat Veteran Michael D. Cousino, Sr. Wiregrass Country	Download the BOOKFRIENDS newsletter BOOKFRIENDS JUKE JOINT Membership Party Join us on Facebook See our authors READ OUR BLOG On the Horizon: Scotty and Elvis When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty listened carefully to the young singer and immediately realized that Elvis had something special. Along with bass player Bill Black, the trio recorded an old blues number called “That’s All (read more...)

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