Missouri Folklore Society Journal
Contents
Volume 1, 1979:
Douglas Wixson, "The Oral Tradition of Fiddle Music in the Early Days of Radio: Uncle Jim Haley of Pulaski County";
Cathy Barton, "Max Hunter: Ozark Song Collector";
Michael Patrick, "The Razorback as a Legendary Creature in the Novels
of Mitchell Jayne and Donald Harington";
William M. Clements, "The Folklorist, the Folk, and the Region"
54 pp
Volume 2, 1980:
William K. McNeil, "Mary Alicia Owen, Collector of Afro-American
and Indian Lore in Missouri";
Rosemary Hyde Thomas, "Traditional Types of Nicknames in a Missouri
French Creole Community";
James M. Shirky, "A Missouri Dunkard Community";
Robert G. Brady, "German-American Folklore in Missouri: John G. Eberhard's
Deutsch Amerikanische Volkserzählungen";
Rebecca B. Schroeder, review of Vance Randolph, Ozark Folksongs;
Record review
76 pp
Volume 3, 1981:
James L. Evans, "Frog Jumping Contests";
Charles R. Mink, "The Ozark Hillbilly: A Vanishing American";
Michael Patrick, "Traditional Ozark Entertainment";
John W. Roberts, "Jim the Wonder Dog";
book review, record review
79 pp
Volume 4, 1982, Special Issue, Dedicated to Vance Randolph:
Donald M. Lance, "Max Hunter Remembers Vance and Mary";
Gordon McCann, "What Do You Know about Horseheads and Crow Poison?";
Douglas Mahnkey, "Vance Randolph: An Appreciation";
Michael Luster, "Vance Randolph: A Chronology";
Rebecca B. Schroeder, "Unprintable Songs from the Ozarks: Forgotten
Manuscripts";
Lyn A. Wolz, "Anglo-American Music in Missouri: An Annotated Bibliography";
Library of Congress, "Missouri Field Recordings in the Archive of
Folk Culture";
book review, record reviews
124 pp
Volume 5, 1983:
Carol Pinney Crabb, "The Evolution of Quilt Shows at Nineteenth Century
Missouri Fairs";
Sample Quilt Blocks;
Bettina Baker Havig, "A Dominion of Quiet: The Amish Quiltmaker’s
World";
Lynn Morrow, "The Yocum Silver Dollar";
Michael Patrick, "Fil Hancock of Rolla";
book and record reviews 60 pp
Volume 6, 1984:
John R. David, "Frankie and Johnnie: The Trial of Frankie Baker";
Ralph Gregory, "Wine-Making in the Duden Settlement: History and
Customs";
Elaine J. Lawless, "Traditional Women Preachers in Mid-Missouri";
Douglas Wixson, "Jack Conroy and Industrial Folklore";
record review, book reviews;
Lyn Wolz, Index Volumes I-V
100 pp
Volume 7, 1985:
Donald M. Lance, "The Origin and Pronunciation of ‘Missouri’";
Donald Love, "Bushwhacking Stories in Ozark Oral Tradition";
Ellen Gray Massey, "Preserving the Past: The Bittersweet Experience";
Suzanne Chamier, "‘Scrapping’ Tiff and Tales: Storytelling in La
Vieille Mine, Missouri";
book reviews
84 pp
Volume 8-9, 1986-1987, Special Double Issue, Dedicated to Missouri
Collectors:
Susan L. Pentlin and Rebecca B. Schroeder, "H. M. Belden, The English
Club, and The Missouri Folklore Society";
Susan L. Pentlin, "Maude Williams Martin: Early Ballad Collector
in Missouri";
Mary Elizabeth Allcorn, "Mary Alicia Owen: Missouri Folklorist";
John R. Hensley, "Things and the Folk: Vance Randolph and Material
Culture";
Judy Prozzillo Byers, "Ruth Ann Musick ? The Show-Me Mountaineer:
A Missourian Adopts West Virginia";
Jane Grosby, "The First National Folk Festival";
Rebecca B. Schroeder and Donald M. Lance, "John L. Handcox: ‘The
Sharecropper Troubador’";
W. K. McNeil, "‘The Iron Mountain Baby’: A Song and Its History";
Rebecca B. Schroeder, "Versions of ‘The Iron Mountain Baby’ in the
Loman Cansler and Max Hunter Collections";
C. Ray Brassieur, "Washington County Versions of ‘The Iron Mountain
Baby’";
Rosemary Hyde Thomas, "Getting People Involved: A Case Study of Community
Involvement in the Old Mines French Project";
Norma Ortiz-Karp, "Folksong Materials in the University of Arkansas
Library";
Laura Bullion, "Folk Research Collections at the University of Missouri
in Columbia";
Lyn A. Wolz, "Folk Music in Missouri: A Selected Annotated Bibliography";
book and record reviews
244 pp
Volume 10, 1988, Special Issue, Traditional Uses of Native Plants
in Missouri, Guest Editor, Rosemary Hyde Thomas:
Patricia P. Timberlake, "George Engelmann, 1809-1884: Early Missouri
Botanist";
Kathy Love, "Julian Steyermark, 1909?1988";
Leonard Blake, "Food Plants of the Historic Osage Indians"; Ginny
Wallace, "Living Close to the Land: How the Osage Indians Used Native Plants";
Steven Foster and Yue Chongxi, "Disjunct Occurrence and Folk Uses
of Medicinal Plants in the Ozarks and in China";
Mike Gruendler, Sharon Matlock, and Carole Mushkin, "Medicinal Plants";
Ella Roberson, "Sassafras: A Useful Plant";
Bill Summers, "Wild Spring Greens";
Mary Parrott, "A German Rural Community’s Use of Edible Greens";
Elaine Andree, "Wild Edibles of the St. John’s Region";
Carol Leigh Brack-Kaiser, "Missouri Plants and Their Historic Uses
in Natural Dyeing";
Rosemary Hyde Thomas, "Suitcase Science Kit on Missouri Ethnobotany";
book reviews
116 pp
Volumes 11-12. 1989-1990, Double Issue, Commemorating Missouri University
Sesquicentennial:
Rosemary Gabbert Musil, "My Papa Said;
R. O. T. C. at Early Missouri University";
"The White Pillars";
Barry Kirk, "The Brookshire House: Development of a Young Legend";
Joel Bartow, "That Ain’t No Way to Kill a Werewolf: The Modernization
of an Old Legend";
Carol P. Crabb, "Steamin’ up the Missouri River";
Charles van Ravenswaay, "New Homes in the West as Described in the
Letters of Two German-Americans";
Susan Lee Pentlin, "German in the Warrensburg Schools, 1871-1875:
A Short-Lived Attempt at Cultural
Preservation";
Gary Kremer & Lynn Morrow, "Pennytown: A Freedman's Hamlet, 1871-1945";
Leslie Konnyu, "Hungarians in Missouri: Preserving Old Traditions";
Peter Hilty, "Farm Metaphor, A Eulogy";
Michael Patrick, "Ward Dorrance: In the Shadow of Vance Randolph?";
Kathy Love, "The World of Townsend Godsey";
Rachel Vukas, "Joan O’Bryant";
Jim Krause, "The Joan O’Bryant Folksong Collection";
Randy E. Roberts, "The Peter Tamony Collection";
Charles Mink & Becky Schroeder, "An Urban Legend in Mid-Missouri";
William M. Clements, "The Flowering of Religious Folklife Studies";
Elaine J. Lawless, "Diversities of Books on Religious Folklore and
Folklife";
Donald M. Lance, "Appalachian and Ozark Dialect";
Ellen Gray Massey, "The Glow of Foxfire";
Clyde Wade, "Humor, 1830-1861";
James N. Wise, "The Oral Tradition";
Robbie Lieberman, "The Big Question: For Money or for the Folk";
book and video reviews;
Lyn Wolz, Index to Volumes I-X
264 pp
Volumes 13-14, 1991-1992, Special Issue: Fiddling in Missouri:
Richard Blaustein, "Jake and Lena Hughes: Grassroots Promoters of
the Old-Time Fiddling Revival in Missouri and the Great Plains Region";
C. Thomas Cairney, "‘That Devil Fiddle’: Scotch-Irish Folk Religion
and Ethnic Boundary Maintenance in Southern Missouri";
Loman Cansler, "The Fiddle and Religion";
Timothy J. Cooley, "When a Tune Becomes a Folk Tune: Fiddling in
Southern Illinois";
Linda L. Danielson, "Oregon Fiddling: The Missouri Connection";
Howard W. Marshall, "‘Marmaduke’s Hornpipe’: Speculations on the
Life and Times of a Historic Missouri Fiddle Tune";
Amy E. Skillman, "‘She Oughta Been a Lady’: Women Old-Time Fiddlers
in Missouri";
Julie Youmans, "Warming the Cold Notes: Style and Boundaries in Old-Time
Fiddling";
In Memoriam: Rebecca B. Schroeder, "Missouri Folk Song Collector:
Loman D. Cansler (1924-1992)";
Rebecca B. Schroeder, "The Dean of Missouri Fiddle Music: Remembering
R P. Christeson (1911-1992)";
Howard W. Marshall, "Skilled Fiddler and Local Historian: Thomas
Arthur Galbraith (1909-1993)"
198 pp
Volumes 15-16. 1993-1994, Double Issue, History and Legend in Missouri:
Dick Steward, "Western Myth: History Versus the Legends and Lore
of John Smith T";
Dick Steward, "The Little Yankee: The Duelist as Folk Hero";
Jim Vandergriff, "The Legend of Joe’s Cave: Murder, Medicine, Counterfeiting,
and Vigilantism in Early Camden County";
Phil Hoebing, "‘Fr. Gus’: The Slave Priest from Ralls County, Missouri";
Susan Pentlin, "John A. Gallaher and Coal Mining at Montserrat, Missouri:
History and Legend";
Lynn Morrow, "‘I Am Nothing but a Poor Scribbler’: Silas Turnbo and
His Writings";
Phil Hoebing, "Snake Lore in Mark Twain Country";
Jan Harold Brunvand, "Was It a Stunned Deer or Just a Deer Stunt?
(The Story behind a Missouri Legend)";
John Morgan, "Cockfighting: A Rural American Tradition";
Daniel M. Schores, "The Use of Riddles in the Ozarks and Other Mountain
Cultures";
C. Ray Brassieur, "Art and Heritage in Southeast Missouri: The Bootheel
Project";
Sw. Anand Prahlad (Dennis Folly), "Collecting in the Bootheel: An
Overview of Student Participation";
Jerome Stueart, "The Bootheel Project: An Artist’s Picture";
book and video reviews
210 pp
Volume 17, 1995, Special Issue, Music and Song:
Karen J. Sanders, "Making the Babes Our Own: A Search for a Song";
Dana Everts-Boehm, "‘Oh, Don’t You Remember’: A Family Portrait of
‘Babes in the Woods’";
Mary Ann Fitzwilson, "With Hammers of Their Own Design: Scholarly
Treatment of the John Henry Tradition";
Jill Davidson, "The Meeks Family Murder"; Rose Johnson, "Music in
the Park: Hannibal Builds a New Bandstand";
book and video reviews;
Index to Volumes 11-16
196 pp
Volumes 18-19, 1996-1997, Special Issue, Collectors of Missouri Music
and Lore, Part I: James Denny, "The Manitou Bluffs on the Missouri River";
Allen Walker Read, "The Onomastic Background of John Hay’s ‘Pike
County Ballads’";
Mary Alicia Owen, "The Significance of Folk-Lore" (1916);
Alison K. Brown, "Beads, Belts and Bands: The Mesquakie Collection
of Mary Alicia Owen";
Henry Marvin Belden, "Autobiographical Notes";
Henry Marvin Belden, "The Study of Folk-Song in America" (1904);
Henry Marvin Belden, "The Ballad of Lord Bakeman" (1904);
Donald R. Holliday, "Songs for Calloused Souls: or ‘It Ain’t Hard
to Sing The Blues, Cause Murder and Maiming Every Day Ain’t Good News’";
C. Ray Brassieur, "Joseph Médard Carrière (1902-1970):
Collector of Missouri French Folklore";
Robert L. Ramsay, "Folkways in Missouri Place Names";
Allen Walker Read, "Tribute to Professor Robert L. Ramsay";
Joseph P. Ramsay, "A Brief Biography of Professor Robert L. Ramsay";
Detailed bibliographies of Belden, Carrière, and Ramsay;
book reviews
200 pages
Volume 20, 1998, Special Issue, Collectors of Missouri Music and
Lore:
R. P. Christeson, "Old-Time Fiddling in Missouri: A Workshop";
Donald M. Lance, ed., "Reminiscences of R. P. Christeson";
R. P. Christeson, "A Tribute to William A. (Bill) Driver";
A Chronology of Robert Perry Christeson;
Timothy Bond, "P.S., Make Sure You Bring Your Fiddle: The Ancestry,
Life, and Legacy of Herk Sanders";
Donald M. Lance, ed., "Chroniclers of an Era: Loman Cansler and Max
Hunter, Collectors of Traditional Music, Song, and Lore";
A Chronology of Loman Doyle Cansler;
Loman D. Cansler, "Liner Notes, Folksongs of Missouri";
A Chronology of Max Franklin Hunter;
Mary Celestia Parler and Vance Randolph, "Max Hunter";
Mary Celestia Parler, "Two Yarrow Ballads from the Ozarks";
Judy Domeny, "Terrible Songs--Missouri Tragedies in Music";
Sean Killeen, "Going to Kansas City … and to Springfield";
Ann W. Pittman, "Echoes from de Ole Camp Ground";
Rosemary Hyde Thomas, "Ann Washington Pittman: A Tribute for her
Ninetieth Birthday";
Knox McCrory, "Notes on the Harmonica: Toy or Musical Instrument?"
;
book and record reviews.
190 pp.
Volume 21, 1999:
C. Ray Brassieur, "Thereby Hangs a Tale. An Old French Story Survives
in Brittany and Missouri: An Unexpected Rendezvous";
Linda Walker Stevens, "The Story of Wine at Hermann";
Erin McCawley Renn, "Edward Kemper's World: An Essay on The Architecture
and Cultural Landscape of a Nineteenth Century German American Community";
A E. Schroeder, "An Interview with Anna Kemper Hesse";
Phil Hoebing, "Legends of Lover's Leaps";
Cathy M. Jackson, "Jesse James: His Legend Has Never Done Him Wrong";
Donald M. Lance, "'Seed Tick School' and Beyond: Oral Histories and
Stories Collected by Roy Edwin Thomas";
W. K. McNeil, "In Memory of Harlan Daniel, Collector";
Inez E. Lawson, "Memories."
book and audio reviews
172 pp
Volume 22 (2000) is now available for $10:
Special Issue
Material Culture
Issue Editor: Howard W. Marshall
Preface vii
Articles:
The Nail Trade in Missouri: Archaeological Evidence at the Hickman House
Charles A. Stewart 1
The Round Barn Form: Functionality, Spiritualism, or Aesthetics?
Becky L. Snider 13
The Ralph Richterkessing Farm: An Expression of German-American
Culture in Rural Missouri
Toni Prawl and Stacy Sone 27
Uncle Johnnie Maighin: Manx Builder in the Ozarks
E. D. McKinney 53
The Hughes Homestead: A Depression-Era Log House
Christina Carl 63
Scottish Folk Costume in Ethnic Identity
Tara Christopher Crane 75
“Everyone Has a Bit of It and No One Has It All”: Missouri’s
Traditional Arts
Lisa Higgins 91
REVIEWS
Following Tradition: Folklore in the Discourse of American Culture.
By Simon J. Bronner. Utah State University Press, 1998.
Adam Brooke Davis 103
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volume 23 2001
volume 24 2002
volume 25 2003
volume 26 2004
volume 26 2005
volume 27 2006