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What's going on? (in modern Texas folklore) / edited by Francis Edward Abernethy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Austin : The Encino Press, 1976.Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 309 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 390/.08 s 398.2/09764
Contents:
And that's how some folklore is born /Shuffler, R. Henderson -- Jack Ruby: folk hero in embryo? / Nichols, Olivia Murray -- Neiman-Marcus lore from the inside / Marcus, Stanley -- Cobras at K-Mart: legends of hidden danger / Carpenter, Ann -- Chain letters: a twentieth century folk practice / Duncan, Robert J. -- A bumper crop of modern epigrams / Byrd, James W. -- The sissy test / Hudson, Jan -- The ghost and tiny Alice / Dykes, LaGene Lacy -- From the halls of justice / McCullen, J. T. Jr. -- The folklore of marijuana / Russell, Robert Lowell -- Texas tea and rainy day woman: the folklore of the underground press / Nye, Hermes -- Bury my heart at wounded 'neck: notes of a native son / Lee, James Ward -- 'You gotcha ears on?' / McDonald, Archie P. -- Preparing the fatted calf / Martin, William C. -- Rodeo cowboy 1976 / Mansfield, Deanne -- 'As the hearse goes by': the modern child's memento mori / Doyle, charles Clay -- Give the world a smile each day / Abernethy, Francis Edward -- Zydeco must live on! / Lomax, Joseph F. -- Western swing / Logsdon, Guy -- Growing up with Texas country music / Malone, Bill C. -- Postscript: the improbable rise of redneck rock / Reid, Jan -- Backwoods beer busts / Alexander, Stanley G.

Includes index.

And that's how some folklore is born /Shuffler, R. Henderson -- Jack Ruby: folk hero in embryo? / Nichols, Olivia Murray -- Neiman-Marcus lore from the inside / Marcus, Stanley -- Cobras at K-Mart: legends of hidden danger / Carpenter, Ann -- Chain letters: a twentieth century folk practice / Duncan, Robert J. -- A bumper crop of modern epigrams / Byrd, James W. -- The sissy test / Hudson, Jan -- The ghost and tiny Alice / Dykes, LaGene Lacy -- From the halls of justice / McCullen, J. T. Jr. -- The folklore of marijuana / Russell, Robert Lowell -- Texas tea and rainy day woman: the folklore of the underground press / Nye, Hermes -- Bury my heart at wounded 'neck: notes of a native son / Lee, James Ward -- 'You gotcha ears on?' / McDonald, Archie P. -- Preparing the fatted calf / Martin, William C. -- Rodeo cowboy 1976 / Mansfield, Deanne -- 'As the hearse goes by': the modern child's memento mori / Doyle, charles Clay -- Give the world a smile each day / Abernethy, Francis Edward -- Zydeco must live on! / Lomax, Joseph F. -- Western swing / Logsdon, Guy -- Growing up with Texas country music / Malone, Bill C. -- Postscript: the improbable rise of redneck rock / Reid, Jan -- Backwoods beer busts / Alexander, Stanley G.

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