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Juneteenth Texas Essays in African-American Folklore edited by Francis Edward Abernethy, Patrick B. Mullen, and Alan B. Govenar |
This collection contains essays based on personal experiences and reminiscences about the past as well as the present, from both African-American and white perspectives, and includes descriptions and classifications of different aspects of African-American folk culture in Texas; studies of specific genres of folklore, such as songs and stories; studies of specific performers; studies of particular folklorists who were important in the collecting of African-American folklore in Texas; a section giving resources for the further study of African Americans in Texas.
Essays include "Black Sacred Harp Singing Remembered in East Texas," Donald R. Ross; "Henry Truvillion of the Big Thicket: A Song Worth Singing," Jesse Truvillion; "Once Upon a Time in Houston’s Fourth Ward," James Thomas Jackson; "Where the Cedars Grove," Clyde E. Daniels; "More than Just ‘Possum’n Taters: Texas-African Foodways in the WPA Slave Narratives," T. Lindsay Baker; "Giving Honor to God, the Joy and Salvation in My Life: The Appreciation Service in Song," Jan Rosenberg; "From Gumbo to Grammys: The Development of Zydeco Music in Houston," and "The African-American Folktale and J. Mason Brewer," Lorenzo Thomas; "From Bebop to Hard Bop and Beyond: The Texas Jazz Connection," Dave Oliphant; "African-American Blacksmithing in East Texas," Richard Allen Burns; "Musical Traditions of Twentieth Century African-American Cowboys," Alan Govenar; "John Biggers—Artist: Traditional Folkways of the Black Community," Alvia J. Wardlaw; "Juneteenth: A Red Spot Day on the Texas Calendar," William H. Wiggins, Jr.; "Lightnin’ Hopkins: Blues Bard of the Third Ward," John Wheat; "Bongo Joe: A Traditional Street Performer," Pat Mullen; "West African Fiddles in Deep East Texas," John Minton; "The Yellow Rose of Texas: A Different Cultural View," Trudier Harris. Appendices include "The Texas Trailblazer Project," Patricia Smith Prather; "The Texas African-American Photography Collection and Archive," "The African-American Museum of Dallas," "Selected Listing of Resources," Alan Govenar.
FRANCIS EDWARD ABERNETHY is the Secretary/Editor of the Texas Folklore Society and professor of English at Stephen F. Austin State University. ALAN GOVENAR, president of Documentary Arts, is a writer, folklorist, photographer and filmmaker. PATRICK B. MULLEN is Director of the Center for Folklore Studies and Professor of English at Ohio State University.
Publications of the Texas Folklore Society LIV
Juneteenth Texas
ISBN 1-57441-018-0
$29.95
LC 96-21854. 6x9. 364 pp. 60 illus. Index.
Folklore. African-American History. Music.
Publication Date: October 1996.
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