Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore
Exploring the scope, diversity, and vitality of black culture, here is a fascinating collection of more than sixty articles from some of the most perceptive and authoritative commentators upon the black experience—Zora Neale Hurston, J. Mason Brewer, Sterling A. Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, Willis Laurence James, John Lovell Jr., Langston Hughes, Charles W. Chesnutt, Alan Lomax, Ralph Ellison, A. Philip Randolph, Newbell Niles Puckett, Roger D. Abrahams, and many others.\ Readers cannot help...
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A classic book covering almost every aspect of the black folk experience, collecting writings by Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Alan Lomax, Ralph Ellison, and many others
PrefacexiPreface to the 1973 EditionxiiFolk & Lore1Race Pride & Folklore3As Crinkly as Yours9My People! My People!22The Negro Folk Cult34Backgrounds of Folklore in Negro Literature39The Negro Writer in America: An Exchange45I.The Folk Tradition46II.Change The Joke And Slip The Yoke56On Origins65The Negro-White Spiritual67African Influence on the Music of the Americas81Residual African Elements in the Blues95Jazz Choreology104African Tales Among the North American Indians114Problems Confronting the Investigator of Gullah126Americanisms That May Once Have Been Africanisms136Folk Speech141Designations for Colored Folk142Names of American Negro Slaves156On the Grammar of Afro-American Naming Practices175Black Ulysses in Camp182Dialogues of the Old & the New Porter199The Technique of Jive206Story in Harlem Slang222The Language of Soul230Hidden Language: Ghetto Children Know What They're Talking About238Verbal Art245Old-Time Negro Proverbs246Old-Time Courtship Conversation251Double Meaning in the Popular Negro Blues258I Can Peep Through Muddy Water & Spy Dry Land: Boasts in the Blues267The Dozens: Dialectic of Insult277Playing the Dozens295Signifying310Toasts329Meet "Mr. Franklin": An Example of Usage348Street Smarts353Folk Belief357Conjuring & Conjure-Doctors359Superstitions & Folklore of the South369Braziel Robinson Possessed of Two Spirits377Mojo380The Little Man388The Human Hand Threat397Contemporary Patterns of Malign Occultism Among Negroes in North Carolina402Symbiosis: The Case of Hoodoo & the Numbers Racket419Folk Music429The Romance of the Negro Folk Cry in America430Negro "Shouts" from Georgia445The Social Implications of the Negro Spiritual452Follow the Drinking Gourd465I Got the Blues469Protest and Irony in Negro Folksong487Social Influences on Jazz Style: Chicago, 1920-30501The Acculturation of the Delta Negro515Folk Narrative523Uncle Remus & the Malevolent Rabbit524High John de Conquer541Negro Humor: John & Old Marster549The Steel Drivin' Man561The Career of "John Henry"568Ba-ad Nigger578The Ghostly Legend of the Ku-Klux Klan586Caddy Buffers: Legends of a Middle-Class Negro Family in Philadelphia595Folk Humor611Frontiers of Humor: American Vernacular Dance613Humor as a Technique in Race Conflict620Jokes Among Southern Negroes: The Revelation of Conflict628Jokes Negroes Tell on Themselves637Genital Superiority in Oakland Negro Folklore: A Theme642Jokes and Black Consciousness: A Collection with Interviews649Suggestions for Further Reading in American Negro Folklore670Addendum673Additional Sources for Afro-American Scholarship675
