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Author Green, Archie

Title Torching the fink books and other essays on vernacular culture / Archie Green ; foreword by Robert Cantwell
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 242 pages) : illustrations
Contents Dutchman : an on-the-job etymology -- Hillbilly music : source and symbol -- Laborlore -- A folklorist's creed and a folksinger's gift -- Austin's cosmic cowboys : words in collision -- Tom Benton's folk depictions -- The archive's shores -- Stitching patchwork in public -- Remembering Jack Fitch, pile butt and artist, on Labor Day 1994 -- Kelly girl -- Torching the fink books -- Peter Tamony (1902-1985) -- Afterword. Looking back
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-232) and index
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Subject Folklore -- United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
Folklore
Manners and customs
SUBJECT United States -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140527
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 00048931
ISBN 9780807826058
0807826057
0807875678
9780807875674