CONTENTS
General Introduction
Introduction
FOLKLIFE
Aesthetics, African American
Aesthetics, Historically White
Basketmaking
Bluegrass
Blues
Cajun Music
Car Culture
Cemeteries
Children’s Folklore
Country Music
Deathlore
Family Folklore
Family Reunions
Fishing, Coastal
Folk Arts and Crafts
Folk Medicine
Foodways
Funerals
Gardening
Gospel Music, African American
Gospel Music, White
Grave Markers
Hip-Hop
Houses and Barns
Hunting
Hunting Dogs
Legends
Mardi Gras Celebrations
Musical Instruments
Música Tejana
Needlework
Occupational Folklife
Old-Time String Band Music
Opries
Picking Sessions
Pottery
Powwows
Public Folklife Programs
Quilting, African American
Quilting, Historically White
Religious Folklife
Rootwork (Hoodoo/Conjure)
Stepping
Stories of Personal Experience
Storytelling
Voodoo
Wood Carving
Zydeco
Bar and Bat Mitzvahs
Barbecue
Basketmaking, Lowcountry
Basketmaking, Native American
Bluegrass Festivals
Buckdancing, Flatfooting, and Clogging
Church Dramas
Cockfighting
Coon Hounds
Dancing, American Indian Traditions
Decoration Day
Decoy Carving
Dinner on the Grounds
Dogtrot House
Easter Rock
Face Jugs
Fiddle Contests
First Monday Trades Days
Ghost Stories
Ginseng Hunting
Gourd Martin Houses
Gumbo
House Parties
Jack Tales
John the Conqueror Root
Juke Joints
Line Dancing
Los Matachines
Lowriders
Marching Bands, HBCU
Marching Bands, New Orleans
Mardi Gras Indians
Moonshining
Mules
Outbuildings
Porch Sitting
Pottery, Alabama
Pottery, American Indian
Pottery, Georgia
Pottery, North Carolina
Proverbs
Quartets, African American
Quinceañeras
Religious Road Signs
Ring Shouts
Roadside Memorials
Rolley Hole Marbles
Shotgun House
Shout Bands
Smokehouse
Southern Soul Music
Square Dancing
Talking Out Fire
Traders
Two-Stepping
Walking Sticks
Womanless Weddings
Index of Contributors
Index