And Other Neighborly Names: Social Process and Cultural Image in Texas Folklore

Published by University of Texas Press 1981

And Other Neighborly Names

Social Process and Cultural Image in Texas Folklore

Edited by: Richard Bauman and Roger D. Abrahams

https://doi.org/10.7560/703520

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About this book

"And Other Neighborly Names"—the title is from a study by Americo Paredes of the names, complimentary and otherwise, exchanged across cultural boundaries by Anglos and Mexicans—is a collection of essays devoted to various aspects of folk tradition in Texas. The approach builds on the work of the folklorists who have helped give the study of folklore in Texas such high standing in the field-Mody Boatright, J. Frank Dobie, John Mason Brewer, the Lomaxes, and of course Paredes himself, to whom this book is dedicated.

Focusing on the ways in which traditions arise and are maintained where diverse peoples come together, the editors and other essayists—John Holmes McDowell, Joe Graham, Alicia María González, Beverly J. Stoeltje, Archie Green, José E. Limón, Thomas A. Green, Rosan A. Jordan, Patrick B. Mullen, and Manuel H. Peña—examine conjunto music, the corrido, Gulf fishermen's stories, rodeo traditions, dog trading and dog-trading tales, Mexican bakers' lore, Austin's "cosmic cowboy" scene, and other fascinating aspects of folklore in Texas. Their emphasis is on the creative reaction to socially and culturally pluralistic situations, and in this they represent a distinctively Texan way of studying folklore, especially as illustrated in the performance-centered approach of Paredes, Boatright, and others who taught at the University of Texas at Austin. As an overview of this approach—its past, present, and future—"And Other Neighborly Names" makes a valuable contribution both to Texas folklore and to the discipline as a whole.

Author / Editor information

Richard Bauman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Folklore at Indiana University and former director of the Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology at the University of Texas at Austin. Roger D. Abrahams is Hum Rosen Professor (Emeritus) of Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
I. Introduction
Doing Folklore Texas-Style Roger Abrahams and Richard Bauman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
II. The Structure and Context of Expressive Forms The Caso
An Emic Genre of Folk Narrative Joe Graham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
The Corrido of Greater Mexico as Discourse, Music, and Event John McDowell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
III. Social Types and Stereotypes
"Any Man Who Keeps More'n One Hound'11 Lie to You": Dog Trading and Storytelling at Canton, Texas Richard Bauman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
"Guess How Doughnuts Are Made": Verbal and Nonverbal Aspects of the Panadero and His Stereotype Alicia Gonzalez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Cowboys and Clowns: Rodeo Specialists and the Ideology of Work and Play Beverly Stoeltje Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Austins Cosmic Cowboys: Words in Collision Archie Green Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
IV Expressive Dimensions of Heterogeneity and Change
The Folk Performance of "Chicano" and the Cultural Limits of Political Ideology Jose Limon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Folklore and Ethnic Identity in Tigua Nativism Thomas Green Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Tension and Speech Play in Mexican-American Folklore Rosan Jordan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
A Traditional Storyteller in Changing Contexts Patrick Mullen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
The Emergence of Conjunto Music, 1935-1955 Manuel Pena Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
V. Conclusion: A Look toward Future Concerns
Shouting Match at the Border: The Folklore of Display Events Roger Abrahams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 334

eBook

Published: June 24, 2013
ISBN: 9780292757363