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Voices
The Membership Magazine of the New York Folklore Society
Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore features articles, stories, interviews, reminiscences, essays, folk poetry and music, photographs and artwork from people in all parts of New York State. The magazine also publishes peer-reviewed, research-based articles, written in an accessible style, on topics related to traditional art and life, including ethnic culture.
Become a part of a community involved with folklore, folklife, the traditional arts, and contemporary culture. Join the New York Folklore Society to receive Voices.
ITEM #401 Basic membership $40
ITEM #406 Full-time Student or Senior (65+) membership $25
ITEM #407 Joint membership (2 or more at same address) $50
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Public Folklore Scholarship and Writing
in New York State
Karen Taussig-Lux, editor
New York Folklore Society, 2006
This last issue of the Society’s scholarly journal, New York Folklore (Vol. 25, No. 1-4), published belatedly, signals the transition
to Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore with its
different format and perspective from the previous strictly academic style
to one which retains its scholarly excellence, yet is more accessible in both
its appearance and in its style of writing. As 1999 marks a transition, then-editor Karen Taussig-Lux felt it was
appropriate to honor writing from the public sector of the field. Therefore,
we bring to you some of the important and thoughtful writing of those
working as public sector folklorists in New York State in the decade of the
1985 to 1995. This writing is characterized by its reliance upon solid fieldwork,
excellent scholarship, and innovative thinking regarding folklore and
folklife in New York State.
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ITEM #126
Paperback, 169 pages. 5-3/4 x 8-3/4 inches. $10
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Working with Folk Materials in New York State
A Manual for Folklorists and Archivists
John Suter, ed.
New York Folklore Society, 1994
This prize-winning manual is designed to introduce folklorists and archivists to each others’ purposes, methods, and concerns; make the work of collecting and documenting folk culture easier and more productive; and encourage documentary practices and archival treatment that will facilitate the care of folklore materials in secure and accessible archives. Chapters introduce the reader to the fundamentals of folklore and archives, clarify terms and concepts that may cause confusion when folklorists and archivists meet, and provide guidance in the management of folklife materials. It also includes glossaries and terms for both disciplines, lists of organizational resources, and sample collecting forms, release forms, and contracts.
ITEM #101
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Folklore in Archives
A Guide to Describing Folklore and Folklife Materials
by James Corsaro and Karen Taussig-Lux
New York Folklore Society, 1998
You need this manual if you are an archivist, librarian, curator, or collections manager, and you are responsible for arranging, describing, or caring for folklore collections or other collections that contain folklore materials, or you are a folklorist or other cultural specialist or a community member who has folklore materials and wants to work with an archivist to ensure the preservation and accessibility of your collection. Includes a discussion of what is folklore and folklife and archival issues related to folklore materials; information on how to negotiate donations and transfer records, arrange folklore collections, and describe and catalog folklore materials; and glossaries of folklore and archives.
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ITEM #102
Looseleaf binder, 128 pages $35.00 |
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Self-Management for Folk Artists
A Guide for Traditional Artists and Performers in New York
by Patricia Atkinson Wells
New York Folklore Society, 1999
This manual is designed to assist traditional artists in managing and marketing themselves. You’ll find information here on writing biographical materials, assembling a press kit, starting a business, promotion, booking, contracts, keeping records, taxes, and copyright.
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ITEM #103
Looseleaf binder, 148 pages $40.00 |
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Adirondack Characters and Campfire Yarns
Early Settlers and Their Traditions
William J. O’Hern
The Forager Press, 2005
Venture into the wilderness with French Louie and Alvah Dunning and learn about lesser known characters such as Old Lobb of Piseco Lake and Moose River Plains guide Slim Murdock. Travel the trapline with Richard Woods, E.J. Dailey and Burt Conklin, “the greatest trapper.” Explore the turbulent waters of the West Canada Creek in search of trout, learn about the tools of the spruce gym trade, and find out why “the liars club” of Forestport called their get-togethers “parting with the dog.” Adirondack Characters and Campfire Yarns not only fulfills Blankman’s dream, it fills a void in the recorded history of a seldom written-about region and the people who settled it.
ITEM #122H
Hardcover, 248 pages, 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches. $27.95
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ITEM #122
Softcover, 248 pages, 6 x 9 inches. $19.95
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Infinite Variations: Folk Art Quilts from Montgomery & Schoharie Counties
Bruce R. Buckley
Schoharie County Arts Council, 1990
Today, many people consider quilts folk art; that is individual artistic expression reflecting the history and beliefs of some traditional group. A few individuals are talented enough to continue the artistic traditions of the group and become its folk artists. Infinite Variations: Folk Art Quilts from Montgomery & Schoharie Counties is a two-part exhibition of contemporary quilts from this area. The first section, “As Strong As Stitches,” documents the social role quilting plays in the lives of these quilters, while “From Waste to Wonder” traces the development of the contemporary art quilt from the early traditional scrap quilt.
ITEM #123
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A Catskill Woodsman
Mike Todd’s Story
by Norman Studer
Purple Mountain Press, 1988
Shortly before he died, Mike Todd, the reknown Catskill Mountain bear hunter, woodsman, story-teller, and musician, shared the story of his life with Norman Studer. This book grew from those taped interviews and interviews with friends and neighbors of the old woodsman.
ITEM #124
Paperback, 122 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches. $12.50
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West Meadow Beach
Nancy Solomon and Martha Cooper
Long Island Traditions, 2003
In West Meadow Beach, folklorist Nancy Solomon documents the traditional lifestyle and architecture of past and present cottage residents through historic and contemporary photographs, architectural drawings and first person narratives. The cottages are enduring reminders of Long Island’s fame as a summer vacation place.
ITEM #125
Softcover, 48 pages, 9 x 9 inches. $25
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Old Stone Walls
Catskill Land and Lore
Norman J. Van Valkenburgh
Purple Mountain Press, 2004
Stone walls are relics left by previous generations to record their history on the landscape of the Catskills. Those with dignity are followed confidently by land surveyors trying to solve puzzles woven into old and faded deeds. Along the way they meet those characters who are a part of the lore of the mountains and other surveyors — some with character and some without. It’s all here in the narratives of one who roamed these hills looking for lost corners and boundary lines and found people, vistas, and experiences worth remembering.
ITEM #126
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Dutch Schultz and His Lost Catskills’ Treasure
John Conway
Purple Mountain Press, 2000
This is the first in a series of booklets about famous and not-so-famous lost treasures in the Empire State.
ITEM #127
Paperback, 40 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches. $6.50
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Folk Arts Programming in New York State
A Handbook and Resource
Guide
Karen Taussig-Lux
Regional Council of Historical Agencies, 1990
This book is written for people working in cultural institutions of all sizes that are considering or producing folk arts programming. Its purpose is to show the potential of folk arts presentations and provide the information necessary to carry out a responsible and successful folk arts program.
ITEM #105
Looseleaf binder, 148 pages $10.00 |
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The ARTS of Black Folk
The Arts of Black Folk Conference for Community Organizations: Presenting African American Folk Arts
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library; Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, 1991
A collection of papers presented by folklorists, scholars and art administrators at The Arts of Black Folk Conference for Community Organizations on African American Folk Arts, held on April 22-23, 1988, New York. Contributors include: Gerald L. Davis, Beverly Robinson, Gladys-Marie Fry, Phyllis M. May-Machunda, Worth Long, and Sharon V. King. The Arts of Black Folk is both an examination of African American folk arts from an African American perspective and a practical source of information for cultural organizations interested in initiating related projects.
ITEM #106
Softcover, 96 pages, 8 x 10 inches. $10
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The Musician’s Joke Book
Knowing the Score
N. J. Groce
Schirmer Books, 1996
"The authoritative collection of music jokes, covering classical, pop, jazz, and folk, including everything from the truly stupid to the musically complex joke."
ITEM #107
Paperback, 121 pages. 5-1/8 x 8-1/4 inches. $9
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Prejudice and Pride
Lesbian and Gay Traditions in America
Deborah Blincoe and John Forrest, editors
New York Folklore Society, 1993
Published as a special issue of the Society’s scholarly journal, New York Folklore, this volume explores the folklore and traditions of the gay and lesbian community. The editors note that "Because of systematic oppression against gay and lesbian people, folklore has played a central role in with gay and lesbian communities," and with respect to exploring the diverse subcultures within this community: "The range of cultural phenomena referred to by articles in this issue (e.g., butch/femme traditions, drag, camp, sadomasochism, leather, lesbian and gay Catholicism, women’s art and music, occult spirituality, and so on) is an indication of the kind of richness which has resulted from cultural creativity in the face of, in spite of, stigma."
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ITEM #108
Paperback, 244 pages. 5-3/4 x 8-3/4 inches. $10
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Marketing Folk Art
Philip Stevens, Jr., editor
New York Folklore Society, 1986
Published as a special issue of the Society’s scholarly journal, New York Folklore, this volume explores a central question of "what role can folklorists play in developing marketing strategies that will at once improve the lot of folk artists and protect their traditional forms of expression from commercial exploitation?"
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ITEM #109
Paperback, 244 pages. 5-3/4 x 8-3/4 inches. $10
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Folklore in Buffalo
Philip Stevens, Jr., editor
New York Folklore Society, 1984
From the Editor’s Introduction: Buffalo has attracted "...people from all parts of the U.S. and from all over the world to settle and establish new roots. Buffalo has been a frontier of the young Republic, a way station in the great westward migration, the western end of the Erie Canal, a northern terminus of the Underground Railway, site of the 1901 Pan American Exposition, a flourising port in the Great Lakes trade, the second largest city in the Empire State, a pleasant haven for the development of music, art, religion, scholarship, and athletics, and home of chicken wings and beef on kumelweck. It has also been the place where President McKinley was assassinated, a showpiece of urban decay and prime example of Northern economic decline, one of the fastest shrinking cities in the U.S., and holder of an international reputation for harsh winters . . . the soul of Buffalo is revealed through study and understanding of the genesis and meaning of its sentiments—its folklore."
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ITEM #110
Paperback, 171 pages. 6 x 9 inches. $10
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Through African-Centered Prisms:
A Special Issue of the New York Folklore Journal
Barbara Hampton, Guest Editor
New York Folklore Society, 1999
This special issue of New York Folklore is concerned with examining specific African American creative traditions and in exploring the intellectual issues involved in the study of African American culture. It seeks to view African American culture from fresh new perspectives.
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ITEM #111 Paperback, 276 pages 5-7/8 x 8-7/8 inches $15.00
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I Walked the Road Again
Great Stories from the Catskills Mountains
Janis Benincasa, Editor
Purple Mountain Press, 1994
Gathered from stories originally published in the early years of the New York Folklore Quarterly (1946-1964), this entertaining collection includes tales of murder and mayhem, hangings and high jinks, home-brew and home remedies, rattlesnakes and raftsmen.
ITEM #112
Softcover, 192 pages $14.00 |
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Hungarian Cuisine and Personal Memories
From the 1950's to Present: Everything from Budget Cooking to Elegant Dining
by Eniko Tarnói Farkas
©1997, 1998
Hungarian Cuisine and Personal Memories dedicated to the author’s mother and "to the other Eastern European women who kept the pots boiling under impossible circumstances" is a cookbook and a memoir. It provides detailed recipes for traditional Chicken Paprikash and Hungarian Goulash (The author notes, "Except for politics, there are a few subjects that can as easily incite strong feelings in Hungarians as the subject of the proper kinds of spices and vegetables that go into the goulash."), as well as sour cherry soup, stuffed onions, egg dumplings, veal fricasee, pig feet jelly, puff pastry and strudel recipes, walnut crescents and many more. In addition to the many recipes with gastronomic memories, there are chapters on Christmas and Easter traditions and Bacon Frying Parties.
ITEM #403
Cookbook, Spiral-bound, 137 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 inches $20 |
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New York Folklore Quarterly
(56 issues)
The New York Folklore Quarterly was published by the New York Folklore Society from 1946 to 1974. Collect these issues containing entertaining folk tales about ghosts, witches, murders, werewolves, and phantom ships; regional lore and legends, place name origins, proverbs, barnyard calls, and traditional ballads of New York State. You can review the contents of individual issues to select any available back issue.
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ITEM #404 New York Folklore Quarterly
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VOICES: New York Folklore Journal
BACK ISSUES
New York Folklore was published by the New York Folklore Society from 1975 to 1999. You can check out the Tables of Contents for past issues of our scholarly folklore journal devoted primarily to New York State’s folklore and folk arts and aimed at both a professional and general readership. VOICES: The Journal of New York Folklore debuted December 2000. It merged our previous periodicals, New York Folklore and New York Folklore Newsletter and continues the numbering of our former journal. Voices features articles, stories, interviews, reminiscences, essays, folk poetry and music, photographs, and artwork drawn from people in all parts of New York State, folklorists and non-folklorists alike. The magazine also publishes peer-reviewed, research-based articles, written in an accessible style, on topics related to traditional art and life, including ethnic culture. Informative columns on subjects such as legal issues, photography, sound and video recording, archiving, ethics, and the nature of traditional art and life appear on a regular basis. More information about these back issues can be found on the Voices page.
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ITEM #404 VOICES: New York Folklore - Back Issues
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New York Folklore Journal
Special 40th Anniversary Edition
Philip Stevens, Jr., Editor
©1985, New York Folklore Society
From the Editor’s Introduction: My plan for a special issue of New York Folklore to commemorate its 40-year history of continuous publication seemed simple and straightforward. The Society had been formed both to encourage and coodinate the great numbes of ordinary people across the state who were probing eagerly into the rich legacy of their custom, beliefs, and traditional history, and to help legitimize an enterprise that many considered no more than a quaint pastime; and the journal was established primarily to serve this interested general public, to provide a repository and a record, and to serve not just professional folklorists...So the plan for a 40th anniversary issue seemed obvious: all groups of people which the Society and its journal have served should somehow be represented."
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ITEM #114
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Somewhere West of Albany ...
A Festschrift in Honor of Louis C. Jones
©1975, New York Folklore Society
"Of the many broadening and liberating forces that were exerted in American folklore studies in the second quarter of the century to move the discipline from its narrow couse, few were more far-reaching than those which Louis C. Jones helped set in motion in the 1940’s. These efforts were seen in his advocacy and example at both academic and research levels, namely, in the teaching of folklore, in collecting, archiving, and the general professionalization of the field, no less than in the domain of research and scholarship." (from "Louis C. Jones and the Study of Folk Belief, Witchcraft, and Popular Medicine in American" by Wayland D. Hand). This special volume is a tribute to the first editor of the old New York Folklore Quarterly, reflecting both his research interests and his influence on the next generation of folkorists.
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ITEM #115
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Folklore: The State of the Field
Proceedings of the Middle Atlantic Folklife Association Annual Meeting, April 9-10, 1983
©1983, New York Folklore Society
This special volume of New York Folklore is concerned with the relationship between folklore and other disciplines of the social sciences. As the volume's editor, W. F. H. Nicolaisen, notes: "Folklore is not sociology but it shares with it the concept of register, foklore is not anthropology but it shares with it a desire to understand culture, folklore is not linguistics but it shares with it an interest in regional variations of speech, folklore is not history but the folklorist and the oral historian often have much in common..."
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ITEM #116
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For other back issues of New York Folklore consult the list of Tables of Contents, and note the volume and issue number below. Back issues are available for $10 each.
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The Witch of Mad Dog Hill
and Other Strange Stories of the Sacandaga Valley
by Don Bowman
Edited by Vaughn Ward
Illustrated by Deborah Delaney
©1999, Greenfield Review Press
With a foreword by Joseph Bruchac and introduction by Vaughn Ward, Don Bowman's tales include "The House of Doom at Big Hell," "Bone Drop Cave," and "The Cat’s Paw" and others. According to Ward, "Except for Don Bowman’s exquisite localizations, Sacandaga Valley ghosts, witches and demons behave very much like their 15th and 17th century European and New England ancestors ... Stories about devils in the form of black dogs, about nightmares (witches turning their victims into horses and riding them all night), about black sabbaths and slipskins and werewolves and the black cat’s paw which, cut off, turns out to be the miller’s aunt’s hand, are well-traveled and more than twice-told..."
Read Vaughn Ward’s Introduction
ITEM #117
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Tales from the Featherbed
Adirondack Stories and Songs
by Bill Smith
Edited by Vaughn Ward
Illustrated by Deborah Delaney
©1994, Greenfield Review Press
Bill Smith, who has become New York State’s best-known traditional storyteller, restores our collective memory, bringing back the last minute before tract housing and centralized schools, before the mobility of the GI bill cut us off at the roots—a time when people "went visiting," children "knew their place," and elders had stories to tell. His kid’s-eye view of World War II in rural St. Lawrence County blends autobiography with the tallest of Smith’s trademark tales... (from the Introduction by Vaughn Ward).
Read The New Game Warden from Bill Smith’s collection.
ITEM #118
Paperback, 126 pages. 5-1/2 x 9 inches, ISBN 0-912678-91-7 $12.95 |
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Seneca Indian Stories
by Ha-yen-doh-nees (Leo Cooper)
Illustrated by Beth Clark
©1995, Greenfield Review Press
The late Ha-yen-doh-nees ("the woodmaker") was a member of the Heron Clan and served as president of the Seneca Nation from 1954 to 1956. He lectured in anthropology and Indian culture at Muhlenberg College and Edinboro College in Pennysylvania. His reflections on life and growing up on the Allegany Reservation, together with these stories, were found carefully recorded in an old ledger book.
ITEM #119
Paperback, 64 pages, 5-1/2 x 9 inches, ISBN 0-912678-89-6 $12.95 |
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I Was on the Wrong Bear
by Harvey Carr
Edited by Vaughn Ward
Illustrated by Deborah Delaney
©1992, Greenfield Review Press
A charming and often hilarious collection of Adirondack tall tales from the late North Country woodsman Harvey Carr. Descended from a line of English and Irish storytellers, Harvey excelled at tall tales and joined the
Adirondack Liar’s Club (a performance group of traditional tall tale masters) in 1987. Collection includes "Real Bears and Not Real Bears", "Not Lies, Experiences", "Hard Times", "How I Invented the Chainsaw", and others.
Read In the Bear Den from the collection.
ITEM #120
Paperback, 165 pages, 5-3/4 x 9-1/4 inches, ISBN 0-912678-84-4 $12.95 |
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Good Food Served Right
Traditional Recipes and Food Customs from New York’s North Country
©2000, Traditional Arts in Upstate New York
National first place winner of the Tabasco Community Cookbook Award for 2000. Folklorist and celebrated cook Lynn Case Ekfelt has researched communities in northern New York to produce this fascinating cookbook with
25 chapters—consisting of essays on food events, traditional family recipes, historical profiles and photographs. Chapters on food types including wild game, maple syrup, apples, fish, and cheese recipes; ethnic communities, including the Amish, Italian Americans, African Americans, and Mohawks: and community events such as firemen’s field days, church suppers, and county fairs.
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Island Sounds in the Global City
Caribbean Popular Music and Identity in New York
Ray Allen and Lois Wilcken, eds.
New York Folklore Society and the Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College, 1998
Distributed by University of Illinois Press, Island Sounds is a collection of case studies by top scholars that chronicle the richness of musical activity within the Puerto Rican, Dominican, Trinidadian, and Haitian communities of New York City. The authors are Ray Allen, Paul Austerlitz, Gage Averill, Juan Flores, Ruth Glasser, Donald Hill, Philip Kasinitz, Peter Manuel, Les Slater, and Lois Wilcken.
ITEM #104 Paperback, 185 pages. 6 x 9 inches. 15 photographs
ISBN 0-9661472-0-0
Order this book directly from University of Illinois Press or by phoning 1/800-537-5487.
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