New York Folklore Journal Vol. 22

The highway blues songs of working-class African-Americans, therefore, have often depicted homelessness, desperation, and daily struggles for survival, a far cry from the middle-class contexts of the 1960s blues revivalists or 1990s Canadian pilgrims. But the social dilemmas (the Vietnam War, alienation, unemployment, changes in family structure) experienced by revivalists and pilgrims have not been insignificant. Like African-American blues singers, they have been experiencing temporal discontinuity and no sense of place. As sense of privation has made the blues attractive to them and a knowledge of the blues has inspired new expressions among them.
— (from "'From New York City down to the Gulf of Mexico': Highway 61 in African-American Blues, Bob Dylan’s Songs, and Canadian Film" by Peter Narváez)

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NEW YORK FOLKLORE
Vol. 22, Nos. 1-4, 1996
CONTENTS

Editor’s Foreword		v
Articles
"From New York City down to the Gulf of Mexico": Highway 61 in African-American Blues, Bob Dylan Songs, and Canadian Film	Peter Narváez	1
Knowing the Score: The Transmission of Musician Jokes among Professional and Semi-Professional Musicians	Nancy Groce	37
Lithuanian Landscapes in America: Houses, Yards, and Gardens in Scranton, Pennsylvania	Gerald L. Pocius	49
Parallax: History and Moral Truth	John Carter	89
Negotiating Equitable Intervention: Marketing vs. Human Relations Theory	A. H. Walle	103
Book Reviews
Cooper and Sciorra, R.I.P.: Memorial Wall Art	W. K. McNeil	115
Del Guidice, ed., Studies in Italian American Folklore	Nancy Piatkowski	117
Finnegan and Orbell, eds., South Pacific Oral Traditions	Mary Arnold Twining	119
Georges and Jones, Folkloristics: An Introduction	Diane Tye	121
McKay, The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia	W. K. McNeil	123
O’Leary, The Tancook Schooners: An Island and Its Boats	Michael J. Chiarappa	125
Zipes, Creative Storytelling: Building Community, Changing Lives	Sharon Humphries-Brooks	127
Editorial Policy		131

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