Coffee in the Gourd
Texas and Southwestern Folklore: Frontier Legends, Folk Songs, Dialects, and Communal MemoryBy J. Frank Dobie, L.W. Payne Jr., Max Sylvius Handman, W. H. Thomas, Victor J. Smith, J. R. Craddock, W. P. Webb, A. W. Eddins, Dorothy Scarborough, Julia Estill, Florence Johnson Scott, Mary A. Sutherland
Length3h 42m
About this audiobook
Coffee in the Gourd gathers vernacular lore, local history, song, anecdote, and regional observation into a richly textured portrait of Texas and the wider Southwest. Its range—from scholarly folkloric inquiry to vivid recollection and narrative sketch—preserves the idioms, customs, occupational knowledge, and social memory that formal histories often overlook. The volume belongs to the early twentieth-century movement to record living traditions before modernization altered or erased them, and its varied pieces reveal folklore as both art and evidence. Its contributors include leading students of Texas letters, folklore, history, and cultural life, joined by writers attentive to domestic traditions, community memory, and the expressive cultures of ordinary people. Collectively, they participate in the regionalist and folklorist impulses associated with the Texas Folklore Society: an effort to take ranching communities, borderlands, songs, tales, and local speech seriously as materials of cultural history. Their differing disciplines and sensibilities give the collection unusual interpretive breadth. Recommended for readers of American folklore, Southwestern studies, and regional literature, Coffee in the Gourd offers a valuable encounter with many voices in productive conversation. It invites readers to compare methods, styles, and assumptions while discovering how stories and customs shape historical understanding. Both instructive and engaging, the volume rewards close reading as a record of cultural preservation and literary imagination.
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GenrePsychology, Literary Classics
Length3 hrs 42 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Indigenous Peoples of America: 4 Classic Books
2REBAPTIZED IN INK
3"ONE EVENING AS I SAT COURTING"
4HUMAN FOUNDATION SACRIFICES IN BALKAN BALLADS
5I
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6II
7III
8BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
9THE DECLINE AND DECADENCE OF FOLK METAPHOR
10INDIAN PICTOGRAPHS OF THE BIG BEND IN TEXAS
11THE COWBOY DANCE
12MISCELLANY OF TEXAS FOLK-LORE
13I HOBO SONGS
14II RAILROAD SONGS
15III SLUM SONGS
16IV COWBOY SONGS
17V NEGRO SONGS AND STORIES
18BRAZOS BOTTOM PHILOSOPHY
19THE "BLUES" AS FOLK-SONGS
20CUSTOMS AMONG THE GERMAN DESCENDANTS OF GILLESPIE COUNTY
21CUSTOMS AND SUPERSTITIONS AMONG TEXAS MEXICANS ON THE RIO GRANDE BORDER
22I THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY
23II LANGUAGE AND MANNERS
24III WEDDING AND FUNERAL CEREMONIES
25IV OMENS AND SUPERSTITIONS
26PEDRO AND PANCHO
27WEATHER WISDOM OF THE TEXAS-MEXICAN BORDER
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