Folklore of Texan Cultures

Abernethy, Francis Edward

Encino Press

The Society had its beginnings at the A&amp;M-Texas football game in 1909. John Avery Lomax, a forty-two-year-old A&amp;M English teacher from Harvard and Leonidas Warren Payne, a thirty-six year old UT English professor and linguist, met to discuss establishing a folklore society, as had been suggested by George Lyman Kittredge of Harvard. The announced purpose of the society was to collect and make known to the public songs and ballads, superstitions, signs and omens, cures and peculiar customs, legends, dialects, games, plays, and dances, and riddles and proverbs.

Texas Folklore Society, 1909-1943: Volume I (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society)

History

Americas

University of North Texas Press

This volume collects the best known or most representative or the most classically Texas traditional songs set in a social and historical framework.

Singin' Texas (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society (Paperback))

Arts & Photography

Music

The second volume to the Texas Folklore Society history covers from the McCarthy era to the end of the wild and woolly sixties. Includes the publishing history of the TFS books, anecdotes about the gatherings of the Society (including Hermes Nye starting the tradition of the hootenanny at Texas Folklore Society meetings in 1956), and the emphasis on singing beginning at Society gatherings. The Texas Folklore Society was thirty-five years old in 1944, having come into existence under the hands of John Avery Lomax and Leonidas Warren Payne in 1909. J. Frank Dobie held the reins of the Society from 1922 to 1943, when he turned the direction to Mody Coggin Boatright. Allen Maxwell and Wilson Hudson followed as editors of Society publications. These were the years when the Society lost J. Frank Dobie and Leonidas Payne, but it gained such notables as F. E. Abernethy, Jim Byrd, Ed Gaston, William Owens, Américo Paredes, Mabel Major, LaVerne Harrell, Elithe Hamilton Kirkland, John Q. Anderson, George Hendricks, Martin Shockley, James Ward Lee, Faye Leeper, and Ruth Dodson.

The Texas Folklore Society 1943-1971 - Volume 2

Fashion

A book of folk building in Texas, Built in Texas ranges across the state in word and photograph to explore the building of: settlers who tarried on the timbered lands of East Texas and built with the readily available pine logs in the traditions of their fathers; those in the Western Cross Timbers used oak; European migrants into Central Texas stacked rocks into houses in the fashions learned in the Old Country; West Texans of the Pecos, who had neither rocks nor logs to build with, mixed mud and grass, made adobe brick, and built in traditions borrowed from the Mexican-Indian population already settled there.

Built in Texas

Texas Folklore Society

Singin' Texas/Book and Cassette

E Heart Pr

Singing Texas

How the Critters Created Texas

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Ellen C Temple Pub

How the critters created Texas

Distributed by Eakin Press

Observations & reflections on Texas folklore (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, no. 37)

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