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1) FORMS

Feintuch, Burt, ed. 1995. Common Ground: Keywords for the Study of Expressive Culture. Journal of American Folklore 108 (430): 391-549.

A) ORAL EXPRESSION

Baldwin, Karen. 1985. Woof! A Word on Women's Roles in Family Storytelling. In Women's Folklore, Women's Culture. Eds. Rosan A. Jordan and Susan J. Kalcik. 149-162.

Basso, Keith. Portraits of "the Whiteman": Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols Among the Western Apache. Chs. 1, 3, 4.

Bauman, Richard. 1977. Verbal Art as Performance.

Glassie, Henry. 1982. Passing the Time in Ballymenone. Parts I and 11.

Rosenberg, Bruce. 1988. Can These Bones Live? The Art of The American Folk Preacher. 3-170.

B) BELIEF

Hufford, David. 1976. Ambiguity and the Rhetoric of Belief. Keystone Folklore 21: 11-24.

---. 1982. Traditions of Disbelief. New York Folklore 8: 47-55.

Toelken, Barré. 1975. Folklore, Worldview, and Communication. In Folklore: Performance and Communication. Eds. Dan Ben-Amos and Kenneth Goldstein. 265-286.

Turner, Edith. 1994. A Visible Spirit Form in Gambia. In Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters: The Anthropology of Extraordinary Experience. Eds. David Young and Jean-Guy Goulet. 71-95.

C) MUSIC AND DANCE

Abrahams, Roger. 1992. Singing the Master. Chs. 1-5.

Bronson, Bertrand. 1969. The Ballad as Song. Ch. 17.

Goertzen, Chris. 1991. Mrs. Joe Person's Popular Airs: Early Blackface Minstrel Tunes in Oral Tradition. Ethnomusicology 35: 31-53.

Nettl, Bruno. 1983. The Study of Ethnomusicology. 1-14, 65-103, 118-130, 345-354.

Pena, Manuel. 1985. From Ranchero to Jaiton. Ethnomusicology 29: 29-55.

Toelken, Barré. 1991. Ethnic Selection and Intensification in the Native American Powwow. In Creative Ethnicity: Symbols and Strategies of Contemporary Ethnic Life. Eds. Stephen Stem and John Allan Cicala. 137-156.

D) MATERIAL CULTURE

Babcock, Barbara. 1986. Modeled Selves: Helen Cordero's "Little People." In The Anthropology of Experience. Eds. Victor Turner and Edward Bruner. 316-343.

Glassie, Henry. 1999. Material Culture, Introduction, Chapters 4 & 5.

Martin, Charles. 1984. Hollybush. OR Williams, Michael Ann. 1991. Homeplace.

Neustadt, Kathy. 1992. Clambake: A History and Celebration of an American Tradition.

Stewart, Susan. 1984. On Longing. Chs. 2 and 5.

Williams, Brett. Why Migrant Women Feed Their Husbands Tamales: Foodways as a Basis for a Revisionist View of Tejano Family Life. In Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the United States. Ed. Linda Keller Brown and Kay Mussell. 113-126.

Zug, Charles. 1986. Turners and Burners. Ch. 13.

2) HISTORY OF FOLKLORE STUDIES

Abrahams, Roger. 1992. The Foundations of American Public Folklore. In Public Folklore. Eds. Robert Baron and Nick Spitzer. 245-263.

Cantwell, Robert. 1993. When We Were Good: Class and Culture in the Folksong Revival. In Transforming Tradition. Ed. Neil V. Rosenberg. 35-60.

Fine, Elizabeth. 1984. The Folklore Text. Ch. 2.

Fox, Jennifer. 1993. The Creator Gods: Romantic Nationalism and the En-Genderment of Women in Folklore. In Feminist Theory and the Study of Folklore. Eds. Susan Hollis, Linda Pershing and Jane Young. 29-40.

Hirsch, Jerrold. 1988. Cultural Pluralism and Applied Folklore: The New Deal Precedent. In The Conservation of Culture. Ed. Burt Feintuch. 46-67.

Kodish, Deborah. 1993. Absent Gender, Silent Encounter. In Feminist Theory and the Study of Folklore. Eds. Susan Hollis, Linda Pershing and Jane Young. 41-50.

Williams, John. 1975. Radicalism and Professionalism in Folklore Studies. Journal of the Folklore Institute 11: 211-234.

Wilson, William. 1973. Herder, Folklore, and Romantic Nationalism. Journal of Popular Culture 4: 819-835.

3) RESEARCH APPROACHES

Clifford, James. 1983. On Ethnographic Authority. Representation 1: 118-146.

Hurston, Zora Neal. 1935. Mules and Men.

Lawless, Elaine. 1991. Women's Life Stories and Reciprocal Ethnography as Feminist and Emergent. Journal of Folklore Research 28: 35-59. OR

Lawless, Elaine. 1992. "I was afraid someone like you. . . ": Negotiating Interpretive Differences Between Ethnographers and Subjects. Journal of American Folklore 105: 302-314.

Schrager, Samuel. 1983. What is Social in Oral History? International Journal of Oral History 4: 76-98.

4) PUBLIC FOLKLORE

Cantwell, Robert. 1992. Feasts of Unnaming: Folk Festivals and the Representation of Folklife. In Public Folklore. Eds. Robert Baron and Nicholas Spitzer. 263-305.

Cohen, Erik. 1988. Authenticity and Commoditization in Tourism. Annals of Tourism Research 15: 371-386.

Green, Archie. 1988. P.L. 94-201-A View from the Lobby. In The Conservation of Culture. Ed. Burt Feintuch. 269-279.

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. 1991. Objects of Ethnography. In Exhibiting Cultures. Eds. Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine. 386-443.

Staub, Shalom. 1988. Folklore and Authenticity: A Myopic Marriage in Public Sector Programs. In The Conservation of Culture. Ed. Burt Feintuch. 166-179.

5) MEDIA

A) FILM

Appalshop. 1988. Dreadful Memories: the Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning.

Attakapas Films. 1993. Dance for a Chicken.

Balkan Arts Center. 1978. The Povovich Brothers of South Chicago.

Brazos Films. 1976. Chulas Fronteras.

Off White Productions. 1991. Paris is Burning.

First Run/Icarus Films. 1998. Family Name OR Appalshop Films. 2000. Stranger with a Camera

UNC/Davenport Films. 1983. A Singing Stream. (Also: 1989. Special Issue: A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle. North Carolina Folklore Journal 36).

B) RECORDING

Seeger, Anthony. 1992. Ethnomusicology and Music Law. Ethnomusicology 36: 345-360.

Whisnant, David. 1991. Turning Inward and Outward. Retrospective and Prospective Considerations in the Recording of Vernacular Music in the South. In Sounds of the South. Ed. Daniel Patterson. 165-181.

6) CROSSCUTS (Broader considerations of topics such as Class, Ethnicity, Gender, Occupation, Race, and Region)

DeNatale, Doug. 1990. The Dissembling Line: Industrial Pranks in a North
Carolina Textile Mill. In Arts in Earnest. Eds. Daniel Patterson and Charles Zug. 254-276.

Hymes, Dell. 1975. Folklore's Nature and the Sun's Myth. Journal of American Folklore 88: 345-69.

Levine, Lawrence. 1977. Black Culture and Black Consciousness. Chs. 1-3.

Radner, Joan and Susan Lanser. Strategies of Coding in Women's Folk Cultures. Feminist Messages: Coding in Women's Folk Cultures. Ed. Joan Radner. 1-29.

Samuels, David. 1999. The Whole and the Sum of the Parts. Journal of American Folklore 112 (445): 464-74.

Whisnant, David. 1983. All That is Native and Fine. Ch. 3.

Reading list is as of April 23, 2005

WRITTEN EXAMINATION

The M.A. Written Examination consists of four one-hour sections:

(1) Five identifications (one hour);

(2) Three one-hour essays, chosen from a field of at least six questions;

(3) Two one-hour essays drawn from this field, and a one-hour essay on a topic of personal interest developed from an individual reading list. This personalized question is created by the student and a faculty member from conversations and a modest but well-focused reading list developed well before the exam.