Firefly in a Box

Edited by Anna Krushelnitskaya & Dmitri Manin
Categories: Literature
Series: Cultures of Childhood

Contributions by Marina Balina, Sibelan Forrester, Anna Krushelnitskaya, Dmitri Manin, Svetlana Maslinskaya, Ainsley Morse, and Serguei Alex. Oushakine

In Firefly in a Box: An Anthology of Soviet Kid Lit ...

Bluegrass Gospel

By Jack Edward Bernhardt
Foreword by Bill C. Malone
Afterword by Marty Stuart
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

Heavily influenced by Bill Monroe, the “Father of Bluegrass” in the 1940s and ’50s, gospel music in the South began to shift into bluegrass gospel, a style that combines both genres. In Bluegrass Gospel: ...

Choctaw Tales

By Tom Mould & Rae Nell Vaughn
Foreword by Chief Phillip Martin
Categories: Race And Ethnicity

From the earliest stories recorded among the Choctaw in the 1700s to the most recent stories being told today, Choctaw Tales: Stories from the Firekeepers amasses the most comprehensive collection of oral ...

Choctaw Traditions

By Tom Mould, Eddie Johnson, and Jay Wesley
Categories: Race And Ethnicity

There are thousands of books that record the oral traditions of Native peoples, documenting their myths, legends, folktales, and tribal histories. Yet, there are almost none that pay the same attention ...

An American Girl Anthology

Edited by Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler & KC Hysmith
Categories: Literature
Series: Cultures of Childhood

Contributions by Mary Berman, Mary M. Burke, Abigail C. Fine, Juliette Holder, KC Hysmith, Mackenzie Kwok, Esther Martin, Hannah Matthews, Janine B. Napierkowski, Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler, Samantha ...

Global Indigenous Horror

Edited by Naomi Simone Borwein
Categories: Literature
Series: Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series

Contributions by Katrin Althans, Jayson Althofer, Naomi Simone Borwein, Persephone Braham, Krista Collier-Jarvis, Shane Hawk, Jade Jenkinson, June Scudeler, and Sabrina Zacharias

Global Indigenous Horror ...

Evanira Mendes

By Eric A. Galm
Categories: Biography And Memoir

This compilation of Evanira Mendes’s biography and translated publications offers for the first time in English an opportunity to revisit the music and culture of 1950s Brazil. Examining the trajectory o ...

Folk Music and Song in the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives

By John Minton
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

WINNER OF THE 2025 WAYLAND D. HAND BOOK PRIZE and INAUGURAL SPECIAL AWARD WINNER FOR SCHOLARLY EXCELLENCE AND CULTURAL IMPACT from the HISTORY and FOLKLORE SECTION of the AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY

Between ...

Of Salt and Spirit

Edited by Sharbreon Plummer
Categories: Art And Architecture

Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South surveys some of the richly diverse quiltmaking traditions maintained by Black women in the US South during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. ...

Cabin Boys, Milkmaids, and Rough Seas

By Jessica M. Floyd
Categories: Folklore

During his correspondence with erotic folklore collector Gershon Legman, famed chantey singer and collector Stan Hugill (1906–1992) shared unexpurgated versions of the songs in his repertoire. These bawdy s ...