John B Wolford
Biographic Data
| ID | 153385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John B Wolford |
| GIVEN NAMES | John B |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolford |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFORD J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri–St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community
This composite book review consists of an initial review by John B. Wolford, followed by four responses and commentaries by Sarah Milligan, Tracy E. K’Meyer, Katherine A. Scott, and Joanna Hay. Tak...
I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles
Book Review| July 01 2013 I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles. By Ron Pen. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. Pp. xv + 371, photographs, notes, bibliography, Sound Recordings of John Jacob Niles’s Music, index.). John B. Wolford John B. Wolford Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2013) 126 (501): 354–356. https://doi…
Being There: Learning to Live Cross-Culturally
Editors Sarah H. Davis and Melvin Konner have selectively congregated authors who provide arresting narratives of their fieldwork experiences and insights. The fieldwork sites cover five continents...
The Story is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories
Come Walk with Me: The Art of Dorris Curtis
Book Review| April 01 2010 Come Walk with Me: The Art of Dorris Curtis Come Walk with Me: The Art of Dorris Curtis. By Dorris Curtis. Intro. and notes by Robert Cochran. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 242, color prints, title index, index.). John B. Wolford John B. Wolford University of Missouri–St. Louis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2010) 123 (488): 241–243…
Work is Art and Art is Work: The Art of Handcrafted Instruments (review)
Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy (review)
Waltz the Hall: The American Play Party
Living With Stories: Telling, Retelling, and Remembering
Normally, edited collections of essays are so difficult to assess within a book review that it is virtually impractical and unhelpful to do so. However, Schneider's collection of essays is differen...
Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Work Is Art and Art Is Work: The Art of Handcrafted Instruments
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
The Tenants of East Harlem
The Shaker Spiritual
Book Review| April 01 2006 The Shaker Spiritual The Shaker Spiritual, Daniel W. Patterson. John B. Wolford John B. Wolford Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2006) 119 (472): 250–252. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137934 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John B. Wolford; The Shaker Spiritual. Journal of American Folklore 1 January 2006…
The John Brown Memorial Park
Masquerade Politics: Explorations in the Structure of Urban Cultural Movements
Book Review| January 01 2000 Masquerade Politics: Explorations in the Structure of Urban Cultural Movements Masquerade Politics: Explorations in the Structure of Urban Cultural Movements, Abner Cohen. John B. Wolford John B. Wolford Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2000) 113 (447): 110–111. https://doi.org/10.2307/541280 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Suppleme…
In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies
In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies. Regina Bendix. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.306 pp
The Labyrinth of Memory: Ethnographic Journeys
Dearest Chums and Partners: Joel Chandler Harris's Letters to His Children: A Domestic Biography
Formality in a friendly letter subjects the other person to all the rigors of a snow storm. With those words, Joel Chandler Harris kindly admonished his six children on how to write to him while they were off at school, on prolonged visits, or working away from home. In turn, Harris kept his offspring informed about his works in progress, current events, household activities, and the latest gossip. He sternly advised his four boys - especially th…
Cultural History and Material Culture: Everyday Life, Landscapes, Museums
Creativity and Tradition in Folklore: New Directions
Architecture of Acoma Pueblo: The 1934 Historic American Buildings Survey Project
American Material Culture and Folklife: A Prologue and Dialogue
In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies
In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies. Regina Bendix. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.306 pp
Cultural History and Material Culture: Everyday Life, Landscapes, Museums
American Material Culture and Folklife: A Prologue and Dialogue
American Material Culture and Folklife: A Prologue and Dialogue
Architecture of Acoma Pueblo: The 1934 Historic American Buildings Survey Project
Cultural History and Material Culture: Everyday Life, Landscapes, Museums
Creativity and Tradition in Folklore: New Directions
Dearest Chums and Partners: Joel Chandler Harris's Letters to His Children: A Domestic Biography
Formality in a friendly letter subjects the other person to all the rigors of a snow storm. With those words, Joel Chandler Harris kindly admonished his six children on how to write to him while they were off at school, on prolonged visits, or working away from home. In turn, Harris kept his offspring informed about his works in progress, current events, household activities, and the latest gossip. He sternly advised his four boys - especially th…
The Labyrinth of Memory: Ethnographic Journeys
In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies
In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies. Regina Bendix. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.306 pp
Masquerade Politics: Explorations in the Structure of Urban Cultural Movements
Book Review| January 01 2000 Masquerade Politics: Explorations in the Structure of Urban Cultural Movements Masquerade Politics: Explorations in the Structure of Urban Cultural Movements, Abner Cohen. John B. Wolford John B. Wolford Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2000) 113 (447): 110–111. https://doi.org/10.2307/541280 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Suppleme…
The John Brown Memorial Park
The Shaker Spiritual
Book Review| April 01 2006 The Shaker Spiritual The Shaker Spiritual, Daniel W. Patterson. John B. Wolford John B. Wolford Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2006) 119 (472): 250–252. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137934 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John B. Wolford; The Shaker Spiritual. Journal of American Folklore 1 January 2006…
The Tenants of East Harlem
Work is Art and Art is Work: The Art of Handcrafted Instruments (review)
Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy (review)
Waltz the Hall: The American Play Party
Living With Stories: Telling, Retelling, and Remembering
Normally, edited collections of essays are so difficult to assess within a book review that it is virtually impractical and unhelpful to do so. However, Schneider's collection of essays is differen...
Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Work Is Art and Art Is Work: The Art of Handcrafted Instruments
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
The Story is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories
Come Walk with Me: The Art of Dorris Curtis
Book Review| April 01 2010 Come Walk with Me: The Art of Dorris Curtis Come Walk with Me: The Art of Dorris Curtis. By Dorris Curtis. Intro. and notes by Robert Cochran. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 242, color prints, title index, index.). John B. Wolford John B. Wolford University of Missouri–St. Louis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2010) 123 (488): 241–243…
Being There: Learning to Live Cross-Culturally
Editors Sarah H. Davis and Melvin Konner have selectively congregated authors who provide arresting narratives of their fieldwork experiences and insights. The fieldwork sites cover five continents...
I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles
Book Review| July 01 2013 I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles. By Ron Pen. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. Pp. xv + 371, photographs, notes, bibliography, Sound Recordings of John Jacob Niles’s Music, index.). John B. Wolford John B. Wolford Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2013) 126 (501): 354–356. https://doi…
Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community
This composite book review consists of an initial review by John B. Wolford, followed by four responses and commentaries by Sarah Milligan, Tracy E. K’Meyer, Katherine A. Scott, and Joanna Hay. Tak...
Art (17 works) · History (15 works) · Literature (10 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Folklore (6 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · World Wide Web (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)