James P Leary

Biographic Data

ID243060
NAMEJames P Leary
GIVEN NAMESJames P
FAMILY NAMELeary
SIGNATURELEARY J P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wisconsin
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS16
AUTHOR COUNT40
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Whitewater Ole: Legends, Labor, Immigrants, Intersections

    James P LearyARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2026References: 14

    Situating, illustrating, and explicating the life and legends of a drowned European immigrant log driver whose fellow workers were often Indigenous, this essay argues the ongoing relevance of a historical legend complex grounded in transnational laborlore, especially as it intersects with constructions of whiteness, as well as with enduring issues affecting displaced peoples toiling perilously in persistently ruthless inequitable economies

  • Advancing Folkloristics

    James P LearyARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2023

    Readers and reviewers approaching any book encounter its cover image and title. This cover depicts a bleak landscape sans humans: an expressionistic mountain ridge where rocks protrude through melting snow beneath a massive mostly reddish sky. Should we anticipate an apocalyptic saga of ice and fire? A discourse on the cultural implications of climate change? A visual metaphor for perpetually fraught institutional landscapes? The dawn of a new ag…

  • The Swede from North Dakota: Explicating a Euro-American Folksong

    Open AccessJames P LearyARTICLEEthnologia Europaea2021

    The Swede from North Dakota,” a narrative folksong or ballad performed in a broken-English “Scandihoovian” dialect, has circulated in differing versions throughout America’s Upper Midwest since the early 1900s. Chronicling the misadventures of an itinerant Swedish farm hand, it has been: performed by vaudevillians, lumberjacks, hobos, labor activists, radio entertainers, and women’s groups; published in newspapers, reminiscences, and songbooks; r…

  • Geschichte der Schweizer Volksmusik

    James P LearyARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2021

  • Old Thoughts on (A)New Critical Folklore Studies: A Partisan’s Response to the Special Issue

    James P LearyARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2020References: 19

    James P. Leary, Old Thoughts on (A)New Critical Folklore Studies: A Partisan's Response to the Special Issue, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 133, No. 530, Critical Folkloristics Today (Fall 2020), pp. 471-488

  • Cornets and Pickaxes: Finnish Brass on the Iron Range

    James P LearyARTICLEJournal of Finnish Studies2019

  • A Sociological Survey of the Finnish Settlement of New York Mills, Minnesota and Its Adjacent Territory, Revised

    James P LearyARTICLEJournal of Finnish Studies2019

  • On the History of an Anecdote

    Open AccessE A Kostiukhin, Evgenii Kostiukhin et al.ARTICLEFOLKLORICA - Journal of the…2018

    This article explores the historical antecedents to the Russian anecdote which remarks on the reactions by various nationalities’ to finding a fly in their soup and considers the function of such anecdotes in their popular usage

  • Finns in the United States: A History of Settlement, Dissent, and Integration

    James P LearyARTICLEJournal of Finnish Studies2017

  • Issue 500: A Message from the Editors

    Thomas A Dubois, James P LearyARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2013

    HERSTORY. THE TERM was coined in the early 1970s, at a time when feminist scholars were beginning to dismantle in a systematic way the generations of male bias that had long characterized male-dominated historiography. It suggests pithily that what scholars in the past described simply as is really often a chronicle of specifically male activities, often presented and analyzed to the exclusion of women's activities or roles within the same chrono…

  • Tales from a Finnish Tupa

    James P LearyARTICLEJournal of Finnish Studies2012

  • Scandihoovian Space in America’s Upper Midwest: Impersonating Ole and Lena in the Twenty-First Century

    Open AccessJames P LearyARTICLEAmerican Studies in Scandinavia2012

    Settled by Norwegians and Swedes in the nineteenth century, America’s Upper Midwest has come to be regarded imaginatively by residents as a “Scandihoovian” space, thanks largely to the evolving presence of Ole and Lena. These comic, tural challenges confronting immigrants, but by the late nineteenth century they had in broken-English dialect. Ole and Lena thrived in the twentieth century as they were not only impersonated by comic performers thro…

  • Folk Music from Wisconsin (review)

    James P LearyARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2007

    Reviewed by: Folk Music from Wisconsin James P. Leary Folk Music from Wisconsin. [1960] 2001. Compiled and annotated by Helene Stratman-Thomas; reissue produced by Bob Carlin. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, in cooperation with Rounder Records, CD (1), Rounder 1521. Folk Music from Wisconsin, once available only as an LP in a plain but durable record jacket stuffed with a stapled typescript, is now in a far more attractive package,…

  • Folk Music from Wisconsin

    James P LearyARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2007

    Book Review| January 01 2007 Folk Music from Wisconsin Folk Music from Wisconsin, Helene Stratman-Thomas Bob Carlin. James P. Leary James P. Leary Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2007) 120 (475): 76–77. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137865 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James P. Leary; Folk Music from Wisconsin. Journal of Americ…

  • Storviken in the Old World and the New

    James P LearyARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2005

    This case study of a legend cycle, extending from Norway to Wisconsin, argues that American folklorists, preoccupied as they have become with adolescent legendry, still know far too little about the sustained relationships between legends, old country hearths, and new world regions-particularly those regions where peoples of other than Anglo-American descent dominate the cultural landscape

  • Worldviews and the American West: The Life of the Place Itself

    James P Leary, Polly Stewart et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore2002References: 34

    T his anthology started taking shape almost a decade ago, independently and more or less simultaneously, in the minds of two of the volume's editors.We were widely separated geographically but alike in our regard for a teacher and mentor whose impact upon us and upon our field has been immense.Each of us imagined putting together a volume of essays in honor of him, and before long each learned, quietly networking among old schoolmates, that the o…

  • Native American Legends of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley

    Open AccessJames P LearyARTICLEThe Annals of Iowa2001

  • Wisconsin Folklore

    Open AccessAnne Pryor, James P LearyARTICLEWestern Folklore2001

  • Memento of Finland: A Musical Legacy

    James P LearyARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2000

    Book Review| January 01 2000 Memento of Finland: A Musical Legacy Memento of Finland: A Musical Legacy, Joyce E. Hakala. James P. Leary James P. Leary Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2000) 19 (2): 109. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502556 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James P. Leary; Memento of Finland: A Musical Legacy. …

  • Folktales of Newfoundland: The Resilience of the Oral Tradition

    James P LearyARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1999

    Book Review| October 01 1999 Folktales of Newfoundland: The Resilience of the Oral Tradition Folktales of Newfoundland: The Resilience of the Oral Tradition, Herbert Halpert and J. D. A. Widdowson. James P. Leary James P. Leary Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (1999) 112 (446): 580–581. https://doi.org/10.2307/541506 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary…

  • Medicine Fiddle

    Franziska Von Rosen, Michael Loukinen et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology1999

  • Images of Loggers

    James P Leary, Richard Searls et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1993

  • Ethnic Humor around the World: A Comparative Analysis

    James P Leary, Christie DaviesARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1991

  • Humor in America: A Research Guide to Genres and Topics

    James P Leary, Lawrence E MintzARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1990

    Introduction Literary Humor by Nacy Pogel and Paul Somers, Jr. The Comics by M. Thomas Inge Humor in Periodicals by David E. E. Sloane Film Comedy by Wes D. Gehring Broadcast Humor by Lawrence E. Mintz Standup Comedy by Stephanie Koziski Olson Women's Humor by Zita Dresner Racial and Ethnic Humor by Joseph Dorinson and Joseph Boskin Political Humor by Stephen J. Whitfield Folklore Methodology and American Humor Research by Elliot Oring

  • Ach ya! Traditional German-American Music from Wisconsin

    Edward C Wolf, Wisconsin Folklife et al.ARTICLEAmerican Music1988