Laurel Horton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3789595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurel Horton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurel |
| FAMILY NAME | Horton |
| SIGNATURE | HORTON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kalmia Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters
Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America
Book Review| July 01 2011 Memory’s Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America Memory’s Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America. By Susan M. Stabile. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii + 284, 55 photographs and illustrations, references cited, index.). Laurel Horton Laurel Horton Kalmia Research Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journ…
Mary Black's Family Quilts: Memory and Meaning in Everyday Life
Deciphering Folk Costume: Dress Codes among Contra Dancers
For many scholars, "folk costume" is an outmoded term that refers to a narrow range of ethnic, sectarian, and occupational clothing traditions. At the same time, folklorists tend to overlook some kinds of clothing choices because they seem merely to reflect "everyday dress." In this article, the authors examine how and why contra dancers choose what they wear to dance events as an example of how semiotic approaches introduced by Bogatyrev and oth…
The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings
Unraveling the Stories: Quilts as a Reflection of Our Lives (review)
Journal of American Folklore - Volume 114, Number 454, Fall 2001
Material Expressions of Communality among Dance Groups
Contra dancing is connection-to your inner self, to your partner, to musicians and caller, to all dancers in hall moving in synchrony with calls and music, to other dance communities across country, each with their own version of this Saturday night, and to 200 or so years of tradition of this music and dance (Songer and Curley 1997:139). Contemporary American contra dancers readily and often describe themselves as part of dance community.1 It is…
Unraveling the Stories: Quilts as a Reflection of Our Lives
African American Quiltmaking in Michigan
Always There: The African-American Presence in American Quilts
The Quilts of Tennessee: Images of Domestic Life prior to 1930
Lone Stars: A Legacy of Texas Quilts, 1836-1936
authors had been told by 'authorities' that finding really fine quilts in what had been a rough frontier area was quite unlikely. But page after page of visually stunning quilts prove with a vengeance that experts can be wrong.... Highly recommended. --Library Journal More than anything else, the book provides a fascinating record of women's efforts to create beauty even when every hour and cent had to be spent merely to survive. It is also a tri…
Deciphering Folk Costume: Dress Codes among Contra Dancers
For many scholars, "folk costume" is an outmoded term that refers to a narrow range of ethnic, sectarian, and occupational clothing traditions. At the same time, folklorists tend to overlook some kinds of clothing choices because they seem merely to reflect "everyday dress." In this article, the authors examine how and why contra dancers choose what they wear to dance events as an example of how semiotic approaches introduced by Bogatyrev and oth…
The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings
Material Expressions of Communality among Dance Groups
Contra dancing is connection-to your inner self, to your partner, to musicians and caller, to all dancers in hall moving in synchrony with calls and music, to other dance communities across country, each with their own version of this Saturday night, and to 200 or so years of tradition of this music and dance (Songer and Curley 1997:139). Contemporary American contra dancers readily and often describe themselves as part of dance community.1 It is…
Lone Stars: A Legacy of Texas Quilts, 1836-1936
authors had been told by 'authorities' that finding really fine quilts in what had been a rough frontier area was quite unlikely. But page after page of visually stunning quilts prove with a vengeance that experts can be wrong.... Highly recommended. --Library Journal More than anything else, the book provides a fascinating record of women's efforts to create beauty even when every hour and cent had to be spent merely to survive. It is also a tri…
The Quilts of Tennessee: Images of Domestic Life prior to 1930
Always There: The African-American Presence in American Quilts
African American Quiltmaking in Michigan
Unraveling the Stories: Quilts as a Reflection of Our Lives (review)
Journal of American Folklore - Volume 114, Number 454, Fall 2001
Material Expressions of Communality among Dance Groups
Contra dancing is connection-to your inner self, to your partner, to musicians and caller, to all dancers in hall moving in synchrony with calls and music, to other dance communities across country, each with their own version of this Saturday night, and to 200 or so years of tradition of this music and dance (Songer and Curley 1997:139). Contemporary American contra dancers readily and often describe themselves as part of dance community.1 It is…
Unraveling the Stories: Quilts as a Reflection of Our Lives
The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings
Deciphering Folk Costume: Dress Codes among Contra Dancers
For many scholars, "folk costume" is an outmoded term that refers to a narrow range of ethnic, sectarian, and occupational clothing traditions. At the same time, folklorists tend to overlook some kinds of clothing choices because they seem merely to reflect "everyday dress." In this article, the authors examine how and why contra dancers choose what they wear to dance events as an example of how semiotic approaches introduced by Bogatyrev and oth…
Mary Black's Family Quilts: Memory and Meaning in Everyday Life
Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America
Book Review| July 01 2011 Memory’s Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America Memory’s Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America. By Susan M. Stabile. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii + 284, 55 photographs and illustrations, references cited, index.). Laurel Horton Laurel Horton Kalmia Research Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journ…
Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters
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