Paul Cowdell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815192 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Cowdell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Cowdell |
| SIGNATURE | COWDELL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hertfordshire |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8095-4845 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Folklore Without Borders Remains Our Aim
Folklore Without Borders (FWB) is a network aiming to embed greater equality, diversity and inclusion within folklore in the United Kingdom. It has worked through international knowledge exchange, above all with the American Folklore Society and its Cultural Diversity Committee. Under ever more difficult political conditions, FWB remains committed to its goals and to its international collective practice. This piece restates that commitment as an…
Index to Folklore 135, 2024
Index to Folklore 134, 2023
Some Unpublished Correspondence between William Forsell Kirby and William Alexander Clouston
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The Sky is Too Big’: Reclaimed Flatlands and Their Communities, What Happens When the Edge of the World Becomes Its Centre, and Romanticization in Fieldwork
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, to view a copy of the license, see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Index to Folklore 133, 2022
Index to Folklore 132, 2021
Henry Glassie: Field Work
Index to Folklore 131, 2020
Violet Alford and the Persistence of Edwardian Thinking
Violet Alford (1881–1972) has become one of the highest profile unsung figures of twentieth-century British folklore studies. In research and publications spanning nearly eighty years she was energetic in calling for greater recognition of folklore and more effective interventions by folklorists. She was especially concerned with the degenerative popular adaptation of traditional customs and media representation. This, along with her pioneering E…
Index to Folklore 130, 2019
abuse trauma, 60–80Aeneid, 81–88Ainsworth, William Harrison, 182, 185, 188Alaska, 31, 33, 39–41American Civil War, 221–23Assam, 331–51Athabaskan languages, 31–47Atkinson, David, article, 258–81auth...
Index to Folklore 129, 2018
Abrahams, Roger David, obituary of, 91–93African storytelling, 58–77, 237–38Aidoo, Ama Ata, 58–77Akamba, 72–73, 75‘Aladdin’ (ATU 561), 148–60archives, 20–22, 39, 129–47, 163, 184–86Athabaskan cultu...
A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy
Now here’s a funny thing ...It is always exciting to read an attempt to extend the scope of folkloric research, particularly when it extends the scrutiny of our discipline into perhaps surprising are
One rough life, Ted Ashlaw: Adirondack lumber camp and barroom singer
Index to Folklore 128, 2017
Fairies, demons, and nature spirits: Small gods’ at the margins of Christendom
The recent period has seen a marked upturn in interest in fairies and similar beings. Two main trends have been apparent: surveys of historical fairylore have led to an awareness of a resurgence of...
Index to Folklore 127, 2016
Ghosts and their Relationship with the Age of a City
Ghostlore is closely tied to judgements about the historical age of locations. Ghosts can be used to explain or create historical contexts, which can in turn be used to predict or generate ghost narratives in an interactive negotiation. Previously, urban environments were excluded from this process; current fieldwork also highlights the way ghosts interact with urban history
Folklore and Nationalism in Europe during the Long Nineteenth Century
Historians have long recognized the place of folklore and its formulations in the development of nationalism. Folklorists have also noted the place of nationalism in the formulation of their concep
The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
Steve Roud and Julia Bishop, London: Penguin, 2012, 608 pp. mus. exx, £25.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-141-19461-5 The original Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, published in 1959, remains a key text in
Desire, Drink and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song, 1600–1900
Look on (Them) Again I Dare Not: A History of the Modern British Ghost Story
Journal Article Look on (Them) Again I Dare Not: A History of the Modern British Ghost Story Get access A History of the Modern British Ghost Story, by Simon Hay, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, vi + 253 pp., £50.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-230-27832-5 Paul Cowdell Paul Cowdell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 17, Issue 3, 1 September 2012, Pages 367–369, https://do…
Ghosts along the Mississippi River
An Anthology of American Folktales and Legends
The North American Folk Revival: Nation and Identity in the United States and Canada, 1945–1980
The North American Folk Revival: Nation and Identity in the United States and Canada, 1945–1980." Folklore, 120(2), pp. 236–237
Ghosts and their Relationship with the Age of a City
Ghostlore is closely tied to judgements about the historical age of locations. Ghosts can be used to explain or create historical contexts, which can in turn be used to predict or generate ghost narratives in an interactive negotiation. Previously, urban environments were excluded from this process; current fieldwork also highlights the way ghosts interact with urban history
The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
Steve Roud and Julia Bishop, London: Penguin, 2012, 608 pp. mus. exx, £25.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-141-19461-5 The original Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, published in 1959, remains a key text in
Violet Alford and the Persistence of Edwardian Thinking
Violet Alford (1881–1972) has become one of the highest profile unsung figures of twentieth-century British folklore studies. In research and publications spanning nearly eighty years she was energetic in calling for greater recognition of folklore and more effective interventions by folklorists. She was especially concerned with the degenerative popular adaptation of traditional customs and media representation. This, along with her pioneering E…
Fairies, demons, and nature spirits: Small gods’ at the margins of Christendom
The recent period has seen a marked upturn in interest in fairies and similar beings. Two main trends have been apparent: surveys of historical fairylore have led to an awareness of a resurgence of...
The North American Folk Revival: Nation and Identity in the United States and Canada, 1945–1980
The North American Folk Revival: Nation and Identity in the United States and Canada, 1945–1980." Folklore, 120(2), pp. 236–237
Living with Stories: Telling, Re-Telling, and Remembering
Living with Stories: Telling, Re-Telling, and Remembering. Edited by William Schneider., Logan: Utah State University Press, 2008, 184 pp., $27.95 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-87421-689-9 This interdisciplina
An Anthology of American Folktales and Legends
Look on (Them) Again I Dare Not: A History of the Modern British Ghost Story
Journal Article Look on (Them) Again I Dare Not: A History of the Modern British Ghost Story Get access A History of the Modern British Ghost Story, by Simon Hay, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, vi + 253 pp., £50.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-230-27832-5 Paul Cowdell Paul Cowdell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 17, Issue 3, 1 September 2012, Pages 367–369, https://do…
Ghosts along the Mississippi River
Folklore and Nationalism in Europe during the Long Nineteenth Century
Historians have long recognized the place of folklore and its formulations in the development of nationalism. Folklorists have also noted the place of nationalism in the formulation of their concep
The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
Steve Roud and Julia Bishop, London: Penguin, 2012, 608 pp. mus. exx, £25.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-141-19461-5 The original Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, published in 1959, remains a key text in
Desire, Drink and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song, 1600–1900
Ghosts and their Relationship with the Age of a City
Ghostlore is closely tied to judgements about the historical age of locations. Ghosts can be used to explain or create historical contexts, which can in turn be used to predict or generate ghost narratives in an interactive negotiation. Previously, urban environments were excluded from this process; current fieldwork also highlights the way ghosts interact with urban history
Index to Folklore 127, 2016
Index to Folklore 128, 2017
Fairies, demons, and nature spirits: Small gods’ at the margins of Christendom
The recent period has seen a marked upturn in interest in fairies and similar beings. Two main trends have been apparent: surveys of historical fairylore have led to an awareness of a resurgence of...
Index to Folklore 129, 2018
Abrahams, Roger David, obituary of, 91–93African storytelling, 58–77, 237–38Aidoo, Ama Ata, 58–77Akamba, 72–73, 75‘Aladdin’ (ATU 561), 148–60archives, 20–22, 39, 129–47, 163, 184–86Athabaskan cultu...
A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy
Now here’s a funny thing ...It is always exciting to read an attempt to extend the scope of folkloric research, particularly when it extends the scrutiny of our discipline into perhaps surprising are
One rough life, Ted Ashlaw: Adirondack lumber camp and barroom singer
Index to Folklore 130, 2019
abuse trauma, 60–80Aeneid, 81–88Ainsworth, William Harrison, 182, 185, 188Alaska, 31, 33, 39–41American Civil War, 221–23Assam, 331–51Athabaskan languages, 31–47Atkinson, David, article, 258–81auth...
Index to Folklore 131, 2020
Violet Alford and the Persistence of Edwardian Thinking
Violet Alford (1881–1972) has become one of the highest profile unsung figures of twentieth-century British folklore studies. In research and publications spanning nearly eighty years she was energetic in calling for greater recognition of folklore and more effective interventions by folklorists. She was especially concerned with the degenerative popular adaptation of traditional customs and media representation. This, along with her pioneering E…
Index to Folklore 132, 2021
Henry Glassie: Field Work
Index to Folklore 133, 2022
Index to Folklore 134, 2023
Some Unpublished Correspondence between William Forsell Kirby and William Alexander Clouston
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The Sky is Too Big’: Reclaimed Flatlands and Their Communities, What Happens When the Edge of the World Becomes Its Centre, and Romanticization in Fieldwork
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, to view a copy of the license, see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Index to Folklore 135, 2024
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