Robert D Bethke

Biographic Data

ID448284
NAMERobert D Bethke
GIVEN NAMESRobert D
FAMILY NAMEBethke
SIGNATUREBETHKE R D
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS19
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
H-INDEX1

  • The Holiday Yards of Florencio Morales: El Hombre de las Banderas

    Open AccessGerald L Pocius, Amy Kitchener et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1997

    Art and Artists: The Series The Holiday Yards of Florencio Morales: El Hombre de las Banderas. By Amy V. Kitchener. 1994. Pp. 72. $29.50 (cloth); $15.95 (paper) Santeria Garments and Altar Speaking Without a Voice By Ysamur Flores-Pena and Roberta J. Evanchuk. 1994. Pp. 72. $29.50 (cloth); $15.95 (paper) Americana Crafted: Jehu Camper Delaware Whittler. By Robert D. Bethke. 1995. Pp. 71. $32.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper) Chain-Saw Sculptor: The Art …

  • Songs about Work: Essays in Occupational Culture for Richard A. Reuss

    Open AccessRobert D Bethke, Richard A Reu et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1997Cited by: 1

    Songs about Work: Essays in Occupational Culture for Richard A. Reuss. Edited by Archie Green. Special Publications of the Folklore Institute, No. 3. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. Pp. vi + 360, illustrations, music, notes, bibliography. $39.95 cloth, $17.50 paper) Social historian and folklorist Richard A. Reuss (1940-1986) believed deeply in democratic ideals of social and economic parity across lines of class, race, and gender, …

  • For Singing and Dancing and All Sorts of Fun

    Robert D Bethke, I Sheldon PosenARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1993

  • Bugeyes and Skipjacks: Reply to Cohen

    Robert D BethkeARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1986

  • New England Fiddles

    Robert D Bethke, J BishopARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1986

    This 1984 film by John Bishop and Nicholas Hawes presents seven of the finest traditional musicians as they play in their homes and at dances and contests, passing their styles to younger fiddlers, and commenting on their music. Featured are Ron West (Yankee), Paddy Cronnin (Irish), Ben Guillemette(Quebecois), Wilfred Guillette (Quebecois), Harold Luce (Yankee), Gerry Robichaud (Maritime), and the Cape Breton style of Joe Cormier

  • The Tapestry of Culture

    Robert D Bethke, Abraham Rosman et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1986

  • Folklore Studies in Honour of Herbert Halpert: A Festschrift

    Open AccessRobert D Bethke, Kenneth S Goldstein et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1985

  • The Choking Doberman and Other "New" Urban Legends

    Open AccessRobert D Bethke, Jan Harold BrunvandARTICLEWestern Folklore1985Cited by: 17

    Professor Jan Harold Brunvand expands his examination of the phenomenon of urban legends, those improbable, believable stories that always happen to a friend of a friend

  • Schooners on the Bay

    Robert D Bethke, David S Cohen et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1985

  • Folk Songs of the Catskills

    Robert D Bethke, Norman Cazden et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1985

  • Got Something to Tell You: Sounds of the Delta Blues

    Robert D Bethke, Center for Southern Folklore Center for Southern Folklore et…ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1985

  • New England Singing Tradition

    Robert D BethkeARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1984

    Lawrence Millman, in a review of several recent albums devoted to elderly traditional Anglo-American singers (JAF 96:114-116), makes seriously misleading statements about the Northeast heritage that cannot pass without comment. Millman uses Sara Cleveland (Philo 1020) as his springboard. I have no particular quarrel with his evaluation of the album per se (though he totally sidesteps the impact that folk music scholars like Kenneth Goldstein, plu…

  • Adirondack Voices: Woodsmen and Woods Lore

    Debora Kodish, Robert D BethkeARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1983

  • Storytelling at an Adirondack Inn

    Open AccessRobert D BethkeARTICLEWestern Folklore1976Cited by: 1

  • Come Day, Go Day, God Send Sunday: The Songs and Life Story, Told in His Own Words, of John Maguire, Traditional Singer and Farmer from Co. Fermanagh

    Robert D Bethke, Robin Morton et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1976

    Introduction 1. As the Cocks they Began to Crow 2. Here's a Health to Tommy Kelly 3. If You Want your Praties Sprayed 4. Oh Grass May Grow and Waters Flow 5. On Clyde's Bonny Banks 6. Now, When That We were Married. Appendices 1. A Note on the Musical Transcription and Music for Songs in the Text John Blacking 2. Further Songs with Music 3. Song Notes. Glossary. Index of Songs. Index

  • Narrative Obituary Verse and Native American Balladry

    Robert D BethkeARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1970

    FOLKSONG AND BALLAD SCHOLARS have yet to demonstrate satisfactorily relationship of narrative obituary verse to native American balladry, Tristram P. Coffin offered preliminary considerations for such a study in a paper published in I964.' is my suspicion, Coffin wrote, although I find it hard to support in a scholarly fashion, that a high percentage of our British ballad texts owe their origin to narrative obituary verse, and that among our nati…