Daniel W Patterson

Biographic Data

ID91979
NAMEDaniel W Patterson
GIVEN NAMESDaniel W
FAMILY NAMEPatterson
SIGNATUREPATTERSON D W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ORCID0000-0002-6825-8361
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1964
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Charles Gordon Zug III (1938–2025)

    Daniel W PattersonARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2026

    Charles Gordon Zug III—Terry, as he told us to call him—and I drove off together from Chapel Hill on a fall day in 1968. He had recently come to the University of North Carolina with a PhD in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania to teach in our Department of English and Curriculum in Folklore. This trip was his first venture into the wilds of Piedmont, North Carolina. Our goal was to attend a small fiddle convention 60 miles southwest of …

  • Discerning the Autobiographical in English Court of Chancery Town Depositions

    Jessica L Malay, Mary Chadwick et al.ARTICLELife Writing2025References: 5

  • Early American Nature Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia

    Daniel W Patterson, Daniel PattersonBOOKEarly American Nature Writers2007

    At a time when the environment is of growing concern to students and general readers, nature writing is especially meaningful. This book profiles the literary careers of 52 early American nature writers, such as John James Audubon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Caroline Stansbury Kirkland, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, and Mabel Osgood Wright. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and discusses the writer's life and works. Entries close …

  • A Tree Accurst: Bobby McMillon and Stories of Frankie Silver

    Carolyn M Happer, Daniel W PattersonARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2003

  • A Tree Accurst: Bobby McMillan and Stories of Frankie Silver

    Open AccessKaren Baldwin, Daniel W PattersonARTICLEWestern Folklore2002

    A Tree Accurst: Bobby McMillan and Stones of Silver. By Daniel W. Patterson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Press, 2000. Pp. $49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper) A Tree Accurst is landmark in folkloristic literature whose analytical strength draws power from collaborations among performers and scholars of expressive folk culture. Bobby McMillan, award-winning traditional singer and storyteller, and Daniel W. Patterson, Kenan Professor Emeritus of Engli…

  • The Ballad and the Legends of Frankie Silver: A Search for the Woman's Voice

    Daniel W PattersonARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2000

    Book Review| April 01 2000 The Ballad and the Legends of Frankie Silver: A Search for the Woman’s Voice Daniel W. Patterson Daniel W. Patterson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2000) 113 (448): 203–207. https://doi.org/10.2307/541292 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel W. Patterson; The Ballad and the Legends of Frankie Sil…

  • The Book of Nature: Natural History in the United States, 1825-1875

    Nina Baym, Margaret Welch et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1999

  • Sounds of the South

    David Sanjek, Daniel W PattersonARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1996

  • A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle

    Joyce Marie Jackson, Tom Davenport et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology1994

  • Sounds of the South

    Daniel W PattersonARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1993

  • God's Peculiar People: Women's Voices & Folk Tradition in a Pentecostal Church

    Jeff Todd Titon, Jeff Todd Tıton et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1991

  • Diversities of Gifts: Field Studies in Southern Religion

    Donald M Crider, Ruel W Tyson et al.ARTICLEReview of Religious Research1989

  • Spirit Possession and Popular Religion: From the Camisards to the Shakers

    Daniel W Patterson, Clarke GarrettARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1989

  • William Hauser's Hesperian Harp and Olive Leaf: Shape-Note Tunebooks as Emblems of Change and Progress

    Daniel W PattersonARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1988

    Daniel W. Patterson, William Hauser's Hesperian Harp and Olive Leaf: Shape-Note Tunebooks as Emblems of Change and Progress, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 101, No. 399 (Jan. - Mar., 1988), pp. 23-36

  • A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle

    Ray Allen, Tom Davenport et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1988

    The story of a gifted African American family from the rural South. With interviews and stories, and scenes from daily life, reunions, gospel concerts, and church services, the film traces the history of the Landis family of Granville County, North Carolina, over the lifetime of its oldest surviving member, 86-year-old Mrs. Bertha M. Landis

  • An Index of Selected Folk Recordings

    Jay Orr, Beverly B Boggs et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1987

  • Gift Drawing and Gift Song: A Study of Two Forms of Shaker Inspiration

    Open AccessJulia Neal, Daniel W PattersonARTICLEWestern Folklore1985

  • Gift Drawing and Gift Song: A Study of Two Forms of Shaker Inspiration

    John Michael Vlach, Daniel W PattersonARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1985

  • The Social Harp

    James C Downey, John Gordon Mccurry et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology1981

  • Gospel Hymns and Social Religion: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Revivalism

    Daniel W Patterson, Sandra S SizerARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1980

  • The Shaker Spiritual

    Dickson D Bruce, Daniel W PattersonARTICLEJournal of American History1980

    Journal Article The Shaker Spiritual. By Daniel W. Patterson. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. xix + 562 pp. Map, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, checklist of Shaker song manuscripts, checklist of additional manuscripts cited, and indexes. $65.00.) Get access Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. University of California, Irvine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American H…

  • The Sacred Harp: A Tradition and Its Music

    Daniel W Patterson, Buell E CobbARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1979

  • Foxfire

    Daniel W Patterson, Emil Willimetz et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1979

  • Brief Communication

    Open AccessDaniel W PattersonARTICLEYearbook of the International…1977

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  • The Shakers in America

    Daniel W Patterson, Vincent R TortoraARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1976