Torching the fink books and other essays on vernacular culture
Archie Green (Author), Robert Cantwell
Archie Green - shipwright, folklorist, teacher and lobbyist - is a legendary figure in the field of American folklore and vernacular culture studies. This book contains 12 of Green's essays which represent the range of his writings over 40 years.
Print Book, English, 2001
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2001
Essay
xxvii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780807826058, 9780807849200, 0807826057, 0807849200
45208055
Dutchman : an on-the-job etymology
Hillbilly music : source and symbol
Laborlore
A folklorist's creed and a folksinger's gift
Austin's cosmic cowboys : words in collision
Tom Benton's folk depictions
The archive's shores
Stitching patchwork in public
Remembering Jack Fitch, pile butt and artist, on Labor Day 1994
Kelly girl
Torching the fink books
Peter Tamony (1902-1985)
Afterword. Looking back