Western Folklore

An Unexpected Font of Folklore: Online Gaming as Occupational Lore
Ben Gillis

Beatboxing, Mashups, and Cyborg Identity: Folk Music for the Twenty-First Century
Tok Thompson

Tracking Bigfoot Through 1970s North American Children's Culture: How Mass Media, Consumerism, and the Culture of Preadolescence Shaped Wildman Lore
Joshua Blu Buhs

Robert Cantwell, If Beale Street Could Talk: Music, Community, Culture
Reviewed by Willie Smyth

William Ferris, Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues
Reviewed by James J. Miksche

Laura Hernández-Ehrisman, Inventing the Fiesta City: Heritage and Carnival in San Antonio
Reviewed by Vasiliki Sirakouli

Diane Edgecomb, with contributions by Mohammed M. A. Ahmed and Çeto Ozel, A Fire in My Heart: Kurdish Tales
Reviewed by Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler

Augusto Segre, translated by Steve Siporin, Memories of Jewish Life: From Italy to Jerusalem, 1918–1960
Reviewed by Rabbi Barbara Aiello

Christopher Betts, Translator, The Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault
Reviewed by Ruth B. Bottigheimer

Ray Cashman, Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border: Characters and Community
Reviewed by Anthony Bak Buccitelli

Hazel Dickens and Bill C. Malone, Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens
Reviewed by Philip Nusbaum