American-English Folk Tales, edited by Richard Chase, illus. by Berkeley Williams Jr. (first published in 1948), collects folk stories and tall tales handed down for generations. Although many ...

Folk tales and myths have since been put to paper ... In honor of this day, here are only four of many songs inspired by folklore. Hozier has explained this song briefly in the past, stating ...

It’s constantly found on lists of the greatest American songs of all time, and we understand why it’s so loved years after it was released. Few folk songs capture the American experience quite ...

Many folk tales with U.S. roots center around the rugged individualism and patriotism at the heart of American mythology. Globally, we find stories that similarly reflect back on the culture in ...

With his 2020 album Spider Tales, Blount summons a rich history of American folk songs written and sung by Black and Indigenous musicians, tunes that have been there throughout the history of this ...

A NOTICEABLE addition to the literature of American folk-tales has been made by two recent publications of the anthropological series of the Field Columbian Museum Publications. Vol. v.

Don’t even mention the talking catfish. By drawing on American folk tales and Southern Gothic literature, the action-adventure video game South of Midnight stands apart in a field crowded with ...

How do you compose a piece that intertwines an American folk song, an English folk song ... season’s festival finale with a set of art songs by Richard Strauss. Barron will also sing two ...