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 ...

Few folk songs capture the American experience quite like Woody Guthrie’s classic “This Land Is Your Land”. Guthrie was ahead of his time with this 1945 release.

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. of this ...

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 ...

The 13th-century Persian poet Sa’di suggests these in his poetry, and through the folk songs – American, English, Persian, and Azerbaijani – you will hear people pining for their distant lovers.