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The Coon in the Box: A Global Folktale in African-American Tradition
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Minton; David Evans
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2001.Among the most popular of all African-American folktales is the story folklorists know as The Coon in the Box, itself a derivative of the extremely old and widespread narrative usually identified, after Brothers Grimm, as Doctor Know-All (Doktor Allwissend) (AaTh 1641). Not coincidentally, this item has served as a centerpiece in the debate over the sources of New World black folktales. A detailed analysis of The Coon in the Box, its life history and cultural context thus reveals a great deal not only of the nature of African-American oral narratives in and of themselves, but also of the challenges confronting scholars in investigating the origins, diffusion, and development of these traditions. FF Communications No. 277 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Big ‘Fraid and Little ‘Fraid: An Afro-American Folktale
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Minton
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1993.Though devoted specifically to the life history of the anecdote folklorists know as Tale Type 1676A/Motif K1682.1, Big ‘Fraid and Little ‘Fraid, this study more generally assesses the manner in which the circuitous epistemology of the tale indices compiled by, or in emulation of, Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson covertly subverted Richard Dorson’s controversial conclusions concerning the origins of Afro-American oral narratives, as well as the arguments of those who have challenged his position. FF Communications No. 253 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Why We March
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSoul Brother #44 (Ernest White)
New York: Paperback Library, 1969.“An angry protest from Black America.”
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The Vanguard: A Photographic Essay on the Black Panthers
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRuth-Marion Baruch; Pirkle Jones
Boston: Beacon Press, 1970.Photobook of intimate portraits of members of the Black Panther Party.
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San Francisco Express Times (Complete Run, 61 Issues 1968-1969 w/ the First 7 Issues of Good Time)
AU$2,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarvin Garson; Robert Novick
San Francisco: The Trystero Company, 1968-1969.Complete run of the weekly underground newspaper San Francisco Express Times from Vol. 1 No. 1 January 26, 1968 – Vol. 2 No. 12, March 25, 1969, being all 61 issues before it was renamed Good Times being , here offered with those first seven issues, being Vol. 2 No. 13, [April 1969] – No. 19 May 14, 1969. Good Times continued (on a less regular publishing schedule) until August 2, 1972. Founded by Marvin Garson and Bob Novick the Express Times was a counterculture tabloid covering and promoting radical politics, music, arts, and progressive culture in the Bay Area. It featured extensive coverage of student riots including the prolonged strike at San Francisco State University, and a serialized novel of guerrilla warfare in the United States, Berkeley Guns by Lenny Heller, as well as a weekly cooking column by Alice Waters, illustrated by David Lance Goines. Regular contributors included Todd Gitlin, Greil Marcus, Paul Williams, Sandy Darlington, and Marjorie Heins, alongside staff photographers Jeffrey Blankfort, Nacio Jan Brown, and Robert Altman, and cartoons by Jaxon, Ron Cobb, and Sharon Rudahl. Also featured are writings by or about Richard Brautigan (Note: The final issue credits themselves for publishing 62 issues in total, however this is believed incorrect, there being 61 issues published weekly with a week taken off at the New Year. Comparable holdings found also note the total as 61. Also note Vol. 1 No. 13 misnamed No. 14, April 18, 1967 [1968], sequential numbering then corrected with No. 14 designated as No. 14.5)
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In the Tradition (for Black Arthur Blythe)
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAmiri Baraka
: Amiri Baraka, 1980. -
Crossing the Great River: A Glimpse into the Funeral Rites of Afrikan-Amerikan People
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSkobi Matunde
Philadelphia: Freeland Publications, No date. -
The Voice of the Delta: Charley Patton And The Mississippi Blues Traditions, Influences and Comparisons: An International Symposium
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Sacre
Liege: Presses Universitaires Liege, 1987.Charley Patton is widely considered to be the father of the Mississippi Delta Blues tradition, a genre of music that would go on to become world-famous through the work of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Lead Belly, John Lee Hooker and Blind Willie McTell. In 1987, a collection of the best musicians and scholars of Delta Blues commemorated the centenary of Patton’s birth in 1887 by holding a symposium. Collected here are the papers they presented at that symposium, along with photographs and illustrations befitting the richness of their subject. This copy signed and numbered by the editor, Robert Sacre. Errata slip laid in.