The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American folklore /
Contains over seven hundred entries on African American folklore, including music, art, foodways, spiritual beliefs, and proverbs.
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Westport, Conn. :
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2006.
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Table of Contents:
- v. 1. A-F
- volume 2. G-P
- volume 3. Q-Z.
- Abakwa
- Abrahams, Roger D.
- Abrams, Clara "Granny"
- Ackee and Saltfish
- Adams, Edward Clarkson Leverett
- Aerosol art
- Africa
- Africanisms
- African, Flying
- Allen, Richard
- Allen, William Francis ; Charles Pickard Ware ; and Lucy McKim Garrison
- Altars
- American Folklore Society
- Anancy/Anansi
- Ancestors
- Anderson, Pink
- Antebellum period
- Anthropology
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Antiphony
- Appropriation of Black folklore
- Arabbers
- Arará
- Architecture
- Armstrong, Louis
- Art, Fine
- Ashanti
- Assimilation
- Atilla the Hun
- Baad
- Babylon
- Bad Man, The
- Bahamian Rushing
- Bahia
- Baker, Houston A., Jr.
- Ballad
- Ballanta, N.G.J.
- Bambaataa, Afrika
- Banjo
- Banks, Johnny
- Baptism
- Baraka, Imamu Amiri
- Barbados
- Barbecue
- Barbershop, The
- Barrett, Rev. Dr. Leonard E., Sr.
- Bascom, William R.
- Basket weaving
- Bastide, Roger Marius Cesar
- Batucada
- Beach music
- Beale Street
- Bebop
- Beckwith, Martha Warren
- Beckwourth, James Pierson
- Beliefs, Folk
- Benberry, Cuesta
- Bennett, Louise
- Berimbau
- "Betty and Dupree"
- Biblical characters
- Big Apple
- Big Drum Ceremony
- Bitch
- Black Bottom, The
- Black Cat Bone
- Black Culture and Black consciousness
- Black Indians
- Black man, The/Negro
- Blacksmithing
- Blake, Eubie.
- Blind Boys of Alabama
- Blue Gum Negroes
- Blues
- Bobo Dreads
- Bonds, Nedra Leatrice Patton
- Boogie Woogie
- Bottle trees
- Bourguignon, Erika
- Brass bands
- Brazil
- Bread pudding
- Break dancing
- Brewer, J. Mason
- Briar patch
- Brown, Cecil
- Brown, Sterling A.
- Buckra
- Buffalo soldiers
- Burton, Robert Wilton
- Bush harbors
- Butler, Picayune
- Buzzard
- Buzzard, Dr.
- Buzzard Lope
- Caesar, Shirley
- Cakewalk
- Call and response
- Callaloo
- Calypso
- Campbell, Lucie E.
- Canaan
- Canboulays/Cambulay/Kanneboule
- Candied yams
- Candles
- Candomblé
- Capoeira
- Capping
- Carnival
- Carnival masks
- Carriacou
- Carter, Harold A.
- Carvalho-Neto, Paulo de
- Caul
- Ceramics
- Charleston
- Charters, Samuel
- Cheerleading
- Chenier, Clifton
- Chevannes, Barry Alston
- Chicago blues
- Chitlin Circuit
- Chitterlings
- Christensen, A.M.H.
- Christmas
- Church, The Black
- Clark, Kenneth Bancroft
- Classic blues
- Cleveland, Rev. James
- Cliff, Jimmy
- Cobbler
- Color struck
- Coltrane, John
- Comedians
- Commodification of black folklore
- Cone, James
- Congo
- Congo Square
- Conjure
- Conked
- Conversion narratives
- Conway, Cecelia
- Cool
- Coon
- Cornbread.
- Cornrows
- Costa Rica
- Cotten, Elizabeth
- Courlander, Harold
- Cowboys
- Cox, Ida
- CP time
- Cracker
- Cracklin bread
- Creole
- Creolization
- Crossroads, The
- Crowley, Daniel John
- Cuba
- Culture
- Cumina
- Cush
- Cut eye
- Dance
- Dance, Daryl Cumber
- Dancehall music
- Dandies
- Davis, Rev. Gary
- Davis, Gerald L.
- Davis, Miles
- Deacons for Defense and Justice
- Deep Down in the Jungle
- Deities
- "Delia [Delia's] gone"
- Delta blues
- Deren, Maya
- Devil, The
- Dialect
- Dicy, Aunt
- "Different strokes for different folks"
- Divination
- Divine, Father
- Dixie Hummingbirds
- Dixieland jazz
- Dog ghosts and Other Texas Negro Tales
- Dogg, Snoop
- Dolemite
- Dominican Republic
- Dorsey, Thomas A.
- Dorson, Richard M.
- Double Dutch
- Dozens
- Dre, Dr.
- Dread talk
- Dreadlocks
- Dreams
- Drumming
- Drylongso
- Dub music
- Dub poetry
- Du Bois, W.E.B.
- Dundes, Alan
- Dunham, Katherine
- Duppy
- Early, James Counts
- Easter rock ritual
- Eazy-E
- Ebonics
- Ecuador
- Egúngún societies
- Egypt
- Election day
- Encyclopedia of Black Folklore and Humor
- Epstein, Dena J.
- Eshu
- Espiritismo
- Ethiopianism.
- Etiological tales
- Evans, David
- Evil
- Evil eye
- Fables
- Fairfield Four, The
- Family reunions
- Fasola singing
- Fauset, Arthur Huff
- Federal Writers' Project
- Feijoada
- Ferris, William R.
- Festivals
- Fiction
- Field hollers
- Field nigger/house nigger
- Fife and drum
- Filhos de Gandhy
- Film
- Fish fry
- Fisher, Miles Mark
- Fishing
- Fitzgerald, Ella
- Flags
- Flash, Grandmaster
- Flying Africans
- Folk foods
- Folktales
- Folly, Dennis
- Food
- "Forty acres and a mule"
- Fox, Brer
- "Frankie and Albert/Johnny"
- Franklin, Rev. C.L.
- Fraternity lore
- Frazier, E. Franklin
- Freeman, Roland
- French Quarter
- Frevo
- Fry, Gladys-Marie
- Funerals
- Funk
- volume 2. G-P
- Gaan Gadu
- Gabriel
- Games, Folk
- Gangs
- Gangster rap
- Ganja
- Garifuna
- Garon, Paul
- Garvey, Marcus Mosiah
- Garveyism
- Gay and lesbian folklore
- Geechee
- Gellert, Lawrence
- Gestures
- Ghana
- Ghettos
- Ghosts
- Gillespie, Dizzy
- Glazer, Nathan, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- God
- Gonzales, Ambrose Elliott
- Goopher dust
- Gospel choir
- Gospel music
- Gospel quartet
- Graffiti
- Gran Met
- Granny women
- Grapevine
- Grave decorations
- Graveyard dirt
- Grenada
- Griots
- Gris gris
- Guadeloupe
- Gullah
- Gumbo.
- Guyana
- Gwaltney, John Langston
- Hag, The
- Haiti
- Hampton, James
- handy, William Christopher
- Harder They come, The
- Harris, Joel Chandler
- Harris, Trudier
- Haskins, James S.
- Hawkins, Coleman
- Hawkins, Edwin, and the Edwin Hawkins Singers
- Heaven
- Hell
- Henderson, Rosa
- Henderson, Stephen E.
- Henry, John
- Herbalism
- Herc, Kool DJ
- Hero, The
- Herskovits, Melville
- Hicks, Kyra Ethelene
- Higes Knots
- Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- High John the Conqueror
- High Yaller/Yellow
- Hip hop
- Ho
- Hoecakes
- Hog slaughtering
- Holiday, Billie
- Hollywood, DJ
- Holy Piby, The
- Homiak, John P.
- Honduras
- Hoodoo
- Hooker, John Lee
- Hopkins, Lightnin'
- Horse breaking
- Hot foot oil/powder
- Houngan
- House, Son
- House nigger
- Hughes, Langston
- Humor
- Hunter, Alberta,
- Hunter, Clementine
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Hurt, Mississippi John
- Hush/Bush Harbors
- Hyatt, Harry Middleton
- Hybridity
- Hyppolite, Hector
- Ice Cube
- Improvisation
- Instruments, Folk
- Ironwork
- Isaacs, Gregory
- Islam, Nation of
- Israelites
- Ital
- Jack, Gullah
- Jack-o-my-lantern
- Jackson, Bruce.
- Jackson, George
- Jackson, Mahalia
- Jah
- Jahn, Jahnheinz
- Jamaica
- Jankanoo festivals
- Jasper, John
- Jazz
- Jefferson, Blind Lemon
- Jemima, Aunt
- Jesus
- Jigaboo
- Jim Crow
- Jivin'
- Jockeying
- John Canoe festivals
- John tales
- John the Conqueror, High
- Johnson, Clifton Herman
- Johnson, Frank
- Johnson, Guy Benton
- Johnson, James Weldon
- Johnson, Linton Kwesi
- Johnson, Robert
- Jokes
- Jones, Bessie
- Jones, Casey
- Jook/Juke
- Joplin, Scott
- Jordon
- Juba
- Juke joints
- Jump rope rhymes/games
- Jumping the broom
- Juneteenth
- Junkanoo festivals
- Kebra Negast
- Keil, Charles
- Keiser, R. Lincoln
- Kemble, Frances Anne
- Kennedy, Stetston
- King, Albert
- King, B.B.
- Kitchener, Lord
- Klan, Ku Klux
- Kochman, Thomas
- Kongo/Congo
- Krehbiel, H.E.
- Kumina
- Kwanzaa
- Lane, William Henry/Master Juba
- Laveau, Marie
- Lawman, The
- Laying on hands
- Leadbelly
- Legba
- Legends
- Lester, Julius
- Levine, Lawrence W.
- Liautaud, Georges
- Libations
- Liberation theology
- Liebow, Elliot
- Lindy hop
- Loas/Lwas
- Lola, Mama
- Lomax, Alan
- Lomax, John Avery
- Lornell, Kip
- Love, Nat
- Lovell, John Jr.
- Lynch, Willie
- Lynching.
- Macumba
- Magic flight
- Magic shops
- Mambo
- Maracatu
- Mardi Gras
- Mardi Gras costumes and masks
- Mardi Gras country runs
- Mardi Gras Indians
- Marijuana
- Marking
- Marley, Bob
- Maroon societies
- Martinique
- Mashed potato
- Mason, Biddy
- Master, Old
- Master Juba
- Mati
- Mays, Benjamin Elijah
- Mazloomi, Carolyn
- McCarthy-Brown, Karen
- McTell, Blind Willie
- Medicine, Folk
- Memphis Minnie
- Mento
- Merengue
- Mighty sparrow
- Migration
- MInstrels
- Minton, John
- Mintz, Sidney W.
- Mitchell-Kernan, Claudia
- Mojo
- Monk, Thelonious
- Monkey, The Signifying
- Morgan, Sister Gertrude
- Morgan, Kathryn Lawson
- Morton, Jelly roll
- Mother Wit
- Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel
- Mules and men
- Munning
- Murray, Albert
- Murrell, Nathaniel Samuel
- Music
- Mustanging
- Myal
- Mythology
- Native American and African American folklore
- Nettleford, Rex
- New Orleans
- Newton, Huey Percey
- Night Riders
- Nine-night rituals
- Nonverbal communication
- Nuwaubians
- NWA
- Nyabinghi
- Obatala
- Obeah
- Odum, Howard Washington
- Ògún
- Okeh Records
- Oliver, King
- Oliver, Paul
- Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Oracles
- Origins
- Orishas
- Ortiz, Fernando
- Osanyin
- Oster, Harry
- Owen, Mary Alicia
- Oyotunji Village
- Page, Thomas Nelson
- Palmares
- Palmer, Robert F., Jr.
- Paper bag test
- Parchman farm
- Parker, Charlie
- Parsons, Elsie Clews
- Passing
- Patton, Charlie
- Pattyrollers
- Peoples Temple
- Performance styles
- Perry, Lee "Scratch"
- Petro
- Pidgins
- Piedmont blues music
- Pimp, The
- Pimp walk
- Pinkster celebrations
- Plantains
- Player
- Pocomania
- Poetry-- Porch sitters
- Possession
- Pottery
- Powdermaker, Hortense
- Powell, Bud
- Powers, Harriet
- Prahlad, Sw. Anand
- Praise houses
- Prayer
- Preacher, The
- Preacher tales
- Protest songs
- Proverbs
- Public Enemy
- Puckett, Newbell Niles
- Puerto Rican folklore
- v. 3. Q-Z
- Quadroon balls
- Quilting
- Rabbit, Brer
- Braboteau, Albert J(ordy)
- Race records
- Rada and Petro Nations
- Ragtime
- "Railroad Bill"
- Rainey, Gertrude "Ma"
- Rap
- Rastafari
- Rawick George P.
- Reagon, Bernice Johnson
- Reasonings
- Recife, Brazil
- Reggae
- Reggae archives
- Religion
- Remus, Uncle
- Reparations
- Retentions
- Revival Zion
- Rhumba
- Rhythm and blues
- Riddles/riddling
- Ring shout
- Ringgold, Faith
- Rio de Janeiro
- Robinson, Beverly
- Robinson, Bill "Bojangles"
- Rock Steady
- Rose, Tricia
- Rude Boy
- Rumba
- Rumors
- Run DMC.
- Sacred harp
- Sacred steel guitar
- St. Louis, Ceus "Tibout"
- St. Vincent
- Saints
- Salkley, Andrew
- Samba
- Samba schools
- Santería
- Sass/sassy
- Scarification
- Scat singing
- Scrapers
- Sea Islands
- Secret societies
- Segregation
- Sermons
- Seventh-day Adventists
- Seventh Son
- Shakur, Tupac
- Shango
- Shape note singing
- Sharecropping
- Shashemene
- Shine
- Shout
- Shuckin'
- Signifying
- Signifying monkey
- Signs
- Singing and praying bands
- Singing conventions
- Ska
- Skatalites, The
- Skull, Talking
- Slam poetry
- Slave narratives
- Slavery-- Slide guitar
- Slim, Iceberg
- Small, Drink
- Smith, Bessie
- Smith, Mamie
- Smith, Willie "The Lion"
- Smitherman, Geneva
- Smithsonian Institution
- Soca
- Soca Chutney
- Sororities
- Sorrow songs
- Soul
- Soul food
- Sounding
- South, The
- Southern, Eileen Jackson
- Sparrow, the mighty
- Spear, Burning
- Speech, Folk
- Speed, Ella
- Spence, Joseph
- Spirits
- Spirituals
- Sports
- Stagolee
- Steel Pan Drum
- Steffens, Roger
- Stepping
- Stewart-Baxter, Derrick
- Stick fighting
- Storytelling
- Stylin' out
- Suck teeth
- Superstition
- Sweet Honey in the Rock
- Syncretism
- Szwed, John F.
- Taj Mahal
- Tap dance
- Tar Baby
- Techlore
- Testifying
- Texas blues
- Thomas, Henry
- Thompson, Robert Farris
- Thornton, Big Mama.
- Ti Malice and Bouqui
- Titanic
- Titon, Jeff Todd
- Toasts
- Tobago
- Tom, Uncle
- Tortoise
- Trains
- Tricks
- Trickster
- Trinidad
- Trip hop
- Tubby, King
- Turkey trot
- Turner, Lorenzo Dow
- Turner, Patricia A.
- Tuskegee experiment
- Twelve Tribes
- Twist
- Two-headed doctor
- Umbanda
- Underground Railroad
- United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors
- Uruguay-- Vaudeville
- Verbal dueling
- Vernacular
- Virgin Islands
- Visionary artists
- Vlach, John Michael
- Vodou
- Wakes
- Walker, Aaron "T-Bone"
- Walter, Little
- Ward, Clara
- Waterman, Richard Alan
- Waters, Muddy
- Westmacott, Richard Alan
- Waters, Muddy
- Westmacott, Richard Noble
- Whetstone-McCall, Sherry
- Whitten, Norman E., Jr.
- Wiggins, William H, Jr.
- Williamson, Sonny Boy, I
- Williamson, Sonny Boy, II
- Witches
- Wolf, Brer
- Wood carving
- Woods, Sylvia
- Woofing/wolfing
- Word on the Brazos, The
- Work, John Wesley, III
- Work songs
- Yams
- Yard sale
- Yawney, Carole D.
- "Yellow Rose of Texas, The"
- Yoruba
- Young, Lester
- Zombies
- Zoot suits
- Zydeco.