Synopses & Reviews
Archie Green--shipwright, folklorist, teacher, and lobbyist--is a legendary figure in the field of American folklore and vernacular culture studies. An inspiration to a generation of students and scholars, Green is known for the remarkable passion, intelligence, and curiosity he brings to his explorations of everyday people, their communities, their work, and their forms of expression.
This book gathers twelve essays intended to represent the range of Green's writings over forty years. Selections include a study of folk depictions in the art of Thomas Hart Benton, investigations of occupational and labor language, and a contemplative account of personal and political morality in the study of Appalachian musicians. In an afterword, Green traces his career and reflects on the state of folklore as a discipline today.
Woven through the foreword by Robert Cantwell is Green's biography, key to understanding his unique mix of activism and scholarship.
Review
Few folklorists have so keenly observed such changes and shifts or articulated their significance as well and as variously as Archie Green has in this collection and in his life's work. (Journal of Folklore Research)
Review
Few folklorists have so keenly observed such changes and shifts or articulated their significance as well and as variously as Archie Green has in this collection and in his life's work. (Journal of Folklore Research)
Review
[This book] is a best-of-Archie Green collection, which makes this book the best from one of the most influential folklorists of the last half-century. (Austin American-Statesman)
Review
When next someone asks me 'What is a folklorist?', I will tell them to read Torching the Fink Books by Archie Green. (Peggy A. Bulger, Director, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
Review
Archie Green's work unites a critical and political stance with a deeply humane ability to celebrate the dignity of people, their communities, and their forms of expression. (Burt Feintuch, University of New Hampshire)
Description
"Bibliography of Archie Green's writings, 1959-2000": p. [217]-232.