Bøger af Harold Courlander

17 stories make up this unique collection of folktales brought to life by illustrations throughout the text.

One of the first and finest studies of African American folk music, this thorough, well-researched volume offers a perceptive history and analysis of spirituals, ballads, blues, jazz, and other genres.

Here the noted folklorist brings together traditional accounts of epic events and adventures in the life of Hopi clans and villages, from legendary to historical times. The setting of these various adventures and events is not the Southwest as we know it today, but a vast and largely unpeopled wilderness in which clans and families wandered in search of a final living place, and in search if their collective identity.

The heroic legends decribed here, re-create the events and annals of the kingdom of Segu and of the Bambara tribe that formed a series of important city-states along the Niger River during the 17th century.

From the author of A Treasury of African Folklore -a classic collection of African oral tradition and lore from the Western hemisphere, now beautifully repackaged