Books written by Vance Randolph
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Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore: Blow the candle out
Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore, Volume II, Folk Rhymes and Other Lore
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Ozark Magic and Folklore
The Ozark region of Missouri and Arkansas has long been an enclave of resistance to innovation and "newfangled" ideas. Many of the old-time superstitions and customs have been nurtured and...
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The Ozarks: An American Survival of Primitive Society
The full range of Randolph's interests--in language, in hunting and fishing, in folksongs and play parties, in moonshining--is on view in this book that made his name; forever after he was "Mr. Ozark," the region's preeminent expert who ...
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Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales
Unfortunately, in the 1950s when Randolph published several collection of Ozark tales, the material in this volume was considered unprintable.
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Down in the Holler: A Gallery of Ozark Folk Speech
In this perceptive book, Vance Randolph, who first visited the Ozarks country in 1899, and his collaborator, George P. Wilson, recapture the speech of the people who lived "down in the holler.
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Ozark Superstitions
every 100degree day in July there will be a 20below day in the following January. ... The idea is that if rain falls on that day the season will be moist and prosperous, but if it does not rain on July 2 there will be no rain for six ...
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Ozark Magic and Folklore
Includes eye-opening information on yarb doctors, charms, spells, witches, ghosts, weather magic, crops and livestock, courtship and marriage, pregnancy and childbirth, animals and plants, death and burial, and more.
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British ballads and songs
On a morning bright and clear , to my old home I drew One morning bright and early , so early , so early near IV 332 ... 21 I 268 M On a summer's day , when the waves were rippled One morning , one morning , one morning in Spring IV 141 ...
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Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales
The well-known Ozark folklorist gathers together bawdy tales, previously considered unprintable, that provide insight into the region's rich exotic narrative tradition.
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We Always Lie to Strangers: Tall Tales from the Ozarks
We Always Lie to Strangers: Tall Tales from the Ozarks
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Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore: Roll me in your arms
Roll Me in Your Arms, Volume I includes 180 unexpurgated songs collected by Randolph, with tunes transcribed from the original singers.
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Ozark Folklore: An Annotated Bibliography
Ozark Folklore: An Annotated Bibliography