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- What’s New for the 26th of July:
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces in Kinrowan Hall
- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
Tag Archives: folklore
Peter Milligan and Davide Gianfelice’s Greek Street: Blood Calls for Blood
Greek Street: Blood Calls for Blood is the first compilation of the individual numbers of the comic series. It offers another retelling of the Greek myths, translated to the seamy underbelly of a contemporary city — in this case, London’s … Continue reading
Posted in Graphic Literature
Tagged comics, folklore, myth
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Josepha Sherman and T.K.F. Weisskopf’s Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore of Childhood
Pamela Murray Winters contributed this review which ran first on Mostly Folk. It’s been 10 years since I bonded with my new office mate over the issue of a children’s song. It must have been a slow day in the … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged Children's literature, folklore
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Carl Rinsch’s 47 Ronin
The story of the Forty-Seven Ronin is a very popular one in Japan, where it is known in its various forms as Chushingura. The historical events on which it is based took place at the beginning of the eighteenth century. … Continue reading
Daithi Ó hÓgáin’s The Lore of Ireland: An Encyclopedia of Myth, Legend and Romance
The Lore of Ireland is a magical phrase, calling up images of heroic deeds and fey enchantments, bloody treachery and shining honor, great warriors, cold queens of the Sidhe, leprechauns, cattle raids, enchanted groves, bards, prophecies — it’s sobering to think … Continue reading
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Tagged folklore, Irish folklore, myth
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Ron J. Suresha’s The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin
The subtitle calls The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin a collection of “stories, jests, and donkey tales of the beloved Persian folk hero.” Nasruddin, though, is more than simply Persian — he’s an avatar of the Wise Fool … Continue reading
Steven Posch’s Radio Paganistan: Folktales of the Urban Witches
Faith J. Cormier wrote this review. The stories in Radio Paganistan were “recorded live at the fullness of the Hunter’s Moon 2002, by the enchanted garden, near the waters of Mississippi, West Paganistan.” I think that should tell you pretty … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged fairy tales, folklore, spoken word
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David W. Maurer’s Kentucky Moonshine and Col. Joe Nickell’s The Kentucky Mint Julep
Kentucky Moonshine “They call him the king of the mountain A Blue Ridge businessman He’s an independent contractor Doin’ the best that he can.” — King of the Mountain, Southern Culture on the Skids The late David W. Maurer, a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Food and Drink
Tagged American history, folklore, Whiskey
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Three books on American Indian folklore and mythology
Barre Toelken’s The Anguish Of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West Barre Toelken has spent much of the past half-century studying American Indian culture as an outsider on the inside. Adopted by a Navajo family who saved his life … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American mythology, American Indian mythology, folklore
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John Berger’s Into Their Labours
‘My people are the poor ones their country made of stones Their wealth is in persistance, in stories and in bones… – Oysterband, “One Green Hill” Between 1979, when he wrote Pig Earth, the first volume of what was to … Continue reading