Inside this Newsletter Introduction 3 lntroduction This fim issue of the second volume of Transmission offers a hodge 2 Eventhi Times for Dr. podge of abstracts and articles, the Herbert Halpert, Professor sort of which you can browse as nEmeritus you're havingyour morning caffeine by Lara Maynard fix. This issue has been compiled at the end of the fall semester, which 3 American Folklore Society has been a fairly eventful one for our Folklore Department here at Conference Abstracts Memorial University of Dark Nights of the Soul by E. Newfoundland. Notably, Dr. Herberl Condon; A Critical Folklore-in- Halpert, Professor Emeritus, marked I Literature Pedagogy as the release of his opus-Folktales of Introduction to Critical Cultural Newfoundland, a joint effort with Analysis by R. Gholson; J.D.A. Widdowson the University Traditional Cultures and the of Medical Construction of Risk by D. of Sheffield. Goldstein; No More Cards Please! by A. GuignB; Considering the As well as a short article about Dr. Process of Nicknaming in a Welsh Halpert's early and recent Community by T. Jones; Bringing contributions to folklore studies, you Cultural History Alive by M. Koven; will find a selection of abstracts of The Honeys, The Scum and the current research from students and Mighty Reds by 5,Masan; A faculty at Memorial. And Assistant Theoretical (Re)evaluation of Editor Ni ko Silvester, obviously an Occupationaf Folklife by M. avid reader, offers a column of Robidoux; An Introduction to a reviews of recent fantasy fiction that Forum on Folkloristics as uses folklore elements. Broadcasters by N. Rosenberg; Thomas Faiman Ordish, F.S.A. We hope that after you have read (1855-1 924) by P. Smith; this newsletter you will share Changing Stereotypes Through the information about some of the Examination of Folklore in notable events in your own Literature by C. Stumpf. departments or elsewhere that might be of interest to folklorists. To 4 Society for Ethno- reiterate the mandate of musicology Abstracts Transmission as it was expressed by The Toronto Blues Revival: Chris Lewis in our prototype issue in Accommodating Multicultural 1995, the newsletter is intended as a Aesthetics by P. NarvBez; The less format extension of our folklore Whole Don Messer Show: Local journal, Cuffure & Tmdtion, to Elites and Propriety Interests by encourage communication amongst N. Rosenberg. students and practising professionals alike 5 Folkloric Fiction: Reviews by Niko Silvester So do send us your short articles, abstracts of current research, 6 Calls for Papers reviews, or notices. As well, we are from The International Society for willing to use the newsletter as a Contemporary Legend Research; forum for throwing out questions to The folk Narrative Section of the fellow folkforMs. We also welcome suggestions and feedback at any AFS; International Congress of time. Women in World Music: Bowling Green Cenfre for Popular Culture , Studies. Newsletter Editor: Eventful Times for Dr. with some influential people during his tern as a graduate student in hra Maynard Herbert Halpert, Professor Anthropology at Columbia University. Asistank Editors : Emeritus These included pioneer by Lam Maymad, MWN et h nomusicologist George Herzog, 7.1, Bodner who "turned out to be a brilliant, Jane Gadsby On September 25,1996, Folklore erratic character." Niko Sdvester faculty and students at Memorial University of Newfoundland were Dr. Halpert became involved with the addressed on the subject of the Federal Theatre Project in 1937, and Works Progress Adrninstration was Director of the Folksong and (VVPA) by the department's founder, Folklore Division, as well as Acting Dr. Herbert Halpert. Dr. Halpert Director of the Music Division of the became Professor Emeritus at National Service Bureau. Memorial upon retiring as Henrietta TRANSMISSION is pl$liehed Harvey Research Professor of He was introduced to international Folklore in 1979. studies in folklore as a PhD student three times a year. Cuklrre G1 at Indiana University. Fascinated Tmdition is pblisked by the The event was organized by Dr. with Stitfi Thompson's folktale Folklore students Asociation of Diane Goldstein, who taught a course, HalperZ decided to write his dissertation on folk narratives in ~emorialUniversity a£ graduate class in Public Sector the New Jersey Pines afler a summer of ~doundland.~nnual Folklore during the fall semester, "The public sector class was reading fieldwork in 1941. This was ($15.00I Subscription fee is $8.00 about the WPA and some of the early interrupted when he was inducted institutional). Editors welcome years of folklorists in public agencies into the army in 1943, but he began manuscripts on any subject of in the United States, and what is many fruitful years of teaching and administration in 1946. interai to foklorists, such ae seen as the beginnings of public sector folklore in the United States," traditional arts, music, foodwars, Dr. Goldstein said as she introduced Dr. Halpert's personal fieldwork was mhitectuxe, beliefs, oral literature, the lecture. "We kept reading about put on hold until he came to cultural psychology, and the WPA and the early work of Dr. Newfoundland in 1962. Here, he was joined in field research by English sociological structure of regional Herbert Halpert, who happened to be right down the hall, and it seemed a linguist John D.A. Widdowson, then a ethnic, reEigious, and industrial bit ridiculous to be reading about it faculty member of Memorial's groups in Canada. Stu&es based when he was right here and could tell English Department. Their long- on original fieldwork in Eastern us about it." term, corn bined efforts have culminated in a two-volume work Canada and rwiews of relevant called Folktales of Newfoundland: books, films, or recordings are Dr. Malpert engaged all present in his account of his involvement with the The Resilience of the Oral Tmdifion, appropriate to the journal's focus. WPA project, which operated from a comprehensive collection of scholarly artielee (submitted where 1935-43 as part of Roosevelt's "New anglophone Marchen in possible on IBM or Macintmh Deal" efforts to rescue the U.S. from Newfoundland. The work was launched by publishers Breakwater in disbette) should be 10-20 typed, the Depression. "PhDs in the Depression were very happy if they St. John3 on November 29,1996, double-spaced pagesl and may be could get a job as a street cleaner," with Dr. Halpert on hand to sign the accompanied by photographa or Dr. Halpert related, "And that was in volumes. drawings. Correspondence may be the days when PhDs were not at all common." Dr. Paul Smith, Head of the Folklore sent to: Department at Memorial, was among Cukure & Trad~on Dr, Hatpert's involvement with the those present for the momentous MemoriaI University of WPA began in 1934, when he got a occasion of the book launch, and ~ewfoundland job wlth the project as a recreation compared the significance of Halpert and Widdowson's work to the Motif Box 115 worker after graduating from New York University. He began collecting Index of Folk-Literatun by Halpert's St. JO~B,~doundland children's rhymes at the settlement college professor, Stith Thompson. A1C 5S1 houses and playgrounds where his Halpert himself emphasized that the or email us at: WPA job placed him. He eventually set of texts is a record of Newfoundland's creative narrative [email protected] moved on to collecting folksongs in New Jersey, and came into contact tradition. Recognizing FoIMaIes of Rosenberg, Neil V. "The Works of frameworks envalues both Newfoundland as representing "the Herbert Halpert: A Classified consciously and unconsciously work of a lifetime," Carl Lindahl, Bibliography." In FolkIore Sfudiesin transmitted messages to the general editor for the World Folktale Honour of Herbert Halpert: A instructor. This presentation will Library, writes in the work's preface: Festschrift. Ed. Kenneth S. detail the messages about multi- "Sixty years would be too brief for Goldstein and Neil V. Rosenberg. St. culturalism consciously chosen for most scholars to complete a project John's: Memorial University of transmission in my folklore and of this magnitude, but the Mreers of Newfoundland Fo'lklore and literature course and also consider Herbert Halpert and J.D.A. Language Publication Series, 1980. messages unconsciously presented. Widdowson illustrate an attraction 15-30. for--and remarkable success with-- Traditionall Cultures and the impossible tasks (motif HI010)" American Folklore Society Medical Construction of Risk (xviii}. This may indeed be true for by Diane E. Goldstein, MUN scholars like Lindahl who are Conference Abstracts themselves well established in the With growing frequency, medical discipline. Certainly, the thirty years phe publcation of abstracts is an researchers are beginning to of scholarship that Drs. Halpert and ongoing feature of TRANSMISSION. understand the biomedical and public Widdowson each invested in the So please send us your abstract for health advanfages of ethnogmphic production of Folkfaies of publication.] information. NeverEheless, most Newfoundland bespeaks a degree of medical researchers lack the skills to dedication that leaves those of us Dark Nights of the Soul: Tradition collect or interpret ethnographic data. who are just venturing into graduate and the Contemporary Narration of This paper will examine the uses of programmes in Folklore in what can Losses of Faith in North American ethnography in the medical only be called awe. Roman Catholicism wnstruction of the AIDS epidemic in by Eileen M. Condon;MUN Africa, based on letters and articles For more on Dr. Halpert's prolific published in medical research career in Folklore, see the following Qualified losses of faith are journals. These articles represent sources from which information has acknowledged officially, informally, ethnographic information collected been drawn for this article: and traditionally in Roman and interpreted in a context of Catholicism and other religious condemnation, equating the "at risk" cultural "other' with the beliefs and Halpert, Herbert. "Coming into denominations. However, narratives customary practice of traditional Folklore More Than Fifly Years Ago." which focus passionately and culture. Journal of American Folklore 105 unequivocally upon moments or (41 8):442-457. situations in which individual or No collective faith is irretrievably losf More Cards Please! Modern Cammunicatians Technology and seem more of an exception than a Haipert, Herbert and J.D.A. Its Effect on the Perpetuation of rule in religious 'literature, a Widdowson. FolMales of 'Dying Child's Wish' Appeal scholarship. and dialogue. This Newfoundland: The Resilience of the by Anna GuignB, MUN Oral Tradition. St. John's, NF: paper considers the structure, truth, Breakwater, 1996. and meaning of a group of loss-of- faith narratives collected from U.S. Since 1987 four terninally ill children, (Mario Morby, Craig Hiscock, Philip, collector. "Herbed and Canadian Roman Catholics and Shergold, Jarrod Booth and Blaine Halpert: A Lecture on 'His asks how their representations of loss of faith differ from the allowances Granger) have launched appeals to Participation in the WPA." Sept. 25, acquire a Guinness record for made for such losses elsewhere in 1996. Memorial University of varioudy receiving the greatest the tradition. NewFoundland Folklore and number of postcards, get-well cards, Language Archive Tape 98- Christmas cards and hats. 5331C16347. A Critical Folkforein-Literature Pedagogy as Introduction to ' Folklorists have mest often tended to Rosenberg, Neil. "Herbert Halpert: A Critical Cultural Analysis call appeals by dying children Biogmphical Sketch." In Folklore by Rachel Gholson, MUN "legendary," discussing this tradition Studies in Honow of H&rt Halperf: solely in terms of its relationship to A Fesfschd7* Ed. Kenneth S. Focusing on Folklore in literature and the 1982 Little Buddy incident. Goldstein and Neil V. Rosenberg. St. ethnographic texts as literature Perhaps what misled them was the John": Memorial University af provides the educator with two fact that these actual appeals were Newfoundland Folklore and avenues through which critical disseminated using the very Language Publication Series, 1980. analysis of both strange and farniiiar mechanisms we would normally 1-1 3, cultures may be introduced. associate with contemporary legends, Presenting these analytical namely, that they are transmitted by word of mouth, the mass media, and through the formal and informal use network correspondence affected the history, and the human dimension to of modern office communications perpetuation of the Shergold get-well history. Bringing this human technology. Using the Shetgold get- card campaign long afier it dimension to history alive is a means well card campaign as an illustrative terminated. By systematically to the end of the cultural case, I will discuss the impact of analysing the mechanics of representation of the island. And it is modem communications technology dissemination and the patterns of this cultural representation which in perpetuating people's beliefs1 textual change, I aim to show how Rising Tide presents in The New disbeliefs in the reality of 'Dying the circulation of missing information Founde Lande. Child's Wish' appeals. and misinformation, with the aid of modem communications technology, The Honeys, The Scum and the On 24 September 1989, the family of created a 'Dying Child's Wish' appeal Mighty Reds: A Virtual terminally ill Craig Shergold, of that was more legendary than not. Ethnography of a Soccer Carshalton, England, launched a get- Supporters' Electronic Mail List well card appeal in an effort to boost by Bruce Mason, MUN his morale. The family aimed to help From the e-mail .sig of Rachel Craig collect 1,266,000 get-well Gholson, PhD Student, MUN: The Middlesbrough supporters' cards, enough to beat the previous record and get him a place in the Q: What's the difference between a mailing list was first formed in 1994 Guinness record book. From the folklorist and yogurt? for the express purpose of providing a common ground in Cyberspace for onset, through the help of well A: Living culture. I wishers, information about the the discussion of Middlesbrough Shergold appeal spread quickly both football club, aka "The Might Reds." by word of mouth and by such means Considering the Process of This presentation will describe the as photocopied and faxed messages, Nicknaming in a Welsh insights gleaned from over a year and a halfs worth of virtual chain letters and electronic mail. Community ethnographic research with it. The Shortly thereafter, mail for Craig by Tecwyn Vaughan Jones primary focus wi H be the by started pouring in by the bag load. means which the supporters Eight weeks later, Craig easily broke This paper will report on themes create and maintain a sense of community. the world record. The family jubilantly identified in the process of celebrated Craig's victory, Mrs. nicknaming in the isolated industrial ethnography simply, Shergold expressed her gratitude to town of Blaenau Ffestiniog in north A virtual is, an ethnography in cyberspace which all who had participated and politely west Wales during the period 1900- has the virtual personae of the individuals asked people to stop sending cards! 1950. The relevant data in the form as primary, rather than their physical of oral testimony, was collected as selves. Such research helps us to However, as fresh appeals continued part of a student project in 1992. understand the production and to be generated, and as old requests Although a common practice in reproduction of society and culture stayed in circulation, cards for Craig industrial communities in Wales, from the inside, so to speak. poured in by the thousands. By 1992, nicknaming has been overlooked as Essentially then, this form of Craig had acquired the world's record a possible fertile ground for ethnography is a modification of for 33 million cards and a year later folklorists. Nicknaming is a complex participant-obsewation in which the that total had soared to 100,000,000. traditional social phenomenon and frame is Cyberspace and the subject Today, Craig's mother is pleading although general characteristic traits is the communicative behaviour with the public to PLEASE STOP are identifiable, their use in therein. THE CARDS while the family has performance and context are simply stopped counting. As multiform and multiplex. This is extracted from my individuals circulate new appeals for work ongoing PhD thesis research with this Craig by way of the internet, and Btinging Cultural History Alive: other modem communications group. I am fortunate in being an Rising Tide and The New Founde insider (being born near technology, it is likely that Craig will Lande Pageant Middlesbmugh) and have used my continue to receive cards for years to by Mikel Koven, MUN come. insights to ask questions, contribute to debates and conduct email This paper negotiates its way through sunreys and interviews. In addition, Complexes such as the 'Dying the unpublished script of The New the temporal depth of my work gives Child's Wish' appeal are often linked Founde Lande Trinity Pageant, an insight into the evolution of to particular sets of forces which, me examining the ways in which Rising this group. given the right conditions, can serve Tide Theatre, the professional theatre to nurture the formation of legendary company which produces the The primary focus of this stories and beliefs. Adopting a Pageant, brings the region's and presentation is on the last football holistic approach, I explore how small island's history alive through changes to information recurring match of the 1995-W season. In this theatrical reproduction. In the match Middlesbrough played throughout photocopies, faxed chain Pageant, Rising Tide negotiates the United ("The Scum") letters, internal memos and computer Manchester who space between an abstract form of were then top of the league. By a quirk of fate, if Mlddlesbrough won with the products themselves interest to folklorists are heard in the match and Newcastle United communicate esoteric meaning, we many broadcast venues. Polemics ("The Honeys'? won theirs, then immediately put into question what it emerge when the ethics and methods Newcastle would win the league, means to produce. In "Base and of folklore face off with the However, Newcastle and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural expectations, rules, and skills of Middlesbrough are bitter rivals and Theory," Raymond Williams reminds broadcasting as an art. Yet the topic the fans found themselves hopelessly us that, for Mam, ''the most important of folklorist as broadcaster, with its split on whether Middlesbrough thing a worker ever prduces is implications for the image of the should win or not. This dilemma for himself," implying that the production discipline and for issues of the fans caused intense debate and process is, in essence, an representation, is rarely addressed at sew the articulation of many ideas of extenuation of the self (Williams AFS meetings. community and place that otherwise 1989: 3811, What if, however, we would have remained unsaid. were to deconstruct this statement, Thomas Fairman Ordish, F.SA and consider that literally, the self (1855-1 924): A Lasting Legacy A Theoretical (ReEevaluatlon of (and 1 mean self in its most holistic by Paul Smith, MUN Occupational Folklife: Producing sense) is a production of the the Self occupation: that is the self being In the latter part of the nineteenth by Michael Robidoux, MUN shaped as the very products take form within the occupational setting? century Thomas Ordish undertook As a result, the production process the first major investigation of British In 'The Production Welder: Product, traditional drama. Although his book Process and the Industrial would shift from not only the production of material objects, but based on his material never Craftsman," Robert McCarl offers an appeared. Ordish published several exciting new approach for folklorists the produdion of individuals. In essence, we become the products influential articles in which he to approach occupational culture. emphasized the antiquity of the Moving from the collecting of "items" that are shaped and moulded within the occupational environment. plays, arguing for their relationship to of folklore within traditional the Indo-Germanic traditions. occupational settings, McCarl argues By applying this theoretical Examinations of his collection In the that the communicative processes 1950s by Alex Helm and Margaret within an industrial work environment innovation to professional hockey, I will illustrate how the self is p~u~Dean-Smith led to a revival of are also evidences of folklore worthy interest in traditional drama which of scholarly attention. Looking at the wEthin the occupational environment. Moreover, 1 will seek to elucidate the continues today. This paper objects the welders create as an examines Ordish's work and his esoteric semiotic system, he is able subsequent esoteric meanings generated by these existing bodies. continuing legacy to British folklore to uncover how the workers generate studies. meaning through the production processes: References

The actual interaction of the welder Mead, Rokrt S. Jr. "The with the metal and the welding torch Production Welder: Produd, Process or rod, and his daily exposure to the and the Industrial Craftsman." New other welders, their techniques, York FWwe Quaterly 30 (1974): jargon and oral lore, constitute the 133-39. Changing Sbreotypes Through primary mode of transmission for the the Examination of Folklore in beliefs and practices of this group. Wlliams, Raymond. "Baseand Literature (McCarl 1974: 247-248) Supetstructure in Mamist Cultural by Chris-Anne Stumpf, MUN Theory." Contemporary fiterary McCarl recagnizes the value of Criticism: Literary and CuRuraI Examination of the presentation of studying the processes of production Studies. Eds. Robert Con Davis and multiculturalism in the subgenres of because of his realization that the Ronald Schleifer. Longman: New popular fiction allows the student to products produced are legitimate Vork, 1989. 377-90. examine hislher own acceptance of forms of expressive behaviour. It the stereotypelperception of the was through this theoretical premise An Introduction to a Forum on various folk groups that make up our that McCarf was able to move Folkloristics as Broadcasters society. Popular fiction acts as an beyond occupations that had been by Neil V. Rosenberg, MUN ambiguous mirror of our society and traditionally studied by folklorists. in so doing comments on its What I now suggest is that by Folklorists have 'used the airwaves to institutions, folklore, values and pursuing the production process even communicate their perspectives and beliefs. Because the mirror is further, occupational culture can be to collect and share data, particularly ambiguous it allows for the even further explored. music, for over half a century. In the multivocality or polysemy of texts. I950s, new technologies encouraged By using texts lo validate their frame By reexamining McCarl's contention folklorists to present their materials of reference and their interpretation, that the modes of production, along publicly on radio. Today materials of we can use the text to challenge the students acceptance of the portrayal artists received recognition. TBS' a country musician to gain rapport in of folk groups. approach to promoting blues will be order to create documents of a series attributed to altering international of interconnected local vernacular SEM Abstracts perceptions of blues music, as well music scenes dominated by country as to unique socio-cultural, political music and grounded in earlier oral my The Toronto Blues Revival: features of the Canadian milieu. traditions. Reaction to research, Lastly, it will be argued that the both from those involved in the music Accommodating Multicultural elevation TBS' activities calls into and individuals interested Aesthetics of scene from question the appropriateness of in regional culture who represented by Peter NaivBez, MUN certain interpretive frames associated the elite institutions in the region, with similar folk revivals, particularly alerted me to the fact that my Focusing on the activities of the the "invention of tradition" and theoretical agenda, and the Toronto Blues Society, this "reconstruction1'. underlying intellectual stance on presentation will comparatively which it was founded, was not fully examine differing tendencies in the References shared by others who did share my North American blues revival (see "interest" in the region's local music Narviez, O'Neal, Titon). An Earlier Narvaez, Peter. 1993. 'The Living culture. Among the conclusions study portrayed the "paradoxical Blues Journal: The Paradoxical drawn from this experience is that aesthetics" of a blues revival Aesthetics of the Blues Revival." "interest" in a music culture as a publication (NanrAez 1993). That TransformingTradifion: Folk Music symbiotic representation - is examination described how a Revivals Examined. ed. Neil V. fundamentally proprietary. dedicated group of European- Rosenbetg. Urbana: U of Illinois Consequently an "interest", including Americans in the 1960's voiced Press, 241 D57. that of scholarly researchers, must be appreciation and support of certain understood in terms of the politics African-American musicians and O'Neal Jim. 1993. "I Once Was Lost that result when proprietary interests particular characteristics of their But Now I'm Found: The Blues are contested. Clearly, then, to claim music, blues, in a magazine (Living Revival of the 1960's." Nothing But "disinterest" is to deny an important Blues). To a great extent the same the Blues: The Music and the aspect of the ethnographic reality publication in later years maintained Musicians. ed. Lawrence Cohn. New scholars seek to document fully: static views of blues and its York: AbbeviiE, 347D87. scholarly research is a political act. performance, however, ignoring er being critical of historic Titon, Jeff Todd. 1993. developments within the musical "Reconstructing the Blues: form, as well as the multi-racial Reflections on the 1960's Blues expansion of its performer base. In Revival ." Tmnsfonning Tradition: particular, the idea that blues as Folk Music Revivals Examined. ed . musical performance is tied to race, Neil V. Rosenberg. Urbana: U of Folkloric Fiction i.e., that it should be considered the Illinois Press, 220040. exclusive domain of African- Reviews by Niko Silvester Americans, remained a constant. In contrast, since its inception (1 985) The Whole Don Messer Show: Being an avid reader of fiction, I the Toronto Blues Society (TBS) has Local Elites and Propriety have always found it difficult to attempted to maintain a broader Interests restrict myself to scholarly reading, multicultural version of the blues. by Neil V. Rosenberg, MUN even during the pressures of end-of- Without disregarding the music's term. 1 find I don't feel quite so guilty if I read fiction based on folklore. It African heritage, TBS has aspired to In a reflective reading of field cultivate within makes a good excuse, anyway blues the Toronto journals and related documents area by supporting internationally ("Whaddaya mean, wasting time? based on research conducted in the blues tour the This is folklore!")). The fantasy genre recognized artists on in maritime5 during the d 970's, this region, as well as encouraging and has been drawing on folklore motifs paper discusses the ways in which since its beginning, but in the last ten advancing the careers of emergent fieldwork tactics based on research years or so, it has become a and established local blues strategies can have unforseen conscious process; almost a musicians, of ethnic, regardless consequences. The research was subgenre. The Fairy Tale Series racial, or stylistic considerations. In designed to test the ideas developed novels edited by Terri Windling, and assessing the degree to which TBS by American folklorists in the 1960's published first by Ace Books, and has been successful in attaining its that country C'hillbillytl) music had a later by Tor, are good examples of goals, it will be shown that most fundamental connection with folk this trend. Windling also co-edits, serious area of division within the music traditions. As a researcher 1 with Ellen Dattow, the Fairy Tale organization centred on musical style took advantage of roles developed as Anthologies (see below for a list of and issues concerning which local both series). Both of;these series have had the conscious goal of compared to the second volume of obsessions, faerie folk, and a strong- publishing fiction based an either the series, which had separate willed hemine named Rois Melior. A folktales from oral tradition, or literary introductions by Datlow and Windling stranger from a family thought to fairy tales (like those written by Mans on the relationship of their respective have died out shows up in town, Christian Anderson or Oscar Wtlde), fields, horror and fantasy, to folklore. stirring up nearly-forgotten memories in an effort to reclaim fairy tales as The stories themselves are mostly of and causing much speculation adult fiction. In every volume of the top quality, and include work by new among the townsfolk. 1 have read anthotogies, the editors have writefs as well as those long and loved most of McKillip's previous included a "Recommended Readingu established in the field. Of particular work, but I think Winter Rose is by far section, listing other folklore-based note is the story by Tanith Lee, "The her best to date. genre fiction, poetry, collections of Beast," which, though it uses the traditional stories, and a few of the 'Beauty and the Beast' story, is more popular non-fiction titles like completely different from her earlier The Ftight of Michael McB'de Maureen Duffy"s 7he Erotic World of version of the same story in the by Midori Snyder, Tor, 1994. Faery, and Marina Warner's From the cotledion Red as Blood; or, Tales Beast to fhe Blonde: On Fairy Tales from the Sisters Grimmer, Her prose Every time a new book comes out and their Tellers. is rich and a joy to read, though the that has faeries in it, I have to read it story has sinister undertones. Susan (for people of like mind, I have an My intent in this column is to review Patwick's "The Real Princess" is a online Faery Bibliography which some of the more recent (and dark 'Princess and the Pea' retelling, includes a section on fiction. You sometimes not-so-recent) folklore- with a very different happy ending can find it at http:ilwww.ucs.mun.cal based fiction, including noveb, short than the more familiar story. Ellen -s&$ndfbib.htrnl). I awaited Midori stories and single- or multi-author Steiber's "The Fox Wife'had Delia Snyder's latest with much collections, The books I select will be Sherman's "The Printer's Daughter" anticipation, and was not books I have recently read and are also among my favorites, but disappointed. 7W Flight of Mkhel enjoyed, so the column will every stay in this collection has McSride is set in early New York city. necessarily reflect my own tastes. I something do cummend it. Michael McBride" mother smears a won't be restricting myself to the stinging lotion on his left eye as he fantasy genre, either; 1 have heard of sits with her by her deathbed. Soon mystery novels with folklore themes, he finds that he can see strange and of cuurse there are numerous beings around him, and some of books being published these days as them are out to do him ham. He "general fiction" (and even romance!) ends up fleeing to the American that use folklore elements, I will also Wnter Rose West, where he meets not only the review any non-fiction that I think by Patricia A. McKillip, Ace, 1996, faeries that arrived in the New World may have escaped general notice. If with European settless, but also the you have a suggestion for a book I So far this novel is only available in Native nature spirits of the area. The should review or a comment on this hardcover, but the story and the novel doesn'tffollow the plot of any column, you can e-mail me at wonderful cover by Kinuko Y. Crafl specifictale type, but it is full of [email protected]~.mun.~8,or write are well worth the $27.95 Canadian folklore motifs, and the faeries here me care of Transmissjon. price tag. Just on looks alone, this are definitely those of the rural book is magnificent. It is an storyteller, and not those of Victorian Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears undersized hardcover with jacked art children's edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri designed to fh the size and shape of Windling, AvoUova, 1995. the book perfectly. And the art, as I The Wood Wr have said, is topnotch. I had by Terri Wndling, Tor, 19M. Thb Is the thlrd collection in the Fairy assumed before I read the book that Tale Anthologies series. The it used 'Beauty and the Beast' motifs Not only is Temi Wndling an hardcover came out in 1995, and the or plot, because the title, M/inter excellent editor, but she is also now mass market paperba& has only Rose, is the title of a 'Beauty and the an excellent author. This is a novel been available for a couple of Beast' story in the Brothers Grimm about a woman who unexpectedly months. Datlow and Windling are the collection. There is a perfectly good inherits the house of a poet she has editors of the award-winning The reason for the title- the motif of known only through their long mail Yeats Best Fantasy and Momr roses in winter is present- but the correspondence. She travels to anthologies, and I always knew thal plot is a retelling of a different story. Tucson, Arizona, as much to escape anything they edit, together or Part of the delight for me in reading an ex-husband who insists on separately, will be good. This this novel was in realizing what the arranging her life for her as to work volume contains twenty-two stories stay was, so I won't spoil it by telling on the biography of the poet that she plus a brief introduction by the editors (a hint: it is based on a ballad, not a has afways wanted to write. It is a and the aforementioned MBlmhen). The story takes place in a story about discovering the local recommended reading list. The world that is like ours in times past, odherworld folk who have taken on introduction was a little disappointing but not quite. There are curses, shapes created by the dead poet and his artist lover. It is about finding out Michael J. Preston, Dept. of English, department, institution, mailing and who you really are, and about U of Colorado at Boulder, Hellems ernail addms,telephone and fax, learning to love a landscape that at 101, Campus Box 226, Boulder, CO, title of paper and 300 word abstract. first seems colourless and forbidding. 80309-0226, USA; email: Please send three copies of your This novel is full of Native Amerimn [email protected]. The proposa'l to: Jack Santino, Dept. of motifs and themes, and often deadline for receipt of propsals is Popular Culture, Bowling Green State compares them in interesting ways to February I,1997. U, Bowling Green, OH, 43403-0226. European ones. IE is also of note that For aditional information, you can call Windling writes a popular folklore The 1997 conferenoe in Austin, Jack Santino at (41 9) 372-2983 or column "Folkroots"in the bimonthly Texas, October 29 - November 2, the Thomas Zimmeman at (419) 372- magazine Realms of Fantasy, has Folk Narrative Section of the 0384. The deadline for proposals is won the World Fantasy Award for her American Folklore Society seeks Feb. 15197. editing (see introduction above), and papers exploring the topics of is an accomplished artist. memory, narrative and Zrrrth - particulan'ly as they relate to The Fairy Tale Series questioins of "truthnand '"reality" as edited by ferri Windling: they are recorded by, or emerge Posted on the office door of Dr. fhe Sun, the Moon, and the Stars by from, narrative situations. Papers Diane Goldstein, MUN: Steven Brust addressing pragmatic, clinical and Jack the Gianf-Kikrby Charles law enforcement respnses to Q: What did the native say to the deLint narrative claims of personal ham are postmodern ethnographer? me Nmthgab by Kara Dalkey particularily encouraged. To be Snow Wifeand Rose Red by considered please send a title and A: "Enough about you, let's talk about Patricia C, Wrede abstract to Eric Eliason at email: me." Tam tin by Pamela Dean [email protected],edu, or mail to Briar Rose by Jane Yolen Eric Eliason, American Civilization, Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen The U of Texas at Austin, Garrison Kushner (note: this was written for Hill, Austin, TX, 78712. the series, but for some reason is not "officially" a part of the series; perhaps due to the change in Wellesley College and the publishers from Ace to Tor) Massachusetts InStitute of Technology announces the fim Submissions for next issue The Fairy Tale Anthologies International Congress of Women edited by Ellen Datlow and Terrl in World Music, to take place April should be sent by May 15, Windling: 16-20, 1997. The conference will Snow M&,BlW Red create a framework that addresses Black Thorn, White Rose women's activities in world music, Ruby Sjippers, Golden Team dance, and spirituality with a focus on Whife Raven, BIack Swan international perspectives. For (forthcoming) information on the conference, please contact: Fitst international Congress of Women in World Muslc, c/o Kera M. Washington, Coordinator, Wellsley Col., 108 Central St., Wellesly, MA, 022 81- 8203, USA; phone (61 7) 283-3358, [email protected]. fax (61 7) 283-3687, email: Calls for Papem [email protected]. Check out our WWllV Home The International Society for Contemporary Legend Research is Announcing s multidisciplinary requesting papers for its conference on holidays, ritual, http:llwww.ucs. mun. caJ "Perspectives on Contemporary festival, celebration, and public Legend' conference to take place in display, sponsored by Bowling Boulder, Colorado from May 21-24. Green Centre for Popular Culture If you wish to participate in the Studies and the Dept, of Popurar conference, please forward a four- Culture at Bowling Green State U, hundred word abstract, along with a Bowling Green, OH. For individual conference fee of $60.110 for lSCtR papers and media productions send members ($35 for non members and three copies of a ohe page vita and a free for students). Send abstracts to: proposal that includes your name,