Folklore

78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South

Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live

Black Rock : A Zuni Cultural Landscape and the Meaning of Place

Bloody Mary in the Mirror: Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics

Blue Ridge Folklife

Bluebeard: A Reader's Guide to the English Tradition

Bodies: Sex, Violence, Disease, and Death in Contemporary Legend

Cajun and Creole Folktales Collected and Annotated

Cajun Country

Carolina Piedmont Country

Choctaw Tales

Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters

Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country

From Every Stage: Images of America's Roots Music

Ghost Dancing on the Cracker Circuit: The Culture of Festivals in the American South

Ghost Hunters of the South

The Glenbuchat Ballads

Great Smoky Mountains Folklife

Haunted Halls: Ghostlore of American College Campuses

Hungarian Folktales: The Art of Zsuzsanna Palko

Kentucky Bluegrass Country

Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco: Readings in Louisiana Culture

Miracles of the Spirit: Folk, Art, and Stories from Wisconsin

Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore

Muffler Men

Mule Trader: Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules, and Men

Not Just Child's Play: Emerging Tradition and the Lost Boys of Sudan

Organ Theft Legends

Ozark Country

Peyote Religious Art: Symbols of Faith and Belief

Public Folklore

Recentering Anglo/American Folksong: Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths

Riddling Tales from around the World

Roots of a Region: Southern Folk Culture

Scottish Traveller Tales: Lives Shaped through Stories

Shenandoah Valley Folklife

South Florida Folklife

Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests

A Spiral Way: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography

Suddenly They Heard Footsteps: Storytelling for the Twenty-first Century

Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana

Tales of the Bark Lodges

Talking Trauma

Troubling Violence: A Performance Project

Two Zuni Artists: A Tale of Art and Mystery

Uncle Monday and Other Florida Tales

Upper Cumberland Country

Vietnam Remembered: The Folk Art of Marine Combat Veteran Michael D. Cousino, Sr.

Wiregrass Country

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UPM Fall BOOKFRIENDS Party Announced

On Sunday, November 22 from 3–5 p.m. the University Press of Mississippi will be holding its annual BOOKFRIENDS fall membership party at The Auditorium Restaurant at the Duling School. This year’s party will honor the memory of Willie Morris on the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth. To mark the occasion UPM is featuring a new, limited edition of the quintessential Morris essay, My Two

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