Tire Shrinker to Dragster

• Tác giả: Wilson M Hudson
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 1574410601
• ISBN-13: 978-1574410600
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 398 Folklore
• Thông tin xuất bản: College Station : Texas A & M University Press [distributor] 1968
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (1 online resource.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 196502
• Chủ đề: 1. Texas--Social Life and Customs

Tóm tắt

 Annotation The title of this collection denotes a span from the horse-drawn vehicles with steel tires that had to be shrunk down occasionally, to the cars that accelerate to unbelievable speeds on a drag strip. Society members like to look back at old customs and beliefs but they are quite willing to take into account that urbanization and engineering do not destroy folklife but rather bring about new formations. From tire shrinkers to the folksay of the drag strip
  from silver ingots in East Texas to early Irish storytelling
  from folklore and the Finnish sauna to mock bidding in Jamaica
  from folkways and mores on the University of Texas campus in the 1930s to Dobie as teacher, this miscellany brings together a wealth of Texas folklore.