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Curing the Cross-eyed Mule

Appalachian Mountain Humor

By: Loyal Jones,Billy Edd Wheeler

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Curing the Cross-eyed Mule

Appalachian Mountain Humor

By: Loyal Jones,Billy Edd Wheeler

Presents a collection of jokes and stories from Appalachia dealing with such topics as animals, city folks, politicians, religion, and old age.

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august house

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0874830834

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9780874830835

More Laughter in Appalachia

Southern Mountain Humor

By: Loyal Jones,Billy Edd Wheeler

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Southern Mountain Humor

By: Loyal Jones,Billy Edd Wheeler

Packed with humorous jokes, anecdotes, poems, riddles, and songs ... this collection is thick with artifacts of Southern wit."--Back cover.

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0874834112

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9780874834116

My Curious and Jocular Heroes

Tales and Tale-Spinners from Appalachia

By: Loyal Jones

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My Curious and Jocular Heroes

Tales and Tale-Spinners from Appalachia

By: Loyal Jones

We were going down the road, and we came to this house. There was a little boy standing by the road just crying and crying. We stopped, and we heard the biggest racket you ever heard up in the house. “What’s the matter, son?” “Why, Maw and Paw are up there fightin’.” “Who is your Paw, son?” “Well, that’s what they are fightin’ over.” Brimming with ballads, stories, riddles, tall tales, and great good humor, My Curious and Jocular Heroes pays homage to four people who guided and inspired Loyal Jones’s own study of Appalachian culture. His sharp-eyed portraits introduce a new generation to Bascom Lunsford, the pioneer behind the “memory collections” of song and story at Columbia University and the Library of Congress; the Sorbonne-educated collector and performer Josiah H. Combs; Cratis D. Williams, the legendary father of Appalachian studies; and the folklorist and master storyteller Leonard W. Roberts. Throughout, Jones highlights the tales, songs, jokes, and other collected nuggets that define the breadth of each man’s research and repertoire.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252099699

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9780252099694

Laughter in Appalachia

A Festival of Southern Mountain Humor

By: Loyal Jones,Billy Edd Wheeler

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Laughter in Appalachia

A Festival of Southern Mountain Humor

By: Loyal Jones,Billy Edd Wheeler

A DELIGHTFUL COLLECTION OF YARNS TOLD SIMPLY AND ELOQUENTLY BY MOUNTAIN FOLKS FOR WHOM HUMOR IS A WAY OF LIFE.

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166

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august house

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087483032X

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9780874830323

Hometown Humor

By: Loyal Jones,Billy Edd Wheeler

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Hometown Humor

By: Loyal Jones,Billy Edd Wheeler

Here are 300 jokes and stories heard on porch swings, in barber shops, corner cafes, and beauty parlors, told by famous and common alike, with chapters on marriage, aging, work, education, politics, and sports. Celebrities, everyday folks, and students of the Clinton County Elementary School in Clinton County, Kentucky serve up a feast of jokes and stories from oral traditions.

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0874835321

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9780874835328

Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands

By: Loyal Jones

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Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands

By: Loyal Jones

Jones attacks what he sees as the historical dismissal of mountain religious life, as supported by nineteenth- and twentieth-century missionary movements bent on changing mountain life through better religion. He explores the creation and perpetuation of negative stereotypes as mainline Christians contended that "Upland Christians" had to be saved from themselves.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252067592

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9780252067594

Country Music Humorists and Comedians

By: Loyal Jones

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Country Music Humorists and Comedians

By: Loyal Jones

This volume is an encyclopedia of country music performers who have used comedy as a central component of their presentation. Loyal Jones offers a conversational and informative biographical sketch of each performer, often including a sample of the musician's humor, a recording history, and amusing anecdotal tidbits. In an entertaining style, Jones covers performers throughout the twentieth century, from such early stars of vaudeville and radio barn dances as the Skillet Lickers and the Weaver Brothers and Elviry, to regulars on Hee Haw and the Grand Old Opry, continuing to current comedians such as the Austin Lounge Lizards, Ray Stevens, and Jeff Foxworthy.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252033698

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9780252033698

Minstrel of the Appalachians

The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford

By: Loyal Jones

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Minstrel of the Appalachians

The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford

By: Loyal Jones

It is said that Bascom Lamar Lunsford would "cross hell on a rotten rail to get a folk song"—his Southern highlands folk-song compilations now constitute one of the largest collections of its kind in the Library of Congress—but he did much more than acquire songs. He preserved and promoted the Appalachian mountain tradition for generations of people, founding in 1928 the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival in Asheville, North Carolina, an annual event that has shaped America's festival movement. Loyal Jones pens a lively biography of a man considered to be Appalachian music royalty. He also includes a "Lunsford Sampler" of ballads, songs, hymns, tales, and anecdotes, plus a discography of his recordings.

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University Press of Kentucky

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081318424X

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9780813184241

Country Music Humorists and Comedians

By: Loyal Jones

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University of Illinois Press

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Religion is Not about God

How Spiritual Traditions Nurture Our Biological Nature and what to Expect when They Fail

By: Loyal D. Rue

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Religion is Not about God

How Spiritual Traditions Nurture Our Biological Nature and what to Expect when They Fail

By: Loyal D. Rue

Annotation If religion is not about God, then what on earth is it about? Loyal Rue contends that religion is a series of strategies that aims to influence human nature so that we might think, feel, and act in ways that are good for us, both individually and collectively.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813535115

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9780813535111

My Curious and Jocular Heroes

Tales and Tale-Spinners from Appalachia

By: Loyal Jones

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Tales and Tale-Spinners from Appalachia

By: Loyal Jones

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University of Illinois Press

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0252099699

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Nature Is Enough

Religious Naturalism and the Meaning of Life

By: Loyal Rue

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Nature Is Enough

Religious Naturalism and the Meaning of Life

By: Loyal Rue

Nature is enough: enough to allow us to find meaning in life and to answer our religious sensibilities. This is the position of religious naturalists, who deny the existence of a deity and a supernatural realm. In this book, Loyal Rue answers critics by describing how religious naturalism can provide a satisfying vision of the meaning of human existence. The work begins with a discussion of how to evaluate the meaning of life itself, referencing a range of thought from ancient Greek philosophy to the Abrahamic traditions to the Enlightenment to contemporary process and postmodern philosophies. Ultimately proposing meaning as an emergent property of living organisms, Rue writes that a meaningful life comes through happiness and virtue. Spiritual qualities that combine evolutionary cosmology and biocentric morality are described: reverence, gratitude, awe, humility, relatedness, compassion, and hope. Rue looks at why religious naturalism is not currently more of a movement, but nevertheless predicts that it will become the prevailing religious sensibility.

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State University of New York Press

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143843801X

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9781438438016

Book's by Loyal Jones

Curing the Cross-eyed Mule

Curing the Cross-eyed Mule

More Laughter in Appalachia

More Laughter in Appalachia

My Curious and Jocular Heroes

My Curious and Jocular Heroes

Laughter in Appalachia

Laughter in Appalachia

Hometown Humor

Hometown Humor

Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands

Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands

Country Music Humorists and Comedians

Country Music Humorists and Comedians

Minstrel of the Appalachians

Minstrel of the Appalachians

Country Music Humorists and Comedians

Country Music Humorists and Comedians

Religion is Not about God

Religion is Not about God

My Curious and Jocular Heroes

My Curious and Jocular Heroes

Nature Is Enough

Nature Is Enough

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