Shuckin' and jivin' : folklore from contemporary Black Americans
(Book)
Author
Published
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1978.
ISBN
0253352207, 9780253352200, 0253202655, 9780253202659
Physical Desc
xxii, 390 pages ; 25 cm
Status
Available from another library
Copies
| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Concord - Adult | 398.20975 Dance | On Shelf |
| Lexington - Adult | 398.209 D | On Shelf |
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Published
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1978.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
0253352207, 9780253352200, 0253202655, 9780253202659
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents
1. In the beginning: etiological tales
In the beginning
Why the nigger is so messed up
Why the black man's hair is nappy
Why the black man has big feet
Why the whites have everything
Upon this rock
How blacks got to America
Why the bear ain't got no tail
How the gopher got his name
Why dogs smell each other
How black birds got black
2. I raised Hell white I was there: tales of Heaven and Hell
I raised Hell while I was there
Flying good time
Don't wake 'em!
I don't want to staaay!
Fund raiser
The niggers done put the fire out!
Three surprises
No men in Heaven
Teacher shortage
I know I'm in Hell now
Don't make a wave
Hard luck Sam
Sam goes to Heaven
3. Dese bones gon' rise again: ghost tales
Dese bones gon' rise again
Papa beat the dogs
Oh, me
When midnight struck
Ole man straws
Uncle Butler
Loping black dog
Spirit dog
You gon' see peace
You gon' pick me up?
Take your apple!
When a man gets scared
Death in the graveyard
Ain't but two of us in here, is it?
Pass the collection plate
Up from the cooling board
In the name of the Lord
Where money is, evil is
Didn't die right
A visit
Makin' feet help the body
Hitchhiking spirit
Counting souls
Bob Blount is dead
Big fraid and Lil' fraid
Hardheaded
Haunted house
If it's gon' ketch me
Look over yonder
4. Somebody clapped for Edith las' night: conjure tales
Worse lookin' conjure I ever saw
This will carry 'im or bring 'im
The Devil took her and went airship
5. I hears de call: tales about religion
Half and half
What did Paul say?
Move your finger
Put it in my head
It's like this
Pre hoc, ergo non propter hoc
Can't get to the fire for the preachers
He might be down there
No minister
Notice the mistletoe
Depression
See me now
Identification
I don't like that thing
Damn good sermon
Ain't but one door
Blow yo' horn, Gabrul
It's your choice
Don't call my name
The rest is mine
Preacher comin' today
God bless the cow
I thank you for some corn
The minister's fresh air
Hurried departure
He remembered
Playing in a large cathedral
Lil' Red Riding Hood and the wolf
De preacher want chicken
The test
My legs
Accuser accused
The trap
Boo!
No good sonovabitch
Gabriel's bugle
Jump on Mama's lap
Let her lay there
Let the glory shine
A lie
Send down an angel
Bunkim
Deacon Brown is dead!
Here go one eye
Deacon Jones gon' lead
If you want to go to Heaven
Shall we gather at the river
Lord, fill 'im
Don't know nothin' 'bout Morehouse.
The new rectum
Gone to meddlin'
Fifly adults
Do you believe?
Washing his sins away
Duck!
Quit your foolishness
I'm not a member
Cream color will do
You hit 'em today
Look-look-look!
Same old crowd
A prayer
Can't pray
Let the piano do it all
Read it for yourself
Who is going to play the chandelier?
Pot's boiling over
The Lord sent it
I ain't ready to go yet
Don't help that bear
Prayer is all right in a prayer meeting
Saying grace
Children will play
Who made you?
There goes God's nickel
I wasn't talking to you
Let's eat!
Your good and faithful servant, Joe
Don't give me no shit!
I ain't doe tuss no mo'
Glory and honor
6. A nigger ain't shit: self-degrading tales
If this tail hole break
Dumbest M.F.
Big bimbo
Glad it ain't twelve o'clock
Listen to the wheelbarrow
Watermelon
I ain't scared o' you
Noisy oil can
Running
Striking twelve
Contest
He is lazy
Tounge and teeth
Accidents
Same ole goddamned cat
Shove it up you
Does Polly want a cracker?
Confused undertaker
Buzzard oil
Back to the cotton fields
Pi-r-square
You count to two
Wait til I learn
I'll gratify your wishes
Apt lil' boy
Potatoes in de jackets
Ain't no sense in killing two horses
Jesse's cut
Those Ritis brothers
We shave and shampoo
Pass your plate
Who wrote that thing?
Lesson completed
Learn her
All those pencils
Jesus died to save you
Doctor, you treat her
That's right!
How are you so smart?
Damn if I remember
The wrong man
Missin' 'possum
New bathroom
In Hell, just like I thought
Dumb negroes, dumb bosses
Had to get away
Where? Where? Where?
What makes me hot
I can't stand it
7. Oh, Lord, will I ever?: the white woman and the black man
She forgot
Swing Miss Susie Jane
I run my hand up Missis' dress
Pretty like a peacock
I'd make your ass sparkle
Not even for a white woman
I'm gon' get me a white woman
Please give me a white woman
Wag your tail
8. I could eat her up: tales about women
I could eat her up
Just in case
The guy in the fur coat
That las' dude
They don't come too long and hard for me
You got to do better than this
In your good sense now!
Shoot the habit
I'm hiding
Signs
Forget the small change
This one knows
Encore
Pass the pussy, please
Houdini
You still my baby
Mary had that little lamb
Expensive fruit
Here's to the little girl
It runs in the family
The problems of the wives of servicemen
I used my head
Put it up possible
It smelled like roses
Mighty high in the bed
Couldn't stand more
Mose pushes the wrong button
Plenty of excitement
A minor cut
You gon' cutcha-self
Out for blood!
Peepin' Tom
The transfusion
The only two I can trust
All that meat
Fried egg.
I'm gon' get in the drawer
What size?
We return anything
Too old for that
I expect I had plenty
You first
I want my money back
Who wouldn't be mad!
The precious little thing
Not a single bedbug
Absent-minded man
The cow's better
Some are bachelors
Gifts are to be used
Rest in peace-now
I can measure yours
How'd you make out?
Changing a wife
Plenty fire in the furnace
B-36, C-47
Ole as the hills
Wrinkled
They came to buy the mule
I come to buy the dog
Lucky horseshoe
Luck to the duck
You had intercourse with mine
Let me be frank
Miss Lucy Neal
I comin' back
9. Be true to me: tales about marital infidelity
Pinwheel Charlie
Revolving Jones
He doesn't know it
The father will die
Mama had another fit
Why do I talk like this?
4 1/2 + 4 1/2 = 9
Talkin' barrel
Be true to me
That's why I poinsoned ya, Honey
Let him buy his own
Joe survives
10. Goldstein, Pat, Mike, and the like: ethnic jokes
How did the fire start?
See you sad-dy
Give me that nigger's address
He can go to Hell
I'll write a check
That's the thief
It's worth ten dollars
One condition
That is the finger!
Pop-a's last vords
Stop, thief!
My wife will clean it up
My, how you've grown
Everything has gone up
She's in da tutes
They worried him to death
It'll go off by itself
Don't dress it
Pat goes hunting
It's 'leven o'clock
Moving Hell
Littin' is Hell
Pat and Mike
Me sell to niggers
No sabe
11. The white man is the devil: tales about the cruelty of whites
Let the wheelers roll
Controlling the slave
A slave escape
You could hear the whip falling
Sure to go to jail
Disturbing the peace
The mobile buck
Shortenin' bread
Talkin' like a damn fool
Horse must pay
You have all the world
Neither here nor dar
Yawl used to it
I jest had a dream
It's a white lady
The suicide
Yawl's blue Heaven
Where the niggers hang out
Yo ami
I'll go as far as Memphis
No business praying in white churches
The master can't get in
The last thing I remember
Ingratitude
Why
Put 'im back
Alligator bait
You knew I was coming
White water
Basic assumption
Sam is definitely left out
12. The bottom rail comes to be the top riser: outsmarting whitey
The bottom rail comes to be the top riser
You broke Momma's vase
Turn the pot upside down
God delivered 'em
John, John, tonight
John in Philimōdel
Uncle Daniel's caught
Abe and Dinah
He cursed Marster out.
Free as a old rabbit
From king to queen
Swinging it around
The princess is dead
Can't kill him that way
Fornication contest
How much for that mule?
If
White fools from Charles City
The early animal gets the water
The tar baby
I fool you that time
Bobtail beat the Devil
All the tracks goin' in
The signifying monkey
Oink
Help!
We don't eat 'em
Give me my change right now
The best dream
I tell ya, white folks
Guess
How?
Caught the sly fox
Mongrels
My daddy was a lollypop maker
If that ain't fuckin'
The sandy bottom shuffle
Self-defense
Suppose
Poor thing
Sealskin brown
If you could be black for one Saturday night
Johnny, can you give me a number?
Description
I'm ridin' this morning
Dinner is served
Hot biscuits burn yo' ass
I gon' tell on you
Talk so much
Beatin' Cap'n Garrett
But I ain't
Guarding the watermelon patch
The swimming match
Ain't no way in the world for the Lord to catch your daddy
Turn out the sack
Shine
Peeled it, cored it, and diced it
He does need some more sugar
You ever kiss a mule?
You may fall in yourself
Good morning
Bad bluebird
Take my order
I won't take any shit
Only thing better than one is two
Peace (piece?)
Some are going, some are coming
I owns old Marster
White in white America
All yawl look alike
Cross burning
Get that white trash out of here
If you are white
13. I'm a bad motherfucker: tales of the bad nigger
John Henry
Stag
Dolemite
The history of the dog
Bullshitting Murphy
At the whorehouse
Pimpin' Sam
The monkey and the coon
Honky tonk bud
Prison walls
Peter Revere
Rastus whatcha thing
Moved out
That scared him
John Hatcher
A lil' fight
Surrogate cursing
Gay young lad
14. Down in the jungle, out on the farm: miscellaneous animal tales
Wait on de Lord
The Lord spare us
Good to be on time
Don't trust a man when he's in his liquor
Don't let anybody use you for a cat's paw
Let us spray
You better go 'round
Judgment up there
Buying wood
We belong together
'Tis the plumber
I would fall
Too much tongue
Bear 'round
Root, root, root!
Mountain and Squirrel quarrel
Well, that's one on me
Terrapin and Rabbit race
Pretty weather
Plymouth Rock
Scotch!
Hard to kill
He swallored his head
Didn't you see me when I swelled?
Bravado
Bad bantam
Take off dem fancy pajamas!
Mr. Rabbit is back
The ugliest
Monkey cuts his throat
Crap game in the barnyard.
Are you ready for this?: miscellaneous risqué tales
Come away, you dirty dog
Ole Dan Tucker
Yankee Doodle
Over the hill
The man from Ghent
As for you
Now that the party has ended
Wrong bag
Mistaken identity
I don't touch that dirty dog
Draft
Do like the dogs do
A devout reader
Fooled you!
Mr. James know what he's doing
I'll take hymn
The ain't no time for romance
Heltho, thailor!
Peaches
Bubbles
I'll show you how straight I am
Taking the evidence with him
That's my chicken
Come on back!
Too good to be a mule
Baby, I wish you could spend money
Buddy's travels
Time for grace
Too old fashioned
Shorty gets a Cadillac
Old Missis and John
French poussé
Do you know how to party?
A beautiful human being
Every other Thursday
Go git yo' mama
Just as dead
Old baby
Poor Hezekiah
Hey, hey, hey!
He's getting there
If I had known
Don't wait for the explosion
Katie
Then-call me
I'm gon' fin' her
Nonsupport
Not for a coon
Find another scoreboard
Bittersweet revenge
Streakers
Naughty dollbaby
Serving the cow
Changing his mind
He kin give it, but he can't take it
Put the snake on her
Them goddamn potatoes
She's not going to believe you either
Fire, fire!
Sam's report
Give me a number
Put that back, too!
Two and a half
Surprise
He ate the whole thing
Never mind!
She misunderstood
Musta been mustard
Not for a quarter
On guard duty
Come on to bed
A golf lesson
16. A potpourri: miscellaneous black folklore
Proverbs and other bits of folk wisdom
More proverbs
Superstitions I
Superstitions II
Superstitions III
Superstitions IV
Conjuring your lover
Metaphors, similes, and other folk sayings
Yo, mama
Folk remedies
All a matter of money
Don't you forget
I put sugar on mine
Just like one of us
Already there
Oops!
Isn't that Haney?
Mutual agreement
The Bolsom dog
Dolly bones
Headed for the Nine-Mile Lock
We going by Miss Van Lew's house
I gon' ride the mule
No singing Sam
Imagination
Literal translation
Retailing without a license
Lost his head
Who's mocking whom?
False notes
I eat meat now
Santa lied
Bob White
When I say "scat"
Interesting names
Peanut butter
The vegetable man
Crokidile Isle
If you want to go to Heaven
I must go
The eaf
February cold.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Dance, D. C. (1978). Shuckin' and jivin': folklore from contemporary Black Americans . Indiana University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dance, Daryl Cumber. 1978. Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore From Contemporary Black Americans. Indiana University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dance, Daryl Cumber. Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore From Contemporary Black Americans Indiana University Press, 1978.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Dance, Daryl Cumber. Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore From Contemporary Black Americans Indiana University Press, 1978.
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