L. J. and Mary C. Skaggs Folklore Fund
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We invite you to join us in building this fund, established through a generous seed grant from the Skaggs Foundation and matching gifts from private donors. Since its creation in 1995, the L. J. and Mary C. Skaggs Folklore Fund has supported publication of many diverse titles that explore cultures from across the United States and around the world.
Books the Skaggs Fund has supported:
Music and the Staged Veillée in Quebec
Performing Tradition
Pub Date: Cloth: May 2026; Paper: May 2026
Sweet, Tart, and Golden
Apples in the Midwestern Imagination
Pub Date: Cloth: April 2026; Paper: April 2026
The Three Nephites
Saints, Service, and Supernatural Legend
Pub Date: Cloth: October 2025; Paper: October 2025
Migration Stories
Connecting Activism, Policy, and Scholarship
Pub Date: Cloth: September 2025; Paper: September 2025
Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter
Stories of an Ozark Folksong Collector
Pub Date: Cloth: January 2023; Paper: January 2023
Kusamira Music in Uganda
Spirit Mediumship and Ritual Healing
Pub Date: Cloth: October 2021; Paper: October 2021
Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs
The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman
Pub Date: October 2019
Banjo Roots and Branches
Pub Date: September 2018
Bill Monroe
The Life and Music of the Blue Grass Man
Pub Date: Cloth: September 2018; Paper: February 2021
Storytelling in Siberia
The Olonkho Epic in a Changing World
Pub Date: Cloth: November 2017; Paper: September 2020
Global Tarantella
Reinventing Southern Italian Folk Music and Dances
Pub Date: October 2017
Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World
Pub Date: October 2017
Recasting Folk in the Himalayas
Indian Music, Media, and Social Mobility
Pub Date: October 2017
Czech Bluegrass
Notes from the Heart of Europe
Pub Date: October 2017
My Curious and Jocular Heroes
Tales and Tale-Spinners from Appalachia
Pub Date: September 2017
Peggy Seeger
A Life of Music, Love, and Politics
Pub Date: Cloth: March 2017, Paper: February 2020
Bill Clifton
America's Bluegrass Ambassador to the World
Pub Date: October 2016
Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics
Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance
Pub Date: July 2015
Daisy Turner's Kin
An African American Family Saga
Pub Date: July 2015
Sounds of the New Deal
The Federal Music Project in the West
Pub Date: Cloth: March 2015; Paper: February 2018
Roots of the Revival
American and British Folk Music in the 1950s
Pub Date: October 2014
Hawaiian Music in Motion
Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels
Pub Date: December 2014
Yankee Twang
Country and Western Music in New England
Pub Date: October 2014
The Beautiful Music All Around Us
Field Recordings and the American Experience
Pub Date: Cloth: September 2012; Paperback: September 2015
Archie Green
The Making of a Working-Class Hero
Pub Date: November 2011
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
Pub Date: December 2010
Japanese Foodways, Past and Present
Pub Date: November 2010
Gone to the Country
The New Lost City Ramblers and the Folk Music Revival
Pub Date: October 2010
Sacred Steel
Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition
Pub Date: September 2010
Together Let Us Sweetly Live
The Singing and Praying Bands
Pub Date: January 2007
Poetry and Violence
The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica
Pub Date: October 2000
