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 over two dozen diverse titles that explore cultures from across the United States and around the world.
Books the Skaggs Fund has supported:
Storytelling in Siberia
The Olonkho Epic in a Changing World
Pub Date: Cloth: November 2017; Paper: September 2020
Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs
The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman
Pub Date: October 2019
Sounds of the New Deal
The Federal Music Project in the West
Pub Date: Cloth: 2015; Paper: February 2018
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
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
My Curious and Jocular Heroes
Tales and Tale-Spinners from Appalachia
Pub Date: September 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
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
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
Peggy Seeger
A Life of Music, Love, and Politics
Pub Date: Cloth: March 2017, Paper: February 2020
