Richard Bauman, John McDowell, and Beverly Stoeltje Publish a Special Issue of Children’s Folklore Review

The Children’s Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society is happy to announce the publication of a special issue of Children’s Folklore Review (42.1), entitled “The Texas Children’s Folklore Project” (TCFP).

Directed by Richard Bauman at the University of Texas at Austin in the 1970s, the TCFP must be considered one of the most important research programs into the nature of children’s folklore in the history of the United States. CFR 42.1 includes new articles about the TCFP from Richard Bauman, John McDowell, and Beverly Stoeltje, along with newly digitized versions of three previously published TCFP works. Topics addressed in the issue include the relationship between children’s folklore scholarship and early approaches to the ethnography of speaking, multilingual speech play, and technical descriptions of kinesthetic play forms, especially handclaps.   

CFR is an open access publication. Current and archived issues along with information about CFR’s submission process are available via IUScholarWorks Journals at scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/cfr/index.

Please submit questions about CFR directly to the editor, Brandon Barker (barkerbr@iu.edu).