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The Folklore of Texan Cultures Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; No. 38
author
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Abernethy, Francis Edward.; Beaty, Dan.
publisher
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University of North Texas Press
isbn10 | asin
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1574411012
print isbn13
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9781574411010
ebook isbn13
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9780585256719
language
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English
subject
Folklore--Texas, Texas--Social life and customs, Minorities--Texas.
publication date
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2000
lcc
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GR1.T4 no. 38 2000eb
ddc
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390/.08
subject
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Folklore--Texas, Texas--Social life and customs, Minorities--Texas.
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The Folklore of Texan Cultures
Edited by Francis Edward Abernethy
Music Editor Dan Beaty
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Copyright 2000 the Texas Folklore Society
First edition 1974 Encino Press, Austin
Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved
Permissions: University of North Texas Press P. O. Box 311336 Denton, Texas 76203 (940) 565-2142 FAX (940) 565-4590
ISBN 1-57441-101-2
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PREFACE
Pied Beauty (Etc.) Gerard Manley Hopkins (et al.)
Glory be to God for dappled things (For black, white, yellow, red) For skies of couple-color as a brindled cow; (And for various mixtures thereof: breeds and redbones, mestizos and mulattoes) For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim: (For Greasers and GringosJaps, Jigs, and Czechs) Fresh-firecoal chestnut falls; finches' wings; (Polacks and BohunksKikes and Coonasses) Landscape plotted and piecedfold, fallow, and plough; (Fredericksburg and FalfurriasNederland, Norse, and Nacogdoches) And all their trades, their gear and tackle and trim. (Pirogues and lederhosen, roundups and rodeos.)
All things counter, original, spare, strange; (Eating kolaches and collards, pizza and boudain all in the same town is not ordinary) Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) (Nor is listening to a black man talk French to a Japanese rice farmer) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; (From the Big Thicket to Big Bendcypress to sagebrushPanhandle to Port Isabel) He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change; Praise him. (This land is rich in the strength of its people. Praise Him.)
This land is rich in the strength of its people and their pride and their dignity. It is rich because the blood of the strongest mixed with the strongest before it went back to the dust which nurtured it.
The pioneers of Texas traveled a long road before they got here.
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Outcasts and dispossessed in their own lands, some of them, they died in the coming and died again in the lonesomeness of this strange and alien country. A hundred different shades between blond and black put down roots that cracked rocks and opened up the tight, black gumbo and red clays, roots that strained for a hold and reached down in panic to find moisture before they died. Many perished in storm and drouth, but those that lived have provided shade and comfort for a land that needed them. Their fruit has generated their kind, and the earth still catches their strong and vital seed.
The culture of this land is rich with the variety of its people. All colors, shades, and kinds have mingled with the flow and have made their languages, customs, and cultures into the state we call Texas. Some have melted into the flow but many remain and still celebrate their cultural identity, finding in their histories a source of strength and personality. Theirs is a pride founded on the knowledge that their tribe still lives and has survived all the rigors of discernible time.
We are emerging from the dreadful anonymity derived from the myth of the melting pot. The individual in a society crawling-thick with people cannot afford to conceive of himself as a part of the great goo of a nation; the ego cannot afford it. Assembly-line mass-produced people, housing developments, and shopping centers create a numbing sameness that shrivels the soul. The result and the reaction has been a rediscovery of the cultural variety and personality that has not only been a part of the individual's history but the country's as well.
And this is where the Institute of Texan Cultures comes in. It has shown us our infinite variety.
The seed for the Institute was planted by Governor John Connally in 1965, when he promised a major Texas exhibit for San Antonio's Hemisfair. He had been inspired by a recent visit to the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico City. In the same year he prompted the legislature to appropriate money and hired architects and consultants for the establishment of a permanent Texas exhibit.
In 1966 Henderson Shuffler, the Director of the Texana Program at The University of Texas, was appointed as consultant to determine the character of the Texas exhibit, a character in which he decided to tell the story of Texas in terms of its people and their ethnic diversity. This was to become the Institute of Texan Cultures, established by
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law in 1967 as a permanent State educational institution. It was made a part of the University of Texas System in 1969 and became a division of the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1973.
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