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Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux - Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play (Hardcover)
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Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux - Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play (Hardcover)
Series: Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World Series
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Jeanne Soileau, a teacher in New Orleans and south Louisiana for
more than forty years, examines how children's folklore, especially
among African Americans, has changed. From the tumult of
integration to the present, her experience afforded unique
opportunities to observe children as they played. With integration
in New Orleans during the 1960s, Soileau notes how children began
to play with one another almost immediately. Children taught each
other play routines, chants, jokes, jump-rope rhymes, cheers,
taunts, and teases - all the folk games that happen in normal play
on the street and playground. When adults - the judges and
attorneys, the parents, and the politicians - haggled and shouted,
children began to hold hands in a circle, fall down together to
""Ring around the Rosie,"" and tease each other in new and creative
ways. Children's ability to adapt can be seen not only in their
response to social change, but in how they adopt and utilize pop
culture and technology. Vast technological changes in the last
third of the twentieth century influenced the way children sang,
danced, played, and interacted. Soileau catalogs these changes and
studies how games evolve and transform as much as they are
preserved. She includes several topics of study: oral narratives
and songs, jokes and tales, and teasing formulae gleaned from
mostly African American sources. Because much of the field work
took place on public school playgrounds, this body of oral
narratives remains of particular interest to teachers, folklorists,
linguists, and those who study play. In the end, Soileau shows that
despite the restrictions of air-conditioning, shorter recess
periods, ever-increasing hours of television watching, the growing
popularity of video games, and carefully scripted after-school
activities, many children in south Louisiana sustain traditional
games. At the same time, they invent varied and clever new ones. As
Soileau observes, children strive through their folk play to learn
how to fit into a rapidly changing society.
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