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Jeanne Pitre Soileau, winner of the 2018 Chicago Folklore Prize and
the 2018 Opie Prize for Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and
Thibodeaux: Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play, vividly
presents children's voices in What the Children Said: Child Lore of
South Louisiana. Including over six hundred handclaps, chants,
jokes, jump-rope rhymes, cheers, taunts, and teases, this book
takes the reader through a fifty-year history of child speech as it
has influenced children's lives. What the Children Said affirms
that children's play in south Louisiana is acquired along a network
of summer camps, schoolyards, church gatherings, and sleepovers
with friends. When children travel, they obtain new games and
rhymes, and bring them home. The volume also reveals, in the words
of the children themselves, how young people deal with racism and
sexism. The children argue and outshout one another, policing their
own conversations, stating their own prejudices, and vying with one
another for dominion. The first transcript in the book tracks a
conversation among three related boys and shows that racism is part
of the family interchange. Among second grade boys and girls at a
Catholic school another transcript presents numerous examples in
which boys use insults to dominate a conversation with girls, and
girls use giggles and sly comebacks to counter this aggression.
Though collected in the areas of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and
Lafayette, Louisiana, this volume shows how south Louisiana child
lore is connected to other English-speaking places: England,
Scotland, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as the rest
of the United States.
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.
Jeanne Pitre Soileau, winner of the 2018 Chicago Folklore Prize and
the 2018 Opie Prize for Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and
Thibodeaux: Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play, vividly
presents children's voices in What the Children Said: Child Lore of
South Louisiana. Including over six hundred handclaps, chants,
jokes, jump-rope rhymes, cheers, taunts, and teases, this book
takes the reader through a fifty-year history of child speech as it
has influenced children's lives. What the Children Said affirms
that children's play in south Louisiana is acquired along a network
of summer camps, schoolyards, church gatherings, and sleepovers
with friends. When children travel, they obtain new games and
rhymes, and bring them home. The volume also reveals, in the words
of the children themselves, how young people deal with racism and
sexism. The children argue and outshout one another, policing their
own conversations, stating their own prejudices, and vying with one
another for dominion. The first transcript in the book tracks a
conversation among three related boys and shows that racism is part
of the family interchange. Among second grade boys and girls at a
Catholic school another transcript presents numerous examples in
which boys use insults to dominate a conversation with girls, and
girls use giggles and sly comebacks to counter this aggression.
Though collected in the areas of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and
Lafayette, Louisiana, this volume shows how south Louisiana child
lore is connected to other English-speaking places: England,
Scotland, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as the rest
of the United States.
Winner of the 2018 Chicago Folklore Prize and Winner of the 2018
Opie Prize.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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