The Missouri Folklore Society Journal
Is archived online at the Hathi Trust: https://www.hathitrust.org/
editorial board:
Adam Brooke Davis, Truman State University
Betsy Delmonico, Truman State University (ret)
Rachel Gholson, Missouri State University
Donna Jurich, University of Arizona
Barb Price, Truman State University
Brett Rogers, William Woods University
Jim Vandergriff, Knox College (ret)
Lyn Wolz, University of Kansas (ret)
MFSJ has fallen behind in its editorial schedule. We have a number of volumes in simultaneous preparation. We hope to be current by FY 2026.
-ABD
Volume 1, 1979
Douglas Wixson, “The Oral Tradition of Fiddle Music in the Early Days of Radio: Uncle Jim Haley of Pulaski County”
Cathy Barton, “Max Hunter: Ozark Song Collector”
Michael Patrick, “The Razorback as a Legendary Creature in the Novels of Mitchell Jayne and Donald Harington”
William M. Clements, “The Folklorist, the Folk, and the Region”
54 pp
Volume 2, 1980
William K. McNeil, “Mary Alicia Owen, Collector of Afro-American and Indian Lore in Missouri”
Rosemary Hyde Thomas, “Traditional Types of Nicknames in a Missouri French Creole Community”
James M. Shirky, “A Missouri Dunkard Community”
Robert G. Brady, “German-American Folklore in Missouri: John G. Eberhard’s Deutsch Amerikanische Volkserzählungen”
Rebecca B. Schroeder, review of Vance Randolph, Ozark Folksongs
Record review
76 pp
Volume 3, 1981
James L. Evans, “Frog Jumping Contests”
Charles R. Mink, “The Ozark Hillbilly: A Vanishing American”
Michael Patrick, “Traditional Ozark Entertainment”
John W. Roberts, “Jim the Wonder Dog”
book review, record review
79 pp
Volume 4, 1982, Special Issue, Dedicated to Vance Randolph
Donald M. Lance, “Max Hunter Remembers Vance and Mary”
Gordon McCann, “What Do You Know about Horseheads and Crow Poison?”
Douglas Mahnkey, “Vance Randolph: An Appreciation”
Michael Luster, “Vance Randolph: A Chronology”
Rebecca B. Schroeder, “Unprintable Songs from the Ozarks: Forgotten Manuscripts”
Lyn A. Wolz, “Anglo-American Music in Missouri: An Annotated Bibliography”
Library of Congress, “Missouri Field Recordings in the Archive of Folk Culture”
book review, record reviews
124 pp
Volume 5, 1983
Carol Pinney Crabb, “The Evolution of Quilt Shows at Nineteenth Century Missouri Fairs”
Sample Quilt Blocks
Bettina Baker Havig, “A Dominion of Quiet: The Amish Quiltmaker’s World”
Lynn Morrow, “The Yocum Silver Dollar”;
Michael Patrick, “Fil Hancock of Rolla”
book and record reviews 60 pp
Volume 6, 1984
John R. David, “Frankie and Johnnie: The Trial of Frankie Baker”
Ralph Gregory, “Wine-Making in the Duden Settlement: History and Customs”
Elaine J. Lawless, “Traditional Women Preachers in Mid-Missouri”
Douglas Wixson, “Jack Conroy and Industrial Folklore”
record review, book reviews
Lyn Wolz, Index Volumes I-V
100 pp
Volume 7, 1985
Donald M. Lance, “The Origin and Pronunciation of ‘Missouri’”
Donald Love, “Bushwhacking Stories in Ozark Oral Tradition”
Ellen Gray Massey, “Preserving the Past: The Bittersweet Experience”
Suzanne Chamier, “‘Scrapping’ Tiff and Tales: Storytelling in La Vieille Mine, Missouri”
book reviews
84 pp
Volume 8-9, 1986-1987, Special Double Issue, Dedicated to Missouri Collectors:
Susan L. Pentlin and Rebecca B. Schroeder, “H. M. Belden, The English Club, and The Missouri Folklore Society”
Susan L. Pentlin, “Maude Williams Martin: Early Ballad Collector in Missouri”
Mary Elizabeth Allcorn, “Mary Alicia Owen: Missouri Folklorist”
John R. Hensley, “Things and the Folk: Vance Randolph and Material Culture”
Judy Prozzillo Byers, “Ruth Ann Musick ? The Show-Me Mountaineer: A Missourian Adopts West Virginia”
Jane Grosby, “The First National Folk Festival”
Rebecca B. Schroeder and Donald M. Lance, “John L. Handcox: ‘The Sharecropper Troubador’”
K. McNeil, “‘The Iron Mountain Baby’: A Song and Its History”
Rebecca B. Schroeder, “Versions of ‘The Iron Mountain Baby’ in the Loman Cansler and Max Hunter Collections”
Ray Brassieur, “Washington County Versions of ‘The Iron Mountain Baby’”
Rosemary Hyde Thomas, “Getting People Involved: A Case Study of Community Involvement in the Old Mines French Project”
Norma Ortiz-Karp, “Folksong Materials in the University of Arkansas Library”
Laura Bullion, “Folk Research Collections at the University of Missouri in Columbia”
Lyn A. Wolz, “Folk Music in Missouri: A Selected Annotated Bibliography”
book and record reviews
244 pp
Volume 10, 1988, Special Issue, Traditional Uses of Native Plants in Missouri
Guest Editor, Rosemary Hyde Thomas
Patricia P. Timberlake, “George Engelmann, 1809-1884: Early Missouri Botanist”
Kathy Love, “Julian Steyermark, 1909?1988”
Leonard Blake, “Food Plants of the Historic Osage Indians”; Ginny Wallace, “Living Close to the Land: How the Osage Indians Used Native Plants”
Steven Foster and Yue Chongxi, “Disjunct Occurrence and Folk Uses of Medicinal Plants in the Ozarks and in China”
Mike Gruendler, Sharon Matlock, and Carole Mushkin, “Medicinal Plants”
Ella Roberson, “Sassafras: A Useful Plant”
Bill Summers, “Wild Spring Greens”
Mary Parrott, “A German Rural Community’s Use of Edible Greens”
Elaine Andree, “Wild Edibles of the St. John’s Region”
Carol Leigh Brack-Kaiser, “Missouri Plants and Their Historic Uses in Natural Dyeing”
Rosemary Hyde Thomas, “Suitcase Science Kit on Missouri Ethnobotany”
book reviews
116 pp
Volumes 11-12. 1989-1990, Double Issue, Commemorating Missouri University Sesquicentennial
Rosemary Gabbert Musil, “My Papa Said; R.O.T.C. at Early Missouri University”; “The White Pillars”
Barry Kirk, “The Brookshire House: Development of a Young Legend”
Joel Bartow, “That Ain’t No Way to Kill a Werewolf: The Modernization of an Old Legend”
Carol P. Crabb, “Steamin’ up the Missouri River”
Charles van Ravenswaay, “New Homes in the West as Described in the Letters of Two German-Americans”
Susan Lee Pentlin, “German in the Warrensburg Schools, 1871-1875: A Short-Lived Attempt at Cultural Preservation”
Gary Kremer & Lynn Morrow, “Pennytown: A Freedman’s Hamlet, 1871-1945”
Leslie Konnyu, “Hungarians in Missouri: Preserving Old Traditions”
Peter Hilty, “Farm Metaphor, A Eulogy”
Michael Patrick, “Ward Dorrance: In the Shadow of Vance Randolph?”
Kathy Love, “The World of Townsend Godsey”
Rachel Vukas, “Joan O’Bryant”
Jim Krause, “The Joan O’Bryant Folksong Collection”
Randy E. Roberts, “The Peter Tamony Collection”
Charles Mink & Becky Schroeder, “An Urban Legend in Mid-Missouri”
William M. Clements, “The Flowering of Religious Folklife Studies”
Elaine J. Lawless, “Diversities of Books on Religious Folklore and Folklife”
Donald M. Lance, “Appalachian and Ozark Dialect”
Ellen Gray Massey, “The Glow of Foxfire”
Clyde Wade, “Humor, 1830-1861”
James N. Wise, “The Oral Tradition”
Robbie Lieberman, “The Big Question: For Money or for the Folk”
book and video reviews
Lyn Wolz, Index to Volumes I-X
264 pp
Volumes 13-14, 1991-1992, Special Issue: Fiddling in Missouri
Richard Blaustein, “Jake and Lena Hughes: Grassroots Promoters of the Old-Time Fiddling Revival in Missouri and the Great Plains Region”
Thomas Cairney, “‘That Devil Fiddle’: Scotch-Irish Folk Religion and Ethnic Boundary Maintenance in Southern Missouri”
Loman Cansler, “The Fiddle and Religion”
Timothy J. Cooley, “When a Tune Becomes a Folk Tune: Fiddling in Southern Illinois”
Linda L. Danielson, “Oregon Fiddling: The Missouri Connection”
Howard W. Marshall, “‘Marmaduke’s Hornpipe’: Speculations on the Life and Times of a Historic Missouri Fiddle Tune”
Amy E. Skillman, “‘She Oughta Been a Lady’: Women Old-Time Fiddlers in Missouri”
Julie Youmans, “Warming the Cold Notes: Style and Boundaries in Old-Time Fiddling”
Rebecca B. Schroeder, In Memoriam: “Missouri Folk Song Collector: Loman D. Cansler (1924-1992)”
Rebecca B. Schroeder, “The Dean of Missouri Fiddle Music: Remembering R P. Christeson (1911-1992)”
Howard W. Marshall, “Skilled Fiddler and Local Historian: Thomas Arthur Galbraith (1909-1993)”
198 pp
Volumes 15-16. 1993-1994, Double Issue, History and Legend in Missouri
Dick Steward, “Western Myth: History Versus the Legends and Lore of John Smith T”
Dick Steward, “The Little Yankee: The Duelist as Folk Hero”
Jim Vandergriff, “The Legend of Joe’s Cave: Murder, Medicine, Counterfeiting, and Vigilantism in Early Camden County”
Phil Hoebing, “‘Fr. Gus’: The Slave Priest from Ralls County, Missouri”
Susan Pentlin, “John A. Gallaher and Coal Mining at Montserrat, Missouri: History and Legend”
Lynn Morrow, “‘I Am Nothing but a Poor Scribbler’: Silas Turnbo and His Writings”
Phil Hoebing, “Snake Lore in Mark Twain Country”
Jan Harold Brunvand, “Was It a Stunned Deer or Just a Deer Stunt? (The Story behind a Missouri Legend)”
John Morgan, “Cockfighting: A Rural American Tradition”
Daniel M. Schores, “The Use of Riddles in the Ozarks and Other Mountain Cultures”
Ray Brassieur, “Art and Heritage in Southeast Missouri: The Bootheel Project”
Sw. Anand Prahlad (Dennis Folly), “Collecting in the Bootheel: An Overview of Student Participation”
Jerome Stueart, “The Bootheel Project: An Artist’s Picture”
book and video reviews
210 pp
Volume 17, 1995, Special Issue, Music and Song
Karen J. Sanders, “Making the Babes Our Own: A Search for a Song”
Dana Everts-Boehm, “‘Oh, Don’t You Remember’: A Family Portrait of ‘Babes in the Woods’”
Mary Ann Fitzwilson, “With Hammers of Their Own Design: Scholarly Treatment of the John Henry Tradition”
Jill Davidson, “The Meeks Family Murder”; Rose Johnson, “Music in the Park: Hannibal Builds a New Bandstand”
book and video reviews
Index to Volumes 11-16
196 pp
Volumes 18-19, 1996-1997, Special Issue, Collectors of Missouri Music and Lore, Part I
James Denny, “The Manitou Bluffs on the Missouri River”;
Allen Walker Read, “The Onomastic Background of John Hay’s ‘Pike County Ballads’”;
Mary Alicia Owen, “The Significance of Folk-Lore” (1916);
Alison K. Brown, “Beads, Belts and Bands: The Mesquakie Collection of Mary Alicia Owen”
Henry Marvin Belden, “Autobiographical Notes”
Henry Marvin Belden, “The Study of Folk-Song in America” (1904)
Henry Marvin Belden, “The Ballad of Lord Bakeman” (1904)
Donald R. Holliday, “Songs for Calloused Souls: or ‘It Ain’t Hard to Sing The Blues, Cause Murder and Maiming Every Day Ain’t Good News’”
Ray Brassieur, “Joseph Médard Carrière (1902-1970): Collector of Missouri French Folklore”
Robert L. Ramsay, “Folkways in Missouri Place Names”
Allen Walker Read, “Tribute to Professor Robert L. Ramsay”
Joseph P. Ramsay, “A Brief Biography of Professor Robert L. Ramsay”
Detailed bibliographies of Belden, Carrière, and Ramsay
book reviews
200 pages
Volume 20, 1998, Special Issue, Collectors of Missouri Music and Lore
R.P. Christeson, “Old-Time Fiddling in Missouri: A Workshop”
Donald M. Lance, ed., “Reminiscences of R. P. Christeson”
R.P. Christeson, “A Tribute to William A. (Bill) Driver”
A Chronology of Robert Perry Christeson
Timothy Bond, “P.S., Make Sure You Bring Your Fiddle: The Ancestry, Life, and Legacy of Herk Sanders”
Donald M. Lance, ed., “Chroniclers of an Era: Loman Cansler and Max Hunter, Collectors of Traditional Music, Song, and Lore”
A Chronology of Loman Doyle Cansler
Loman D. Cansler, “Liner Notes, Folksongs of Missouri”
A Chronology of Max Franklin Hunter
Mary Celestia Parler and Vance Randolph, “Max Hunter”
Mary Celestia Parler, “Two Yarrow Ballads from the Ozarks”
Judy Domeny, “Terrible Songs–Missouri Tragedies in Music”
Sean Killeen, “Going to Kansas City … and to Springfield”
Ann W. Pittman, “Echoes from de Ole Camp Ground”
Rosemary Hyde Thomas, “Ann Washington Pittman: A Tribute for her Ninetieth Birthday”
Knox McCrory, “Notes on the Harmonica: Toy or Musical Instrument?”
book and record reviews.
190 pp.
Volume 21, 1999
Ray Brassieur, “Thereby Hangs a Tale. An Old French Story Survives in Brittany and Missouri: An Unexpected Rendezvous”
Linda Walker Stevens, “The Story of Wine at Hermann”
Erin McCawley Renn, “Edward Kemper’s World: An Essay on The Architecture and Cultural Landscape of a Nineteenth Century German American Community”
A E. Schroeder, “An Interview with Anna Kemper Hesse”
Phil Hoebing, “Legends of Lover’s Leaps”
Cathy M. Jackson, “Jesse James: His Legend Has Never Done Him Wrong”
Donald M. Lance, “‘Seed Tick School’ and Beyond: Oral Histories and Stories Collected by Roy Edwin Thomas”
K. McNeil, “In Memory of Harlan Daniel, Collector”
Inez E. Lawson, “Memories”
book and audio reviews
172 pp
Volume 22, 2000
Special Issue: Material Culture
Issue Editor: Howard W. Marshall
Charles A. Stewart, “The Nail Trade in Missouri: Archaeological Evidence at the Hickman House”
Becky L. Snider, “The Round Barn Form: Functionality, Spiritualism, or Aesthetics?”
Toni Prawl and Stacy Sone, “The Ralph Richterkessing Farm: An Expression of German-American Culture in Rural Missouri
D. McKinney “Uncle Johnnie Maighin: Manx Builder in the Ozarks
Christina Carl, “The Hughes Homestead: A Depression-Era Log House”
Tara Christopher Crane, “Scottish Folk Costume in Ethnic Identity”
Lisa Higgins, “Everyone Has a Bit of It and No One Has It All”: Missouri’s Traditional Arts
reviews
148 pp
Volume 23 (2000)
Special Issue Material Culture
Issue Editor: Howard W. Marshall
Carrie J. Watson: “A Remnant of the Boonslick Trail”
Debbie Sheals, “Cultural Assimilation and Architecture: German Building Traditions in Washington, Missouri”
Anne Powell, “A Glimpse into the History of Bonne Terre, Missouri through its Cemetery”
Brett Rogers, “The World the Caves Made: A Missouri Slave Community in Freedom”
Janet Blohm Pultz, “Made of Clay: The Economic and Social Structure of Pottery Production in Missouri”
Laurel E. Wilson, “The Cornett Family Textiles: Function to Fashion”
Katherine Wiehagen, “Early Twentieth Century Metal Truss Highway Bridges in Boone County, Missouri”
Howard Wight Marshall, “Notes on Missouri Pottery”
reviews
199 pps
Volume 24, 2002
Editors Cathy Barton and Dave Para
Susan C. Attalla, “An Orphan Ditty”: In Search of the Ozark Houn’ Dawg
William Keel, “Was ist eine Schnitzelbank? The Tradition Behind the Popular German-American Sing-Along”
Howard Wight Marshall, “The Swedish Nightingale, ‘Jenny Lind Polka,’ And American Fiddle Music”
Adam Brooke Davis, “Hallowe’en and Devils’ Night: The Linked Fates of Two Folk Festivas”
Kent Beaulne dit Bone, “Notre Dame de la Chandeleur — Candlemas/ Groundhog Day”
Phil Hoebing, “Roustabouts on the Mississippi River”
Sue Thomas, “Noah Webster’s Blue-Backed Speller”
Barbara Schleppenbach, “Folklore in the Classroom”
reviews
150 pp
Volume 25, 2003
Editor Adam Brooke Davis
Jan Harold Brunvand,“On Being a Folklorist: Plenary Address”
Dennis Leavens, “Anterior Speech and Oral Registers in Ciaran Carson’s Fishing for Amber”
John and Barbara Schleppenbach, “Children in Regional Folklore”
Sharon S. Graf, “Oldtime Fiddle Music Gets a Face-Lift: The Formation of the National Old-Time Fiddlers’ Contest”
Holly Hobbs, “Women of Old-Time Music: Tradition and Change in the Missouri Ozarks”
Thomas J. Trimborn, “President and King: A Musical Connection”
Kenneth Lineberry, “Cadence Calls: Military Folklore in Motion”
reviews
(at about this time, due to the sudden death of our longtime editor, Donald M. Lance, the Journal lapsed; an attempt was made to get the nominal year of publication in sync with the calendar year)
Volume 26, 2004
Editor Rachel Gholson
Lucien Fournier, “People of his own Kind: Vance Randolph’s Kansas Years”
Richard Tallman, “Vance Randolph Interviewed”
William M. Clements, “An Interview with Vance Randolph”
Jim Vandergriff, “Terrible Swift Sword: Justice in Ozarks Folklore”
Tonja Cox, “Taking Care of Our Own: Retribution and Family Justice in the Ozarks”
Genevieve Sawyer Bauman, “The Many Roles of a Candy Maker: The Legacies of the Davis Candy Company”
reviews
120 pp
Missouri Folklore Society Journal
Vol. 27-28, 2005-2006
Special issue on Music
(publ 2015, ed Lyn Wolz; 247 pps)
Lyn Wolz, Preface – “It’s been a long time comin’…”
Music in Our Lives
Alex Usher, “A National Folk FestivalReminiscence”
Betty Craker Henderson, “The McDowell Gold Jubilee: History of a Hootenanny”
Paul J. Stamler, “Freaks and Fiddle Tunes: The Early-1970s Folk Revival in St.Louis”
Songs We Know and Love
Jim Vandergriff, “‘Nancy Dill’: Searching for a Song My Mother Sang”
Sue Attalla, “The Dawg Song War”
John Garst, “John Henry and the Reverend Bayes”
Beth Brook, “‘Pretty Polly’: A History of a Folk Song”
Steve Roud, “A Note on the Song ‘The Babes in the Woods’”
Music and Customs in Our Region
Julie Henigan, “Ozark Ballads as Story and Song”
Pauline Greenhill, “A Shivaree in Thornfield, Missouri”
Lyn Wolz, “The Lasting Legacy of Jon Hickam – A Remembrance”
In Memoriam
SusanPentlin, “Adolf Schroeder: Co-Founder of the Reorganized MFS”
Susan Pentlin
Mildred Letton Wittick, “John Schleppenbach”
Mildred Letton Wittick
Reviews
Adam Brooke Davis:
Literary Legacies, Folklore Foundation: Selfhood and Culture Tradition in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American Literature. Karen Beardslee. University of Tennessee Press, 2001.
Legend and Belief. Linga Dégh. Indiana University Press, 2001.
Medieval Folklore: A Guide to Myths, Legends Tales, Beliefs, and Customs. Carl Lindahl, John McNamara, and John Lindow, eds. Oxford University Press, 2002.
The Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes. Simon Bronner, ed. Utah State University Press, 2007.
Jim Vandergriff:
Family Fun and Games: A Hundred-Year Tradition. Carolyn Gray Thornton and Ellen gray Massey. Skyward Publishing, 2002.
Living Sideways: Tricksters in American Indian Oral Traditions. Franchot Ballinger. University of Oklahoma Press, 2006.
Older Than America. An Independent film direct by Georgina Lightning and produced by Adam Beach. IFC Films, 2008.
About the Authors/Editions
Missouri Folklore Society Journal
Special issue on Missouri Foodways
Vol. 29-31, 2007-2009
Edited by John and Carol Fisher, 232 pps
Preface
Farm Life and Food Memories
Ken Burch, “Jar Lid Biscuits and a Wood Stove”
Mary Rechenburg, “Everything but the Squeal: Hog Butchering”
Jean Melton Mowrer, “The Cave and the Ice House: Remembrances of a Mid-20th Century Farm”
Frank Chambers, “Red Rag Rabbits for Supper”
George Caudle, “Cooking Along the River”
Food Events
Dr. Susan Lee Pentlin, “The Great Grasshopper Dinner in Warrensburg in the Spring of 1875”
Sylvia Forbes, “Oyster Suppers: Rabbits and Some Oyster Soup”
Mary Louise Forbes, “Howard County Fair: Blue Ribbon Pie”
Amanda Plybon, “Christmas Table Assemblage: Artistic Representation of Family”
Mary Rechenburg, “Church Picnics: A Special Picnic”
On the Menu: A Taste of Restaurant Fare
Mary German, “Memories were Made of This: Miss Hulling’s Cafeteria Downtown St.Louis”
Amos Bridges, “Cashew Chicken Satisfies Ozarkers’ Palates, Springfield”
Dean Preuett, “Gone but Not Forgotten: Stephenson’s Restaurant, Lee’s Summit”
A Sampler of Missouri’s Ethnic Foods
Robert J. Mueller, “Growing up with German Foods”
Kent Beaulne dit Bone, “Pawpaw French Cooking: Foodways of Missouri’s Créols”
Carolyn Huttegger Bening, “A Pinch of This and a Handful of That: Traditional Austrian Cooking in Missouri”
Henrietta Wright, Evelyn Pulliam, Carlene Locket, Phyllis Sides, and Alberta Kemp, “In the Kitchen with African American Cooks”
Favorite Foods from Missouri Kitchens
Liz Faries, “Sunshine Toast”
Lola M. Fry, “The ‘Missing Hand’ Jelly Roll”
Lois M. Preuett, “Tacos-Kansas City Kitchen Style-Fifty Years Ago”
Jonell McNeely, “Dumpling and Noodles”
Janelle Burch, “Pig Tails, Corned Beef Hash, and Clotheslines Rabbits”
John Fisher, “Barbecue: Then and Now”
Another Helping of Missouri Food Lore: Past and Present
Robert J. Mueller, “Three Centuries of Wine Making in the Ste. Genevieve Area”
Margot McMillen, “Missouri Grain Project: A Brief History”
Matt Holder and Carol Fisher, “Cooking With Grease-101 and 102”
Bonnie Stepenoff, “Riverboat Cooks”
George Caudle, Liz Faries, Margot McMillen, John Fisher, Carol Fisher, “Missouri’s Gravy Train”
Dr. M. Rachel Gholson, “Cooking Up Health: Efficacy and Plant Based Remedies of the Ozarks”
Alanna Preussner, “Heaven is Being First in the Potluck Line: Cookbooks and Communities”
Constance Tubbs, “Instant Ramen and the College Experience”
Just a Few More Bites…
Linda Thompson, “Hoover Cakes and Stuff”
Lois Emerine, “Corn Meal Mush”
Lois Emerine
Sharon E. Hohler, “Family Treasure: Mom’s Creamy Tomato Soup for the Sick”
Grant Gillard, “Pigs on the Farm and Country Church Food Perks”
Clyde Faries, “Remembering ‘Polk’ (Poke) Sallit
Book Review
The Hill: Its History-Its Recipes. By Eleanor Berra Marfisi.
St.Louis, MO: G. Bradley Pub, 2003. (reviewed by Carol Fisher)
Volume 32 (nominal year 2010)
Special Issue: My Corner of the Porch
(stories and memories by Loretta Washington; preface by Adam Brooke Davis)
Volume 33-34 (2011-12)
Special Issue: On Public Folklore In and Near Missouri. Edited and with an introduction by Lisa L. Higgins and Jackson Medel (153 pps)
Susan Eleuterio, “Statewide Models for Folk Arts in Education”
Lisa Overholser, “The Evolution of Tradition: Preserving Storytelling Traditions in the St. Louis Storytelling Festival”
Rachel Gholson, “Seeing Traditions and Learning Traditions: Public and Academic Environment”
Mariah Marsden, “Ozark River Storytelling: Social Networks, Narrative, and Courtship in a Modern Rural Festival”
Claire Schmidt and Laurel Schmidt, “Foodways and Resistance in a Missouri Residential Metal Health Facility”
Willi Goehring, “The Politics of Transerence in Traditional Fiddling: A Narrative Case Study”
Gladys Gaines Coggswell, “Reflections on Public Folk Arts from a Traditional Artist”
Tracy Anne Travis, “Reflections of Public Folklore: A Discussion with Howard Marshall”
Volume 35-36 (2013-14)
Special issue: Black Music in the Black Press: An Anthology of Essays from the Heartland, by Marc Rice. 251 pps
Volume 37 (2015)
Special Issue: Folklore and Heritage Studies, Gregory Hansen and Michelle L. Stefano, eds.
Gregory Hansen, “Connecting Folklore to Heritage Studies”
Michelle L. Stefano, Connecting to Critical Heritage Studies in the U.S.”
Barry Bergey, “Folk and Traditional Arts”; “Cultural Diversity, Cultural Equity and Commerce”; “NEA Folk and Traditional Arts in the U.S.”; “Intangible Cultural Heritage”; “Letter to Jane Beck”
Michael Ann Williams, “Heritage and Folklore”
Amanda Minks, “Heritage Studies and Indigenous Property”
Daniel Maher, “Folklore of the Tallgrass Prairie”
Cherisse Jones-Branch, “Heritage Studies and Local History”
Betsy H. Bradley, “Critical Heritage and Historic Preservation”
Jeremy C. Wells, “Folklore and Historic Preservation”
Marti Allen, “Heritage Studies and Museums”
Ruth Hawkins, “Putting Principles into Practice”
Gregory Hansen, “Ruth Hawkins’ Heritage Sites in Photos”
Nancy Chikaraishi, “Life interrupted — a Visual Heritage Study”
Natalie M. Underberg-Goode, ” Digital Heritage”
Jerome McDonough, “Tangible/Intangible: The Role of Libraries”
Gabriel B. Tait, “Heritage studies and Photojournalism”
Bryan Moore, “Heritage Studies and Rhetorical Theory”
Kirstin C. Erickson, “Heritage and Foodways Studies”
Thomas Walker, “Critical Heritage Studies and Environmental Studies”
Volume 38-39 (2016-17)
Special Issue: Hell’s Holler, a novel based on the Folklore of Adair County by Ruth Ann Musick, Preface by Adam Brooke Davis 348 pps
(this is the first publication of the famous folklorist’s 1994 doctoral dissertation, with illustrations by her brother, the renkowned artist Archie Musick, ed by Besty and Neal Delmonico)
Volume 40-41 (nominal year 2018-19; published 2021)
Special Issue: Emerging Folklorists
a collection of student fieldwork studies produced in the first ten years of the folklore program at Truman State University
Preface by Adam Brooke Davis; 287 pps
Maple Adkins-Threats, “Tales at Tapawingo, A Place of Joy”
Madeline Barrow, “Please Stop Feeding: Folklore and Language Used in League of Legends and Other Online Games”
Chris Buerke, “Yo Momma So Y that Z: Analysis of Yo Momma Humor”
Amy Burbee, “Knock Knock! Who’s There? Linguistic Analysis of Knock Knock Jokes”
Ian Crane, “Bluebeard in the 20th Century”
L.N. Dunham, “Folklore of Coming Out Stories”
Brandon Eyechaner, “Memes and Humor: A Linguistic Analysis”
Holly Simpson Fling, “Folk History from Down on the Farm in Shelby County”
Wesley Harbison, “A Space for People Who Don’t Have Space: The Aquadome”
Scott Henson, “Drag Lore in the Midwest”
Ruby Jenkins, “Carnie Lore and the People Who Bring Life to the American Carnival”
Morgan Jones, Facial Cosmetics Practices of Truman State Students”
Chelsea Muzar, “Role Play Groups as Folk Groups”
Dylan Pyles, “Red Flame Records and Early Independent Rock and Roll Music”
Rachel Spillars, “Southern Magnolias in the Neighborhood: Folk Architecture in Jefferson City’s Moreau Drive Area”
Mary Stowers, “Girl Scouts vs Boy Scouts: A Girl Power Paradox”
Lauren Wessling-Linhares, “Sikeston and Sunset: A Case Study
With volume 42, MFSJ ceased print production and became an online journal
Volume 42: Van Tegtmeier: Let’s Talk About Sex … ism in Video Games (monograph)
Volume 43 – 45 (2021-2023) special triple issue — Henry M. Belden’s Folksongs Collected by the Missouri Folklore Society (1940; 2nd ed 1955, rpt 1966).
The Society gives special thanks to the heroic labors of Tessa Allen!
Click here to download the .docx version.
Click here to download the .pdf fascimile.
Volume 46 (2024) Emerging Folklorists, II (in process)
Volume 46 (2025) proceedings of the Missouri Folklore Society Annual meeting (in process)