Bibliography
SCATTS Bibliography
Arts Extension Service, University of Massachusetts. Walaalo! Somali Sisters Collective: A Springfield, Massachusetts Case Study., Reported by Maren Brown. Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Arts Extension Service, 2006. http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2009/09_diverse.php.
The case study details an community arts in practice model to help women in the Somali community develop marketable skills and adaptive strategies for living and thriving in their adopted city. It records, background, statistics and financial data. The essay is detailed in its lessons on building partnerships, and is a great tool for project developers seeking community involvement.
Black Storytellers Speak 2000. Directed by Oni Lasana at the National Association of Black Storytelling Conference. Digital Videotape, Philadelphia, PA: Keepers of the Culture, 2004.
Black Storytellers Speak is a treasure of nationally-known African-American griots/griottes articulating the heart and purpose of storytelling in the African Oral Tradition. It is a rare documentary of interviews capturing 17 tellers, including, the founders of the National Association of Black Storytellers, Mary Carter Smith and Linda Goss, as well as Brother Blue, whom the national storytelling world deems the father of American storytelling.
Connecting Cultures through Rhythm. Directed by Zinse Agginie. Cedar City, Utah: Southern Utah University, 2009.
Agelidou, Evangelia. ”A Contribution to the Integration of Storytelling and Environmental Education for Sustainability.” International Journal of Academic Research, Vol. 2, No.4 (2010): 359-356.
Alston, Charlotte Blake, Kala" "Jojo, Alice McGill, and Linda Humes. National Black Storytelling Festival and Conference Short Interviews no.55, Digital Video Tape. Orlando, FL: Cotsen Storytelling Project, 1998.
Asante, Molefi K., Afrocentricity. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1988
Banks-Wallace, JoAnne. “Talk that Talk: Storytelling and Analysis Rooted in African American Oral Tradition.” Qualitative Health Research 12:410 (2002): 411-426. Accessed September 2, 2010, doi:10.1177/104973202129119892.
Baron, Robert and Nicholas R. Spitzer. Public Folklore. Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
Barrett, M. J. "Education for the Environment: Action, Competence, Becoming, and Story." Environmental Education Research 12, no. 3-4 (2006): 3-4.
Berry, Wendell. “Faustian Economics: Hell Has No Limits.” Harpers Weekly.
Black, Laura W. "ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Deliberation, Storytelling, and Dialogic Moments." Communication Theory 18, no. 1 (2008): 93-116.
Botkin, B.A. A Treasury of American Folklore: The Stories, Legends, Tall Tales, Traditions, Ballads, and Songs of the American People. New York: Bonanza Books, 1983.
Bronner, Simon J. “The American Concept of Tradition: Folklore in the discourse of traditional values.” Western Folklore, Vol. 59, iss.2, (2000): 143, 28 pgs.
Burnham, Linda Frye. “Telling and Listening in Public: The Sustainability of Storytelling.” Community Arts Reading Room, 2005. Archived at Indiana University, Open Folklore Collection, Archive It, 19:47:47 Sep 06, 2010 http://wayback.archive-it.org/2077/20100906194747/http://www.communityarts.net/.
Burnham articulates the role of storytelling as a major theme in sustaining the community. Her research analyzes projects, their function, and long-term effects. The topic surveys sustaining storytelling energy. Burnham proposes questions and uses working models and scenarios for critical analysis. In creating programs using storytelling as a conduit for cultural sustainability or community voice, this paper makes the innovator assess how to sustain the story circle.
Cantwell, Robert. “Folklore’s Pathetic Fallacy.” Journal of American Folklore, 114(451) (2001): 56-67.
Carter-Black, Jan. "Teaching Cultural Competence: An Innovative Strategy Grounded in the Universality of Storytelling as Depicted in African and African American Storytelling Traditions." Journal of Social Work Education 43, no. 1 (2007): 31-50.
Caruthers, Loyce. "Using Storytelling to Break the Silence that Binds Us to Sameness in our Schools." Journal of Negro Education 75, no. 4 (2006): 661-675.
Champion, Tempii B. Understanding Storytelling among African American Children a Journey from Africa to America. Mawah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003.
Coe, Kathryn, Nancy Aiken, and Craig Palmer. "Once upon a Time: Ancestors and the Evolutionary Significance of Stories." Anthropological Forum 16, no. 1 (2006): 21-40.
Collins, Jim. Good to Great and the Social Sector : Why Business Thinking is Not the Answer: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great. Colorado: Jim Collins, 2005.
Copage, Eric. Black Pearls: Daily Meditations, Affirmations, and Inspirations for African Americans. New York: William Morrow Company, 1993.
Cummings M.S. and Latta J.M. "When they Honor the Voice: Centering African American Women's Call Stories." Journal of Black Studies 40, no. 4 (2010): 666-682.
Curthoys, Lesley P. “Storytelling Place through Community: Interpretive Possibilities.” Paper presented at Salt of the Earth: Creating a Culture of Environmental Respect and Sustainability, White Point, Nova Scotia, October 18-22, 2006.
D’Almeida, Irene Assiba. Francophone: African American Women Writers Destroying the Emptiness of Silence. Florida: University Press of Florida, 1994.
Dance, Daryl Cumber. From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore. New York: Norton, 2002.
Daryl Cumber Dance voluminous collection is a rich archive of African American folktales, folk music, folk culture, style, sermons, arts and crafts, foods, shouts, work songs, proverbs, superstitions, rumor, and techlore. In studying the complete work, the question may arise what traditions and folk culture do we keep, and which ones may we consider not in need of sustainability? The work embodies folk heritage from the enslavement era to urban modernity.
———. Shuckin' and Jivin' : Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978.
Dotson, Calvin Jason. “A View of Folklore from a Black Perspective.” In The Role of Afro-American Folklore in the Teaching of the Arts and the Humanities : Papers from the 3rd Annual Conference of the Association of African and African-American Folklorists, edited by Adrienne Lanier Seward, 58-65. Indiana: Indiana University, 1979.
Dyson, Anne, Hass and Celia Genishi. The Need For Story. Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 1994.
Dyson and Genishi extend an invitation to participate in the exploration of stories, the basic functions it serves, its connections to the diverse sociocultural landscape of our society, and its potential power in the classroom. The authors investigate three ideas: the Connection between stories and self, and others, weaving Communities through Story, and the value of stories in hope.
Dyson, Anne Haas. ""Welcome to the Jam”: Popular Culture, School Literacy, and the Making of Childhoods." Harvard Educational Review 73, no. 3 (2003): 328-61.
Finnen, Wanda Cobb. Talking Drums : Reading and Writing with African American Stories, Spirituals, and Multimedia Resources. Portsmouth, NH: Teacher Ideas Press, 2004.
Georges A. Robert. “Toward an Understanding of Storytelling Events.” The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 82, No. 326 (Oct-Dec., 1969), pp. 313-328.
Georges seeks to go beyond the nineteenth century concentration of folklorists and anthropologists study of story and genres of story. He postulates the aspects of a storytelling event as a communicative event and provides a model. He identifies the approach as holistic and maintains that the storytelling event is the investigative tool for researchers asking the question how widespread is storytelling?
Geertz, Clifford: The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1973.
Glassie, Henry. “Tradition.” The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 108. No. 430: Common Ground: Keywords for the Study of Expressive Culture. (1995), 395-412.
Goldbard, Arlene and Don Adams. New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development. Oakland, CA: New Village Press, 2006.
Goodwin, Marjorie Harness. ""Instigating": Storytelling as Social Process." American Ethnologist 9, no. 4 (1982): 799-819.
———. "The Serious Side of Jump Rope: Conversational Practices and Social Organization in the Frame of Play." Journal of American Folklore 98, no. 389 (1985).
Goss, Linda and Marian E. Barnes. Talk that Talk: An Anthology of African-American Storytelling. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.
Goss provides stories from the African American experience, as well as historical and folkloric context through the commentaries. The collection serves as a rich cross section of African American storytellers from around the country. The authors of the stories are practitioners in the African Oral Tradition. The collection captures the art of going from stage to page, as you can hear the storyteller’s voice as you read the written text.
Goss, Linda, Dylan Pritchett , Caroliese Frink Reed, Eleanora E. Tate, and National Association of Black Storytellers. Sayin' Somethin': Stories from the National Association of Black Storytellers. [Baltimore, Maryland]; Kearney, NE: National Association of Black Storytellers; Printed in the U.S.A. by Morris Publishing, 2006.
Gregory, Eve, Susi Long, and Dinah Volk. Many Pathways to Literacy: Young Children Learning with Siblings Grandparents, Peers, and Communities. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.
This unique and visionary text is a compilation of fascinating studies conducted in a variety of cross- cultural contexts where children learn language and literacy with siblings, grandparents, peers and community members. The book challenges readers to examine assumptions and cultural stereotypes about literacy learning as well as their own teaching practices and beliefs. It is a encouragement to foster community culture into education system. Chapters include: Storytelling and Latino elders, The African American Church, and intergenerational literacy learning in a multimedia age.
Grisham, Thomas. “Metaphor, Poetry, Storytelling and Cross Cultural Leadership.” Emerald Management Decision Vol. 44. No.4 (2006): 486-503.
Hajdusiewicz, Babs Bell,. Mary Carter Smith, African-American Storyteller. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1995.
Hale, Thomas A. Griots and Griottes: Masters of Words and Music. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
Hawkes, Jon and the Cultural Development Network, The Fourth Pillar of Sustainability. Austraila: Cultural Devlopment Network, 2001.
Holloway, Joseph E. Africanisms in American Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Hufford, Mary. “Working in the Cracks: Public Space, Ecological Crisis, and the Folklorist.” Journal of Folklore Research, Vol. 36. Nos. 2/3 (1999): 157-167.
Hull, Glynda A. and Mira-Lisa Katz. "Crafting an Agentive Self: Case Studies of Digital Storytelling." Research in the Teaching of English. 41, no. 1 (2006): 43, 39 pgs.
Hurston, Zora Neale and Carla Kaplan. Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
Hurston’s third volume of folktales is the jazz of the African-American voice. The stories paint a picture of good old tale telling using the natural vernacular of the people around the tables, on the porch, or down by the gulf. It is a celebration of black life through story. Zora Neale Hurston’s work is identified as a primary and exemplary source for African American storytellers. The National Association of Black Storytellers, Inc. highest award is named in her honor.
_________. The Sanctified Church: The Folklore Writings of Zora Neale Hurston. California: Turtle Island Foundation, 1981.
Hyde, Lewis, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World. New York: Vintage Books, 2007.
Hyde presents a theory that should be explored by all artists. He explains that labor is a gift which moves, and must stay in motion to foster transformation. The chapter on Gift Community is relevant to teaching the importance of passing on traditions. The Gift is an intellectual exploration of how creativity is pertinent to sustaining cultures. It presents a spiritual query for artists as to purpose.
Jahn, Janheinz. Muntu: African Culture and the Western World. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.
Jansen, Jan, The Griot's Craft: An Essay on Oral Tradition and Diplomacy. Münster; Piscataway, N.J.: Lit; Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers, 2000.
Janson, Marloes. The Best Hand is the Hand that always Gives: Griottes and their Profession in Eastern Gambia. Leiden: Research School CNWS, 2002.
Katter, Eldon, and Marilyn G. Stewart. Art A Community Connection. Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 1995.
The authors designed this resourceful book for classroom use. It is divided into two parts. Foundations: What is Art, and, the majority of the content: Themes: Art Is a Community Connection. Katter and Stewarts’ text is clearly outlined and a primary source for developing a community arts- in-practice model. The structure is easy to follow, include activities and, check your understanding questions. The section themes are Telling, Living, Belonging, Connecting to Place, Responding to Nature, Changing, Celebrating, Making a Difference, Looking Beyond. The instructions allot lessons to connect to careers other arts, daily life, and other curriculum.
Kentucky Oral History Commission. Folk Artists: Sycamore Tea Oral History Project, Anonymous 1984.
Keepers of the Culture: Philadelphia’s Afrocentric Storytelling Group. www. Kotc.org.
KOTC's purpose is to inform, educate, enrich and restore storytelling to its traditional place of importance in the African-American community. KOTC has established professional development workshops for artists and provides concerts for the community throughout the year, including, Love Night, Family Day and Kwanzaa. Under my leadership as President, the organization is a major partner in developing the SCATTS model.
Klaebe, Helen. “Connecting Communities Using new Media: The Sharing Stories Project.” Brisbane, Australia: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00008676/01/8676.pdf, 2006. Accessed on September 3, 2010.
Lassister, Luke Eric. “Collaborative Ethnography and Public Anthropology.” Current Anthropology, Volume 46, Number 1: February (2005): 83-106.
Lavenda Robert H. Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology. 4th Edition. Boston; McGraw Hill, 2009.
Lee, Jung-Sook and Natasha K. Bowen. "Parent Involvement, Cultural Capital, and the Achievement Gap among Elementary School Children." American Educational Research Journal 43, no. 2 (2006): 193-218.
Leslau, Charlotte and Wolf. African Proverbs. New York, 1962.
MacDonald, Margaret Read, John Holmes McDowell , Linda Dégh, and Barre Toelken. Traditional Storytelling Today: An International Sourcebook. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999.
MacDonald provides an encyclopedia on storytelling cultures around the world. It is a useful guide in researching storytelling as a profession, and identifying similarities and differences in its use globally. Scholarly essays penetrate the aesthetics of various cultures and the applicability of oral traditions in community life.
McClean, Shilo T. Digital Storytelling: The narrative power of visual effects in film. Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2007.
McKibben, Bill. Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. New York: Holt Paperbacks, 2007.
McMillion, Gwendolyn Thompson and Patricia A. Edwards. “The African American Church.” In Many Pathways to Literacy: Young Children Learning with Siblings Grandparents, Peers, and Communities ed. Eve Gregory, et al, New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.
Mezirow, Jack and Edward W. Taylor. Transformative Learning in Practice: Insights from Community, Workplace, and Higher Education. Variation: Jossey-Bass Higher Education Series. 1st ed. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2009.
These proceedings provide an invaluable resource ensuring diverse perspectives of fostering transformative learning. The chapter on Creating Alternative Realities engages discourse on the use of telling stories as a transformative learning tool. Mezirow uses story synopsis to create teachable moments needed to acknowledge assumptions, and open doors for challenging dialogue.
Mitchem, Stephanie Y. African American Folk Healing. New York: New York University Press, 2007.
This book on African American folk healing explores non-western sanctioned practices. It looks into the culturally derived concepts about wellness, and how the concepts have evolved, persisted in their relevance, and continued to be sustained. The presentation has two parts, Historical Paths to Healing and, Today’s Healing Traditions. This body of work is useful in defining an element of African American folk culture and, recognizing an issue of concern in its community: Diabetes and heart health. How can we use folk art of medicine to foster environmental changes?
Noyes. Dorothy. “Group.” The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 108. No. 430: Common Ground: Keywords for the Study of Expressive Culture. (1995), 449-478.
Oldershaw, Bruce, Moss, Onawumi J., Ivey, Allen E., Microtraining Associates, and Alexander Street Press. "Reflecting on Life Experience using Erikson's Model in the Interview: African-American Perspective: Onawumi Jean Moss Interviewed by Allen E. Ivey." Alexander Street Press.
Orring, Elliot. Folk Groups and Folk Genres. Utah: Utah State University Press, 1986.
National Association of Black Storytellers. www.nabsinc.org
The National Association of Black Storytellers, Inc. (NABS) promotes and perpetuates the art of the website host information on the only National Blackstorytelling organization in America. It is a resource for identifying affiliate organizations and members. The mission statement is a tool to analyze the profession and lifestyle of African American storytellers. "In the Tradition..." The NABS festival & conference is held in a different city annually, featuring storytellers who excel in the art form. The Scholars' panel explores different aspects of African-American storytelling and folk culture each year.
Prahlad, Anand, ed. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore.. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2006.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore is the first comprehensive general reference work for students, scholars, writers and the general public on African American folklore, which encompasses folk traditions among African-derived groups in the New World. There are more than 700 alphabetically ordered essays written by more than 140 scholars and researchers in the United States and Abroad. The Encyclopedia is an expansive three volume set providing a full spectrum of African American folklore. It is a primary resource in identifying aspects of African American heritage, culture and folklife
Pillai, Janet and Pin Chen. Mapping and Interpretation of Cultural Identity Using the Arts. Presented at Unesco & the Government of the Republic of Korea World Conference on Arts Education, Seoul, May 25-28, 2010.Malyasia: Pugh, Opalanga. Opalanga Pugh concert and interview collection. Washington: American Folklife Center, 2008.
Peek, Philip M.and Kwesi Yankah. African Folklore: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Peng-Shun, Peng and Jiann-Cherng Sheih. School Libraries Archive Community Images. Original paper. Taiwan
Peng –Shun and Sheih provide a model using resources of the school library in a community project. It promotes the idea of sustaining local culture with digital archives, while creating a cultural environment at a central facility within the community. The paper presents year-long activities to sustain the concept.
Rankin, Paul, Robin Hansteen-Izora, Laura, Packer. ‘Living Cultural Storybases’: Self-empowering Narratives for Minority Cultures. Paper for International Community Informatics Conference on ‘Constructing and Sharing Memory. CIRN Prato Italy, October 9-11th, 2006.
Sawyer, Ruth. The Way of Storyteller. New York: The Viking press, 1962.
Sayre, Shay and Cynthia King. Entertainment and Society: Influences, Impacts, and Innovations. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2010.
Snowden, David. “Storytelling: an old skill in a new context.” Business Information Review, (1999)16:30, assessed on September 3, 2010, doi: 10.1177/0266382994237045.
Stanford, Barbara Dodds and ATLAS Project. Building Community West African Style : An Interdisciplinary Unit Exploring African Culture and our Own Culture, for Junior High Or Middle School, Adaptable to High School Or Elementary School. Denver, Colo.: Center for Teaching International Relations, 1992.
Stern, Stephen. "Ethnic Folklore and the Folklore of Ethnicity." Western Folklore 36, no. 1, Studies in Folklore and Ethnicity (Jan., 1977): 7-32.
Stone, Kay. "Social Identity in Organized Storytelling." In Someday Your Witch Will Come. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2008.
Terrell, Suzanne. This Other Kind of Doctors: Traditional Medical Systems in Black Neighborhoods in Austin, Texas. New York: AMS Press, 1990.
Tillman, Linda C. “Culturally Sensitive Research Approaches: An African-American Perspective.” Educational Researcher, Vol. 31, No.9, (2002): 3-12.
Tillman presents an argument for cultural sensitive research in qualitative research. She positions that cultural knowledge and experiences of researchers and their participants in the design of the research as well as the collection and interpretation of data are viable to the authenticity and success. This essay is an essential read prior to the research stage in collected data in the African American community. It provides for critical assessment of establishing a research team.
Tobin, Jacqueline. L. and Raymond G. Dogbard. Hidden In Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad. New York: Doubleday, 1999.
Hidden in Plain View tells the story of the preservation of an Africanism through the quilting culture in the African American experience. The scholarly work articulates the relationship of the African Oral Tradition to quilting, and authenticates African American quilting patterns descending from West African culture. The book provides resourceful illustrations and historical context that can enhance Underground Railroad storytelling performances.
Turner, Victor. From Ritual to Theatre The Human Seriousness of Play. New York City: Performing Arts journal Publications, 1982
Westerman, William. “Wild Grasses and New Arks: Transformative Potential in Applied and Public Folklore.” Journal of American Folklore 119 (471): 111-128, 2006
Williams, Lewis, Ronald Labonte, and Mike O’Brien. “Empowering Social Action Through Narrative of Identity and Culture.” Health Promotional International, Vol. 18, No. 1, 33-40, March 2003. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Ziegler, Dhyana. Molefi Kete Asante and Afrocentricity: In Praise and in Criticism. Nashville, Tenn.: James C. Winston Pub., 1995.
Zipes, Jack. Creative Storytelling: Building community, Changing Lives. Routledge, 1995.
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