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The Children~ Folklore Section of
the American Folklore Society
announces competition for the 1986
w. W. NEWELL
PRIZE
A $100 cash award for the best student essay on a topic in
children's folklore will be awarded. The paper must have been
written by an undergraduate or graduate student within the
1985-I986 academic year. Papers published by students within
the same time frame are also eligible.Students may submit their
own papers; instructors are asked to encourage students with
eligiblepapers to enter the competition.
Papers must be typed, double-spaced, on white bond paper.
On the first page include the author's name, academic address,
home address, and telephone number.
The winner willreceivea $100award at the annual meetingof
the American Folklore Society in Baltimore, Maryland in
October, 1986.The winningpaper does not haveto be read at the
meeting but entrants are encouraged to submit abstracts of their
papers to the AFS Program Committee. If the winningpaper is
read at the meeting it will be identified as the winner of the
Newell Prize.
Deadline for submissions is July I, 1986. Send 2 copies of
each entry to:
Sue Samuelson
Vice President, Children's Folklore Section
Department of American Studies
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903
. Anyone wishing to subscribe to the Children's Folklore
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Danielle
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New members wishing back issues of the newsletter can
still purchase them. Volume I, Number I, edited by Tom
Burns, is available only in xerox copies; there is a small
stock of all other numbers.
. Anyone preparing a panel or presenting a paper on any
aspect of children's folklore at the 1986 American
Folklore Society meeting in Baltimore is asked to send a
brief description to the Newsletter for publication in the
Fall 1986 number
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The Popular Culture Association will hold its annual
meeting in conjunction with the American Culture Association in Montreal from March 25 through March, 29,1987.
The Children's Popular Culture Caucus of PCA will
organize a series of sessions at that event.
Presentations are welcomed on various aspects of
children's popular culture: toys, games, television, movies,
comics, radio, clothing, folklore, languages, and literature.
Papers on Maurice Sendak, psychocultural criticism of
children's literature, and the role of the adult in children's
culture are especially sought for this meeting.
PCA encourages interdisciplinary approaches and the
use of visual media in its presentation, which should be 15to
20 minutes long.
Deadline for paper or 200-word abstract is September I,
1986. Submit material to Kathy MerIock Jackson, Theater/Communications, Virginia Wesleyan College, Wesleyan
Drive, Norfolk, VA 23502.
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The following selected bibliography of works in German on
children's folklore was supplied by Dr. Rainer Wehse.
Boas, Franz. Die Fadenspiele der Eskimos (The String Games of
the Eskimoes). 1888.
Albrecht, Sophie, and Paganini [i.e. Karl Haiding]. Kinderspiele
aus Niederosterreich (Children's Games from Lower Austria).
Wien 1934
Boesch, Hans. Kinderleben in der deutschen Vergangenheit
(Children's Life in the German Past). Leipzig: Diederichs, 1900.
Reprint Diisseldorf / Kaln: Eugen Diederichs, 1979.
Baader, Ulrich. Kinderspiele und Spie//ieder (Children's Games
and Game Songs).
V01. I: Untersuchungen in wurttembergischen Gemeinden
(Inquiries in Communities in Wurttemberg).
Vol. 2: Materia/ien: Kinderspie//ieder und Abzahlreime (The
Texts: Children's Games Songs and Counting Out Rhymes).
Tiibingen 1979(Untersuchungen des Ludwig-Uhland-Instituts,
vol. 46).
Bahme, Franz Magnus. Deutsches Kinder/ied und Kinderspiel
(German Children's Songs and Children's Games). Leipzig:
Breitkopf and Hartel, 1897. Reprint Wiesbaden 1967.
Bolte, Johannes. "Zeugnisse zur Geschichte unserer Kinderspiele".
(Documents Concerning the History of Our Children's Games)
Zeitschrift des Vereinsfur Volkskinde, 19, 1909, pp. 381-414.
Borneman, Ernest. Die Welt der Erwachsenen in den "verbotenen"
Reimen deutschsprachiger Stadtkinder (The World of the
Adults in the "Illicit" Rhymes of German Speaking Urban
Children). Olten/ Freiburg i.Br.: Walter, 1976. (Studien zur
Befreiung des Kinders, vol. 3).
Bauche, Ulrich. " 'Gummitwist',
Ein neues Kinderspiel in Hamburg" (Rubber Twist, A New Children's Game in Hamburg),
Beitrage zur deutschen Volks- und Altertumskunde,
9, 1965,
pp. 137-139.
Bauer, Karl W., and Heinz Hengst (edd.). Kritische Stichworter
zur Kinderkultur (Critical Remarks on Children's Culture).
Miinchen 1978(Kritische Stichwarter, vol. I).
Borneman, Ernest, Die Umwelt des Kindes im Spiegel seiner
"verbotenen" Lieder, Reime, Verse und Ratsel (The Environment of the Child as Reflected in Its "Illicit" Songs, Rhymes,
and Riddles). Olten/ Freiburg i. Br.: Walter, 1974. (Studien zur
Befreiung des Kindes, vol. 2).
Beitl, Richard. Der Kinderbaum. Brauchtum und Glauben um
Mutter und Kind (The Children's Tree. Customs and Beliefs
Concerning Mother and Child). Berlin 1942.
Borneman, Ernest. Unsere Kinder im Spiegel ihrer Lieder, Reime,
Verse und Ratsel (Our Children as Seen through Their Songs,
Rhymes, and Riddles). Olten/ Freiburg i. Br.: Walter, 1973.
(Studien zur Befreiung des Kindes, vol. I).
Beck, Johannes. "Strassenspiele" (Street Games). Asthetik und
Kommunikation, 10, 1979, pp. 7-11.
Biel, Anna Maria. Alte plattdeutsche Kinder/ieder (Old Low
German Children's Songs). Kiel 1907.
Borneman, Ernest. "Oben und Unten im Kinder - und Jugendreim. Aufgrund von Sammlungen in den Jahren 1960-1978"
('Above' and 'Below' in the Rhymes of Children and Adolescents). lahrbuch fur Volks/iedforschung, 23, 1978, pp.
151-198.
Blaschke, G.P. "Geschichte der Ball - und Laufspiele" (The
History of Ball and Running Games). Geschichte des Sports
aller Volker und Zeiten. Vol. I, Edited by G.A.E. Bogeng.
Leipzig 1926.
Borneman, Ernest. "Autobiographisches zur Methodologie der
Kinderliedforschung" (Autobiographical Data Concerning the
Medhodology of Research in Children's Songs). lahrbuchfur
Volks/iedforschung, 22, 1977, pp. 102-112.
Bliimml, E.K., and A.J. Rott. "Die Verwendung der Pflanzen
durch die Kinder in [Reimen] in Niederosterreich und DeutschBahmen" (The use of Plants in Children's Rhymes in Lower
Austria and German Bohemia). Zeitschrift des Vereins fur
Volkskunde, II, 1904, pp. 60-62.
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c. W. Sullivan III. Editor
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Children's Folklore Bibliography, continued
Borneman, Ernest. "Das Bild des Geschlechtlichen in den Liedern,
Reimen, Versen und Spriichen deutschsprachiger Grosstadtkinder" (Sexuality in the Songs, Rhymes, and Phrases of
German Speaking Urban Children). Jahrbuchfur Volksliedforschung, 17,1972, pp. 181-207.
Braun, lrmingard. Spass und Spiel. Munchner Kinder urn die
Jahrhundertwende (Fun and Games. Munich Children around
the Turn of the Century). Miinchen: Heinrich Hugendubel,
1979.
Brehm, Fritz. "Antike Kinderspiele" (Children's Games from the
Classical Antiquity). Zeitschrift fur Geschichte der Erziehung
und des Unterrichts, 6, 1916.
Biickmann, Ludwig. "Uber den Rhythmus niederdeutscher Volksund Kinderlieder" (The Rhythm of Low German Folk and
Children's Songs). Niederdeutsche Zeitschriftfur Volkskunde,
2, 1924, pp. 137-152.
Buhler, Charlotte, and Josephine Bilz. Das Marchen und die
Phantasie des Kindes (Marchen and the Imagination of Children). Munchen 1958.
Buytendijk, Frederik J.J. Wesen und Sinn des Spiels (Nature and
Meaning of Games). Berlin 1933.
Cammann, Alfred (ed.). Die Welt der niederdeutschen Kinderspiele
(Children's Games from Lower Germany). Schloss Bleckede an
der Elbe 1970.
Dannmeyer, C.H. Hamburger Madchenspiele (Girls' Games
Hamburg). Hamburg 1908.
Deutsches Jugendinstitut Miinchen (ed.). Dokumentation. Bibliographie. Spiel im Kindesalter (Documentation. Bibliography.
Playing and Games of Children). Miinchen 1971.
Dillmann, Joseph. Hunsrucker Kinderlieder und Kinderreime. Ein
Beitrag zur Volkskunde (Children's Songs and Games from the
Hunsriick Area) Frankfurt a.M. [1909].
Doderer, Klaus (ed.). Lexikon der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. 4
vols. (Encyclodpaedia of Children's and Adolescents' Literature). Weinheim: Belz 1975-1982, Reprint 1984.
Drosihn, Friedrich. Deutsche Kinderreime und Verwandtes aus
dem Munde des Volkes vornehmlich in Pommern gesammelt.
Nach seinem Tode herausgegeben von Carl Bolle und Friedrich
Polle (German Children's Rhymes Chiefly from Pomerania).
Leipzig 1897.
Eberhard, Helmut. "Das 'Gummihupfn'. Ein Beitrag zur Erforschung aktueller Kinderspiele (Mit Strichzeichnungen)"
(Rubber Twist). Osterreichische Zeitschrift fur Volkskunde,
N.S. 33, 1979, pp. 61-75.
Flitner, A. (ed.). Das Kinderspiel (Children's Play and Games).
Stuttgart 1973.
Fey, Hermann. Volkskinderlieder aus Schleswig-Holstein (Folk
Songs from Children in Schleswig-Holstein). Flensburg 1910.
Freitag, Christian. "Erwartung und Sanktion im Kinderreim unter be- sonderer Berucksichtigung der Verhaltenssteuerung
durch Strafe und Strafandrohung"(Expectation and Sanction
in Children's Rhymes). Diss. Marburg 1974.
Fritsch, Karl Ewald, and Manfred Bachmann. Deutsches Kinderspielzeug(German Toys). Weimar 1965. Revised Edition by M.
Bachmann 1977.
Gerstner-Hirzel, Emily. "Das Kinderlied" (Children's Songs).
Handbuch des Volksliedes. vol. I Edited by Rolf Wilhelm
Brednich, Lutz Rohrich, and Wolfgang Suppan. Miinchen
1973, pp. 923-967.
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