{"product_id":"my-curious-and-jocular-heroes-2","title":"My Curious and Jocular Heroes","description":"\u003ci\u003eWe were going down the road, and we came to this house. There was a little boy standing by the road just crying and crying.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe stopped, and we heard the biggest racket you ever heard up in the house.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“What’s the matter, son?”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Why, Maw and Paw are up there fightin’.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Who is your Paw, son?”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Well, that’s what they are fightin’ over.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eBrimming with ballads, stories, riddles, tall tales, and great good humor, \u003ci\u003eMy Curious and Jocular Heroes\u003c\/i\u003e pays homage to four people who guided and inspired Loyal Jones’s own study of Appalachian culture. His sharp-eyed portraits introduce a new generation to Bascom Lunsford, the pioneer behind the “memory collections” of song and story at Columbia University and the Library of Congress; the Sorbonne-educated collector and performer Josiah H. Combs; Cratis D. Williams, the legendary father of Appalachian studies; and the folklorist and master storyteller Leonard W. Roberts. Throughout, Jones highlights the tales, songs, jokes, and other collected nuggets that define the breadth of each man’s research and repertoire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Loyal Jones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43572796162230,"sku":"9780252099694","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780252099694_042f355e-57cb-4945-a51a-68890306607c.jpg?v=1726055112","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/my-curious-and-jocular-heroes-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}