Publications by Américo Paredes

Américo Paredes's Publications

El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez, a Ballad of Border Conflict. Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1956. published as a book, "With His Pistol in His Hand", a Border Ballad and its Hero. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958.
El Cowboy norteamericano en el folklore y la literatura. Buenes Aires: Cuadernos del Instituto Nacional de Antropologia, 1963.
George Washington Gómez. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press, 1990. (Second edition, 1993).
The Hammon and the Beans and Other Stories. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press, 1994.
(ed.) Humanidad: Essays in Honor of George I. Sánchez. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977.
A Selective Annotated Bibliography of Recent Works in Latin-American Folklore 1960-1967. Gainsville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1968.
The Shadow. Pioneers of Modern U.S. Hispanic Literature. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press, 1998.
A Texas-Mexican Cancionero: Folksongs of the Lower Border. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1976. (reissued by University of Texas Press in 1995).
Toward a New Perspective in Folklore. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1972.
Uncle Remus con chile. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press, 1993.
“The Undying Love of ‘El Indio’ Córdova: Décimas and Oral History in a Border Family”: Inaugural Lecture, First Ernesto Galarza Commemorative Lecture. Stanford, CA: Stanford Center for Chicano Research, 1987.
----- and Richard Bauman, eds. Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border. Austin: Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1993.
----- and Richard Dorson, compilers. Folktales of Mexico. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. (The 1974 edition lists Paredes as author.)
------ and Richard Paredes, compilers. Mexican-American Authors. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1976.
----- and Julián Samora. Exposición de Libros sobre Cultura Mexicano-Norteamericana. Mexico City: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, 1990. (catalogue for the exhibition)
-----, Ellen J. Stekert and Richard A. Reuss. The Urban Experience and Folk Tradition. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971.

Tinker, Edward Larocque. Corridos and Calaveras. Translation and notes by Américo Paredes. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1961.

“The Ancestry of Mexico’s Corridos: A Matter of Definitions.” Journal of American Folklore 76(1963):231-35.

“The Anglo-American in Mexican Folklore.” in Ray B. Browne, Donald M. Winkelman, and Allen Hayman, eds. New Voices in American Studies. Lafayette, IN: Purdue Studies, 1966. 113-128.

“Concepts about Folklore in Latin America and the United States.” Journal of the Folklore Institute 6(1969):20-38.

"El Corrido de José Mosqueda" as an Example of Pattern in the Ballad." Western Folklore 3(1958):(no pages listed).

“The Décima on the Texas-Mexican Border: Folksong as an Adjunct to Legend.” Journal of the Folklore Institute 3(1966):154-167.

“The Décima on the Texas-Mexican Border: Four Examples.” Journal of the Folklore Institute 3(1966):91-115.
“Estados Unidos, Mexico, y el Machismo.” Journal of Inter-American Studies 9(1967):65-84. (Spanish) (Translation: “The United States, Mexico, and ‘Machismo’’ below).
“Folklore Bibliography for 1962.” Southern Folklore Quarterly 27(1963):1-111.
“Folklore Bibliography for 1963.” Southern Folklore Quarterly 28(1964):1-94.
“Folklore e historia: Dos cantares de la frontera del norte.” Twenty-five Estudios de folklore. Estudios de folklore. Series # 4. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Institute de investigaciones esteticas, 1971. 209-22.
“Folk Medicine and the Intercultural Jest.” in Elliot Oring, ed. Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: A Reader. Logan, UT: Utah State Univeristy Press, 1989. 63-77.
“Foreward.” The Concept of Folklore by Paulo de Carvalho-Neto and Jacques M. P. Wilson. translated by Jacques M. P. Wilson. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press, 1971.
"Luis Incían: First of the Cowboy Writers." American Quarterly 12(1960):55-70.
"The Mexico-Texas Corrido." Southwest Review 27(1942):470-481.
“Nearby Places and Strange-sounding Names.” in Don Graham, James W. Lee, and William T. Pilkington, eds. The Texas Tradition: Fiction, Folklore, History. Austin: College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, 1983. 130-8.
“On Ethnographic Work Among Minority Groups: A Folklorist’s Perspective.” New Scholar: An Americanist Review 6(1977):1-32.
“Preface.” to Manuel Dannemann Rothstein. Bibliografía del folklore Chileno. Latin American Folk Series # 2. Austin: Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Oral History, University of Texas at Austin, 1970.
“Preface.” to Maurico Charpenel. Las Miniaturas en El Arte Popular Mexicano. Austin: Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Oral History, University of Texas at Austin, 1970.
“Proverbs and Ethnic Stereotypes.” Proverbium 15(1970):95-7.
“Some Aspects of Folk Poetry.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 6(1964):213-225.
"Texas' Third Man: the Texas-Mexican." Race 4(1963):49-58.
“Thoughts on Tomás Rivera.” Revista Chicano-Riqueña. 13(1985):24-5.
“Tributaries to the Mainstream: The Ethnic Groups.” in Tristram P. Coffin. Our Living Traditions: An Introduction to American Folklore. New York: Basic Books, 1968. 70-80.
“The United States, Mexico and ‘Machismo’.” trans. by Marcy Steen. Journal of the Folklore Institute 8(1971):17-37. (Spanish text)
“Yashita, Zapata, and the Arthurian Legend.” Western Folklore 36(1977):160-3.

Audio Tapes

"Lo Mexicano" as Seen by American Folklore, Indiana University, 1971. (one cassette)
Readings from "With His Pistol in His Hand", a Border Ballad and its Hero. Texas Education Agency, 1989. (one cassette)
with Aida Barrera. Sabor del pueblo. National Public Radio, 1983. (bilingual Spanish and English; 5 cassettes)

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