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271 Selected Bibliographies The following bibliographies are not intended to be exhaustive listings of works on military folklore in general but rather to present those sources most useful and accessible to students of such lore in English-speaking military units since the First World War. General and Miscellaneous The items in this section address military customs, traditions, or culture in general, or they cover multiple expressive forms (for example, song and slang). Boatner, Mark Mayo. 1976. Military Customs and Traditions. Westport, CT: Greenwood. Bronner, Simon J. 2006. Crossing the Line: Violence, Play, and Drama in Naval Equator Traditions. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. http://dx.doi. org/10.5117/9789053569146 Burke, Carol. 1996. “Military Folklore.” In American Folklore: An Encyclopedia, ed. Jan Harold Brunvand. New York: Garland. Burke, Carol, ed. 2003. “Special Issue: Military Folklore.” New Directions in Folklore 7. With a Special Editor’s Introduction by Carol Burke. Burke, Carol. 2004. Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight: Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture. Boston: Beacon Press. Cleveland, Les. 1987. “Military Folklore and the Underwood Collection.” New York Folklore 13 (3–4): 87–103. Dorson, Richard. 1977 [1959]. American Folklore. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Section on “GI Folklore”: 268–276. Edwards, Thomas Joseph. 1950. Military Customs. Aldershot, England: Gale & Polden. Field, Cyril. 1939. Old Times Under Arms: A Military Garner. London: William Hodge and Company. Fish, Lydia. 2003. “Informal Communications Systems in the Vietnam War: A Case Study in Folklore, Technology, and Popular Culture.” New Directions in Folklore 7 (Special Issue: Military Folklore). Keith, Sam. 1950. “The Flying Nightmares.” New York Folklore Quarterly 6 (3): 154–60. Koch, Edwin E. 1953. “G.I. Lore: Lore of the Fifteenth Air Force.” New York Folklore Quarterly 9:59–70. Lally, Kelly A. 1987. “Living on the Edge: The Folklore of Air Force Pilots in Training.” Midwestern Folklore 13 (2): 107–20. 272 Selected Bibliographies Leary, James P. 1975. “Folklore and Photography in a Male Group.” In Saying Cheese: Folklore and Visual Communication, ed. Steven Ohrn and Michael E. Bell, 13: 45–50. Bloomington, IN: Folklore Forum Bibliographic and Special Series. Lovette, Leland. 1939. Naval Traditions and Usage. 3rd ed. Annapolis: US Naval Institute. Sandels, Robert. 1983. “The Doughboy: The Formation of a Military Folk.” American Studies (Lawrence, Kan.) 24 (1): 69–88. Stevens, Bob. 1975. There I Was . . . Flat on My Back. Fallbrook, CA: Aero Publishers. Thorpe, Peter. 1967. “Buying the Farm: Notes on the Folklore of the Modern Military Aviator.” Northwest Folklore 2 (1): 11–7. Underwood, Agnes Nolan. 1947. “Folklore from GI Joe.” NYFQ 3:285–97. Speech Bay, Austin. 2007. “Embrace the Suck”: A Pocket Guide to Milspeak. New York: New Pamphleteer . Burke, Carol. 2003. “Military Speech.” In New Directions in Folklore, Special Issue: Military Folklore, edited by Carol Burke 7. Burns, Richard Allen. 2003. “‘This Is My Rifle, This Is My Gun’: Gunlore in the Military.” New Directions in Folklore 7 (Special Issue: Military Folklore). Clark, Gregory R. 1990. Words of the Vietnam War. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. Colby, Elbridge. 1942. Army Talk: A Familiar Dictionary of Soldier Speech. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Cornell, George. 1981. “G.I. Slang in Vietnam.” Journal of American Culture 4 (2): 195– 200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-734X.1981.0402_195.x. Cragg, Dan. 1980. “A Brief Survey of Some Unofficial Prosigns Used by the United States Armed Forces.” Maledicta: The International Journal of Verbal Aggression 4 (2): 167–73. Dickson, Paul. 2004. War Slang: American Fighting Words and Phrases since the Civil War. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Brassey’s. Elkin, Frederick. 1946. “The Soldier’s Language.” American Journal of Sociology 51 (5): 414–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/219852. Elting, John, Dan Cragg, and Ernest Deal, eds. 1984. A Dictionary of Soldier Talk. New York: Scribner’s. Fraser, Edward, and John Gibbons. 1968 [1925]. Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases. Detroit: Gale Research. Kenagy, S. G. 1978. “Sexual Symbolism in the Language of the Air Force Pilot: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Folk Speech.” Western Folklore 37 (2): 89–101. http://dx.doi. org/10.2307/1499316. Reinberg, Linda. 1991. In the Field: The Language of the Vietnam War. New York: Facts on File. Riordan, John Lancaster. 1946. “American Naval ‘Slanguage’ in the Pacific in 1945.” California Folklore Quarterly 5 (4): 375–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1495930. Rives, Timothy D. 2003. “The Work of Soldier Poetry in Kansas, 1917–1919.” New Directions in Folklore 7 (Special Issue: Military Folklore). Robson...

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