![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pissing in the Snow departs from the academic prudery that until recently has restricted the amount of bawdy folklore available for study. Unfortunately, in the 1950s when Randolph published several collection of Ozark tales, the material in this volume was considered unprintable. Randolph's reputation rests on the massive accumulation of folksong, folktale, and ballad materials he collected during forty years of living and working in the Ozarks. He is a national treasure, like Mark Twain. And Gershon Legman, the world's leading scholar of sexual and scatological humor, has called Randolph "the greatest and most successful field collector and regional folklorist that America ever had." In Legman's estimation, "We have no one else like him. His Ozark corpus is "the best known single body of regional folklore in the United States," according to Richard Dorson, director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University. Vance Randolph has long been an undeniable presence on the American folklore scholarship scene. ![]()
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