Folklore Forum is Back!

Recently, a new editorial team has taken over management of Trickster Press and we are excited to announce a new chapter in the publication of Folklore Forum!

Submissions

Trickster Press, housed at the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, invites submissions from interested folks at any stage of their academic careers for the upcoming edition of Folklore Forum. We are an online, interdisciplinary, and graduate student-run open-access journal dedicated, but not limited, to the disciplines of folklore and ethnomusicology.…Continue reading “Submissions”

1Jul 20135 Mar 2018

Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico

Debra Lattanzi Shutika. Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press,…

17Jun 20135 Mar 2018

Where the Ox Does Not Plow: A Mexican American Ballad

Peña, Manuel. Where the Ox Does Not Plow: A Mexican American Ballad. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. 233…

17Jun 20135 Mar 2018

Bogolan: Shaping Culture through Cloth in Contemporary Mali

Rovine, Victoria L. Bogolan: Shaping Culture through Cloth in Contemporary Mali. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008. $24.95 paper. Jessica…

Multilocality and the narration of place meanings in an Irish story

Multilocality and the narration of place meanings in an Irish story Chad Buterbaugh Indiana University Professional Irish storytelling reaches an audience well beyond Ireland, yet many stories are infused with…

Fairy Tale Films: Visions of Ambiguity

Greenhill, Pauline and Sidney Eve Matrix, ed. Fairy Tale Films: Visions of Ambiguity. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2010. p. xiii + 263. List of tale types, bibliography, filmography, index.…

McMeaning in the Maw of the Masses: Analyzing Fast Food Mash-Ups

27 Aug 201228 Aug 2012

McMeaning in the Maw of the Masses: Analyzing Fast Food Mash-Ups Meagan Winkelman Ohio State University This paper analyzes the foodways of teenagers in the digital age, specifically the construction…

The Heart is a Mirror: The Sephardic Folktale

20 Aug 201220 Aug 2012

Tamar Alexander-Frizer. The Heart is a Mirror: The Sephardic Folktale. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008. Xiv + 690 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8143-2971-9. $65.00 Hardcover. David Elton Gay Indiana University The…

Shaping Theory, Bending Method, Tapping [New] Media: Ethnographic Craftsmanship and Responsive Design

13 Aug 201225 Nov 2012

Shaping Theory, Bending Method, Tapping [New] Media: Ethnographic Craftsmanship and Responsive Design Matthew Hale Indiana University This article was awarded the Warren E. Roberts Prize for Best Student Paper in…

Thomas Burton. Beech Mountain Man: The Memoirs of Ronda Lee Hicks.

Thomas Burton. Beech Mountain Man: The Memoirs of Ronda Lee Hicks. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009. $32.95 cloth. Danielle E. Quales Indiana University In this book, Burton presents the…

Music, Mediation, Sustainability: A Case Study on the Banjo

28 Jun 201215 Jul 2012

Music, Mediation, Sustainability: A Case Study on the Banjo Jeff Todd Titon Brown University The banjo mediates structurally, culturally and historically, and experientially. Structurally, it resists taxonomic classification. Culturally and…

Carolyn E. Ware. Cajun Women and Mardi Gras: Reading the Rules Backward.

Carolyn E. Ware. Cajun Women and Mardi Gras: Reading the Rules Backward. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. Pp. xi+233, photographs, notes, index. $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Nichole…

From the Editor

Dear Reader, Folklore Forum is pleased to continue our tradition of publishing the proceedings from the Indiana University/Ohio State University Folklore and Ethnomusicology Student Conference. The fourth annual conference took…

Thomas Huanca L. Tsimane Oral Tradition, Landscape, and Identity in Tropical Forest

Tomas Huanca L. Tsimane Oral Tradition, Landscape, and Identity in Tropical Forest. La Paz, Bolivia: SEPHIS – South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development. 2006. Pp. iii+279,…

Mary Noailles Murfree. ed. Bill Hardwig. In the Tennessee Mountains

20 Mar 201220 Mar 2012

Mary Noailles Murfree. Ed. Bill Hardwig. In the Tennessee Mountains. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. Pp. xlviii +167. $24.95 paper. Danielle Quales Indiana University The main body of this…