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”
AFS 2020 Commentary
Although we couldn’t engage in stimulating hallway conversations during this year’s annual meeting, Folklore Forum hopes to continue the dialogue by publishing comments, thought pieces, critiques, and reflections on the 2020 meeting in their upcoming issue. Do you have thoughts you’d like to share about a sponsored panel or series of thematically related panels? Did you feel inspired by the one of the public folklore workshops? Do you want to reflect on the virtual nature of the conference this year? Now’s your chance to keep the conversation going!
Review: The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World
The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World. Edited by Michael Dylan Foster and Jeffrey A. Tolbert. 2016. Logan:…
Review: Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era
Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era. Edited by Franz Rickaby with Gretchen Dykstra and James P. Leary.…
“Hometown Cooking”: Layering Values, Mass-Produced, and Garden-Raised Foods in Tater Tot Hot Dish in Southwest Minnesota
Abstract: Hot dishes, or casseroles, are popularly conceptualized as meals comprised merely of mass-produced ingredients. Through a close reading of…
