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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!

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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”

24Jun 20207 Oct 2020
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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:…

24Jun 202024 Jun 2020
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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.…

24Jun 202024 Jun 2020
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“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…

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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…
Music…

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

16 Jul 2012
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…
History…

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

19 Jun 2012
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…
Editor Remarks

From the Editor

14 Jun 2012
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…
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Thomas Huanca L. Tsimane Oral Tradition, Landscape, and Identity in Tropical Forest

27 Mar 2012
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,…
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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…
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William Schneider, ed. Living With Stories: Telling, Re-telling, and Remembering

6 Mar 20126 Mar 2012
William Schneider, ed. Living With Stories: Telling, Re-telling, and Remembering. Logan: Utah State Press, 2008. pp. 175 pages. ISBN: 978-0-87421-689-9 (cloth) $27.95 cloth, $23.00 e-book. Kristiana Willsey Indiana University Living…
Belief…

Lindsay Hale. Hearing the Mermaids Song: The Umbanda Religion in Rio De Janeiro

14 Feb 2012
Lindsay Hale.  Hearing the Mermaids Song: The Umbanda Religion in Rio De Janeiro.  Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press, 2009.  6 x 9 pp208.  $26.95 paperback. Taylor Schlichter Indiana University…
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Thomas Hart. The Ancient Spirituality of the Modern Maya

7 Feb 2012
Thomas Hart.  The Ancient Spirituality of the Modern Maya.  Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press, 2008. Pp 290.  $45.00 hardcover.  Kristina Downs Indiana University The Ancient Spirituality of the Modern…

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