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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…

Cultural Performance…

Negotiating a Shire: The Transformation of Local Values in the Society for Creative Anachronism

31 Jan 2012
Negotiating a Shire: The Transformation of Local Values in the Society for Creative Anachronism Suzanne Barber Indiana University Abstract: The Society for Creative Anachronism is an international non-profit organization and…
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Sandra L. Beckett. Red Riding Hood for All Ages: A Fairy-Tale Icon in Cross-Cultural Contexts.

8 Jan 2012
Sandra L. Beckett. Red Riding Hood for All Ages: A Fairy-Tale Icon in Cross-Cultural Contexts. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008. Pp. ix+244, color prints, index. $29.95, paper. Sara Cleto George…
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Variation of Manufactured Folk Drama: A Case Study of The Ellettsville House of Prayer Hell House

2 Dec 20119 Dec 2011
Variation of Manufactured Folk Drama: A Case Study of The Ellettsville House of Prayer Hell House Mary Mesteller Indiana University A version of this paper received the prize for Best…
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Patrick R. McNaughton. A Bird Dance Near Saturday City: Sidi Ballo and the Art of West African Masquerade

2 Dec 2011
Patrick R. McNaughton.  A Bird Dance Near Saturday City: Sidi Ballo and the Art of West African Masquerade.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.  Pp. xvii+300, photographs, notes, index.  $65.00 cloth,…
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Rama for Beginners: Bridging Indian Folk and Comics Cultures

25 Nov 20112 Dec 2011
Rama for Beginners:  Bridging Indian Folk and Comics Cultures Jeremy Stoll Indiana University Abstract: In the boom of recent comics scholarship, the comic art of India has received little attention…
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Karen Dodge Tolstrup. “If Maine Had a Queen”: The Life of Brownie Schrumpf

18 Nov 2011
Karen Dodge Tolstrup. “If Maine Had a Queen”: The Life of Brownie Schrumpf. Orono, ME: The Maine Folklife Center, 2008. Pp. 96, black and white photographs, appendix of recipes. $15.00…
Editor Remarks

From the Editor

11 Nov 201118 Nov 2011
Dear Reader, In this issue Folklore Forum is pleased to present, after some delay, proceedings from the third annual collaborative conference between the Indiana University Folklore and Ethnomusicology Student Associations…
Book Review…

Power, Natsu Onoda, God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga

28 Oct 2011
Power, Natsu Onoda. God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga. University of Mississippi, 2009. Print. 208 pp, 6 x 9 inches, 53 b&w illustrations,…
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Dorson, Richard. Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers: Folk Traditions of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

4 Oct 2011
Dorson, Richard. Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers: Folk Traditions of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, 3rd edition, edited by James P. Leary. Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008 [1952]. pp. 371, index.  Paper…
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Representing Valerie Solanas: Productions of Gender and Sexuality in The Factory

4 Oct 2011
Representing Valerie Solanas:  Productions of Gender and Sexuality in The Factory Sayo Yamagata City University of New York Abstract: This essay explores the musical and artistic reactions to Valerie Solanas’s…
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William Lynwood Montell, Tales from Kentucky Doctors

20 Sep 201120 Sep 2011
William Lynwood Montell. Tales from Kentucky Doctors. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2008. pp256 cloth $24.95, ebook $24.95. Donald E. Clare In today’s modern world of advancing electronic technology…

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