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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…

Book Review…

Jerry M. Hay. Rivers Revealed: Rediscovering America’s Waterways.

10 Mar 2011
Jerry M. Hay. Rivers Revealed: Rediscovering America’s Waterways. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. Pp. ix + 308, photographs, index. $19.95 paper. Callie Clare Indiana University It is clear in reading…
Foodways…

Biscuit Revivalism: Salvaging Southern Foodways in the Family and Beyond

4 Mar 2011
Biscuit Revivalism: Salvaging Southern Foodways in the Family and Beyond Whitney Brown University of North Carolina Abstract: The field of folklore has been preoccupied historically with  authenticity.  But what happens…
Book Review…

Kenneth L. Untiedt, ed. Folklore: In All of Us, In All We Do.

11 May 2010
Kenneth L. Untiedt, ed. Folklore: In All of Us, In All We Do. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2006. Pp.xi+298, photos, illustrations, index. $34.95 cloth. B. Grantham Aldred…
Internet…

Heroes Are Over With: Possibilities for Folk Hybridity in “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog”

3 May 20103 May 2010
Heroes Are Over With: Possibilities for Folk Hybridity in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Katie L. Ramos University of Wisconsin, Madison Abstract: Folklorists have long sought to illuminate the blurry boundary…
Book Review…

Stephen Benson, ed. Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale.

26 Apr 20104 May 2010
Stephen Benson, ed. Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008. Pp. 209, index. Jeana Jorgensen Indiana University Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale is a…
Belief…

Public, Private; Contemporary, Traditional: Intersecting Dichotomies and Contested Agency in Mainline Protestant Worship Music

19 Apr 2010
Public, Private; Contemporary, Traditional: Intersecting Dichotomies and Contested Agency in Mainline Protestant Worship Music Deborah Justice Indiana University Abstract: The current ‘contemporary’/’traditional’ worship music controversy, although cloaked in the guise…
Book Review…

Elizabeth Tucker. Haunted Halls: Ghostlore of American College Campuses

12 Apr 2010
Elizabeth Tucker. Haunted Halls: Ghostlore of American College Campuses. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. $50.00 cloth, $20.00 paper. Jeffrey Tolbert Indiana University Popular volumes dedicated to ghosts and…
Central Asia…

Negotiations in Performance: The Storytelling Performance of Two Adolescent Afghan Narrators

5 Apr 2010
Negotiations in Performance: The Storytelling Performances of Two Adolescent Afghan Narrators Benjamin Gatling The Ohio State University Abstract: This paper examines the storytelling performance of two adolescent male Afghan narrators. …
Music…

Lovesick Blues: Music and Nostalgia on Lower Broadway, Nashville, Tennessee

29 Mar 201030 Mar 2010
Lovesick Blues: Music and Nostalgia on Lower Broadway, Nashville, Tennessee Timon Kaple Indiana University Abstract: There are a handful of city blocks in Nashville, Tennessee, that constitute the area known…
Editor Remarks

From the Editor

29 Mar 20105 Apr 2010
Dear Reader, Folklore Forum is pleased to present in this issue proceedings from the second annual collaborative conference between the Indiana University Folklore and Ethnomusicology Student Associations and The Ohio…
Europe…

Testimony and Truth after Auschwitz

28 Sep 2009
Testimony and Truth After Auschwitz Sarah Gordon Indiana University Abstract: Survivor testimony of the Holocaust often deviates from historical fact.  Postmodern theory allows for the near nihilation of that testimony…

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