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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…

African American…

“Ten Little Niggers”: The Making of a Black Man’s Consciousness

1 May 200917 May 2009
"Ten Little Niggers": The Making of a Black Man's Consciousness Tiffany M.B. Anderson The Ohio State University Abstract: During Reconstruction in the 1860s, the proud Confederate states found themselves in…
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Edward M. Bruner. Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel

1 May 20091 May 2009
Edward M. Bruner. Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel. University of Chicago Press, 2004. 312 pages, 48 halftones. $62.50 cloth, $25.00 paper. Tracy Musacchio Knox College Tourism has a profound…
Dress…

Within Their Own Seams: 19th Century Fashion and the Management of the Body in Women’s Literature and Letters

24 Apr 2009
Within Their Own Seams: 19th Century Fashion and the Management of the Body in Women's Literature and Letters Kristiana Willsey Indiana University Abstract: Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1855 novel, North and South,…
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Ulrich Marzolph, ed. The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective

24 Apr 2009
Ulrich Marzolph, ed. The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective. Wayne State University Press, 2007. 348 pages, $31.95 paper. Fredericka Schmadel Indiana University Ulrich Marzolph, editor of Wayne State University Press’s…
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Harold Hinds, et al. Popular Culture Theory and Methodology: A Basic Introduction

8 Apr 20098 Apr 2009
Harold E. Hinds, Jr., Marilyn F. Motz, and Angela M. S. Nelson, eds. Popular Culture Theory and Methodology: A Basic Introduction. Madison: Popular Press/ University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. Pp.…
Legends…

Gerbilling Reconsidered: Comparing Talk of Foodways and Sexways

24 Mar 2009
Gerbilling Reconsidered: Comparing Talk of Foodways and Sexways Christopher Lewis The Ohio State University Abstract This paper considers the gerbilling legend of the early 1990s. The author contends that, by…
Editor Remarks

From the Editor

24 Mar 2009
Dear Reader, Folklore Forum is pleased to be debuting a new feature. In the fall of 2007, the folklore graduate students of Indiana University and The Ohio State University proposed…
Africa…

So, What Is the Story Behind This Name?: Royal Praise-Poetry As an Oral Mythic Narrative

30 Jan 20094 Feb 2009
So, What Is the Story Behind This Name?: Royal Praise-Poetry As an Oral Mythic Narrative Abdulai Salifu Indiana University Abstract The Dagomba praise singing genre of northern Ghana employs figurative…
Jokes…

The Dynamics of Tradition and Folk Groups in the Role-Playing Game

14 Jan 200930 Jan 2009
The Dynamics of Tradition and Folk Groups in the Role-Playing Game B. Grantham Aldred Indiana University Abstract In this article, B. Grantham Aldred explores the multifaceted nature of folk groups…
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All Mixed Up: A Cultural Exploration of Mixed Tapes and CDs

24 Nov 20081 May 2009
All Mixed Up: A Cultural Exploration of Mixed Tapes and CDs Don Stacy University of Oregon Abstract This article examines the mixed tape/CD phenomenon in the socio-historical context of lyrical…
Belief…

Healing Charms and Family Legends: Passing on Beliefs Through Québécois Maternal Lineage

14 Nov 200830 Jan 2009
Healing Charms and Family Legends: Passing on Beliefs Through Québécois Maternal Lineage1 Julie LeBlanc Memorial University of Newfoundland Abstract This article examines how emotions in fieldwork may both prevent and…

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