Folklore recycled : old traditions in new contexts /

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This title starts from the proposition that folklore - usually thought of in its historical social context as 'oral tradition' - is easily appropriated, recycled, into other contexts. The book discusses the larger issue of folklore being recycled into non-folk contexts, and proceeds to loo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: De Caro, F. A., 1943-2020 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]
Subjects:
Folklore > United States > History and criticism.
Folk literature, American > History and criticism.
Literature and folklore > United States > History and criticism.
Folk art > United States > History.
Folklore > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Littérature populaire américaine > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et folklore > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Art populaire > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Folk art.
Folk literature, American.
Folklore.
Literature and folklore.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction folklore's messiness
  • "Authentic local culture" : the open textuality of a folk tradition
  • "In this folk-lore land" establishing race, class, and identity through folklore studies / coauthor, Rosan Augusta Jordan
  • "Unrivalled charms" folklore, nonfiction, and Lafcadio Hearn
  • Photographing folklife document, symbol, propaganda
  • "The age of fire and gravel" "occult" and "alternative history" uses of folklore
  • Americans and the folk arts in Mexico tourism, fine art, architecture, interior decoration, international relations
  • A brief conclusion.

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