Public folklore /

A landmark volume exploring the public presentation and application of folk culture in collaboration with communities, Public Folklore is available again with a new introduction discussing recent trends and scholarship. Editors Robert Baron and Nick Spitzer provide theoretical framing to contributio...

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Other Authors: Baron, Robert, 1951-, Spitzer, Nicholas R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2007.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Cultural Continuity and Community Creativity in a New Century: Preface to the Third Printing; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; Part 1: Reflections and Directions; The Public, the Folklorist, and the Public Folklorist; Mistaken Dichotomies; Public Folklore's Name: A Partisan's Notes; Happy Birthday, Dear American Folklore Society: Reflections on the Work and Mission of Folklorists; Part 2: Metaphors and Methods of Practice; Cultural Conversation: Metaphors and Methods in Public Folklore; "So Correct for the Photograph": "Fixing" the Ineffable, Ineluctable African American.