Folklore Forum 44 (1): Full Issue
The first 2020 issue of Folklore Forum is now available! Check out the articles and reviews in our most recent posts. Download a PDF version of the front matter: Download a PDF version of the full issue:
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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: Utah State University Press. Pp. viii+265, index. $27.95 paper. Marisa Wieneke, Indiana University Download the PDF of …
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. 2017. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Pp. 356, glossary, index, illustrations, black and white photographs. $25.95 pape…
“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 Tater Tot Hot Dish, this article challenges this perception by examining how a single meal preparer, th…
“Dance is My Dragon Point”: Spirituality among Professional Dancers
Abstract: Using bodylore concepts of kinesthetic empathy in conjunction with spirituality scholarship, this research works to demonstrate the blurred boundaries between secular and spiritual activity in a particular occupation. Despite the vast range a…