| Description |
1 online resource |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 look at a number of instances of repurposing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 22, 2014) |
| Subject |
Folklore -- United States -- History and criticism
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Folk literature, American -- History and criticism
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Literature and folklore -- United States -- History and criticism
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Folk art -- United States -- History
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Folklore -- United States -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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Folk art
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Folk literature, American
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Folklore
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Literature and folklore
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013009017 |
| ISBN |
9781617037658 |
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1617037656 |
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9781621039365 |
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1621039366 |
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1617037648 |
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9781617037641 |
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