Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World

Contributor(s): Foster, Michael Dylan (Editor)

ISBN: 9781607324171

Publisher: Utah State University Press

Binding Types:

Paperback

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Pub Date: November 1, 2015

Dewey: 398.09

LCCN: 2015011321

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.70" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 0.90 lbs) 272 pages

BISAC Categories:

Social Science | Folklore and Mythology

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: ""Folkloresque introduces a new concept to explore the dynamic relationship between folklore and popular culture. Folkloresque describes the phenomenon were folklore is vaguely referenced for its power to connect beyond a product--tropes in the domain of popular culture that deploy folkloristic themes but outside academic folklore"--Provided by pub

Review Quotes:

"I can envisionThe Folkloresque functioning as a manifesto that enables folklorists to join conversations about contemporary culture that we should have been a part of right along. . . . At stake, perhaps, is nothing less than the revitalization and reintegration of an increasingly marginalized discipline."
--Russell Frank, Pennsylvania State University

"To call [The Folkloresque] thought provoking is a bit of an understatement. It is one of those rare academic tomes that strikes a responsive chord deep within the reader, challenging her or his conceptualizations of the study of folklore. . . . [the book] gives the field of cultural studies an invaluable present, namely a new theoretical concept with which to thoroughly enrich the scholarship of the study of both folklore and popular culture."
--Popular Culture Studies Journal

"With their anthology, Foster and Tolbert provide us with a fresh conceptual framework and apparatus to approach popular cultural works from a distinctly folkloristic perspective. As a gambit conceived to revise folkloristic terminology, this book is undoubtedly topical and promising, and the writers are successful in assuring the reader of the necessity of the notion of the folkloresque."
--Elore

"This book will be important to those who study folklore and those studying the underpinnings and creations of popular culture. . . . Expanding the discipline to include the folkloresque is a positive move within the contemporary and rapidly expanding technological framework in which folklore now is recurrently manifested."
--Western Folklore

"[A] rich volume . . . . the editors and contributors have succeeded in offering and demonstrating the folkloresque not as a key but as an effective tool that can be used to pry open many of the most important yet difficult issues in the study of folklore in a popular culture world."
--Fabula

"Foster and Tolbert's attention to the folkloresque sparks a conversation about authenticity and audience, one that has been long overdue in folklore scholarship, particularly in relation to contemporary texts and popular culture. The Folkloresque is a start, to what one can hope, will be many volumes that work to bring folklore studies into the twenty-first century."
--Marvels & Tales

"Foster's introduction, 'The Challenge of the Folkloresque', is undoubtedly going to be one of
the most read essays in contemporary folklore studies in the near future."
--Folkore

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