PUBLIC FOLKLORE (Publications of the American Folklore Society) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1560981423 ISBN 13: 9781560981428

Publisher: Smithsonian, 1992

Synopsis

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 contributions from leaders of major American folklife programs and preeminent folklore scholars, including Roger D. Abrahams, Robert Cantwell, Gerald L. Davis, Archie Green, Bess Lomax Hawes, Richard Kurin, Daniel Sheehy, and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gim-blett. Their essays present vivid accounts of public folklore prac-tice in a wide range of settings-nineteenth-century world\'s fairs and minstrel shows, festivals, mu-seums, international cultural ex-change programs, concert stages, universities, and hospitals.

Drawing from case studies, historical analyses, and their own experiences as advocates, field re-searchers, and presenters, the es-sayists recast the history of folk-lore in terms of public practice, while discussing standards for presentation to new audiences. They approach engagement with tradition bearers as requiring collaboration and dialogue. They critically examine who has the authority to represent folk culture, the ideologies informing these representations, and the effect upon folk artists of encountering revived and new audiences within and beyond their own communities. In discussions of the relationship between public practice and the academy, this volume also offers new models for integrating public folklore training within graduate studies.

Robert Baron directs the Folk Arts Program at the New York State Council on the Arts and has been a non-resident Fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Nick Spitzer is host and creator of public radio\'s American Routes and folklore professor at the University of New Orleans.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This indispensable volume and standard course reading on the representation of folklore

---Includes the first bibliographic essay on the scholarly literature of public folklore

---Offers a new introduction that discusses trends and issues in public folklore practice and recent scholarship

---Original edition boasts this from Library Journal: "Written by distinguished scholars in the field of folklore, this broad array of readings focuses on practical and theoretical issues concerning public presentations of folk culture."

From the Inside Flap:

An indispensable volume and standard course reading on the representation of folklore

About this edition

• Publisher: Smithsonian
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1560981423
• ISBN 13: 9781560981428
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 370
• Editor: Robert Baron, Nicholas Spitzer