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February 23, 2021
Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!
Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community
Robert L. Stone
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
Folklorist Robert L. Stone presents a rare collection of high-quality documentary photos of the sacred steel guitar musical tradition and the community that supports it. The introductory text and extended …
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Folklore
January 25, 2021
Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest
Rachelle Hope Saltzman
Hosted by Nancy Yan
On January 21, 2017, the day after Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, hundreds of cities in the U.S. and across the globe organized Women’s Marches in response to Trump’s misogynistic comments …
Folklore
December 14, 2020
Life as a Folklorist and Folklore Studies
A Discussion with Jack Zipes
Jack Zipes
Hosted by Rachel Hopkin
Today I talked with Jack Zipes about a life in Folklore Studies, about some of his many publications, and about publishing fairy tales. Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus of German at the …
Folklore
December 4, 2020
When They Blew the Levee
Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri
David Todd Lawrence and Elaine J. Lawless
Hosted by Nancy Yan
The town of Pinhook in Missouri was founded in the 1940s by southern Black farmers who were looking for land that they could purchase and own in the face of …
Folklore
October 13, 2020
A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses
Tales of the Feminine Divine from India and Beyond
Michael Slouber
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Michael Slouber's new book A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Tales of the Feminine Divine from India and Beyond (University of California Press, 2021) surveys the diversity of India's feminine divine …
Folklore
September 18, 2020
Quinceañera Style
Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities
Rachel Valentina González
Hosted by Nancy Yan
A quinceañera is a traditional fifteenth birthday celebration for young women (though in contemporary times, it can also be for young men) in many Latinx communities. While the celebration has …
Folklore
September 17, 2020
Public Performances
Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque
Jack Santino
Hosted by Isabel Machado
Public Performances: Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque (University Press of Colorado) offers a deep and wide-ranging exploration of relationships among genres of public performance and of the underlying political …
Folklore
August 25, 2020
Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France
Félix Arnaudin and the Moorlands of Gascony, 1870-1914
William G. Pooley
Hosted by Rachel Hopkin
The moorlands of Gascony are often considered one of the most dramatic examples of top-down rural modernization in nineteenth-century Europe. From an area of open moors, they were transformed in …
Folklore
June 26, 2020
Crossing the Lines of Caste
Viśvāmitra and the Construction of Brahmin Power in Hindy Mythology
Adheesh Sathaye
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
What does it mean to be a Brahmin, and what could it mean to become one? The ancient Indian mythological figure Viśvāmitra accomplishes just this, transforming himself from a king …
Folklore
June 11, 2020
Valkyrie
The Women of the Viking World
Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir
Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
Fascination with the Viking Age seems to be at an all-time high, though it has never really gone out of fashion. There is something irresistible about the Vikings, a civilization …
Folklore
June 5, 2020
The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960
Kathryn Hume
Hosted by Carrie Lynn Evans
Why do contemporary writers use myths from ancient Greece and Rome, Pharaonic Egypt, the Viking north, Africa's west coast, and Hebrew and Christian traditions? What do these stories from premodern …
Folklore
May 26, 2020
Rhythms of Revolt
European Traditions and Memories of Social Conflict in Oral Culture
Éva Guillorel
Hosted by Rachel Hopkin
The culture of insurgents in early modern Europe was primarily an oral one; memories of social conflicts in the communities affected were passed on through oral forms such as songs …
Folklore
May 25, 2020
The Poetry of Everyday Life
Storytelling and the Art of Awareness
Steve Zeitlin
Hosted by Rachel Hopkin
This is a book of encounters. Part memoir, part essay, and partly a guide to maximizing your capacity for fulfillment and expression, The Poetry of Everyday Life: Storytelling and the …
Folklore
May 11, 2020
Vyāsa Redux
Narrative in Epic Mahābhārata
Kevin McGrath
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
In Vyāsa Redux: Narrative in Epic Mahābhārata (Anthem Press, 2019), Kevin McGrath examines the complex and enigmatic Vyāsa, both the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata and a …
Folklore
May 5, 2020
Courting the Wild Twin
Martin Shaw
Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Martin Shaw. In Shaw’s new book, Courting the Wild Twin (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020), he writes, “Here’s a secret I don’t share very often. Myths are not …
Folklore
April 23, 2020
Blood Libel
On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth
Magda Teter
Hosted by Lindsey Jackson
The myth of Jews killing Christian children emerged in 1144 CE, with the death of a boy named William in Norwich, England. Over the course of several centuries, this myth …
Folklore
February 27, 2020
Chinese Folklore Studies Today
Discourse and Practice
Lijun Zhang and Ziying You
Hosted by Timothy Thurston
The discipline of folkloristics in the People’s Republic of China is robust and well-funded. With thousands of scholars across the country, it is surprising then that there is relatively little …
Folklore
February 12, 2020
The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun
A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form
Martín Prechtel
Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Martín Prechtel, whose work ranges from painting and drawing to overlooked histories and living languages to farming and blacksmithing and cooking to the six books he’s written …
Folklore
February 10, 2020
The Battle for Fortune
State-led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China
Charlene Makley
Hosted by Timothy Thurston
Rebgong, in the Northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau (China’s Qinghai Province), is in the midst of a ‘Battle for Fortune.’ That is, a battle to both accumulate as much …
Folklore
December 17, 2019
The Kiss of Death
Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore
Andrea Kitta
Hosted by Timothy Thurston
Disease is a social issue and not just a medical one. This is the central tenet underlying The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore (Utah State University Press 2019) …
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