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The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World

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The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World

English | ISBN: 1607324172 | 2015 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB

This volume introduces a new concept to explore the dynamic relationship between folklore and popular culture: the “folkloresque.” With “folkloresque,” Foster and Tolbert name the product created when popular culture appropriates or reinvents folkloric themes, characters, and images. Such manufactured tropes are traditionally considered outside the purview of academic folklore study, but the folkloresque offers a frame for understanding them that is grounded in the discourse and theory of the discipline.

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