Folklore and Nation in Britain and Ireland, by Matthew Cheeseman and Carina Hart, explores folklore and folkloristics within the diverse and contested national discourses of Britain and Ireland, examining their role in shaping the islands’ constituent nations from the 18th century to the contemporary moment of uncertainty and change.
Recent Releases
The Winter 2021 issue (v. 135, no. 535) of the JAF: A Global Quarterly has been mailed and will soon be available to AFS members online.
In a recent essay in the The Guardian, Nell Leyshon describes the inspiration and issues of her new play Folk, soon to be staged in London, that explores questions of representation and intellectual property in early 20th-century English folk song collecting. The
On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture, the online academic journal by the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), just announced the publication of its 12th issue entitled "Ambiguity: Conditions, Potentials, Limits."
The newest issue of Digest: A Journal of Foodways and Culture (Volume 8, Number 1/2) has just been published. Guest edited by Diane Tye of Memorial University of Newfoundland, the theme of this double issue is “Food in Hard Times.” Access the
SoundLore, the Indiana University Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology podcast, recently featured AFS Director of Membership and Information Systems Meredith McGriff and former staff member Jesse Fivecoate, in an episode on their new edited volume Advancing Folkloristics.
Folk Stories from the Hills of Puerto Rico / Cuentos folklóricos de las montañas de Puerto Rico (May 2021), by Rafael Ocasio, gathers together Puerto Rican folktales that were passed down orally for generations before finally being transcribed beginning in 1914 by
Patronage and Power in the Medieval Welsh March: One Family’s Story (November 2021), by David Stephenson, is the first full-length study of a Welsh family of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries who were not drawn from the princely class. Though they were
The editors of the JAF just announced that “African American Expressive Culture, Protest, Imagination, and Dreams of Blackness,” the Fall 2021 special issue of JAF: A Global Quarterly (Journal of American Folklore, v. 134, no. 534) is now available online and will arrive in mailboxes soon.
The official publication date for What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies was October 5, 2021. What Folklorists Do is a collection of 76 brief, informal, personal essays by folklorists from across our field—essays that describe the range of work those