The National Council of Traditional Arts (NCTA) released the April edition of its Resilience, Reframing, Actions (RARRA) Newsletter, featuring current resources and funding opportunities for the arts sector.
Recent Releases
Of Mules and Mud: The Story of Alabama Folk Potter Jerry Brown (March 2022), edited by Joey Brackner, tells the life story of the potter Jerry Brown, as told in his own words.
North American Monsters: A Contemporary Legend Casebook (March 2021), edited by David J. Puglia, unearths decades of notable monster research.
The National Council of Traditional Arts (NCTA) released the March edition of its Resilience, Reframing, Actions (RARRA) Newsletter. It features resources and funding opportunities from Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA), The Library of Congress, The Legacy Foundation, and others.
The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture: A Feminist Critique (February 2022), by Mary Magoulick, explores how remythologizing of the ancient past reflects a contemporary worldview and rhetoric.
The Southwest Folklife Alliance has released the 2022 issue of its online journal Borderlore.Â
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.
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."