Classical Myth and Literature in Parody (Bloomsbury Publishing) examines the evolution of classical parody, from its origins in ancient Greece and Rome to its resurgence in modern times.
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The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage seeks AFS members to write 1,600 to 2,500 word festival features or big-picture essays about their Of the People: The Smithsonian Festival of Festivals. Writers are paid $500 for a completed article. Story pitches are due Sunday, August 16, 2026.
AFS is pleased to share the preliminary program for pre-organized panels, assembled panels, and forums. This schedule is visible only to presenters for now, with public release coming soon.
Telling Other Tales (Routledge) presents Balinese masked dance–drama as a living, plural tradition—one whose meaning is co-created by Balinese and non-Balinese performers, scholars and other observers alike. Open Access content is available for this title.
As you prepare for the new academic year, those of you who teach can provide an important—and easily accomplished—service to AFS. Support AFS by assigning online access to JAF.
Whispers from Celtic Seas (Reaktion Books) revisits coastal traditions from the Celtic fringes of northwest Europe, showing how they preserve memories of dramatic environmental change—floods, land loss and shifting shorelines—carried forward through oral storytelling for generations.
MUSICultures, the peer-reviewed journal of The Canadian Society for Traditional Music / La Société canadienne pour les traditions musicales, is currently seeking articles for publication. Submissions are due October 1, 2026.
In A Singing Game (University Press of Mississippi), Jeanne Pitre Soileau traces “When I Was a Baby” through its many permutations, from its earliest appearance in folklore to variations uploaded to YouTube, and introduces the varied folklorists who collected it through its history.
Charles "Gordon" McCann, nationally acknowledged as a premiere preservationist of traditional Ozarks fiddle music and other facets of Missouri-Arkansas hill country culture, died on July 17, 2026 at the age of ninety-four.
Vernacular Religion in the Iranian Diaspora (University of Wisconsin Press) is a detailed, respectful ethnography that reaches beyond the binary of piety and resistance and offers new and nuanced understandings of Iranian American lived religion.
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