Maria Carmen Gambliel, a devoted artist, printmaker, and folklorist, passed away on May 24, 2025, at the age of seventy-nine.
Folklorist Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth's work was recently featured in an episode of the podcast channel New Books in Folklore hosted by fellow folklorist Rachel Hopkin, who is also calling for new hosts for the channel.
The Woody Guthrie Center has announced the call for proposals for its 2025 Phil Ochs Fellowship, which awards up to $5,000 for creative or scholarly projects about the life and work of songwriter and protest singer Phil Ochs, and his lasting legacy and influence on popular culture, politics, and music. Applications are due September 15, 2025.
Creating Culture, Performing Community (Indiana University Press) explores the ways in which the people of Santo Santiago de Angahuan create and curate their cultural practices and how, by doing so, they perform what it means to be an active member of their community. This book is freely available as an Open Access monograph.
Performing Vulnerability (University of Washington Press) by Emily Hue delves into the complexities of vulnerability as both a personal and a performative act through her study of diasporic Burmese artists.
Drawing on classic theories of ritual and performance, Facing the Fire, Taking the Stage (Indiana University Press) explores how Buryat shamanism and state-sanctioned performing arts have allowed Buryats to negotiate and express different kinds of belonging to people and land. This book is freely available as an Open Access monograph.
AFS urges members to take action now by writing or calling state representatives and members of Congress in response to a 35% cut in proposed funding to the NEA and NEH.
Ghosts, Trolls and the Hidden People (Reaktion Books) provides translated tales from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as introductions by the author that place these often supernatural happenings in the context of Icelandic society. The anthology is edited by Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir, with an introduction by AFS Fellow Jack Zipes.
Quilt Arts of South Africa (Indiana University Press), edited by AFS Fellow Marsha MacDowell, stitches together the history, production, and significance of quilt-making from its earliest appearance in Africa's southernmost region to the twenty-first century.
An interview of folklorist Anna Lomax Wood about her experiences researching the musical traditions of Italian immigrants, among other topics, is featured on Italian American Collective.
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