Emerging Perspectives in the Study of Folklore and Performance

Solimar Otero is Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, and Gender Studies at Indiana University. She is author of Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures and editor with Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera of Theorizing Folklore from the Margins: Critical and Ethical Approaches (IUP, 2021). Anthony Bak Buccitelli is Associate Professor and Chair of American Studies and Director of the Pennsylvania Center for Folklore at the Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg—Capital College. He is author of City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston and editor of Race and Ethnicity in Digital Culture: Our Changing Traditions, Impressions, and Expressions in a Mediated World, Volume One.

Foreword: Reopening Performance, by Charles L. Briggs
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Emerging Perspectives in the Study of Folklore and Performance, by Solimar Otero and Anthony Bak Buccitelli
Part I: Resituating Histories, Ideas, and Practices
1. The Weight and Lightness of Tradition: Interpreting Repetition in Folklore, by Anthony Bak Buccitelli
2. Contested Ancestors: Toward a Genealogy of Everyday Life in the Postdiscipline, by Eric Mayer-García
3. Minting Money: Queer Temporality and Performance in Ethnography, by Sarah M. Gordon
4. Kenneth Burke Meets the Flop-Eared Mule: A Fiddle Tune and the Performance of Form, by Gregory Hansen
Part II: Performance of Materiality, Virtuality, and the Spiritual
5. A Glitch in Time: Digital Interruptions and Spaces of Haunting, by Kit Danowski
6. Ancestoring: Materializing Memory, Mourning, and Resuscitation through Performance, by Solimar Otero
7. Memeing Together: Performance, Competence and Collective Creativity in Digital Folklore, by Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius
Part III: Performance, Polyphony, and Embodied Knowledge
8. White Moral Feelings and National Affect in Audience Reactions to Danse du Ventre and Coochee-Coochee in the Late Nineteenth-Century, by Pris Nasrat
9. Reverse, Rewrite, Reclaim Coloniality in Chicanx Flamenco at the Miss Indian World Pageant, by Erica Acevedo-Ontiveros
10. Queerly Beloved: Reflecting on Embodiments and Explorations of Gender and Pleasure Through Tango Queer, by celia meredith
Part IV: Performing Community, Situating Dissent
11. Performing Together: Rethinking Definitions of Performance as Participatory Practice, by Katherine Borland
12. A Framework for Analyzing Power and Performance: Music, Activism, and a Veterans' Anti-War Coffeehouse, by Lisa Gilman
13. Spectacular Dissent, by Sabra Webber
14. Performative Landscapes: An Exploration, by Lisa Gabbert
Index