Journal of American Folklore

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of American Folklore is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes: Performing the Wild West in German Festivals6
Searching for Woody Guthrie: A Personal Exploration of the Folk Singer, His Music, and His Politics6
A Sound History: Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest, and White Denial6
Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)6
Literary Circles6
Ruins, Caves, Gods, and Incense Burners: Northern Lacandon Maya Myths and Rituals5
Insights on Commemoration from the Sabbathday Lake Shakers5
Go-Go Drums, Murals, and Other Weapons in the War for Black Lives5
The Ubume Challenge: A Digital Environmental Humanities Project5
Stirring Up Skyr: From Live Cultures to Cultural Heritage5
Vinyl Ventures: My Fifty Years at Rounder Records4
Downtown Mardi Gras: New Carnival Practices in Post-Katrina New Orleans3
¡Viva George! Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the US-Mexico Border3
Real Southern Barbecue: Constructing Authenticity in Southern Food Culture3
Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales2
Vaccine Hesitancy Counter Memes2
Out of State2
The Oral Epic: From Performance to Interpretation2
Sámi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North2
The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives2
Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America2
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales2
The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales2
The Songs of Old Europe—Ancient Belarusian Folk Songs2
Contrapunteo 2: Embrace the Messiness2
Departures: Irish Emigration and Supernatural Belief Narratives2
An Auto-Ethnography of Relational Knowledge Production2
Telling Our Own Stories: Reciprocal Autoethnography at the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender1
Privilege, Power, and Accountability1
Repairing Tradition: Vernacular Knowledge, Cognitive Spaces, and Economies of Work in an Agricultural Repair Shop1
Ira Stuart Jacknis (1952–2021)1
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Black Woman Trailblazer: Presenting and Interpreting Black Vernacular and Popular Musics in a White Cultural Institution1
Michel Ray Oyatayo Ali Abu Maryam (Mickey) Weems (1957–2023)1
Information about Contributors1
Narrative Breakdown in the Political Asylum Process1
Plantation Courtship1
Refinishing the Story: Transforming Stories of Life into Life Stories1
Obdurate Behaviors and Professional Legacies, a Timely Example1
DNA Identities: Narrative and Authority in Genetic Ancestry Performance on YouTube1
MeXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction1
The Befana Is Returning: The Story of a Tuscan Festival1
Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest1
Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton1
The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales & Their Tellers1
MennoFolk3: Puns, Riddles, Tales, Legends1
Unruly Audience: Folk Interventions in Popular Media1
Graves in One's Heart: Grassroots Memorialization of Dr. Li Wenliang during the COVID-19 Outbreak in China1
Folklore's Gender Problem1
Roots, Rootlessness, and Uprooting: Personal, Ethnographic, and Folkloric Reflections on a Theme1
Folklore, Heritage, and the Public Sphere: Introduction1
Tearing Down Monuments: Missed Opportunities, Silences, and Absences—A Radical Look at Race in American Folklore Studies1
Miracles and Visionaries in the Digital Age1
The Native Princess of Sri Lanka: The Thematic Metaphorical Approach in Symbolizing Characteristics of Folklore of Kuweni1
Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies: An Initiative of the American Folklore Society and Its Partners in China and the United States1
The Early Films of William Ferris (1968–1975)1
John Henry and His People: The Historical Origin and Lore of America's Great Folk Ballad1
Cloud of Witnesses1
Response Essays1
Systemic Racism in American Folkloristics1
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales0
Ronald Lee Baker (1937–2023)0
A Message from the Editor0
Breaking Bread0
Talking about the Weather: Common Sense, Common Sensing, Commonplaces0
Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities0
Introduction0
We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery0
De Aquí y De Allá: Fluid, Boundless, and ExcessiveGénero0
10 Lessons in Community Love0
Unfinished Stories: Problematizing Narrative Completion0
The Color Purple0
Robert A. Georges (1933–2022)0
Hindsight Beyond 20200
“You may now become who you thought was disposable”: COVID-19 Politics and Ableism0
Salons 4: Sustainabilities0
The Proverbs of a Pandemic: The Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic Viewed through the Lens of Google Trends0
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard: Folklore and Culture in Jamaica0
Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs: The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman0
Digital Ottoman Studies0
Salons 1: Mutual Engagement, Co-creation, and Yielding Authority for Representation: Strategies and Practices0
Woody Guthrie: Racial Transformation through the Framework of the “Long Civil Rights Movement”0
Jalisco Is Mexico: Race and Class in the Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi y la Charrería in Guadalajara, Mexico (1994–2003)0
Folklore Made Me Disabled: Integrating Disability Studies into Folklore Research0
Information about Contributors0
Talking Testimonio: Telling History and Memory0
Disassembling and Re-membering Self: Opaquing an Enlightened Taxonomy0
The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters0
Severed Tongues, Lost Voices0
Earth to Tables Legacies: Multimedia Food Conversations across Generations and Cultures0
Folklore and Cultural Heritage: Reflecting on Change0
What We Know and What We Do0
Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performance and Dancing Histories of a Nation0
Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception0
One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World0
Dhol: Drummers, Identities, and Modern Punjab0
Advancing Folkloristics0
Institutional Dilemmas and Responses in Facing Harm0
The William A. Wilson Digital Folklore Archives0
Redirecting Currents: Theoretical Wayfinding with Latinx Folkloristics and Women of Color Transnational Feminisms0
Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!: Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community0
Roger Welsch (1936–2022)0
Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the 21st Century0
Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times0
Folklife, Heritage, and the Environment: A Critique of Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services, and Settler Ecology0
Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter: Stories of an Ozark Folksong Collector0
Stigmatized Women's Discourse about Sexual Harassment in Academia0
Santa Claus Worldwide: A History of St. Nicholas and Other Holiday Gift-Bringers0
Folklore 101: An Accessible Introduction to Folklore Studies0
Born in a Ballroom0
Jewish Folktales from Morocco: Tales of Seha the Sage and Seha the Clown0
Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley0
Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture0
Being a Young Black Woman in Today’s Society …0
Weaving Has a Heartbeat0
Information about Contributors0
Different Drummers: Military Culture and Its Discontents0
Rekeying Latinx Performance: Gesture, Ancestors, and Community0
Because the movement, it’s never done0
All the World's a (Neurotypical) Stage: Neurodivergent Folklore, Autistic Masking, and Virtual Spaces for Discussing Autistic Identity0
The Skirt Chaser and His Brothers0
Information About Contributors0
Mildred (Millie) L. Rahn (1951–2024)0
Where Were/Are Asian American Folklorists?0
Claude D. Stephenson (1952–2023)0
A Testament on the Challenges of Holding HANDS UP0
In a Land of Venn Diagrams: Reflections on Anti-Fans and Counter Memes, Trolls and Anti-Legends0
Our Stories Etched in Ivory/Qulip'yugut Iksiaqtuumaruat Tuugaami: The Smithsonian Collections of Engraved Drill Bows with Stories from the Arctic0
Kindred Spirits: One Animal Family0
PTSD and Folk Therapy: Everyday Practices of American Masculinity in the Combat Zone0
The Wife of Bath in Afterlife: Ballads to Blake0
Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures0
Dan Ben-Amos (1934–2023)0
American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition, and Brer Rabbit0
Doing Research of/from/at Home: Fieldwork Research Ethics in Latinx Contexts0
Reflections on the Legacy of Dell Hymes0
Abiding Faith amid Turmoil0
Liars, Damn Liars, and Storytellers: Essays on Traditional and Contemporary Storytelling0
Counter Memes and Anti-Legends in Online Welfare Discourse0
Performing Tsarist Russia in New York: Music, Émigrés, and the American Imagination0
Information about Contributors0
Anticipatory Heritage0
Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives0
Music in the American Diasporic Wedding0
Canti Popolari del Piemonte0
Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs0
Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts0
Leonard Norman Primiano (1957–2021)0
Taxonomía of a Spicy Espécimen0
Rewilding My Brain: Folklore, Disability, and the Non-human World0
Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia0
Gwendolyn Meister (1947–2023)0
Lover's Leap Legends: From Sappho of Lesbos to Wah-Wah-Tee of Waco0
Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in VermontThe Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont, Drawn by New England Cartoonists0
Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between0
Storytime in India: Wedding Songs, Victorian Tales, and the Ethnographic Experience0
Twisted Legacies and the Work of Manifesting the Toll of Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment in Folkloristic Praxis0
Keep It Old-Time: Fiddle Music in Missouri from the 1960s Folk Music Revival to the Present0
Fairy Tales of Appalachia. Edited by Stacy Sivinski0
Gillian Bennett (1939–2023)0
Information About Contributors0
On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World's Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer0
Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them0
Response Essay0
James S. Griffith: Remembering “Big Jim” (1935–2021)0
The Pandemic0
Gender and Legend in Rural Iceland in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries0
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales0
Orphan Lines and Orphan Songs: Poetics and Pragmatics of Kmhmu Parallel Verse0
A Curly-Headed Dreamer0
Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore & Everyday Culture in Appalachia0
Gladys-Marie Fry's Night Riders in Black Folk History: Critical Race Theory and Black Folklore Practice0
Exhibiting Indigenous: Honoring Native Textiles0
Mountaineers Are Always Free: Heritage, Dissent, and a West Virginia Icon0
Living Cultural Heritage and the Traditional and Folk Arts in the Nonprofit Sector: Data on Scope, Finances, and FundingReport Summary0
Electronic Media Review0
Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures0
La fiaba: Morfologia, antropologia e storia0
Henry Glassie: Field Work0
Culture Work: Folklore for the Public Good0
The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England: Moving Media, Tactical Publics0
Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages: Balancing the Humours0
Stitching Narratives That Matter: Baron Samedi Visits His New Orleans Cousins0
Joy Fraser (1977–2023)0
Roberta (Bobbi) Louise Singer (1941–2022)0
Missing Finishes and Diminishing Heroes in Hurricane Katrina Survivor Stories0
Salons 3: Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities0
Accenting Songs in an Afro-Brazilian Festival: Song Structures, Performance Styles, and Ludic Capital in the Bumba-meu-Boi of Maranhão0
Conspiratorial Thinking among Russian Speakers in Estonia: From COVID-19 to the War in Ukraine0
Folklore and Disability: An Important—and Too Often Overlooked—Factor in Global Health and International Development Efforts0
Another Haul: Narrative Stewardship and Cultural Sustainability at the Lewis Family Fishery0
Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist0
Becoming Story: A Journey among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors0
What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana0
Songs for the Journey and the Mission: The Life Notes of Bernice Johnson Reagon0
Styling Blackness in Chile: Music and Dance in the African Diaspora0
(Re)Making the Folk: Black Representation and the Folk in Early American Folklore Studies0
Digital Project0
Intellectual Legacy, Invisibility, and the Path to Repair0
Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe0
A Potter's Progress: Emanuel Suter and the Business of Craft0
Information about Contributors0
Film and Video Review0
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales0
An Open Letter to the Wickhams (and Other Descendants of Slave Owners)0
Contrapunteo 1: Intersectionality and Genealogies of Third World Feminist Thought0
Culinary Tourism as Public Folklore: Heritage in Negotiating Competitiveness and Sustainability0
The Shaman’s Wages: Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island0
Henri Pourrat and Le Trésor des Contes0
Tracing a Black Folklore Practice: Frank D. Banks and the Journal of American Folklore0
Dell Hymes, #MeToo, and Traditionalization0
Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart BiographyHorace Kephart: Writings0
Glastonbury Holy Thorn: Story of a Legend0
Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend0
Information about Contributors0
Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile0
JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling0
Subversion, Subservience, and Property in The Magic Bean and Iranian Fairy Tales Written in 1960–19800
Information About Contributors0
Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s0
Folklore Training for the Public Humanities: Podcasting0
Cursed Russians and Armed Saints: “Angry Folklore” and the Ethics of Precarity in Response to the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine0
The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice0
The Lost Cherokee0
Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown: The Making of an American Classic0
Trickster, Comrade, Citizen: The Adventures of Aldar Köse in Kazakh Folktales and Mass Culture0
Esther Clinton (1971–2022)0
Memes and Representations of Race: An Analysis of Historical Representations of Welfare0
Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture0
Snow Woman Yukionna: From Spirit of Snow to Icy Hot Female0
American Folklore Studies and Disability: An Introduction0
Considering Commemoration in Latinx Communities: Notes on the Politics of Re(membering)0
Information about Contributors0
“Urgencies” in the Field: Three Perspectives0
A New History of American and Canadian Folk Music0
Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain's Supernatural Beings0
The Crosses of Huaquechula, Mexico: A Living Tradition0
George Floyd & Anti-Racist Street Art0
James Stanley Lane, Jr. (1951–2022)0
Tending the Taproot: Opportunities to Support Folk & Traditional Arts in the United States,“Executive Summary” and “Introduction”0
Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma0
Psychobilly: Subcultural Survival0
Moral Mentorship in the Spotlight0
Kulu Mele’s Ogun & the People: Celebrating 50 Years (1969–2019)0
Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Music Legend0
Salons 5: Anticipatory Heritage0
Toward Sustainable Visits0
Mountain Witches: Yamauba0
Cornbread, Earl and Me0
Information about Contributors0
Introduction to the Special Issue on African American Expressive Culture and Protest0
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