Journal of American Folklore

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Problem of Amplification: Folklore and Fake News in the Age of Social Media11
Stirring Up Skyr: From Live Cultures to Cultural Heritage6
Telling Our Own Stories: Reciprocal Autoethnography at the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender6
Folklife, Heritage, and the Environment: A Critique of Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services, and Settler Ecology5
Anticipatory Heritage5
Systemic Racism in American Folkloristics5
Folklore and Cultural Heritage: Reflecting on Change5
There Isn’t Belief, Just Believing: RethinkingBeliefas a Keyword of Folklore Studies5
“Won't You Help to Sing These Songs of Freedom?”: Sharing Authority, Co-curation, and Supporting Community-Driven Heritage Work5
Culinary Tourism as Public Folklore: Heritage in Negotiating Competitiveness and Sustainability5
Toward Sustainable Visits5
Tearing Down Monuments: Missed Opportunities, Silences, and Absences—A Radical Look at Race in American Folklore Studies4
Latinx Publics: Self-Documentation and Latina Youth Activists3
Narrative Breakdown in the Political Asylum Process3
Gender, Ethno-Nationalism, and the Anti-Mexicanist Trope3
Graves in One's Heart: Grassroots Memorialization of Dr. Li Wenliang during the COVID-19 Outbreak in China3
Introduction: Defining and Creating (A) New Critical Folklore Studies3
Tracing a Black Folklore Practice: Frank D. Banks and the Journal of American Folklore2
Unfinished Stories: Problematizing Narrative Completion2
“Our Shmuck”: Russian Folklore about American Elections2
A Woman’s Place Is in the (Greasepaint) White House: How the 2016 Presidential Election Sparked a Creepy Clown Craze2
“Mas amas diehtá maid oarri borrá?”: Contesting Sustainability in Sápmi2
(Folk)Life, Interrupted: Challenges for Fieldwork, Empathy, and Public Discourse in the Age of Trump2
Tending the Taproot: Opportunities to Support Folk & Traditional Arts in the United States,“Executive Summary” and “Introduction”2
Contrapunteo 1: Intersectionality and Genealogies of Third World Feminist Thought2
Disassembling and Re-membering Self: Opaquing an Enlightened Taxonomy2
Response Essays2
Go-Go Drums, Murals, and Other Weapons in the War for Black Lives1
Songs for the Journey and the Mission: The Life Notes of Bernice Johnson Reagon1
Living Cultural Heritage and the Traditional and Folk Arts in the Nonprofit Sector: Data on Scope, Finances, and FundingReport Summary1
Memes and Representations of Race: An Analysis of Historical Representations of Welfare1
Revisiting Stories from the 1989 and 1990 Smithsonian Folklore Summer Institute for Community Scholars1
Gladys-Marie Fry's Night Riders in Black Folk History: Critical Race Theory and Black Folklore Practice1
Talking Testimonio: Telling History and Memory1
Neighborliness and Decency, Witchcraft and Famine: Reflections on Community from Irish Folklore1
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Black Woman Trailblazer: Presenting and Interpreting Black Vernacular and Popular Musics in a White Cultural Institution1
Vaccine Hesitancy Counter Memes1
Jalisco Is Mexico: Race and Class in the Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi y la Charrería in Guadalajara, Mexico (1994–2003)1
Considering Commemoration in Latinx Communities: Notes on the Politics of Re(membering)1
A Message from the Editor1
Critical Folkloristics, Free Speech, and the “War on Terror”1
Bernice Johnson Reagon: Exemplary Mentor for Folklore Studies1
Hero of the People: Reimagining the Trickster in North Korea1
Repairing Tradition: Vernacular Knowledge, Cognitive Spaces, and Economies of Work in an Agricultural Repair Shop1
The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives1
10 Lessons in Community Love1
Counter Memes and Anti-Legends in Online Welfare Discourse1
Where Were/Are Asian American Folklorists?1
Missing Finishes and Diminishing Heroes in Hurricane Katrina Survivor Stories1
The Place Where Things Fall Apart: The World from Inside a Fragment1
Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist1
Bernice Johnson Reagon—In Celebration of Her Eightieth Birthday (October 4, 1942): A Preliminary Inquiry and Invitation to New Generations of Activist Scholars for Further Research1
Old Thoughts on (A)New Critical Folklore Studies: A Partisan’s Response to the Special Issue1
An Auto-Ethnography of Relational Knowledge Production0
Talking about the Weather: Common Sense, Common Sensing, Commonplaces0
Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart BiographyHorace Kephart: Writings0
The Ballad and Its Pasts: Literary Histories and the Play of Memory0
Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes: Performing the Wild West in German Festivals0
Baghdad Twist0
Introduction to the Special Issue on African American Expressive Culture and Protest0
The Crosses of Huaquechula, Mexico: A Living Tradition0
Implied Nowhere: Absence in Folklore Studies0
Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)0
Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge0
Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton0
Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs0
Home Made Sugar and a Puncheon Floor: Home Recordings by Howdy Forrester and John HartfordRisey Scruggs: Scruggs Reel0
Jan Rosenberg (1955–2023)0
Old-Time Conversations0
The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales0
Information about Contributors0
Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa's “Great(er) Spain”: The Snares of Querencia and the Pitfalls of Cultural Nationalism and Fundamentalist Hispanismo0
Contrapunteo 2: Embrace the Messiness0
Salons 3: Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities0
Information about Contributors0
Woke Cinderella: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations0
Taxonomía of a Spicy Espécimen0
Sámi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North0
Staging Fairyland: Folklore, Children’s Entertainment, and Nineteenth-Century Pantomime0
The Spirit of Protest in Black Culture0
Teaching Fairy Tales0
Exhibiting Indigenous: Honoring Native Textiles0
¡Viva George! Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the US-Mexico Border0
Blues Narrative: Blues People, COVID-19, and Civil Unrest0
Stitching Narratives That Matter: Baron Samedi Visits His New Orleans Cousins0
James S. Griffith: Remembering “Big Jim” (1935–2021)0
Kindred Spirits: One Animal Family0
Swede Home Chicago: The Wallin's Svenska Records Story, 1923–270
Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana0
(Re)Making the Folk: Black Representation and the Folk in Early American Folklore Studies0
Roger L. Janelli (1943–2021)0
Roman Legends Brought to Life0
Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan0
“The Father[s] of Canning”? Narrating Nicolas Appert/American Industry0
Alabama Quilts: Wilderness through World War II, 1682–19500
Front Matter0
Information about Contributors0
The Bungling Host: The Nature of Indigenous Oral Literature0
Information About Contributors0
Gender and Genre: Women's Performance Practices in Dersim0
Information about Contributors0
The Sex Thieves: The Anthropology of a Rumor0
These Words0
Henry Glassie: Field Work0
Dreaming in Motion: Zoom Excerpts from Black Motion Pictures0
Dinjii Vadzaih Dhidlit: The Man Who Became a Caribou: Gwich'in Stories and Conversations from Alaska and the Yukon0
Ruins, Caves, Gods, and Incense Burners: Northern Lacandon Maya Myths and Rituals0
Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China0
Unruly Audience: Folk Interventions in Popular Media0
Because the movement, it’s never done0
Psychobilly: Subcultural Survival0
The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Tables0
Protobilly: The Minstrel and Tin Pan Alley DNA of Country Music 1892–20170
Square Dance Calling: An Old Art for a New Century0
Folklore, Heritage, and the Public Sphere: Introduction0
Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture0
Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts0
Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora0
Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues0
Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories: QAnon, 5G, the New World Order and Other Viral Ideas0
Another Haul: Narrative Stewardship and Cultural Sustainability at the Lewis Family Fishery0
La fiaba: Morfologia, antropologia e storia0
Horror Culture in the New Millennium: Digital Dissonance and Technohorror0
A Sound History: Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest, and White Denial0
Collecting Music in the Aran Islands: A Century of History and Practice0
Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America0
Born in a Ballroom0
A Cross-Boundary Dialogue in Need: Racial, Ethnic, or Folk Groups?0
Black Lives Matter & Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection0
Out of State0
Refinishing the Story: Transforming Stories of Life into Life Stories0
Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies: An Initiative of the American Folklore Society and Its Partners in China and the United States0
Salons 1: Mutual Engagement, Co-creation, and Yielding Authority for Representation: Strategies and Practices0
The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History0
Gordon Rohlehr (1942–2023)0
Spider Tales0
Searching for Woody Guthrie: A Personal Exploration of the Folk Singer, His Music, and His Politics0
Janet L. Langlois (1946–2021)0
A Potter's Progress: Emanuel Suter and the Business of Craft0
Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales0
Information About Contributors0
Inside Arabic Music: Arabic Maqam Performance and Theory in the 20th Century0
Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State0
Rekeying Latinx Performance: Gesture, Ancestors, and Community0
Real Southern Barbecue: Constructing Authenticity in Southern Food Culture0
Look Who’s Cooking: The Rhetoric of American Home Cooking Traditions in the Twenty-First Century0
Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation0
Paso a paso se va muy lejos: Traveling the Path with AFS0
Santa Claus Worldwide: A History of St. Nicholas and Other Holiday Gift-Bringers0
Listen0
Abiding Faith amid Turmoil0
By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends0
The William A. Wilson Digital Folklore Archives0
“Urgencies” in the Field: Three Perspectives0
Front Matter0
Balut: Fertilized Eggs and the Making of Culinary Capital in the Filipino Diaspora0
Vinyl Ventures: My Fifty Years at Rounder Records0
Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures0
You or Me: Song Lyrics0
The Practice of Folklore: Essays toward a Theory of Tradition0
Cornbread, Earl and Me0
Shakespeare and the Folktale: An Anthology of Stories0
Ole Hendricks and His Tunebook: Folk Music and Community on the Frontier0
MeXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction0
Geschichte der Schweizer Volksmusik0
Raymond Hall (1949–2018)0
John Michael Vlach (1948–2022)0
Borrowing from Our Foremothers: Reexamining the Women's Movement through Material Culture, 1848–20170
Miracles and Visionaries in the Digital Age0
Information about Contributors0
Posthuman Folklore0
Being a Young Black Woman in Today’s Society …0
Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages: Balancing the Humours0
It Can Be This Way Always: Images from the Kerrville Folk Festival0
Frank de Caro (1943–2020)0
Moon Witch, Spider King0
Cloud of Witnesses0
A Curly-Headed Dreamer0
Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures0
What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies0
Visions and Traditions: Knowledge Production and Tradition Archives0
Salons 2: Public Folklore, Heritage, and Social Justice0
The Early Films of William Ferris (1968–1975)0
Styling Blackness in Chile: Music and Dance in the African Diaspora0
Redirecting Currents: Theoretical Wayfinding with Latinx Folkloristics and Women of Color Transnational Feminisms0
The Witch in Flight0
Isaac Jack Lévy (1928–2020)0
Snow Woman Yukionna: From Spirit of Snow to Icy Hot Female0
A Testament on the Challenges of Holding HANDS UP0
Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture0
Handbook for Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork0
Literary Circles0
Wild Songs, Sweet Songs: The Albanian Epic in the Collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord0
Departures: Irish Emigration and Supernatural Belief Narratives0
Rediscovering the Brothers Grimm of China: Lin Lan0
Keep Talking, Niugaa Yugaa0
Vivian Williams (1938–2023) and Phil Williams (1936–2017)0
Song King: Connecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China0
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales0
Rebuilding an Enlightened World: Folklorizing America0
Salons 4: Sustainabilities0
Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster0
In a Land of Venn Diagrams: Reflections on Anti-Fans and Counter Memes, Trolls and Anti-Legends0
The Monster Theory Reader0
Immigration in the Visual Art of Nicario Jiménez Quispe0
Mountain Witches: Yamauba0
The Songs of Old Europe—Ancient Belarusian Folk Songs0
Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland: Blackening the Bride and Decorating the Hen0
Remembering the Reedys: Appalachian Music, Migration, & Memory [blog]0
Published Collections as the Sources of Ballad Tunes Sung by an Enthusiast in Japan0
Gender and Legend in Rural Iceland in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries0
Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People. Volume II0
Downtown Mardi Gras: New Carnival Practices in Post-Katrina New Orleans0
“Aquí me pongo a cantar …”: El arte payadoresco de Argentina y Uruguay0
Women, Art, and Hope in Black Lives Matter0
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev. Volume III0
What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana0
Information about Contributors0
The Color Purple0
My Blackness0
Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter: Stories of an Ozark Folksong Collector0
Dance Hall Days0
Back Matter0
Taproots of Tennessee: Historic Sites and Timeless Recipes0
The Ubume Challenge: A Digital Environmental Humanities Project0
The Paradox of Authenticity: Folklore Performance in Post-Communist Slovakia0
Can’t Be Faded: Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game0
The Invisible Comes to Us0
Feminism and Folk Art: Case Studies in Mexico, New Zealand, Japan, and Brazil0
Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital0
Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest0
Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities0
Daughters of the Dust0
Kulu Mele’s Ogun & the People: Celebrating 50 Years (1969–2019)0
Information about Contributors0
Made in Louisiana: The Story of the Acadian Accordion0
Ira Stuart Jacknis (1952–2021)0
Miracles of Love: French Fairy Tales by Women0
I’m Afraid of That Water: A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis0
George Floyd & Anti-Racist Street Art0
Different Drummers: Military Culture and Its Discontents0
Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics: An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Texts, and Wild Texts0
Manuel Heriberto Peña (1942–2019)0
Mick Moloney (1944–2022)0
Plantation Courtship0
Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown: The Making of an American Classic0
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales0
Folklore Research on Chinese Opera and Festival0
“You Gave Me a Song”: The Life and Music of Alice Gerrard0
Strategic Skepticism: The Politics of Grassroots Participation in an Afro-Andean Nomination to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative List0
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