The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World

by Michael Dylan Foster and Jeffrey A. Tolbert

This volume introduces a new concept to explore the dynamic relationship between folklore and popular culture: the "folkloresque." With "folkloresque," Foster and Tolbert name the product created when popular culture appropriates or reinvents folkloric themes, characters, and images. Such manufactured tropes are traditionally considered outside the purview of academic folklore study, but the folkloresque offers a frame for understanding them that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607324172
• ISBN13: 9781607324171
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"