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Author : Hermann Bausinger
Release : 1990
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Folk Culture in a World of Technology by : Hermann Bausinger
Download or read book Folk Culture in a World of Technology written by Hermann Bausinger. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Trevor J. Blank
Release : 2012-11-16
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 672/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Folk Culture in the Digital Age by : Trevor J. Blank
Download or read book Folk Culture in the Digital Age written by Trevor J. Blank. This book was released on 2012-11-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart phones, tablets, Facebook, Twitter, and wireless Internet connections are the latest technologies to have become entrenched in our culture. Although traditionalists have argued that computer-mediated communication and cyberspace are incongruent with the study of folklore, Trevor J. Blank sees the digital world as fully capable of generating, transmitting, performing, and archiving vernacular culture. Folklore in the Digital Age documents the emergent cultural scenes and expressive folkloric communications made possible by digital “new media” technologies. New media is changing the ways in which people learn, share, participate, and engage with others as they adopt technologies to complement and supplement traditional means of vernacular expression. But behavioral and structural overlap in many folkloric forms exists between on- and offline, and emerging patterns in digital rhetoric mimic the dynamics of previously documented folkloric forms, invoking familiar social or behavior customs, linguistic inflections, and symbolic gestures. Folklore in the Digital Age provides insights and perspectives on the myriad ways in which folk culture manifests in the digital age and contributes to our greater understanding of vernacular expression in our ever-changing technological world.
Author : Regina Bendix
Release : 2009-07-30
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 439/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis In Search of Authenticity by : Regina Bendix
Download or read book In Search of Authenticity written by Regina Bendix. This book was released on 2009-07-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authenticity is a notion much debated, among discussants as diverse as cultural theorists and art dealers, music critics and tour operators. The desire to find and somehow capture or protect the “authentic” narrative, art object, or ceremonial dance is hardly new. In this masterful examination of German and American folklore studies from the eighteenth century to the present, Regina Bendix demonstrates that the longing for authenticity remains deeply implicated in scholarly approaches to cultural analysis. Searches for authenticity, Bendix contends, have been a constant companion to the feelings of loss inherent in modernization, forever upholding a belief in a pristine yet endangered cultural essence and fueling cultural nationalism worldwide. Beginning with precursors of Herder and Emerson and the “discovery” of the authentic in expressive culture and literature, she traces the different, albeit intertwined, histories of German Volkskunde and American folklore studies. A Swiss native educated in American folklore programs, Bendix moves effortlessly between the two traditions, demonstrating how the notion of authenticity was used not only to foster national causes, but also to lay the foundations for categories of documentation and analysis within the nascent field of folklore studies. Bendix shows that, in an increasingly transcultural world, where Zulu singers back up Paul Simon and where indigenous artists seek copyright for their traditional crafts, the politics of authenticity mingles with the forces of the market. Arguing against the dichotomies implied in the very idea of authenticity, she underscores the emptiness of efforts to distinguish between folklore and fakelore, between echt and ersatz.
Author : Linda S. Watts
Release : 2006
Genre : Folklore
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Book Rating : 793/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of American Folklore by : Linda S. Watts
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Folklore written by Linda S. Watts. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of American Folklore helps readers explore the topics, terms, themes, figures, and issues related to the folklore of the United States.
Author : Trevor J. Blank
Release : 2009-09-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 74X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Folklore and the Internet by : Trevor J. Blank
Download or read book Folklore and the Internet written by Trevor J. Blank. This book was released on 2009-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and related digital media. These stuidies show that folk culture, sustained by a new and evolving vernacular, has been a key, since the Internet's beginnings, to language, practice, and interaction online. Users of many sorts continue to develop the Internet as a significant medium for generating, transmitting, documenting, and preserving folklore. In a set of new, insightful essays, contributors Trevor J. Blank, Simon J. Bronner, Robert Dobler, Russell Frank, Gregory Hansen, Robert Glenn Howard, Lynne S. McNeill, Elizabeth Tucker, and William Westerman showcase ways the Internet both shapes and is shaped by folklore
