{"title":"The Traditional and National Music of Scotland","authors":"Peter Crossley-Holland, Francis M. Collinson","doi":"10.2307/1499121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1499121","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44624,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/1499121","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47073735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pachuco","authors":"G. C. Barker","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvss3zss","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvss3zss","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44624,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68856846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dancing on the Color Line: African American Tricksters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature","authors":"Todd H. Richardson","doi":"10.5860/choice.197530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.197530","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44624,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42214285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Science, Bread, and Circuses: Folkloristic Essays on Science for the Masses","authors":"Paul Jordan-Smith","doi":"10.5860/choice.189308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.189308","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44624,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44185664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tales, Tunes, and Tassa Drums: Retention and Invention in Indo-Caribbean Music by Peter Manuel. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. Pp. xviii + 268, preface, notes, glossary, references, index. $60.00 cloth, $16.50 ebook.)At the end of slavery in the British Empire, demands for cheap labor drove development of an indentureship scheme that recruited laborers primarily from the Bhojpuri region of India, roughly coterminous with the present-day states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Between 1838 and 1917, hundreds of thousands of Indians were transported to far-flung territories, many oblivious to what they were in for. West Indian colonies were among the largest benefi-ciaries of the indentureship system. Today, thriving Indian-Caribbean communities are found throughout the region, though those in Guyana, Surinam, and Trinidad and Tobago are the largest.Ethnomusicologist Peter Manuel conducted early fieldwork in North India, and it was in New York City where he first encountered Indian-Caribbean culture by way of the substantial secondary diaspora there. Beginning in the late 1990s, Manuel produced a string of publications on Indian-Caribbean music. In these works, he largely eschews esoteric academic-speak in favor of practical discussions of performance practice, straightforward musical transcriptions, and informed interpretation. Though perhaps regarded as old-fashioned by some, such accessible writing never goes out of style. Manuel's latest book Tales, Tunes, and Tassa Drums continues in this vein while summarizing his two-decades-long engagement with Indian-Caribbean culture. The book centers upon continuity and creativity, which he frequently frames as "retention" and "invention," these seemingly antipodal forces that animate compelling, complex, and socially significant musical practices.Chapters Two and Three are reworked versions of previously published material on song genres alha, birha, and chowtal and the percussive idiophone dantal. In these chapters, Manuel's careful analysis suggests that Indian-Caribbean musics developed along a unique trajectory, having been cultivated from fragments of North Indian folk tradition but developing beyond mere survivals into rather reified musical practices distinct from their forebears. In Chapter Four, Manuel discusses the effects of importation of Indian popular culture in the post-indentureship period. The diaspora was largely isolated from North Indian folk culture after 1917, yet contact with India continued in the form of Bollywood films, visiting Hindu missionaries, teaching of standard Hindi language in some school curricula, and other non-Bhojpuri imports. Here Manuel suggests a dialectic between a "little tradition" (rural and Bhojpuri) and a "great tradition" (urban, popular, and representative of an imagined Indian homeland) that led to a waning of interest in some traditional musics-especially those requiring knowledge of Bhojpuri song texts-yet thoroughly enlivened others. Manuel
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{"title":"Blood on the Tides: The Ozidi Saga and Oral Epic Narratology","authors":"J. Mbele","doi":"10.5860/choice.186828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.186828","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44624,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71025689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American Heathens: The Politics of Identity in a Pagan Religious Movement. By Jennifer Snook. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 221, preface, photographs, notes, glossary, index. $29.95 paper.)In a cultural climate where the charge of racism can serve as a final, decisive diagnosis that closes down all discussion, there is a particular need for scholarship that resists such intellectual shortcuts. The study of spiritual movements with programs explicitly based on ethnic identity is especially fraught with the temptation to identify them as racist and be done with it. Jennifer Snook's American Heathens: The Politics of Identity in a Pagan Religious Movement is a welcome antidote to this tendency.Snook's book is a result of the author's long-term involvement in American Heathen communities as a researcher and practitioner. This insightful and detailed study, based on fieldwork, interviews, and online research, addresses a few of the most pressing aspects of contemporary religious movements and Heathenry in particular: the challenges of recreating a past lifestyle, the movement's relationship to other religious traditions, the influence of the Internet on spirituality, and the meanings of gender and race. Snook paints a complex picture of a network of communities engaged in the construction of divergent and sometimes conflicting meanings of what it means to be Heathen. This picture has depth as well as width: Snook takes care to explain how the movement has changed over the past decades and how these changes were reflected in the personal journeys of its members. Snook's analysis includes descriptions of concepts central to the Heathen worldview and a useful glossary.Following an introductory discussion of the movement and relevant scholarship, Snook's second chapter investigates identity production and the boundary-constructing activity of American Heathenry. Like many emerging religious communities, contemporary Heathenry distinguishes itself from Christianity, equating it with the homogenizing and degrading forces of modernity. The project of Heathenry is in many ways a project of undoing the perceived harm of Christianity. Snook goes beyond the customary identification of Christianity as a pagan movement's most salient Other in order to discuss Heathenry's fraught relationship with Wicca and Neopaganism. Many Heathens are critical of what they see as the fuzziness of Wiccan thought and the self-indulgent drama of its adherents. Heathenry, by contrast, is distinguished by its rigor and responsibility. At the same time, many come to Heathenry from Wicca and other "softer" versions of paganism, and Wiccan influence on Heathen rituals often proves difficult to shed.In the third chapter, Snook describes how Heathens discover or recover a spiritual tradition and a corresponding lifestyle. For Heathens, spirituality has roots in the distant Germanic past. With access to this past restricted, if not impossible, different approaches
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{"title":"Virtual Afterlives: Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-First Century","authors":"Karen M. Ristau","doi":"10.5860/choice.186209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.186209","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44624,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN FOLKLORE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71025511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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