New Editor's Note

Rather than reifying an idea of a "core culture" that can be borrowed or stolen, Jackson prefers to look at how talk about cultural appropriation in the academy, media, and the arts reflects central concerns about cultural advocacy and the power of representation Putting cultural appropriation alongside terms like diffusion, acculturation, assimilation, heritage, and cultural property, Jackson also gives us a deep historical and academic contextualization of the term [ ]Gary Dunham, the Director of Indiana University Press, offered essential support for our Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology book series and the journal during this time of transition