Journal of American Folklore

Papers
(The median citation count 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Literary Circles6
Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)6
Searching for Woody Guthrie: A Personal Exploration of the Folk Singer, His Music, and His Politics6
A Sound History: Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest, and White Denial6
Stirring Up Skyr: From Live Cultures to Cultural Heritage5
Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes: Performing the Wild West in German Festivals5
Go-Go Drums, Murals, and Other Weapons in the War for Black Lives5
The Ubume Challenge: A Digital Environmental Humanities Project5
Ruins, Caves, Gods, and Incense Burners: Northern Lacandon Maya Myths and Rituals5
Vinyl Ventures: My Fifty Years at Rounder Records4
¡Viva George! Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the US-Mexico Border3
Downtown Mardi Gras: New Carnival Practices in Post-Katrina New Orleans3
Sámi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North2
Contrapunteo 2: Embrace the Messiness2
The Songs of Old Europe—Ancient Belarusian Folk Songs2
Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales2
Real Southern Barbecue: Constructing Authenticity in Southern Food Culture2
The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives2
John Henry and His People: The Historical Origin and Lore of America's Great Folk Ballad1
Graves in One's Heart: Grassroots Memorialization of Dr. Li Wenliang during the COVID-19 Outbreak in China1
Departures: Irish Emigration and Supernatural Belief Narratives1
The Befana Is Returning: The Story of a Tuscan Festival1
Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton1
The Native Princess of Sri Lanka: The Thematic Metaphorical Approach in Symbolizing Characteristics of Folklore of Kuweni1
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales1
Vaccine Hesitancy Counter Memes1
MeXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction1
Telling Our Own Stories: Reciprocal Autoethnography at the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender1
Folklore, Heritage, and the Public Sphere: Introduction1
Narrative Breakdown in the Political Asylum Process1
Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America1
MennoFolk3: Puns, Riddles, Tales, Legends1
Information about Contributors1
Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies: An Initiative of the American Folklore Society and Its Partners in China and the United States1
The Oral Epic: From Performance to Interpretation1
Out of State1
Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest1
The Early Films of William Ferris (1968–1975)1
DNA Identities: Narrative and Authority in Genetic Ancestry Performance on YouTube1
Ira Stuart Jacknis (1952–2021)1
Tearing Down Monuments: Missed Opportunities, Silences, and Absences—A Radical Look at Race in American Folklore Studies1
Repairing Tradition: Vernacular Knowledge, Cognitive Spaces, and Economies of Work in an Agricultural Repair Shop1
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Black Woman Trailblazer: Presenting and Interpreting Black Vernacular and Popular Musics in a White Cultural Institution1
Michel Ray Oyatayo Ali Abu Maryam (Mickey) Weems (1957–2023)1
An Auto-Ethnography of Relational Knowledge Production1
The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales1
The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales & Their Tellers1
Miracles and Visionaries in the Digital Age1
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales0
Dhol: Drummers, Identities, and Modern Punjab0
Memes and Representations of Race: An Analysis of Historical Representations of Welfare0
Our Stories Etched in Ivory/Qulip'yugut Iksiaqtuumaruat Tuugaami: The Smithsonian Collections of Engraved Drill Bows with Stories from the Arctic0
Information about Contributors0
Immigration in the Visual Art of Nicario Jiménez Quispe0
Styling Blackness in Chile: Music and Dance in the African Diaspora0
Different Drummers: Military Culture and Its Discontents0
Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the 21st Century0
Conspiratorial Thinking among Russian Speakers in Estonia: From COVID-19 to the War in Ukraine0
Henri Pourrat and Le Trésor des Contes0
James Stanley Lane, Jr. (1951–2022)0
James S. Griffith: Remembering “Big Jim” (1935–2021)0
A Curly-Headed Dreamer0
Accenting Songs in an Afro-Brazilian Festival: Song Structures, Performance Styles, and Ludic Capital in the Bumba-meu-Boi of Maranhão0
What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana0
Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe0
Response Essays0
Roland Freeman (1936–2023)0
A Potter's Progress: Emanuel Suter and the Business of Craft0
Talking Testimonio: Telling History and Memory0
Earth to Tables Legacies: Multimedia Food Conversations across Generations and Cultures0
Gender and Legend in Rural Iceland in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries0
Contrapunteo 1: Intersectionality and Genealogies of Third World Feminist Thought0
Plantation Courtship0
Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation0
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith0
“Won't You Help to Sing These Songs of Freedom?”: Sharing Authority, Co-curation, and Supporting Community-Driven Heritage Work0
Santa Claus Worldwide: A History of St. Nicholas and Other Holiday Gift-Bringers0
Tracing a Black Folklore Practice: Frank D. Banks and the Journal of American Folklore0
Unruly Audience: Folk Interventions in Popular Media0
Folklife, Heritage, and the Environment: A Critique of Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services, and Settler Ecology0
Henry Glassie: Field Work0
Yōkai: Ghosts, Demons & Monsters of Japan0
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales0
One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World0
Can’t Be Faded: Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game0
Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs0
Jewish Folktales from Morocco: Tales of Seha the Sage and Seha the Clown0
Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley0
Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s0
Canti Popolari del Piemonte0
Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter: Stories of an Ozark Folksong Collector0
Considering Commemoration in Latinx Communities: Notes on the Politics of Re(membering)0
The Lost Cherokee0
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales0
Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception0
Information about Contributors0
Glastonbury Holy Thorn: Story of a Legend0
Gwendolyn Meister (1947–2023)0
Mountaineers Are Always Free: Heritage, Dissent, and a West Virginia Icon0
Gordon Rohlehr (1942–2023)0
Lover's Leap Legends: From Sappho of Lesbos to Wah-Wah-Tee of Waco0
Remembering the Reedys: Appalachian Music, Migration, & Memory [blog]0
Roger Welsch (1936–2022)0
Born in a Ballroom0
Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture0
Information about Contributors0
The Proverbs of a Pandemic: The Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic Viewed through the Lens of Google Trends0
We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery0
Rewilding My Brain: Folklore, Disability, and the Non-human World0
Paso a paso se va muy lejos: Traveling the Path with AFS0
Missing Finishes and Diminishing Heroes in Hurricane Katrina Survivor Stories0
Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart BiographyHorace Kephart: Writings0
Ronald Lee Baker (1937–2023)0
Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them0
Storytime in India: Wedding Songs, Victorian Tales, and the Ethnographic Experience0
Claude D. Stephenson (1952–2023)0
Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State0
Another Haul: Narrative Stewardship and Cultural Sustainability at the Lewis Family Fishery0
Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures0
On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World's Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer0
De Aquí y De Allá: Fluid, Boundless, and ExcessiveGénero0
An Open Letter to the Wickhams (and Other Descendants of Slave Owners)0
PTSD and Folk Therapy: Everyday Practices of American Masculinity in the Combat Zone0
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev. Volume III0
Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture0
Unfinished Stories: Problematizing Narrative Completion0
A Message from the Editor0
Jalisco Is Mexico: Race and Class in the Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi y la Charrería in Guadalajara, Mexico (1994–2003)0
10 Lessons in Community Love0
Systemic Racism in American Folkloristics0
A Testament on the Challenges of Holding HANDS UP0
Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages: Balancing the Humours0
Gillian Bennett (1939–2023)0
Cornbread, Earl and Me0
Information about Contributors0
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 Research0
The Meanings of Enchantment: Wondertale Symbolism Revisited0
Mountain Witches: Yamauba0
Vivian Williams (1938–2023) and Phil Williams (1936–2017)0
The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England: Moving Media, Tactical Publics0
Weaving Has a Heartbeat0
Cloud of Witnesses0
Living Cultural Heritage and the Traditional and Folk Arts in the Nonprofit Sector: Data on Scope, Finances, and FundingReport Summary0
George Floyd & Anti-Racist Street Art0
American Folklore Studies and Disability: An Introduction0
Robert A. Georges (1933–2022)0
Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in VermontThe Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont, Drawn by New England Cartoonists0
Posthuman Folklore0
Salons 1: Mutual Engagement, Co-creation, and Yielding Authority for Representation: Strategies and Practices0
Leonard Norman Primiano (1957–2021)0
Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain's Supernatural Beings0
Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between0
Information About Contributors0
The Practice of Folklore: Essays toward a Theory of Tradition0
Salons 4: Sustainabilities0
Electronic Media Review0
Woody Guthrie: Racial Transformation through the Framework of the “Long Civil Rights Movement”0
Breaking Bread0
Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives0
I’m Afraid of That Water: A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis0
Orphan Lines and Orphan Songs: Poetics and Pragmatics of Kmhmu Parallel Verse0
JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling0
Folklore 101: An Accessible Introduction to Folklore Studies0
Information about Contributors0
The Pandemic0
Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!: Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community0
Bernice Johnson Reagon: Exemplary Mentor for Folklore Studies0
All the World's a (Neurotypical) Stage: Neurodivergent Folklore, Autistic Masking, and Virtual Spaces for Discussing Autistic Identity0
Gladys-Marie Fry's Night Riders in Black Folk History: Critical Race Theory and Black Folklore Practice0
Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend0
Subversion, Subservience, and Property in The Magic Bean and Iranian Fairy Tales Written in 1960–19800
Rekeying Latinx Performance: Gesture, Ancestors, and Community0
Digital Project0
Salons 5: Anticipatory Heritage0
La fiaba: Morfologia, antropologia e storia0
Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs: The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman0
Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times0
American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition, and Brer Rabbit0
Folklore and Disability: An Important—and Too Often Overlooked—Factor in Global Health and International Development Efforts0
Teaching Fairy Tales0
Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa's “Great(er) Spain”: The Snares ofQuerenciaand the Pitfalls of Cultural Nationalism and FundamentalistHispanismo0
Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts0
Tending the Taproot: Opportunities to Support Folk & Traditional Arts in the United States,“Executive Summary” and “Introduction”0
Kulu Mele’s Ogun & the People: Celebrating 50 Years (1969–2019)0
Performing Tsarist Russia in New York: Music, Émigrés, and the American Imagination0
Trickster, Comrade, Citizen: The Adventures of Aldar Köse in Kazakh Folktales and Mass Culture0
Woke Cinderella: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations0
Talking about the Weather: Common Sense, Common Sensing, Commonplaces0
Psychobilly: Subcultural Survival0
Esther Clinton (1971–2022)0
Where Were/Are Asian American Folklorists?0
Music in the American Diasporic Wedding0
Culture Work: Folklore for the Public Good0
Janet L. Langlois (1946–2021)0
Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown: The Making of an American Classic0
Joy Fraser (1977–2023)0
Kindred Spirits: One Animal Family0
Doing Research of/from/at Home: Fieldwork Research Ethics in Latinx Contexts0
Roots, Rootlessness, and Uprooting: Personal, Ethnographic, and Folkloric Reflections on a Theme0
Because the movement, it’s never done0
Anticipatory Heritage0
Redirecting Currents: Theoretical Wayfinding with Latinx Folkloristics and Women of Color Transnational Feminisms0
Information about Contributors0
Exhibiting Indigenous: Honoring Native Textiles0
Information about Contributors0
Refinishing the Story: Transforming Stories of Life into Life Stories0
W. Lynwood Montell (1931–2023)0
Taxonomía of a Spicy Espécimen0
Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland: Blackening the Bride and Decorating the Hen0
Advancing Folkloristics0
Digital Ottoman Studies0
The William A. Wilson Digital Folklore Archives0
Folklore and Cultural Heritage: Reflecting on Change0
Fionn Folklore Database0
Strategic Skepticism: The Politics of Grassroots Participation in an Afro-Andean Nomination to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative List0
Counter Memes and Anti-Legends in Online Welfare Discourse0
Information About Contributors0
These Words0
Culinary Tourism as Public Folklore: Heritage in Negotiating Competitiveness and Sustainability0
A New History of American and Canadian Folk Music0
Myth Theorized0
Folklore Training for the Public Humanities: Podcasting0
Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Music Legend0
Roman Legends Brought to Life0
Liars, Damn Liars, and Storytellers: Essays on Traditional and Contemporary Storytelling0
Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performance and Dancing Histories of a Nation0
Songs for the Journey and the Mission: The Life Notes of Bernice Johnson Reagon0
Hindsight Beyond 20200
Salons 3: Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities0
Film and Video Review0
Fairy Tales of Appalachia. Edited by Stacy Sivinski0
Roberta (Bobbi) Louise Singer (1941–2022)0
A Cross-Boundary Dialogue in Need: Racial, Ethnic, or Folk Groups?0
Disassembling and Re-membering Self: Opaquing an Enlightened Taxonomy0
Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana0
Dan Ben-Amos (1934–2023)0
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard: Folklore and Culture in Jamaica0
The Crosses of Huaquechula, Mexico: A Living Tradition0
The Shaman’s Wages: Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island0
Being a Young Black Woman in Today’s Society …0
Becoming Story: A Journey among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors0
Folklore Made Me Disabled: Integrating Disability Studies into Folklore Research0
“Urgencies” in the Field: Three Perspectives0
Jan Rosenberg (1955–2023)0
The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters0
Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma0
Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People. Volume II0
“You may now become who you thought was disposable”: COVID-19 Politics and Ableism0
Published Collections as the Sources of Ballad Tunes Sung by an Enthusiast in Japan0
Introduction to the Special Issue on African American Expressive Culture and Protest0
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