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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Stirring Up Skyr: From Live Cultures to Cultural Heritage6
Telling Our Own Stories: Reciprocal Autoethnography at the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender6
Culinary Tourism as Public Folklore: Heritage in Negotiating Competitiveness and Sustainability5
“Won't You Help to Sing These Songs of Freedom?”: Sharing Authority, Co-curation, and Supporting Community-Driven Heritage Work5
Folklife, Heritage, and the Environment: A Critique of Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services, and Settler Ecology5
Anticipatory Heritage5
Systemic Racism in American Folkloristics5
Folklore and Cultural Heritage: Reflecting on Change5
Toward Sustainable Visits5
Tearing Down Monuments: Missed Opportunities, Silences, and Absences—A Radical Look at Race in American Folklore Studies4
Gender, Ethno-Nationalism, and the Anti-Mexicanist Trope3
Narrative Breakdown in the Political Asylum Process3
Graves in One's Heart: Grassroots Memorialization of Dr. Li Wenliang during the COVID-19 Outbreak in China3
Tending the Taproot: Opportunities to Support Folk & Traditional Arts in the United States,“Executive Summary” and “Introduction”2
Contrapunteo 1: Intersectionality and Genealogies of Third World Feminist Thought2
Disassembling and Re-membering Self: Opaquing an Enlightened Taxonomy2
Tracing a Black Folklore Practice: Frank D. Banks and the Journal of American Folklore2
Unfinished Stories: Problematizing Narrative Completion2
Response Essays2
A Woman’s Place Is in the (Greasepaint) White House: How the 2016 Presidential Election Sparked a Creepy Clown Craze2
“Mas amas diehtá maid oarri borrá?”: Contesting Sustainability in Sápmi2
Considering Commemoration in Latinx Communities: Notes on the Politics of Re(membering)1
Where Were/Are Asian American Folklorists?1
Revisiting Stories from the 1989 and 1990 Smithsonian Folklore Summer Institute for Community Scholars1
Folklore, Disability, and Plain Language: The Problem of Consent1
Bernice Johnson Reagon: Exemplary Mentor for Folklore Studies1
Talking Testimonio: Telling History and Memory1
Neighborliness and Decency, Witchcraft and Famine: Reflections on Community from Irish Folklore1
Vaccine Hesitancy Counter Memes1
10 Lessons in Community Love1
Counter Memes and Anti-Legends in Online Welfare Discourse1
Memes and Representations of Race: An Analysis of Historical Representations of Welfare1
Missing Finishes and Diminishing Heroes in Hurricane Katrina Survivor Stories1
The Place Where Things Fall Apart: The World from Inside a Fragment1
Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist1
Woody Guthrie: Racial Transformation through the Framework of the “Long Civil Rights Movement”1
Daughters of the Dust1
Repairing Tradition: Vernacular Knowledge, Cognitive Spaces, and Economies of Work in an Agricultural Repair Shop1
The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives1
“You may now become who you thought was disposable”: COVID-19 Politics and Ableism1
Songs for the Journey and the Mission: The Life Notes of Bernice Johnson Reagon1
Living Cultural Heritage and the Traditional and Folk Arts in the Nonprofit Sector: Data on Scope, Finances, and FundingReport Summary1
A Message from the Editor1
“Urgencies” in the Field: Three Perspectives1
Self-Portrait: Waking Up with/to Cat Companions1
Gladys-Marie Fry's Night Riders in Black Folk History: Critical Race Theory and Black Folklore Practice1
The Lost Cherokee1
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 Research1
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Black Woman Trailblazer: Presenting and Interpreting Black Vernacular and Popular Musics in a White Cultural Institution1
Go-Go Drums, Murals, and Other Weapons in the War for Black Lives1
All the World's a (Neurotypical) Stage: Neurodivergent Folklore, Autistic Masking, and Virtual Spaces for Discussing Autistic Identity1
Jalisco Is Mexico: Race and Class in the Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi y la Charrería in Guadalajara, Mexico (1994–2003)1
W. Lynwood Montell (1931–2023)0
An Auto-Ethnography of Relational Knowledge Production0
Geschichte der Schweizer Volksmusik0
Handbook for Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork0
(Re)Making the Folk: Black Representation and the Folk in Early American Folklore Studies0
Yōkai: Ghosts, Demons & Monsters of Japan0
Out of State0
I’m Afraid of That Water: A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis0
The Monster Theory Reader0
Information about Contributors0
Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley0
Salons 1: Mutual Engagement, Co-creation, and Yielding Authority for Representation: Strategies and Practices0
Remembering the Reedys: Appalachian Music, Migration, & Memory [blog]0
The Sex Thieves: The Anthropology of a Rumor0
JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling0
Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa's “Great(er) Spain”: The Snares of Querencia and the Pitfalls of Cultural Nationalism and Fundamentalist Hispanismo0
Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales0
Plantation Courtship0
Women, Art, and Hope in Black Lives Matter0
Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China0
The Pandemic0
Taxonomía of a Spicy Espécimen0
Real Southern Barbecue: Constructing Authenticity in Southern Food Culture0
DNA Identities: Narrative and Authority in Genetic Ancestry Performance on YouTube0
My Blackness0
Mick Moloney (1944–2022)0
Immigration in the Visual Art of Nicario Jiménez Quispe0
Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana0
Vinyl Ventures: My Fifty Years at Rounder Records0
MennoFolk3: Puns, Riddles, Tales, Legends0
The Paradox of Authenticity: Folklore Performance in Post-Communist Slovakia0
Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages: Balancing the Humours0
Published Collections as the Sources of Ballad Tunes Sung by an Enthusiast in Japan0
Alabama Quilts: Wilderness through World War II, 1682–19500
Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues0
Departures: Irish Emigration and Supernatural Belief Narratives0
Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures0
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev. Volume III0
Gender and Genre: Women's Performance Practices in Dersim0
Protobilly: The Minstrel and Tin Pan Alley DNA of Country Music 1892–20170
Swede Home Chicago: The Wallin's Svenska Records Story, 1923–270
Redirecting Currents: Theoretical Wayfinding with Latinx Folkloristics and Women of Color Transnational Feminisms0
Talking about the Weather: Common Sense, Common Sensing, Commonplaces0
Miracles and Visionaries in the Digital Age0
Wild Songs, Sweet Songs: The Albanian Epic in the Collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord0
Dinjii Vadzaih Dhidlit: The Man Who Became a Caribou: Gwich'in Stories and Conversations from Alaska and the Yukon0
A Sound History: Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest, and White Denial0
Re-fitting the Misfit0
Introduction to the Special Issue on African American Expressive Culture and Protest0
Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest0
Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories: QAnon, 5G, the New World Order and Other Viral Ideas0
The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Tables0
Searching for Woody Guthrie: A Personal Exploration of the Folk Singer, His Music, and His Politics0
The Legend of the Naked Dead: Apparitions and Proper Burial in Latter-day Saint Folklore0
Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture0
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard: Folklore and Culture in Jamaica0
Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies: An Initiative of the American Folklore Society and Its Partners in China and the United States0
The William A. Wilson Digital Folklore Archives0
Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora0
Shakespeare and the Folktale: An Anthology of Stories0
Elizabeth Lay Mathias (1931–2023)0
A Cross-Boundary Dialogue in Need: Racial, Ethnic, or Folk Groups?0
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith0
The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales & Their Tellers0
The Practice of Folklore: Essays toward a Theory of Tradition0
Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia0
Abiding Faith amid Turmoil0
Living in the Nexus of Disability and Caregiving: An African American Parental Caregiver's Critical Observations as a Folklorist0
Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland: Blackening the Bride and Decorating the Hen0
Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation0
Front Matter0
These Words0
Implied Nowhere: Absence in Folklore Studies0
Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures0
Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain's Supernatural Beings0
The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales0
Unruly Audience: Folk Interventions in Popular Media0
Information about Contributors0
Dreaming in Motion: Zoom Excerpts from Black Motion Pictures0
Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performance and Dancing Histories of a Nation0
Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs0
The Spirit of Protest in Black Culture0
In a Land of Venn Diagrams: Reflections on Anti-Fans and Counter Memes, Trolls and Anti-Legends0
Fairy Tales of Appalachia. Edited by Stacy Sivinski0
A Potter's Progress: Emanuel Suter and the Business of Craft0
The Songs of Old Europe—Ancient Belarusian Folk Songs0
Refinishing the Story: Transforming Stories of Life into Life Stories0
Stitching Narratives That Matter: Baron Samedi Visits His New Orleans Cousins0
Miracles of Love: French Fairy Tales by Women0
Information about Contributors0
Rekeying Latinx Performance: Gesture, Ancestors, and Community0
Downtown Mardi Gras: New Carnival Practices in Post-Katrina New Orleans0
John Henry and His People: The Historical Origin and Lore of America's Great Folk Ballad0
Roger L. Janelli (1943–2021)0
Information About Contributors0
Woke Cinderella: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations0
Balut: Fertilized Eggs and the Making of Culinary Capital in the Filipino Diaspora0
The Ubume Challenge: A Digital Environmental Humanities Project0
Folklore, Heritage, and the Public Sphere: Introduction0
Different Drummers: Military Culture and Its Discontents0
Teaching Fairy Tales0
Ole Hendricks and His Tunebook: Folk Music and Community on the Frontier0
Isaac Jack Lévy (1928–2020)0
Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America0
Listen0
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales0
Baghdad Twist0
Borrowing from Our Foremothers: Reexamining the Women's Movement through Material Culture, 1848–20170
Ruins, Caves, Gods, and Incense Burners: Northern Lacandon Maya Myths and Rituals0
Front Matter0
Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart BiographyHorace Kephart: Writings0
Another Haul: Narrative Stewardship and Cultural Sustainability at the Lewis Family Fishery0
Ira Stuart Jacknis (1952–2021)0
Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge0
It Can Be This Way Always: Images from the Kerrville Folk Festival0
Literary Circles0
“The Father[s] of Canning”? Narrating Nicolas Appert/American Industry0
Salons 5: Anticipatory Heritage0
Information about Contributors0
Snow Woman Yukionna: From Spirit of Snow to Icy Hot Female0
What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies0
The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia0
Response Essay0
The Crosses of Huaquechula, Mexico: A Living Tradition0
Information about Contributors0
Michel Ray Oyatayo Ali Abu Maryam (Mickey) Weems (1957–2023)0
Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter: Stories of an Ozark Folksong Collector0
The Witch in Flight0
Information About Contributors0
Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian: Essays on Food Choice, Identity, and Symbolism0
Jan Rosenberg (1955–2023)0
The Meanings of Enchantment: Wondertale Symbolism Revisited0
The Oral Epic: From Performance to Interpretation0
Can’t Be Faded: Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game0
Response Essay0
The Color Purple0
Strategic Skepticism: The Politics of Grassroots Participation in an Afro-Andean Nomination to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative List0
Fionn Folklore Database0
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales0
Posthuman Folklore0
Spider Tales0
Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities0
Myth Theorized0
Inside Arabic Music: Arabic Maqam Performance and Theory in the 20th Century0
Blues Narrative: Blues People, COVID-19, and Civil Unrest0
American Folklore Studies and Disability: An Introduction0
Salons 4: Sustainabilities0
Contrapunteo 2: Embrace the Messiness0
Cloud of Witnesses0
Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation0
Moon Witch, Spider King0
Gwendolyn Meister (1947–2023)0
Mountain Witches: Yamauba0
Sámi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North0
The Befana Is Returning: The Story of a Tuscan Festival0
By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends0
Square Dance Calling: An Old Art for a New Century0
Janet L. Langlois (1946–2021)0
Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People. Volume II0
¡Viva George! Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the US-Mexico Border0
Roots, Rootlessness, and Uprooting: Personal, Ethnographic, and Folkloric Reflections on a Theme0
You or Me: Song Lyrics0
Salons 3: Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities0
Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State0
Taproots of Tennessee: Historic Sites and Timeless Recipes0
“You Gave Me a Song”: The Life and Music of Alice Gerrard0
The Early Films of William Ferris (1968–1975)0
Psychobilly: Subcultural Survival0
Paso a paso se va muy lejos: Traveling the Path with AFS0
Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital0
Frank de Caro (1943–2020)0
Information about Contributors0
Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts0
Collecting Music in the Aran Islands: A Century of History and Practice0
Made in Louisiana: The Story of the Acadian Accordion0
Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes: Performing the Wild West in German Festivals0
Back Matter0
La fiaba: Morfologia, antropologia e storia0
A Testament on the Challenges of Holding HANDS UP0
MeXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction0
Salons 2: Public Folklore, Heritage, and Social Justice0
Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics: An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Texts, and Wild Texts0
Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)0
Jewish Cultural Studies0
Born in a Ballroom0
Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton0
James S. Griffith: Remembering “Big Jim” (1935–2021)0
Folklore Research on Chinese Opera and Festival0
Feminism and Folk Art: Case Studies in Mexico, New Zealand, Japan, and Brazil0
Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore & Everyday Culture in Appalachia0
Gordon Rohlehr (1942–2023)0
Roland Freeman (1936–2023)0
The Native Princess of Sri Lanka: The Thematic Metaphorical Approach in Symbolizing Characteristics of Folklore of Kuweni0
Roman Legends Brought to Life0
Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile0
John Michael Vlach (1948–2022)0
Patapsco Spirits: Eleven Ghost Stories0
Vivian Williams (1938–2023) and Phil Williams (1936–2017)0
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