Journal of American Folklore

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Vaccine Hesitancy Counter Memes9
Folklore's Gender Problem9
DNA Identities: Narrative and Authority in Genetic Ancestry Performance on YouTube7
The Songs of Old Europe—Ancient Belarusian Folk Songs7
The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives6
Sámi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North6
Go-Go Drums, Murals, and Other Weapons in the War for Black Lives5
The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales & Their Tellers5
A Reflection of What My Folklore Training Brings to My Work in Refugee and Immigrant Services5
Bluespeople: Illustrated Legends of the Blues4
Still Standing: The Ti Kais of Dominica3
Graves in One's Heart: Grassroots Memorialization of Dr. Li Wenliang during the COVID-19 Outbreak in China3
Immigration in the Visual Art of Nicario Jiménez Quispe3
An Auto-Ethnography of Relational Knowledge Production3
Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories: QAnon, 5G, the New World Order and Other Viral Ideas3
Janet L. Langlois (1946–2021)3
“Won't You Help to Sing These Songs of Freedom?”: Sharing Authority, Co-curation, and Supporting Community-Driven Heritage Work3
(Re)Making the Folk: Black Representation and the Folk in Early American Folklore Studies2
Square Dance Calling: An Old Art for a New Century2
Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China2
Dinjii Vadzaih Dhidlit: The Man Who Became a Caribou: Gwich'in Stories and Conversations from Alaska and the Yukon2
Myth Theorized2
Gladys-Marie Fry's Night Riders in Black Folk History: Critical Race Theory and Black Folklore Practice2
Information About Contributors2
Institutional Dilemmas and Responses in Facing Harm2
Information About Contributors2
Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart BiographyHorace Kephart: Writings2
Re-fitting the Misfit2
Bernice Johnson Reagon: Exemplary Mentor for Folklore Studies2
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales1
Claiming Space: Performing the Personal Through Decorated Mortarboards1
Considering Commemoration in Latinx Communities: Notes on the Politics of Re(membering)1
The Midnight Washerwoman and Other Tales of Lower Brittany1
W. Lynwood Montell (1931–2023)1
Reflections on the Legacy of Dell Hymes1
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard: Folklore and Culture in Jamaica1
Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in VermontThe Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont, Drawn by New England Cartoonists1
Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend1
Mesquite Pods to Mezcal: 10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines1
Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People. Volume II1
Subversion, Subservience, and Property in The Magic Bean and Iranian Fairy Tales Written in 1960–19801
The Meanings of Enchantment: Wondertale Symbolism Revisited1
Rekeying Latinx Performance: Gesture, Ancestors, and Community1
Cornbread, Earl and Me1
Gillian Bennett (1939–2023)1
Dan Ben-Amos (1934–2023)1
Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942–2024)1
“Urgencies” in the Field: Three Perspectives1
Dhol: Drummers, Identities, and Modern Punjab1
Advancing Folkloristics1
Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation1
A Testament on the Challenges of Holding HANDS UP1
The Wife of Bath in Afterlife: Ballads to Blake1
Hindsight Beyond 20201
Borrowing from Our Foremothers: Reexamining the Women's Movement through Material Culture, 1848–20170
An Irish Folklore Treasury: A Selection of Old Stories, Ways, and Wisdom from the Schools’ Collection0
Kindred Spirits: One Animal Family0
The Poetics of Fire: Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands0
Jewish Folktales from Morocco: Tales of Seha the Sage and Seha the Clown0
Disassembling and Re-membering Self: Opaquing an Enlightened Taxonomy0
American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition, and Brer Rabbit0
Teaching Fairy Tales0
Jock Duncan: The Man and His Songs0
Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s0
Real Southern Barbecue: Constructing Authenticity in Southern Food Culture0
On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World's Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer0
Culture Work: Folklore for the Public Good0
Repairing Tradition: Vernacular Knowledge, Cognitive Spaces, and Economies of Work in an Agricultural Repair Shop0
Folklore Training for the Public Humanities: Podcasting0
MennoFolk3: Puns, Riddles, Tales, Legends0
Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe0
Conspiratorial Thinking among Russian Speakers in Estonia: From COVID-19 to the War in Ukraine0
Searching for Woody Guthrie: A Personal Exploration of the Folk Singer, His Music, and His Politics0
American Folklore Studies and Disability: An Introduction0
Information about Contributors0
Mountaineers Are Always Free: Heritage, Dissent, and a West Virginia Icon0
Folklore Made Me Disabled: Integrating Disability Studies into Folklore Research0
Beginning to Walk in Grace: Francis Barton Gummere, Manhood, and Virtue in the Popular Ballad0
Tending the Taproot: Opportunities to Support Folk & Traditional Arts in the United States,“Executive Summary” and “Introduction”0
Information about Contributors0
Introduction to the Special Issue on African American Expressive Culture and Protest0
Vivian Williams (1938–2023) and Phil Williams (1936–2017)0
Roots, Rootlessness, and Uprooting: Personal, Ethnographic, and Folkloric Reflections on a Theme0
Intellectual Legacy, Invisibility, and the Path to Repair0
Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest0
Women, Art, and Hope in Black Lives Matter0
Psychobilly: Subcultural Survival0
Privilege, Power, and Accountability0
Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception0
Living Cultural Heritage and the Traditional and Folk Arts in the Nonprofit Sector: Data on Scope, Finances, and FundingReport Summary0
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev. Volume III0
Mick Moloney (1944–2022)0
Miracles of Love: French Fairy Tales by Women0
The Early Films of William Ferris (1968–1975)0
Roots, Branches, and Spirits: The Folkways and Witchery of Appalachia0
JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling0
Blues Narrative: Blues People, COVID-19, and Civil Unrest0
Breaking Images: Damage and Mutilation of Ancient Figurines0
The Befana Is Returning: The Story of a Tuscan Festival0
Earth to Tables Legacies: Multimedia Food Conversations across Generations and Cultures0
Anticipatory Heritage0
Counter Memes and Anti-Legends in Online Welfare Discourse0
Ole Hendricks and His Tunebook: Folk Music and Community on the Frontier0
Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures0
Listen0
Michel Ray Oyatayo Ali Abu Maryam (Mickey) Weems (1957–2023)0
Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana0
Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora0
Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performance and Dancing Histories of a Nation0
Ritual: Survival, Resistance, Joy0
The Witch in Flight0
Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian: Essays on Food Choice, Identity, and Symbolism0
Woody Guthrie: Racial Transformation through the Framework of the “Long Civil Rights Movement”0
Twisted Legacies and the Work of Manifesting the Toll of Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment in Folkloristic Praxis0
Fionn Folklore Database0
Electronic Media Review0
Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation0
Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality: African American Identity and Cultural Politics, 1893–19430
Living in the Nexus of Disability and Caregiving: An African American Parental Caregiver's Critical Observations as a Folklorist0
Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa's “Great(er) Spain”: The Snares ofQuerenciaand the Pitfalls of Cultural Nationalism and FundamentalistHispanismo0
Memes and Representations of Race: An Analysis of Historical Representations of Welfare0
Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives0
Becoming Story: A Journey among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors0
Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley0
A Curly-Headed Dreamer0
Introduction0
Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile0
Liars, Damn Liars, and Storytellers: Essays on Traditional and Contemporary Storytelling0
Robert A. Georges (1933–2022)0
Daughters of the Dust0
Sustaining Support for Community-Led Documentation at the American Folklife Center (and Beyond)0
De Aquí y De Allá: Fluid, Boundless, and ExcessiveGénero0
Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail0
Roland Freeman (1936–2023)0
Weaving Has a Heartbeat0
Making Music: The Banjo in a Southern Appalachian County0
What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana0
Being a Young Black Woman in Today’s Society …0
Contrapunteo 1: Intersectionality and Genealogies of Third World Feminist Thought0
Joy Fraser (1977–2023)0
James S. Griffith: Remembering “Big Jim” (1935–2021)0
We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery0
As Legend Has It: History, Heritage, and the Construction of Swedish American Identity0
Our Stories Etched in Ivory/Qulip'yugut Iksiaqtuumaruat Tuugaami: The Smithsonian Collections of Engraved Drill Bows with Stories from the Arctic0
Folklore and Disability: An Important—and Too Often Overlooked—Factor in Global Health and International Development Efforts0
Obdurate Behaviors and Professional Legacies, a Timely Example0
Ira Stuart Jacknis (1952–2021)0
The Pandemic0
Salons 3: Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities0
¡Viva George! Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the US-Mexico Border0
My Blackness0
Stirring Up Skyr: From Live Cultures to Cultural Heritage0
Contos Populares Portugueses do Canadá/Portuguese Folktales from Canada0
Information About Contributors0
Departures: Irish Emigration and Supernatural Belief Narratives0
Salons 5: Anticipatory Heritage0
What We Know and What We Do0
In a Land of Venn Diagrams: Reflections on Anti-Fans and Counter Memes, Trolls and Anti-Legends0
Information About Contributors0
The Native Princess of Sri Lanka: The Thematic Metaphorical Approach in Symbolizing Characteristics of Folklore of Kuweni0
Folklife, Heritage, and the Environment: A Critique of Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services, and Settler Ecology0
Kingston William Heath (1945–2024)0
Claude D. Stephenson (1952–2023)0
Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts0
“The Father[s] of Canning”? Narrating Nicolas Appert/American Industry0
The Ubume Challenge: A Digital Environmental Humanities Project0
Swede Home Chicago: The Wallin's Svenska Records Story, 1923–270
Mountain Witches: Yamauba0
Information about Contributors0
What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies0
Information about Contributors0
Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies: An Initiative of the American Folklore Society and Its Partners in China and the United States0
Folklore, Heritage, and the Public Sphere: Introduction0
Balut: Fertilized Eggs and the Making of Culinary Capital in the Filipino Diaspora0
Glastonbury Holy Thorn: Story of a Legend0
Vernacular Religion: Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano0
Of Didacticism and Decapitations: The Mother-in-Law/Daughter-in-Law Relationship in North Indian Women's Folk Songs0
Gender and Genre: Women's Performance Practices in Dersim0
The Color Purple0
Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton0
Dell Hymes, #MeToo, and Traditionalization0
The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England: Moving Media, Tactical Publics0
John Michael Vlach (1948–2022)0
When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes0
Roger L. Janelli (1943–2021)0
Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital0
A New History of American and Canadian Folk Music0
Leonard Norman Primiano (1957–2021)0
You or Me: Song Lyrics0
Can’t Be Faded: Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game0
Because the movement, it’s never done0
Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma0
Self-Portrait: Waking Up with/to Cat Companions0
Film and Video Review0
Roger Welsch (1936–2022)0
Salons 2: Public Folklore, Heritage, and Social Justice0
The Nexus of Folk Ornament and Mythology in Latvia: Traditionalization, Commodification, and Spirituality0
Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times0
Doing Research of/from/at Home: Fieldwork Research Ethics in Latinx Contexts0
Styling Blackness in Chile: Music and Dance in the African Diaspora0
Information about Contributors0
Research and Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing Through Indigenous Relationships0
One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World0
Stories of the Past: Viewing History Through Fiction0
Roberta (Bobbi) Louise Singer (1941–2022)0
Digital Legend and Belief: The Slender Man, Folklore, and the Media0
Gwendolyn Meister (1947–2023)0
Information about Contributors0
Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Music Legend0
Severed Tongues, Lost Voices0
Gordon Rohlehr (1942–2023)0
MeXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction0
Out of State0
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Black Woman Trailblazer: Presenting and Interpreting Black Vernacular and Popular Musics in a White Cultural Institution0
Cursed Russians and Armed Saints: “Angry Folklore” and the Ethics of Precarity in Response to the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine0
Different Drummers: Military Culture and Its Discontents0
Miracles and Visionaries in the Digital Age0
Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!: Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community0
“You may now become who you thought was disposable”: COVID-19 Politics and Ableism0
Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State0
Paramisa òthe, Sastipe akate/Romani Legends and Fairy Tales0
Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland: Blackening the Bride and Decorating the Hen0
The Oral Epic: From Performance to Interpretation0
The Skirt Chaser and His Brothers0
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales0
Elizabeth Lay Mathias (1931–2023)0
Maria Prymachenko: Glory to Ukraine0
Songs for the Journey and the Mission: The Life Notes of Bernice Johnson Reagon0
Culinary Tourism as Public Folklore: Heritage in Negotiating Competitiveness and Sustainability0
Information About Contributors0
Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between0
Stitching Narratives That Matter: Baron Samedi Visits His New Orleans Cousins0
Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics: An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Texts, and Wild Texts0
Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America0
Information about Contributors0
Alabama Quilts: Wilderness through World War II, 1682–19500
Response Essay0
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith0
Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia0
Erratum0
Humanizing Drug Overdoses in Colorado: A Liberatory Harm Reduction Comic Made with Sex Workers and People Who Use Drugs0
It Can Be This Way Always: Images from the Kerrville Folk Festival0
Salons 4: Sustainabilities0
Exhibiting Indigenous: Honoring Native Textiles0
Taxonomía of a Spicy Espécimen0
Joy as Resistance in Iranian Lament Performances0
Literary Circles0
Trickster, Comrade, Citizen: The Adventures of Aldar Köse in Kazakh Folktales and Mass Culture0
Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them0
A Most Valuable Medium: The Remediation of Oral Performance on Early Commercial Recordings0
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