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Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments

A Communications-centered Handbook
Edited by Richard Bauman
ISBN13: 9780195069204ISBN10: 019506920X Paperback, 336 pages
Apr 1992,  In Stock

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336 pages; 12 illus., 1 table; 5-1/2 x 8-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-506920-4ISBN10: 0-19-506920-X

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION , Richard Bauman
BASIC CONCEPTS
Folklore , Richard Bauman
Culture , Asa Briggs
Performance , Richard Bauman
Ethnomusicology , John Blacking
Ethnopoetics , Dennis Tedlock
Humor , Mahadev L. Apte
Oral culture , Jack Goody
Oral history , Trevor Lummis
Play , Andrew W. Miracle
VERBAL GENRES
Folktale , Dan Ben-Amos
Gossip , Donald Brenneis
Insult , Roger D. Abrahams
Oral Poetry , Ruth Finnegan
Oratory , Alessandro Duranti
Proverb , Galit Hasan-Rokem
Riddle , Thomas A. Green
Song , Marcia Herndon
Speech play , John Holmes McDowell
NONVERBAL FORMS
Artifact , Barbara A. Babcock
Clothing , Werner Enninger
Dance , Adrienne L. Kaeppler
Food , Judith Goode
Gesture , Adam Kendon
Mask , Elizabeth Tonkin
Music, folk and traditional , Jeff Todd Tilton
CULTURAL PERFORMANCES
Drama, performance , Richard Schechner
Festival , Beverly J. Stoeltje
Genre , Richard Bauman
Mime , Anya Peterson Royce
Puppetry , Peter D. Arnott
Ritual , Roy A. Rappaport
Spectacle , Frank E. Manning
Tourism , Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Edward M. Bruner