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Möbius Media. Popular Culture, Folklore, and the Folkloresque by Jeffrey A. Tolbert; Michael Dylan Foster is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Möbius Media explores the interplay of popular and traditional cultures, reminding readers that expressive cultural forms are never mutually exclusive but exist in a state of creative tension and interconnection, merging and (re)defining one another. With this insightful volume, editors Jeffrey Tolbert and Michael Dylan Foster build on their earlier work, The Folkloresque, by considering how folklore is understood and mobilized within a variety of popular discourses and commercial marketplaces.The collection challenges readers to consider the stakes of labeling something as folklore or folk. It demonstrates the rhetorical and political potency of ideas such as traditionality, heritage, and community in storytelling venues (including films, games, and even podcasts), in the construction and policing of genres, and in the selling of commodities. By interrogating popular media and expressions that make use of ideas such as folklore, tradition, authenticity, and heritage, Möbius Media further develops the theoretical applicability of the folkloresque concept and encourages productive interdisciplinary dialogue. Through the lens of the folkloresque, scholars can better see the hidden id

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Author

Jeffrey A. Tolbert; Michael Dylan Foster

Publisher

University Press of Colorado

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9781646426034

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Biography, Peoples & Cultures Biography