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 ideologies that inform the marketplace and influence contemporary modes of communication.
 
This interdisciplinary work will appeal to scholars and students of cultural studies, media studies, popular culture, literature, anthropology, and related areas.
 

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Information

Publisher

Utah State University Press

Year

2024

ISBN

9781646426034

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Sociology

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Value of Recursion
Part 1: Tradition, Inc.
Part 2: Folkloresque Worlds
Part 3: The Horror of the Folkloresque
Part 4: Folkloresque Beliefs
Part 5: Reference, Replication, Recursion
Index
About the Authors