FOLK-F 625 NORTH AMERICAN FOLKLORE/FOLK MUSIC (3 CR.)
Folk and popular traditions of the United States and Canada. Topics include the social base of America Folklore, prominent genres of American folklore and folk music, national or regional character, and American folk style.
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Spring 2025
| Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEC | 3 | 30074 | Open | 3:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. | W | C2 272 | Barker B |
Regular Academic Session / In Person
LEC 30074: Total Seats: 12 / Available: 7 / Waitlisted: 0
Lecture (LEC)
Topic: Children's folklore
By analogy, children¿s folklore is as important to folkloristics as language acquisition is to linguistics. Humans develop in patterned ways and those patterns include situated opportunities for acquiring and activating folkloric competences. This course asserts that folklorists have an important role to play in the study of human development. That said, folkloristic studies of childhood are not bound by positivism or adultocentrism. In children¿s folklore, timeless enigmas¿creative/conservative, universal/particular, instrumental/expressive, sense/nonsense¿abound. It is precisely because children¿s folklore is happily irrational and comfortably upending that folklorists have our very own seat at the table of the interdisciplinary study of childhood. This course bears witness to children¿s expressivity¿free from the restraints of experimental artificiality, numerical anonymity, and historical invisibility.
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