Talking Folklore: A Conversation with Leaders in the Field

Abstract

This forum features a conversation with a few prominent folklorists who will reflect on their respective careers, and meditate on the past and future of our discipline. This year's forum will focus on music by looking at the "life of learning" and the choices, chances, and triumphs of participants Erika Brady, Peggy Bulger, Alan Jabbour, and Jeff Todd Titon. Pravina Shukla will facilitate this exchange about their academic and public work, their fieldwork, recordings, festivals, and broadcasts, and also their important involvement in our field and our scholarly society over the past several decades. (Sponsored by the American Folklore Society.)