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2015 Reviews

2015 Reviews
Reviewed by Johannes Mueske
Johannes Mueske - Review of Rachel Clare Donaldson, "I Hear America Singing": Folk Music and National Identity
Reviewed by Timon Kaple
Timon Kaple - Review of Dick Weissman, 100 Books Every Folk Music Fan Should Own
Reviewed by Braxton Shelley
Braxton Shelley - Review of Robert Marovich, A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music (Music in American Life)
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Stuart D. Lee, editor, A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien
Reviewed by Claire Schmidt
Claire Schmidt - Review of Matthew J. Ferrence, All-American Redneck: Variations on an Icon from James Fenimore Cooper to the Dixie Chicks
Reviewed by Rachel Gonzalez
Rachel Gonzalez - Review of José Limón, Américo Paredes: Culture and Critique (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)
Reviewed by David Lewis
David Lewis - Review of Jon D. Lee, An Epidemic of Rumors: How Stories Shape Our Perception of Disease
Reviewed by Cheikh Lo
Cheikh Lo - Review of Andrew G. Bannister, An Oral-Formulaic Study of the Qur'an
Reviewed by Sabra J. Webber
Sabra J. Webber - Review of Dwight F. Reynolds, Arab Folklore: A Handbook
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Baiba Krogzeme-Mosgarda, Atminu albumu tradicija latviesu skolenu kultara (The Tradition of Autograph Albums in the Culture of Latvian Schoolchildren)
Reviewed by Dana S. Edwards
Dana S. Edwards - Review of Larry Kanfer, photographer, Barns of Illinois
Reviewed by Greg Kelley
Greg Kelley - Review of Wolfgang Mieder, Behold the Proverbs of a People: Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics
Reviewed by Jay Miller
Jay Miller - Review of Christine Dupres, Being Cowlitz: How One Tribe Renewed and Sustained its Identity
Reviewed by Candace Slater
Candace Slater - Review of Daniel B. Sharp, Between Nostalgia and Apocalypse: Popular Music and the Staging of Brazil
Reviewed by Michael Lundell
Michael Lundell - Review of Hasan M. El-Shamy, Beyond Oedipus: The Brother-Sister Syndrome as Depicted by Tale-Type 872*: A Cognitive Behavioristic, Demographically Oriented, Text Analysis of an Arab Oikotype
Reviewed by Langston Wilkins
Langston Wilkins - Review of Shirley Moody-Turner, Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation
Reviewed by Steve Stanzak
Steve Stanzak - Review ofHannah R. Johnson, Blood Libel: The Ritual Murder Accusation at the Limit of Jewish History
Reviewed by Barry Lee Pearson
Barry Lee Pearson - Review of Eric S. LeBlanc and Bob Eagle, Blues: A Regional Experience
Reviewed by Evan Rapport
Evan Rapport - Review of Alanna E. Cooper, Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism
Reviewed by Meredith McGriff
Meredith McGriff - Review of Eveline MacLeod and Daniel W. MacInnes, Celtic Threads: A Journey in Cape Breton Crafts
Reviewed by Kimberly Lau
Kimberly Lau - Review of Pauline Greenhill and Jill Terry Rudy, editors, Channeling Wonder: Fairy Tales on Television
Reviewed by Debashree Dattaray
Debashree Dattaray - Review of Christopher B. Teuton, Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars’ Club
Reviewed by Sabina Magliocco
Sabina Magliocco - Review of Jan Beveridge, Children into Swans: Fairy Tales and the Pagan Imagination
Reviewed by Jeannie B. Thomas
Jeannie B. Thomas - Review of Caron Lipman, Co-habiting with Ghosts: Knowledge, Experience, Belief and the Domestic Uncanny
Reviewed by K. Brandon Barker
K. Brandon Barker - Review of Pravina Shukla, Costume: Performing Identities through Dress
Reviewed by Paulina Guerrero
Paulina Guerrero - Review of Blossom Kravitz, Crab Picking: An Endangered Maine Cottage Industry (Northeast Folklore XLVI)
Reviewed by Debashree Dattaray
Debashree Dattaray - Review of Prem Kumari Srivastava and Gitanjali Chawla, editors, Cultures of the Indigenous: India and Beyond
Reviewed by Barry Lee Pearson
Barry Lee Pearson - Review of Ted Gioia, Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
Reviewed by Joseph C. Jastrzembski
Joseph C. Jastrzembski - Review of Robert S. McPherson, Dinéjí Na`nitin: Navajo Traditional Teachings and History
Reviewed by Ruthr B. Bottigheime
Ruth B. Bottigheimer - Review of Ann Schmiesing, Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Reviewed by Amy Brunvand
Amy Brunvand - Review of Sarah Alisabeth Fox, Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West
Reviewed by Giovanna Serenelli
Giovanna Serenelli - Review of Jerold C. Frakes, translator, Jerold C. Frakes, editor, Early Yiddish Epic
Reviewed by Richard Alexander Allen
Richard Alexander Allen - Review of Martin Chase, editor, Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond: Poetic Variety in Medieval Iceland and Norway (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies)
Reviewed by Susan Eleuterio
Susan Eleuterio - Review of Ronda L. Brulotte and Michael A. Di Giovine, editors, Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage (Heritage, Culture and Identity)
Reviewed by Daniel P. Compora
Daniel P. Compora - Review of Yves Winkin and Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Erving Goffman: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
Reviewed by Juan rancisco Sans
Juan Francisco Sans - Review of Martin Clayton, Byron Dueck, and Laura Leante, editors, Experience and Meaning in Music Performance
Reviewed by Jack Zipes
Jack Zipes - Review of Sue Short, Fairy Tale and Film: Old Tales with a New Spin
Reviewed by Marcia Gaudet
Marcia Gaudet - Review of Frank de Caro, Folklore Recycled: Old Traditions in New Contexts
Reviewed by Fredericka A. Schmadel
Fredericka A. Schmadel - Review of Sadhana Naithani, Folklore Theory in Postwar Germany
Reviewed by Judah M. Cohen
Judah M. Cohen - Review of Anika Wilson, Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi: No Secret Under the Sun
Reviewed by Tom Mould
Tom Mould - Review of John A. Burrison, From Mud to Jug: The Folk Potters and Pottery of Northeast Georgia
Reviewed by David Stanley
David Stanley - Review of Richard V. Francaviglia, Go East, Young Man: Imagining the American West as the Orient
Reviewed by Holly Everett
Holly Everett - Review of Abby Burnett, Gone to the Grave: Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Kristina Milnor, Graffiti and the Literary Landscape in Roman Pompeii
Reviewed by Linda Kinsey Spetter
Nasario García - Review of Linda Kinsey Spetter, Grandma's Santo on Its Head: Stories of Days Gone By in Hispanic Villages of New Mexico
Reviewed by Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Ruth B. Bottigheimer - Review of Jack Zipes, Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales
Reviewed by Thomas H. Greenland
Thomas H. Greenland - Review of James Revell Carr, Hawaiian Music in Motion: Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels (Music in American Life)
Reviewed by Michael Dylan Foster
Michael Dylan Foster - Review of Hyung Il Pai, Heritage Management in Korea and Japan: The Politics of Antiquity and Identity
Reviewed by E. Moore Quinn
E. Moore Quinn - Review of Rodney Harrison, Heritage: Critical Approaches
Reviewed by James R. Dow
James R. Dow - Review of Kurt Drexel, Klingendes Bekenntnis zu Führer und Reich: Musik und Identität im Reichsgau Tirol-Vorarlberg 1938-1945
Reviewed by Sarah . Gordon
Sarah M. Gordon - Review of Clifford Geertz, edited by Fred Inglis, Life among the Anthros and Other Essays
Reviewed by Karen Snyder
Karen Snyder - Review of Coralynn V. Davis, Maithil Women's Tales: Storytelling on the Nepal-India Border
Reviewed by Brittany Warman
Brittany Warman - Review of Christine A. Jones and Jennifer Schacker, editors, Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Reviewed by Rachel Loveall
Rachel Loveall - Review of Edward Zellem, Mataluna: 151 Afghan Pashto Proverbs
Reviewed by Natalie Kononenko
Natalie Kononenko - Review of Arzu Öztürkmen and Evelyn Birge Vitz, editors, Medieval and Early Modern Performance in the Eastern Mediterranean (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies)
Reviewed by Gerald Porter
Gerald Porter - Review of Keith McKenry, More than a Life: John Meredith and the Fight for Australian Tradition
Reviewed by Burt Feintuch
Burt Feintuch - Review of Catherine Grant, Music Endangerment: How Language Maintenance Can Help
Reviewed by Pamela Dearinger
Pamela Dearinger - Review of Karen Vedel and Petri Hoppu, editors, Nordic Dance Spaces: Practicing and Imagining a Region (The Nordic Experience)
Reviewed by Robert Bowman
Robert Bowman - Review of Steve Cushing, Pioneers of the Blues Revival (Music in American Life)
Reviewed by Fredericka A. Schmadel
Fredericka A. Schmadel - Review of Regina F. Bendix, and Michaela Fenske, Politische Mahlzeiten: Political Meals (Wissenschaftsforum Kulinaristik)
Reviewed by Gary Alan Fine
Gary Alan Fine - Review of Moira Marsh, Practically Joking
Reviewed by Gloria Colom
Gloria Colom - Review of James M. Lindgren, Preserving South Street Seaport: The Dream and Reality of a New York Urban Renewal District
Reviewed by Thomas H. Greenland
Thomas H. Greenland - Review of Michael Jarrett, Producing Country: The Inside Story of the Great Recordings
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of Greta Hawes, Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity
Reviewed by Ken Perlman
Ken Perlman - Review of Heather Sparling, Reeling Roosters and Dancing Ducks: Celtic Mouth Music
Reviewed by Assefa Dibaba
Assefa Dibaba - Review of Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler, Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro: African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana (Anthropological Horizons)
Reviewed by Patric Mullen
Patrick Mullen - Review of Ronald D. Cohen and Rachel Clare Donaldson, Roots of the Revival: American and British Folk Music in the 1950s (Music in American Life)
Reviewed by Jeffrey Howard
Jeffrey Howard - Review of Luisa Del Giudice, editor, Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development
Reviewed by Malorine Mathurin Sykes
Malorine Mathurin Sykes - Review of Thomas R. Hilder, Sámi Musical Performance and the Politics of Indigeneity in Northern Europe
Reviewed by Elliott Oring
Elliott Oring - Review of Gregory Schrempp, Science, Bread, and Circuses: Folkloristic Essays on Science for the Masses
Reviewed by Ben Kehoe
Ben Kehoe - Review of Michael Buonanno, Sicilian Epic and the Marionette Theater
Reviewed by Jo Farb Hernández
Gregory Hansen - Review of Jo Farb Hernández, Singular Spaces: From the Eccentric to the Extraordinary in Spanish Art Environments
Reviewed by Joe Uchihrehuh Stahlman
Joe Uchihrehuh Stahlman - Review of Brian Swann, editor, Sky Loom: Native American Myth, Story, and Song (Native Literatures of the Americas)
Reviewed by Marisa Galvez
Joseph Grim Feinberg - Review of Marisa Galvez, Songbook: How Lyrics Became Poetry in Medieval Europe
Reviewed by Eric Bindler
Eric Bindler - Review of Donna A. Buchanan, editor, Soundscapes from the Americas: Ethnomusicological Essays on the Power, Poetics, and Ontology of Performance (SOAS Musicology Series)
Reviewed by Giovanna Serenelli
Giovanna Serenelli - Review of William Lynwood Montell, Tales from Kentucky Nurses
Reviewed by Stephen Stuempfle
Stephen Stuempfle - Review of Peter Manuel, Tales, Tunes, and Tassa Drums: Retention and Invention in Indo-Caribbean Music
Reviewed by John H. McDowell
John H. McDowell - Review of Paul M. Worley, Telling and Being Told: Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures
Reviewed by Gerald Porter
Gerald Porter - Review of W.F.H. Nicolaisen and James Moreira, editors, The Ballad and the Folklorist: The Collected Papers of David Buchan
Reviewed by Fredericka A. Schmadel
Fredericka A. Schmadel - Review of Catherine Clement, translated by Chris Turner, The Call of the Trance
Reviewed by Julian Carrillo
Julian Carrillo - Review of Pancho McFarland, The Chican@ Hip Hop Nation: Politics of a New Millennial Mestizaje
Reviewed by Christine Goldberg
Christine Goldberg - Review of Jack V. Haney, editor, The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev, Volume I
Reviewed by C. Lynn Carr
C. Lynn Carr - Review of Stephan Palmié, The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion
Reviewed by Joshua Clegg Caffery
Joshua Clegg Caffery - Review of Marcie Cohen Ferris, The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region
Reviewed by Philip Nusbaum
Philip Nusbaum - Review of Gary B. Reid, The Music of the Stanley Brothers
Reviewed by Thomas W. Jacobsen
Monika Herzig - Review of Thomas W. Jacobsen, The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000: A Personal Retrospective
Reviewed by David Elton Gay
David Elton Gay - Review of Terry Gunnell and Annette Lassen, editor, The Nordic Apocalypse: Approaches to Völuspa and Nordic Days of Judgement
Reviewed by Jeana Jorgensen
Jeana Jorgensen - Review of Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Reviewed by Bruno Nettl
Bruno Nettl - Review of Michael Church, The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions
Reviewed by Rory Turner
Rory Turner - Review of Elaine Eff, The Painted Screens of Baltimore: An Urban Folk Art Revealed
Reviewed by Yvonne J. Milspaw
Yvonne J. Milspaw - Review of Elena Phipps, The Peruvian Four-Selvaged Cloth: Ancient Threads/New Directions
Reviewed by Claudia Schwabe
Claudia Schwabe - Review of Qinna Shen, The Politics of Magic: DEFA Fairy-Tale Films (Series in Fairy Tale Studies)
Reviewed by Shannon K. Tanhayi Ahari
Shannon K. Tanhayi Ahari - Review of Ruy Blanes and Diana Espírito Santo, editors, The Social Life of Spirits
Reviewed by Katharine Young
Katharine Young - Review of Camilla Asplund Ingemark, editor, Therapeutic Uses of Storytelling: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Narration as Therapy
Reviewed by William Hansen
William Hansen - Review of John Lindow, Trolls: An Unnatural History
Reviewed by Kirin Narayan
Kirin Narayan - Review of Smita Tewari Jassal, Unearthing Gender: Folksongs of North India
Reviewed by Charlie McNabb
Charlie McNabb - Review of Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye, editors, Unsettling Assumptions: Tradition, Gender, Drag
Reviewed by Michael Pickering
Michael Pickering - Review of Jon Stratton, When Music Migrates: Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines, 1945-2010
Reviewed by Chad Edward Buterbaugh
Chad Edward Buterbaugh - Review of Laura Hirvi and Hanna Snellman, editor, Where is the Field?: The Experience of Migration Viewed through the Prism of Ethnographic Fieldwork (Studia Fennica Ethnologica)
Reviewed by Katie Dimmery
Katie Dimmery - Review of Antonio Cornejo Polar, translated by Lynda J. Jentsch, Writing in the Air: Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures
Reviewed by K. Brandon Barker
K. Brandon Barker - Review of Clifford R. Murphy, Yankee Twang: Country and Western Music in New England (Music in American Life)