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Archeology of Intangible Heritage (review)

Archeology of Intangible Heritage (review) BookReviews medieval in date and are arguably the work of known authors. A word on Frankie. "Frankie was a good woman, / Ev'ry body knows" (The Folk Songs of North America, ed. Alan Lomax, Doubleday, 1960, p. 569). Why then does Newman call her a "prostitute" (p. 210), unless being a black innercity woman who frequents saloons is thought to qualify her automatically for that title? All in all, if one were to set out to find two books about balladry that, while published in the same year by reputable American university presses, differed utterly from one another as regards their aims, assumptions, rhetoric, influences, and central concepts, this pair of volumes would do. Is this a symptom of healthy diversity in the academy? Or is it a sign of an unfortunate chasm that has developed between two cousin disciplines, one of which can at times still be found worshipping at the altar of the old while the other is busy searching out novelties? Archeology of Intangible Heritage. By Francisco Vaz da Silva. International Folkloristics Series. (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2008. Pp. ix + 191, acknowledgment, introduction, epilogue, works cited, index.) Maria Teresa Agozzino Western Kentucky University http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of American Folklore American Folklore Society

Archeology of Intangible Heritage (review)

Journal of American Folklore , Volume 123 (488) – Apr 11, 2010

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BookReviews medieval in date and are arguably the work of known authors. A word on Frankie. "Frankie was a good woman, / Ev'ry body knows" (The Folk Songs of North America, ed. Alan Lomax, Doubleday, 1960, p. 569). Why then does Newman call her a "prostitute" (p. 210), unless being a black innercity woman who frequents saloons is thought to qualify her automatically for that title? All in all, if one were to set out to find two books about balladry that, while published in the same year by reputable American university presses, differed utterly from one another as regards their aims, assumptions, rhetoric, influences, and central concepts, this pair of volumes would do. Is this a symptom of healthy diversity in the academy? Or is it a sign of an unfortunate chasm that has developed between two cousin disciplines, one of which can at times still be found worshipping at the altar of the old while the other is busy searching out novelties? Archeology of Intangible Heritage. By Francisco Vaz da Silva. International Folkloristics Series. (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2008. Pp. ix + 191, acknowledgment, introduction, epilogue, works cited, index.) Maria Teresa Agozzino Western Kentucky University

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