Serial logic - Folklore and difference in the age of feel-good multiculturalism

Authors
Citation
Kj. Lau, Serial logic - Folklore and difference in the age of feel-good multiculturalism, J AM FOLKL, 113(447), 2000, pp. 70-82
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Literature
Journal title
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE
ISSN journal
00218715 → ACNP
Volume
113
Issue
447
Year of publication
2000
Pages
70 - 82
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-8715(200024)113:447<70:SL-FAD>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
The serialization of products and events appeals to consumer desires in way s that also influence folkloristic paradigms for sharing cultural knowledge s and presenting cultural arts. This article seeks to identify the logic of serialization and to problematize its relationship to our marketing of fol k practices in the social context of feel-good multiculturalism.