The Journal of Folklore Research: An International Journal of Folklore and Ethnomusicology is a peer-reviewed

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 academic journal

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 of folklore

Folklore

Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called...

, folklife

Folklife

Folklife is an extension of, and often an alternate term for the subject of, folklore. The term gained usage in the United States in the 1960s from its use by such folklore scholars as Don Yoder and Warren Roberts, who wished to recognize that the study of folklore goes beyond oral genres to...

, and ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology is defined as "the study of social and cultural aspects of music and dance in local and global contexts."Coined by the musician Jaap Kunst from the Greek words ἔθνος ethnos and μουσική mousike , it is often considered the anthropology or ethnography of music...

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History

The journal was established in 1942 as the Hoosier Folklore Bulletin and continued in 1945 as Hoosier Folklore. It was renamed in 1951 as Midwest Folklore and continued from 1964 to 1982 as the Journal of the Folklore Institute .

The Journal of Folklore Research also publishes reviews of recently published scholarly works in folkloristics and ethnomusicology. These reviews are not published in the print version of the journal but are published exclusively online and freely available without a subscription.

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, Current Contents

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, International Bibliography of Social Science, Humanities Index, and ProQuest

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External links

• Journal of Folklore Research Reviews
• Journal of Folklore Research at Project Muse
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