Among these concepts-familiar to those who have been exposed to cultural studies -- are appropriation and transformation.
City Lore
New York City Folklore Syllabus: Reading List
Miska and Posen, Tradition and Community in the Urban Neighborhood.
A Brooklyn Discovery Booklet.
Steve Zeitlin, City Play.Rutgers University Press.
Packet of Readings at Far Better Printer.
Readings consisit of a packet of selections which students must purchase.
The selection include a number of essays and parts of essays bearing on
the history of New York City, and urban ethnography.The aim of these
readings, which are discussed in class, is to give students grounding in
some of the aims and methods of the study of folklore.
Among the scholars included in the packet are Barbara
Kirschenblatt-Gimblett and Jan Brunvard. A few other works are
usually included in the reading list as well. A favorite text has been
Steven Zeitlin's City Play which is currently out of print
(October 2004).
Students have been able to locate copies on the internet.
At times we have read Luc Sante's Low Life and from time to time a novel or essaist is included in the reading list.
Although reading is an essential part of this course, the main work of the
course is the application of specific principles to folklore that students
observe and report on.
Among these concepts-familiar to those who have been exposed to cultural
studies -- are appropriation and transformation.
City Lore