Folklore, Equal Access, and Social Action
Posted by on September 23, 2005
American Folklore Society 2005 Annual Meeting
October 19-23, Atlanta, Georgia
Folklore, Equal Access, and Social Action is the theme for the American Folklore Society’s 117th annual meeting, to be held at the Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 19-23, 2005.
This year’s theme reflects Atlanta’s prominence as home to key Civil Rights movement leaders and grassroots activism. The theme addresses the various relationships of folklore and folklore study to equal access and social action. These issues involve providing access and giving voice and power to peoples of every cultural heritage, determining and dispelling stereotypes in light of ethnographic realities, and working toward social equity. Folklorists have long voiced concern over such issues, ranging from academic analyses of folk arts (such as ballads, folksongs, hip-hop, and quilts) as forms of protest and resistance to public sector studies of cultural differences as barriers to equal access and social justice.
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