Parsing the Popular: A Communicative Action Approach to Folklore. Parsing the Popular: A Communicative Action Approach to Folklore.

Parsing the Popular: A Communicative Action Approach to Folklore‪.‬

Ethnologies 2008, Fall, 30, 2

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This work argues for an engagement with, and analysis of folkloric expression through the concept and cultural practices of communicative action. The article is motivated by a critical need to situate folklore within dynamic and compelling currents of popular culture. It is suggested that the capacities of folklore as popular culture serve to renew and impel folklore studies for traction and relevance in analytic encounters with contemporary media, culture, and society. Foundational concepts and theoretical trajectories in folklore and communication are detailed, challenged and revised with a view to capturing the substance and significance of folklore in cultural terms. The analysis presented is premised on the notion that there is a decisive intersection of the concepts and practices of folklore and popular culture to the extent that definitional boundaries between them are imprecise and unsustainable. The analysis explores how folklore as popular culture socially articulates, negotiates and asserts meaning in codes, practices, knowledge, spaces and expressive strategies in contemporary cultural conditions and environments. Cet article defend l'idee d'un engagement en faveur de la culture traditionnelle et d'une analyse de ce mode d'expression a partir du concept d'action communicative et des pratiques culturelles qui y sont liees. Cet article est ne d'un besoin critique de situer le folklore au sein des courants dynamiques et incontestables de la culture populaire. Il y est suggere que le folklore, a titre de culture populaire, permet de renouveler et de donner aux etudes ethnologiques une poussee et une pertinence pour des rencontres analytiques avec les medias, la culture et la societe contemporains. Les concepts fondateurs et les trajectoires theoriques en ethnologie et en communication sont detailles, remis en question et revises avec pour objectif de saisir la substance et la signification de la culture traditionnelle en tant que culture. L'analyse presentee est basee sur l'idee que les concepts et pratiques lies a la culture traditionnelle et populaire se rejoignent dans une telle mesure que les limites de leurs definitions respectives sont imprecises et indefendables. Ce travail explore la facon dont la culture traditionnelle, comprise comme culture populaire, s'articule, negocie et est porteuse de sens a travers des codes, des pratiques, du savoir, des espaces et des strategies d'expression dans des situations et des environnements culturels contemporains.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2008
22 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
30
Pages
PUBLISHER
Ethnologies
SIZE
206
KB

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