Reflections on the Folklife Festival
Bauman, Richard / Sawin, Patricia / Carpenter, Inta Gale / Anderson, Richard![Reflections on the Folklife Festival](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/356/3565202/CHSBZCOP033565202.jpg)
This first ethnographic study of a folklife festival focuses on festivalparticipants -- the dancers, musicians, storytellers, and artisans at a publicdisplay of folk culture. These essays investigate the contention by supporters ofthese events that this form of folkloric representation is as intellectuallylegitimate as scholarly research.