Folklore, cultural performances, and popular entertainments: a communications-centered handbook

This collection of thirty-seven entries selected from the more than 550 that make up the International Encyclopedia of Communications focuses on expressive forms and practices that are popular and participatory in nature: folklore forms such as folktale and riddle; cultural performances such as ritual and festival; and popular entertainments such as puppetry and mime. Cross-references within each individual entry facilitate exploration within the volume, while bibliographies appended to each entry direct the reader to related literature. Covering basic concepts, analytical perspectives, commun.

Culture / Asa Briggs -- Oral culture / Jack Goody -- Interaction, face-to-face / Starkey Duncan, Jr. -- Folklore ; Performance / Richard Bauman -- Entertainment / Erik Barnouw and Catherine E. Kirkland -- Genre / Richard Bauman -- Play / Andrew W. Miracle -- Humor / Mahadev L. Apte -- Ethnography of speaking / Joel Sherzer -- Ethnopoetics / Dennis Tedlock -- Ethnomusicology / John Blacking -- Oral history / Trevor Lummis -- Folktale / Dan Ben-Amos -- Oral poetry / Ruth Finnegan -- Proverb / Galit Hasan-Rokem -- Riddle / Thomas A. Green -- Speech play / John Holmes McDowell -- Insult / Roger D. Abrahams -- Gossip / Donald Brenneis -- Oratory / Alessandro Duranti -- Song / Marcia Herndon -- Music, folk and traditional / Jeff Todd Titon.

Music performance / Gerard Henri Béhague -- Gesture / Adam Kendon -- Mime / Anya Peterson Royce -- Dance / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Artifact / Barbara A. Babcock -- Clothing / Werner Enninger -- Mask / Elizabeth Tonkin -- Food / Judith Goode -- Ritual / Roy A. Rappaport -- Festival / Beverly J. Stoeltje -- Drama performance / Richard Schechner -- Puppetry / Peter D. Arnott -- Spectacle / Frank E. Manning -- Tourism / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and…