Changing Faces of Tradition: A Report on the Folk and Traditional Arts in the United States.

摘要

The field is the folk and traditional arts. These accessible arts, to paraphrase one folklorist, are practiced among families, friends and neighbors throughout the United States in familiar settings of everyday life and, increasingly, on concert stages and in museums. Most folk arts activity occurs outside institutional settings and, while some of it intersects with commerce and popular culture, other portions find nurturance from public and private funding. Folk arts are seemingly everywhere and nowhere at the same time. This study sketches the breadth and depth of folk and traditional arts activity in the United States.