Reflections on the Folklife Festival: An Ethnography of Participant Experience

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This first ethnographic study of a folklife festival focuses on festival participants-the dancers, musicians, storytellers, and artisans at a public display of folk culture. These essays investigate the contention by supporters of these events that this form of folkloric representation is as intellectually legitimate as scholarly research.