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  • FOLK 201: American Folklore

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    May be counted as a General Requirement Course in History & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course will examine American expressive culture through an exploration of narrative; music; dance; drama; public events; material arts and architecture; religion; medicine; politics;foodways; ways of speaking; and customs surround and celebrating work, leisure, childhood, family, aging, individually and community. In other words, we will be studying the 99% of American life that often goes unnoticed by other college courses! Special topics featured in 2004; tattooing, piercing, branding and other forms of contemporary body arts; UFO abduction as belief and legend; women's home altars; and the African-based North American religion called "vodou.
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  • FOLK 203: Afro-American Folklore

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    May be counted as a General Requirement Course in History & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. An overview of the major forms of expressive culture developed by Afro-Americans. The course focuses on the continuous development of black cultural expression from slavery to the present, emphasizing the socio-historical context in which they are to be understood and interpreted.
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  • FOLK 223: Folk Religion

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course will emphasize religion as it is believed, practiced, and experienced in everyday life. Emphasis will be placed on Christian belief systems in Europe and America in historical and contemporary perspective. Among the topics to be discussed in 2005 will be stigmata, healing miracles of the saints, apparitions of the Virgin Mary, possession, exorcism, the near-death experience,the Rapture, Vodou, and contemporary Witchcraft.
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  • FOLK 229: Myth in Society

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Ben-Amos. In this course we will explore the mythologies of selected peoples in the Ancient Near East, Africa, Asia, and Native North and South America and examine how the gods function in the life and belief of each society. The study of mythological texts will be accompanied, as much as possible, by illustrative slides that will show the images of these deities in art and ritual.
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  • FOLK 231: American Popular Culture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Lee. The course will explore the history and practice of popular culture and culture studies in the United States. We will begin by challenging the concepts of "folk," "mass" and "popular" as well as "American" and "culture." Furthermore, we will interrogate various media such as television, film, music, comics and popular romances to gain insights into the conditions for the reproduction of social relations. Through an analysis of audience response to performed or viewed events we will explore how and why people actively negotiate and interpret popular materials. This class will attempt to situate popular culture within a larger social, cultural and political framework. Some areas of popular culture we may investigate include MTV, talk shows, fashion, club cultures, rap and other musics, snaps, pro-wrestling, professional sports, Hollywood movies, advertising, McDonald's and there will be room to explore other areas students may find interesting. We will end by looking into the exportation of American popular culture and its reception, interpretation, adaptation and consumption around the world.
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  • FOLK 233: African Folklore

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. "Despite the overwhelming reality of economic decline; despite unimaginable poverty; despite wars, malnutrition, disease and political instability, African cultural productivity grows apace: popular literatures, oral narrative and poetry, dance, drama, and visual art all thrive."-- Kwame Anthony Appiah from In My Father's House What role(s) does folklore play in the lives of Africans today How has folklore adapted to the realities of contemporary, urban Africa This course will investigate the continuation of traditional elements produced in diverse media and circumstances in a modern, largely urban, Africa. Although traditional African culture has been transformed and changed in the face of rapid urbanization and modernity, it continues to provide a means through which people enjoy themselves and comment on a wide range of issues affecting their lives. Issues such as identity, difference, and diversity; tradition and history; modernity and development; wealth and power; politics and political change; and gender relations.
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  • FOLK 240: Fairy Tales

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. An examination of the history and forms of the fairy tale (Marchen) as an oral narrative genre and as a literary construction. Topics covered include the history of collecting folktales in Europe and the United States; the issue of "authenticity" of the tales; and the importance of studying context and artistic performance in storytelling events. Issues of gender and sexuality in fairy tales--and of religious and supernatural beliefs evidenced in the tales will be a focus of the class. We will also discuss fairy tales as children's literature; illustrators of fairy tales from Arthur Rackham to Wanda Gag and Maurice Sendak; and the uses of images and plots from fairy tales in popular culture (including Disney's films) and in tourism, advertising, and marketing.
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  • FOLK 241: Great Story Collections

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Azzolina. This course is intended for those with no prior background in folklore or knowledge of various cultures. Texts range in age from the first century to the twentieth, and geographically from the Middle East to Europe to the United States. Each collection displays various techniques of collecting folk materials and making them concerete. Each in its own way also raises different issues of genre, legitimacy, canon formation, cultural values and context.
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  • FOLK 259: Caribbean Music & Diaspora

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Rommen. This survey course considers Caribbean musics within a broad and historical framework. Caribbean musical practices are explored by illustrating the many ways that aesthetics, ritual, communication, religion, and social structure are embodied in and contested through performance. These initial inquiries open onto an investigation of a range of theoretical concepts that become particularly pertinent in Caribbean contexts <-concepts such as post-colonialism, migration, ethnicity, hybridity, syncretism, and globalization. Each of these concepts, moreover, will be explored with a view toward understanding its connections to the central analytical paradigm of the course <- diaspora. Throughout the course, we will listen to many different styles and repertories of music, ranging from calypso to junkanoo, from rumba to merengue, and from dancehall to zouk. We will then work to understand them not only in relation to the readings that frame our discussions but also in relations to our own North-American contexts of music consuption and production.
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  • FOLK 270: Folklore and Sexuality

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Azzolina. Sexuality is usally thought of as being biological or social, divided into categories of natural and unnatural. Often misssed are its creative and communicative aspects. Examining the constructed social elements of sexuality requires attention be paid to folklore in groups, between individuals and on the larger platform of popular technological media. The most interseting locations for exploration are those places where borderlands or margins, occur between genders, orientations and other cultural categories. A field-based paper will be required that must include documentary research.
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