Brokering Folklore
Discussion #2: Brokering Folklore at a festival and in this class
Prompts for discussion:
· Do Folklore festivals do what people in these videos say they do?
· How does that happen?
· When you write your Field Assignments for this class, how can you apply Richard Kurin's ideas about "brokering" folklore (Lecture 27)?
Watch the Smithsonian Video "Festival 101" (6 min)
https://festival.si.edu/visit/festival-101/smithsonian
and our own festival here in Seattle, Northwest Folklife (2 minutes):