Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2023 American Folklore Society annual conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use the promo code AFS22 for 50% off of all of our folklore titles when ordering from our website, November 1–4, 2023. Buy 3 books and receive a free issue of Journal of American Ethnic History.
Featured Books
Featured Journals
The Journal of American Folklore, edited by Lisa Gilman, is the quarterly journal of the American Folklore Society. The contents of the Journal reflect a wide range of topics and points of view, grounded in past and current folklore scholarship, and based on recognized disciplinary methods.
Special Journals Promo
Let’s Talk
Laurie Matheson is the director of the University of Illinois Press. Her areas of acquisition include the subjects of Music, Dance, and Folklore. If you’re working on a book project, please feel free to reach out to her during the conference here.
Click here to listen to an interview with Laurie Matheson and American Music editor Todd Decker.
Lisa Gilman is professor of folklore in George Mason University’s English Department and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of American Folklore. If you’re interested in submitting a proposal to JAF, please email Lisa here.
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More From Our Authors
- Listen to our podcast series, The UPside:
- Listen to an interview with Lee Bidgood on the New Books Network
- Read an interview with Jennifer Freeman Marshall in the Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Watch an interview with the Langston Collin Wilkins on KIAH TV
- Read a Q&A with Levi S. Gibbs
- Visit the supplemental companion website to Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry
- Squeeze This! launch party in New York City
- Read a review of Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020 in Shepherd Express
- Ozark Folksongs and Ballads sung by Max Hunter (Album from Smithsonian Folkways)
- Hear Stephen Wade on NPR / All Things Considered