Suggested Readings

List compiled by the faculty of the Folklore and Ethnomusicology Institutes at Indiana University, and intended as a representative sample of scholarship rather than as a definitive collection of titles.

Folklore Courses

Ethnomusicology Courses

I. Reference tools
a. Bibliographic, encyclopedias, dictionaries...
b. Journals

II. Theory and method
a. Textbooks, general works
b. Anthologies, collections of essays
c. Theory and technique
d. History of folkloristic thought
e. Public arts and culture
f. Ethnography and fieldwork

III. Expressive forms and genres
a. Material
b. Ritual, festival and belief
c. Verbal (myth; proverb, riddle, and joke; oral literature; story, folktale, and legend; ballad, epic, and folksong)

IV. Regional studies

V. Related works

I. Theory and Method; Ethnographies

II. Regional Studies
a. African American
b. Africa
c. East Asia
d. Jewish
e. Latin American

III. Technology, Media, Music