Jack Santino
Biographic Data
| ID | 150590 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack Santino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack |
| FAMILY NAME | Santino |
| SIGNATURE | SANTINO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowling Green State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
And So Again
This is a poem for the creative section of the JFS issue in progress
Public Performances: Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque
Ritual, festival, celebRation, caRnival, holiday, public display eventthese terms and others are used to refer to a variety of public performances.Often the terms overlap.Sometimes they are used interchangeably.In part, this is due to the porous, shifting nature of the events themselves, heavily dependent on context and intended purpose.It is the intention of this essay to examine public performances in order to tease out shared qualities and to …
Globalized, Commodified, and Contested: Contemporary Festivities in the United States
Globalized, Commodified, and Contested: Contemporary Festivities in the United States
Les sociétés pluralistes se caractérisent par la diversité de leurs célébrations, chacune reflétant une origine nationale, une culture régionale, une affiliation religieuse ou d’autres marqueurs identitaires. Dans une société capitaliste tournée vers la consommation telle que les États-Unis aujourd’hui, les fêtes locales et nationales sont souvent dominées par l’industrie du commerce, qui se sert fréquemment de coutumes traditionnelles à des fins…
Popular memories: Commemoration, participatory culture, and democratic citizenship
In Popular Memories, author Ekaterina V. Haskins examines four sites and types of memorialization, all of which make some claim to being constituted at least in part by public participation. A chapter each is devoted to a U.S. Postal Service commemorative stamp program entitled “Put Your Stamp on History”; the 9–11 Digital Archive; New Orleans carnival performances after Hurricane Katrina; and a traveling commemoration of the American soldiers an…
Decoration Day in the Mountains: Traditions of Cemetery Decoration in the Southern Appalachians
[...]on page 38, the author states that he suggests the term style to refer to the modern custom of adorning graves with objects, notes, and personal mementos. here duty compels me to point out that this idea was presented earlier, in an article by Jean- nie banks thomas called communicative communication and Graveside Shrines: Prin- cess Diana, Jim morrison, my 'bro' max and boogs the cat, in a volume i edited (Spontane- ous Shrines and the Publ…
The Carnivalesque and the Ritualesque
The author argues for folkloristic recognition of a "ritualesque" dimension in public events aimed at transforming the attitudes or behaviors of participants or spectators. Drawing on Bakhtin's concept of the "carnivalesque" as a parallel and source of comparison, the author explores the transformative mechanisms of public events such as Earth Day gatherings and antiwar demonstrations. Where the carnivalesque is recognizable in its festivity, the…
Obituaries: Ray B. Browne (1922-2009)
Research Article| January 01 2011 Obituaries: Ray B. Browne (1922-2009) Jack Santino Jack Santino Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2011) 124 (491): 84–85. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.124.491.0084 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jack Santino; Obituaries: Ray B. Browne (1922-2009). Journal of American Folklore 1 January 2011; 124 (491): 84–85. doi…
The English Year: A Month-by-Month Guide to the Nation’s Customs and Festivals from May Day to Mischief Night (review)
Reviewed by: The English Year: A Month-by-Month Guide to the Nation’s Customs and Festivals from May Day to Mischief Night Jack Santino The English Year: A Month-by-Month Guide to the Nation’s Customs and Festivals from May Day to Mischief Night. By Steve Roud. (London: Penguin, 2006. Pp. xxviii + 431, sources, bibliography, index.) The English Year by Steve Roud is a handsome volume, filled with excellent photographs and illustrations. A large (…
The English Year: A Month-by-Month Guide to the Nation's Customs and Festivals from May Day to Mischief Night
Book Review| April 01 2009 The English Year: A Month-by-Month Guide to the Nation’s Customs and Festivals from May Day to Mischief Night The English Year: A Month-by-Month Guide to the Nation’s Customs and Festivals from May Day to Mischief Night, Steve Roud. Jack Santino Jack Santino Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2009) 122 (484): 242–243. https://doi.org/10.2307/20487691 Views Icon Views…
Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death
This is an edited volume of approximately 17 essays that deal with various types of spontaneous shrines and other, related public memorializations of death. The articles address events such as New Yor
Commercialism, Capitalism, and Celebration
Traditional holidays in the United States have become remarkable for the amount of commercial activity (Christmas, Halloween). When it is recognized that rituals, festivals, and celebrations are often dramatic symbolic enactments of the culture that produced them, one realizes that it is inevitable that such a class of events would exist. Often the commercialization of holidays starts with the recognition of traditional customs and activities cus…
Performance Commemoratives, the Personal, and the Public: Spontaneous Shrines, Emergent Ritual, and the Field of Folklore (AFS Presidential Plenary Address, 2003)
Performative Commemoratives, the Personal, and the Public:Spontaneous Shrines, Emergent Ritual, and the Field of Folklore (AFS Presidential Plenary Address, 2003) Jack Santino, Professor of Folklore and Popular Culture (bio) In this Presidential Plenary Address, I discuss the concept of "spontaneous shrines," along with other examples of public memorializations of death. These phenomena combine the personal with the public, or, following the work…
Performative Commemoratives, the Personal, and the Public: Spontaneous Shrines, Emergent Ritual, and the Field of Folklore (AFS Presidential Plenary Address, 2003)
Research Article| October 01 2004 Performative Commemoratives, the Personal, and the Public: Spontaneous Shrines, Emergent Ritual, and the Field of Folklore (AFS Presidential Plenary Address, 2003) Jack Santino Jack Santino Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2004) 117 (466): 363–372. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137715 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Se…
Signs of War and Peace
Shared Style and Paradox
Twice a year, the city of Derry (or Londonderry) is the scene of major celebrations. In August, the Apprentice Boys—a fraternal organization named for the apprentices of Derry who held the city gates shut to prevent Governor Robert Lundy from surrendering to the forces of King James—commemorate the lifting of the siege. In December, Lundy is burned in effigy. The summer demonstration is particularly controversial because the Apprentice Boys have …
New Old-Fashioned Ways: Holidays and Popular Culture
Neru Old-Fashioned Ways: Holidays and Po Culture. By Jack Santino. (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1996. Pp. x + 175, introduction, 49 illustrations, references, index. $14.95 paper) This recent work by Jack Santino explores new ground in its analysis of the commercialization of traditional American holidays and the semiotics of holiday products. The book is an accessible guide to the holiday motifs that are used to market goods, a…
Public Protest and Popular Style: Resistance from the Right in Northern Ireland and South Boston
Popular political demonstrations often feature the use of theatrical and symbolic actions and artifacts. These are drawn from a repertoire that resembles and overlaps with festive public events. In this article I examine parades, murals, and other popular forms of public protest in Northern Ireland, where I have been conducting field research since 1991. I compare these to demonstrations of resistance in South Boston to school busing and the incl…
Hallowe'en and Other Festivals of Death and Life
Why do we celebrate Halloween? No one gets the day off, and unlike all other major holidays it has no religious or governmental affiliation. A survivor of our pre-Christian, agrarian roots, it has become one of the most popular and widely celebrated festivals on the contemporary American calendar.Jack Santino has put together the first collection of essays to examine the evolution of Halloween from its Celtic origins through its adaptation into m…
New Old-Fashioned Ways: Holidays and Popular Culture
All around the Year: Holidays and Celebrations in American Life
Whether they're decorating Easter trees or celebrating Wagner's birthday by playing recordings of his Ring cycle operas and incinerating a model of Valhalla on an outdoor barbecue to the closing strains of Gotterdamerung, Americans know both how to create and how to celebrate holidays. Jack Santino's guide to such frivolity is a wonderfully readable exploration of holidays, periods of festivity, and life-cycle rituals and celebrations. Santino dr…
All Around the Year: Holidays and Celebrations in American Life
Journal Article All around the Year: Holidays and Celebrations in American Life. By Jack Santino. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994 and Halloween and Other festivals of Death and Life. Ed. by Jack Santino. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993 Get access Erika Brady Erika Brady Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History…
Consumer Rites: The Buying & Selling of American Holidays
Journal Article Consumer Rites: The Buying & Selling of American Holidays. By Leigh Eric Schmidt. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xvi, 363 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-691-02980-6.) Get access Jack Santino Jack Santino Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, Page 630, https://doi.org/10.2307/294…
Light up the Sky: Halloween Bonfires and Cultural Hegemony in Northern Ireland
Large-scale, fire-based public events are a staple feature of traditional celebratory life in Northern Ireland. Bonfires are connected to a large variety of different festivals and celebrations (Gailey 1977; cf. Newall 1972). For example, bonfires associated with the victory of William of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne are burned in July, and bonfires are used by various members of the population to mark diverse events such as the anniversarie…
Unwrapping Christmas
Performance Commemoratives, the Personal, and the Public: Spontaneous Shrines, Emergent Ritual, and the Field of Folklore (AFS Presidential Plenary Address, 2003)
Performative Commemoratives, the Personal, and the Public:Spontaneous Shrines, Emergent Ritual, and the Field of Folklore (AFS Presidential Plenary Address, 2003) Jack Santino, Professor of Folklore and Popular Culture (bio) In this Presidential Plenary Address, I discuss the concept of "spontaneous shrines," along with other examples of public memorializations of death. These phenomena combine the personal with the public, or, following the work…
The Carnivalesque and the Ritualesque
The author argues for folkloristic recognition of a "ritualesque" dimension in public events aimed at transforming the attitudes or behaviors of participants or spectators. Drawing on Bakhtin's concept of the "carnivalesque" as a parallel and source of comparison, the author explores the transformative mechanisms of public events such as Earth Day gatherings and antiwar demonstrations. Where the carnivalesque is recognizable in its festivity, the…
Public Protest and Popular Style: Resistance from the Right in Northern Ireland and South Boston
Popular political demonstrations often feature the use of theatrical and symbolic actions and artifacts. These are drawn from a repertoire that resembles and overlaps with festive public events. In this article I examine parades, murals, and other popular forms of public protest in Northern Ireland, where I have been conducting field research since 1991. I compare these to demonstrations of resistance in South Boston to school busing and the incl…
Halloween in America: Contemporary Customs and Performances
Halloween in America is a very popular holiday marked by a great deal of expressive culture which calls attention to itself and the day to which it belongs. Traditional Halloween activities include the making of decorations for the home, such as jack-o'-lanterns, displays of fruits and vegetables, harvest figures, and paper witches and skeletons. Another major Halloween activity is the making and wearing of costumes and masquerading in the street…
Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: The Negotiation of Black Occupational Identity Through Personal Experience Narrative
PULLMAN PORTERS ARE HIGHLY INTERESTING as an occupational group because, even though groups of them meet regularly in cities across America, the occupation that has formed the basis of their identity and of their expressive culture no longer exists. Pullman porters were black men who worked on luxurious railroad sleeping cars. They were personal servants for the passengers on the cars, and they tended to their every need as well as to the prepara…
All around the Year: Holidays and Celebrations in American Life
Whether they're decorating Easter trees or celebrating Wagner's birthday by playing recordings of his Ring cycle operas and incinerating a model of Valhalla on an outdoor barbecue to the closing strains of Gotterdamerung, Americans know both how to create and how to celebrate holidays. Jack Santino's guide to such frivolity is a wonderfully readable exploration of holidays, periods of festivity, and life-cycle rituals and celebrations. Santino dr…
Yellow Ribbons and Seasonal Flags: The Folk Assemblage of War
derived color motifs. Moreover, both the ribbons and the flags were often displayed in conjunction with the usual holiday decorations appropriate to the season. Using a variety of symbols, people created folk assemblages that commented on and reflected issues of war and politics, and that mediated individual opinions and community expression. In these folk assemblages of war we see the creation of tradition out of elements offolk, popular, and ma…
Characteristics of Occupational Narratives
Light up the Sky: Halloween Bonfires and Cultural Hegemony in Northern Ireland
Large-scale, fire-based public events are a staple feature of traditional celebratory life in Northern Ireland. Bonfires are connected to a large variety of different festivals and celebrations (Gailey 1977; cf. Newall 1972). For example, bonfires associated with the victory of William of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne are burned in July, and bonfires are used by various members of the population to mark diverse events such as the anniversarie…
A Servant and a Man, a Hostess or a Woman: A Study of Expressive Culture in Two Transportation Occupations
The article examines stories and testimony of airline fight attendants and Pullman sleeping car porters of the railroad. Workers in these passenger-service positions are also responsible to superordinate personnel (pilots, conductors) who arepresent during the trip. Many of the stories are thematically parallel, butflight attendants engage in an active, ongoing pranking relationship with pilots while Pullman porters had no such tradition and thus…
Flew the Ocean in a Plane: An Investigation of Airline Occupational Narrative
New Old-Fashioned Ways: Holidays and Popular Culture
Neru Old-Fashioned Ways: Holidays and Po Culture. By Jack Santino. (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1996. Pp. x + 175, introduction, 49 illustrations, references, index. $14.95 paper) This recent work by Jack Santino explores new ground in its analysis of the commercialization of traditional American holidays and the semiotics of holiday products. The book is an accessible guide to the holiday motifs that are used to market goods, a…
On The Nature of Healing as a Folk Event
Globalized, Commodified, and Contested: Contemporary Festivities in the United States
Les sociétés pluralistes se caractérisent par la diversité de leurs célébrations, chacune reflétant une origine nationale, une culture régionale, une affiliation religieuse ou d’autres marqueurs identitaires. Dans une société capitaliste tournée vers la consommation telle que les États-Unis aujourd’hui, les fêtes locales et nationales sont souvent dominées par l’industrie du commerce, qui se sert fréquemment de coutumes traditionnelles à des fins…
Performative Commemoratives, the Personal, and the Public: Spontaneous Shrines, Emergent Ritual, and the Field of Folklore (AFS Presidential Plenary Address, 2003)
Research Article| October 01 2004 Performative Commemoratives, the Personal, and the Public: Spontaneous Shrines, Emergent Ritual, and the Field of Folklore (AFS Presidential Plenary Address, 2003) Jack Santino Jack Santino Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2004) 117 (466): 363–372. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137715 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Se…
Occupational Ghostlore: Social Context and the Expression of Belief
In certain occupations, such as mining and sailing, researchers have documented the belief in ghosts who are said to warn former colleagues and comembers of danger and impending accidents and to help them in times of disaster. Recently, this belief has been important to members of the airline industry. Such beliefs are often encapsulated in narrative as legends and are shared by some members of the industry, but the researcher who studies these b…
Flew the Ocean in a Plane: An Investigation of Airline Occupational Narrative
Characteristics of Occupational Narratives
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary
Book synopsis: nvocations to the Virgin Mary marked out the days of my childhood in bells; her feastdays gave a rhythm to the year; an eternal ideal of mortal beauty was fixed by the lineaments of her face, which gazed from every wall and niche. On February 2, the feast of the Purification, we wore starched white veils of tulle that stood out around us like a nimbus. With the medals of the Sodality of Our Lady on blue ribbons round our necks, we …
Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory City
The Spirit of American Music: “Nobody ever told me it was the Blues”
Sucking Doctor
Cult and Countercult: A Study of a Spiritual Growth Group and a Witchcraft Order
Rank and File: The Visualization of Occupational Folklore and Union History
Halloween in America: Contemporary Customs and Performances
Halloween in America is a very popular holiday marked by a great deal of expressive culture which calls attention to itself and the day to which it belongs. Traditional Halloween activities include the making of decorations for the home, such as jack-o'-lanterns, displays of fruits and vegetables, harvest figures, and paper witches and skeletons. Another major Halloween activity is the making and wearing of costumes and masquerading in the street…
Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: The Negotiation of Black Occupational Identity Through Personal Experience Narrative
PULLMAN PORTERS ARE HIGHLY INTERESTING as an occupational group because, even though groups of them meet regularly in cities across America, the occupation that has formed the basis of their identity and of their expressive culture no longer exists. Pullman porters were black men who worked on luxurious railroad sleeping cars. They were personal servants for the passengers on the cars, and they tended to their every need as well as to the prepara…
Tenement Songs: The Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants
On The Nature of Healing as a Folk Event
Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: The Untold Story of the Black Pullman Porter
North America: Folk and Popular Music
A Servant and a Man, a Hostess or a Woman: A Study of Expressive Culture in Two Transportation Occupations
The article examines stories and testimony of airline fight attendants and Pullman sleeping car porters of the railroad. Workers in these passenger-service positions are also responsible to superordinate personnel (pilots, conductors) who arepresent during the trip. Many of the stories are thematically parallel, butflight attendants engage in an active, ongoing pranking relationship with pilots while Pullman porters had no such tradition and thus…
Occupational Ghostlore: Social Context and the Expression of Belief
In certain occupations, such as mining and sailing, researchers have documented the belief in ghosts who are said to warn former colleagues and comembers of danger and impending accidents and to help them in times of disaster. Recently, this belief has been important to members of the airline industry. Such beliefs are often encapsulated in narrative as legends and are shared by some members of the industry, but the researcher who studies these b…
The Classics Come Home: The Auburn Cord Dusenberg Reunion
George Magoon and the down East Game War: History, Folklore, and the Law
The Outlaw Emotions: Narrative Expressions on the Rules and Roles of Occupational Identity
Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: Stories of Black Pullman Porters. Publications of the American Folklore Society
Yellow Ribbons and Seasonal Flags: The Folk Assemblage of War
derived color motifs. Moreover, both the ribbons and the flags were often displayed in conjunction with the usual holiday decorations appropriate to the season. Using a variety of symbols, people created folk assemblages that commented on and reflected issues of war and politics, and that mediated individual opinions and community expression. In these folk assemblages of war we see the creation of tradition out of elements offolk, popular, and ma…
Unwrapping Christmas
All Around the Year: Holidays and Celebrations in American Life
Journal Article All around the Year: Holidays and Celebrations in American Life. By Jack Santino. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994 and Halloween and Other festivals of Death and Life. Ed. by Jack Santino. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993 Get access Erika Brady Erika Brady Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History…
Consumer Rites: The Buying & Selling of American Holidays
Journal Article Consumer Rites: The Buying & Selling of American Holidays. By Leigh Eric Schmidt. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xvi, 363 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-691-02980-6.) Get access Jack Santino Jack Santino Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, Page 630, https://doi.org/10.2307/294…
Light up the Sky: Halloween Bonfires and Cultural Hegemony in Northern Ireland
Large-scale, fire-based public events are a staple feature of traditional celebratory life in Northern Ireland. Bonfires are connected to a large variety of different festivals and celebrations (Gailey 1977; cf. Newall 1972). For example, bonfires associated with the victory of William of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne are burned in July, and bonfires are used by various members of the population to mark diverse events such as the anniversarie…
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