Deciphering Folk Costume
Dress Codes among Contra Dancers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3027875 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laurel Horton, Paul Jordan-Smith |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 117 |
| Issue | 466 |
| Pages | 415-440 |
| Publication date | 2004-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jaf.2004.0090 |
| OpenAlex | W2086855723 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 16 |
For many scholars, "folk costume" is an outmoded term that refers to a narrow range of ethnic, sectarian, and occupational clothing traditions. At the same time, folklorists tend to overlook some kinds of clothing choices because they seem merely to reflect "everyday dress." In this article, the authors examine how and why contra dancers choose what they wear to dance events as an example of how semiotic approaches introduced by Bogatyrev and others can reveal underlying clothing traditions-dress codes-applied to a subset of so-called everyday dress. Two instances of clothing behavior in particular, namely, the use of tee-shirts by dancers of both sexes and the growing use of skirts by male dancers, serve to "unpack" the complex communicative resources available to participants and suggest that folkloric research in this relatively unexplored area may produce rich results
Aesthetics · Art · Clothing · Dance · Ethnic group · Everyday life · Folklore · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Semiotics · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · History · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Philosophy
Folklore and folklife
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The Culture of Clothing
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |