Some historical discussion of the nationalist and romantic/ nostalgia-laced underpinnings of ‘folk’ as a category (and its applications in multicultural/ international scenes from Japan to Indigenous Taiwan to Eastern Europe and the U.S.) will considered. We will also examine more recent debates on Blackface, Yellowface and race politics in contested expressions of ‘folk-as-Other’ and ‘Black-as-Other-within-Folk’.
Speakers: Nate Holder and Shzr Ee Tan
Full lecture title: Folk Arts, Blackface and Race: a conversation with Nate Holder and Shzr Ee Tan
