Monday, August 30, 2004

Blogging as the new folklore and folk art?

Phil Tilney's exhibition catalogue "This Other Eden: Canadian Folk Art Outdoors" Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1999 includes a definition of folklore. Blogging sorta falls within the definition of folklore: blogging is traditional in the sense that it is a transmission/sharing information, in the act of recording and maybe the new word of mouth(?); as a product it is both concrete (infrastructure) and conceptual (language, intent, content), and; we are a members of a group that has something in common - the culture of blogging.

"Folk art is usually something one step beyond the mundane (p. 40)." Are we beyond the mundane? Are there those who rise to the top in the art of blogging?

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