Foreword: Reopening Performance, by Charles L. Briggs Acknowledgments Introduction: Emerging Perspectives in the Study of Folklore and Performance, by Solimar Otero and Anthony Bak Buccitelli Part I: Resituating Histories, Ideas, and Practices 1. The Weight and Lightness of Tradition: Interpreting Repetition in Folklore, by Anthony Bak Buccitelli 2. Contested Ancestors: Toward a Genealogy of Everyday Life in the Postdiscipline, by Eric Mayer-García 3. Minting Money: Queer Temporality and Performance in Ethnography, by Sarah M. Gordon 4. Kenneth Burke Meets the Flop-Eared Mule: A Fiddle Tune and the Performance of Form, by Gregory Hansen Part II: Performance of Materiality, Virtuality, and the Spiritual 5. A Glitch in Time: Digital Interruptions and Spaces of Haunting, by Kit Danowski 6.

Ancestoring: Materializing Memory, Mourning, and Resuscitation through Performance, by Solimar Otero 7. Memeing Together: Performance, Competence and Collective Creativity in Digital Folklore, by Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius Part III: Performance, Polyphony, and Embodied Knowledge 8. White Moral Feelings and National Affect in Audience Reactions to Danse du Ventre and Coochee-Coochee in the Late Nineteenth-Century, by Pris Nasrat 9. Reverse, Rewrite, Reclaim Coloniality in Chicanx Flamenco at the Miss Indian World Pageant, by Erica Acevedo-Ontiveros 10. Queerly Beloved: Reflecting on Embodiments and Explorations of Gender and Pleasure Through Tango Queer, by celia meredith Part IV: Performing Community, Situating Dissent 11. Performing Together: Rethinking Definitions of Performance as Participatory Practice, by Katherine Borland 12. A Framework for Analyzing Power and Performance: Music, Activism, and a Veterans' Anti-War Coffeehouse, by Lisa Gilman 13. Spectacular Dissent, by Sabra Webber 14.

Performative Landscapes: An Exploration, by Lisa Gabbert Index.