Contemporary Folklore and Podcast Culture: Towards Democratization of Knowledge and Re-Oralization of Culture (original) (raw)

, a writer, a poet and a musician. Ceallaigh's research interests include animal rights activism as a public performance of ethical belief, which is the topic of her dissertation, and creative applications of folkloristic scholarship for storytellers. Her Folklore & Fiction podcast, "where folklore scholarship meets storytelling craft", launched in 2021. keywords: podcasting; folklore; contemporary folklore; oral culture; aural culture ak: What is Folklore & Fiction about? cm: The purpose of the podcast originally was, and continues to be, bringing good folklore scholarship to people who are writers, storytellers and creators of various kinds. I thought this would be a really good opportunity to explain, as a folklorist, what a myth is, what a legend is, what a tall tale is, what a fairy tale is. Give it some folkloristic context, talk about what scholars have had to say. There is plenty of useful research for writers in narrative scholarship. I was a writer first and then a scholar: when I started school in 2016, I had already been writing and publishing for about 14 years, and I had put aside my writing career and gone back to school for my doctorate. So I wanted to help creators to write myths that sound like myths, legends that sound like legends. These old patterns resonate with us because we have heard them over and over again already in various versions. I believe as a writer that taking these patterns, the bones of a story, and putting them into something new, perhaps very different or alien, can make your writing more approachable for readers.