Meanings
- rareuncountableThe quality of being folkloric.
I will argue that this phenomenon may help partially to explain the increasing extravagance and decreasing folkloricness of these works.
2008, Christopher Stone, Popular Culture and Nationalism in Lebanon: The Fairouz and Rahbani Nation, page 112 more examples
While the light show was incredible — a spectacle in and of itself as well as an enhancement to the music — there were times that it seemed in opposition to the galloping folkloric-ness and organic essence of the music.
2013 October 1, Alli Marshall, “Sound Track web extra: Sigur Rós”, in Mountain XpressBeing constituted as an object of anthropological study, while a crucial form of recognition, may—given the association of anthropology with the exotic or “traditional”—also have the effect of cementing Andalucía’s folkloricness and reproducing its othering.
2016 September, Jessaca Leinaweaver, “Andalucía, the Americas, and the Anthropological Object”, in American Anthropologist, volume 118, number 3, page 626
Origin
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