First International Conference on Advances in Education, Humanities, and Language, ICEL 2019, Malang, Indonesia, 23-24 March 2019

Research Article

Living Folklore: Unlimited Creativity

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.23-3-2019.2284883,
        author={H N Hidayat and Wasana  Wasana and Pramono  Pramono and Sabar  Sabar and P  Husodo},
        title={Living Folklore: Unlimited Creativity},
        proceedings={First International Conference on Advances in Education, Humanities, and Language, ICEL 2019, Malang, Indonesia, 23-24 March 2019},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={ICEL},
        year={2019},
        month={7},
        keywords={folklore transformation internet oral digital},
        doi={10.4108/eai.23-3-2019.2284883}
    }
    
  • H N Hidayat
    Wasana Wasana
    Pramono Pramono
    Sabar Sabar
    P Husodo
    Year: 2019
    Living Folklore: Unlimited Creativity
    ICEL
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.23-3-2019.2284883
H N Hidayat1,*, Wasana Wasana1, Pramono Pramono1, Sabar Sabar1, P Husodo1
  • 1: Universitas Andalas
*Contact email: herrynh@hum.unand.ac.id

Abstract

. This paper describes the form of folklore transformation. Folklore, which is identic with orality, transformed in several forms of modern media so that it is more accessible and familiar with the current generation. In its new form, folklore is considered to be able to surpass its era. On the other hand, there have been many theories and studies on folklore. Aesthetics, literature, textual, contextual, historical, geographic, and anthropological are fields of science commonly used for folklore studies. However, all has not yet been able to answer the question, is there a novelty in folklore and folkloristics as a scientific discipline? Folklore has shown astounding growth involving digital devices. Under the folkloristic computation, geographical and historical methods seem to be reliable navigation technology in the folklore development. Folklore in the digital age is a complex and sometimes confusing arrangement of expressions. However, in this digital era, several varieties of folklore