Whispers in the Echo Chamber Derek Cheung and Mary Lou Williams--as well

and Mary Lou Williams--as well as comedy stars Imogene Coca

and dilemmas of the dissidents who

" -Dennis Van Roekel

Although the impact of a disaster is often measured in terms of casualties

He also places Japanese Americans in transnational and diasporic context and analyzes the performance of ethnic heritage through the example of taiko drumming ensembles

Whispers in the Echo Chamber Derek Cheung and Mary Lou Williams--as wellWhispers in the Echo Chamber: Folklore and the Role of Conspiracy Theory in Contemporary Society makes the case that conspiracy theories are fundamentally a folklore genre, akin to and often involving other belief narratives like rumor and legend. The editors and contributors show that studying conspiracy theories using the tools of folkloristics is a fruitful and necessary analytical exercise. The volume's three parts lay out folkloristic approaches