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fakelore, n.
Brit. |ˈfeɪklɔː|, U.S. |ˈfeɪklɔ(ə)r|
[Alteration of folklore n. after fake n.2]
Specious folklore, esp. stories with stereotypically folkloric elements falsely presented as genuine folklore.
1949R. M. Dorson in Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 62 201 The deliberately contrived product is not folklore but what I have elsewhere called fakelore. Fakelore casts a warm, nostalgic glow over the folk; it grins coyly at their fun, and drips tears over their tragedies. 1954M. W. Fishwick American Heroes, Myth & Reality xi. 158 In the U.S.A., land of the Big Build-Up, much that passes for folklore is really fakelore. 1999S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide i. i. 224/1 The cover suggests one of those fakelore ensembles, but this is actually a very good collection of instrumental polkas, oberek and other dances from southeastern Poland. 2004Natural Hist. (Nexis) Nov. 46 Today Neopagans range more widely, blending ideas from theoretical disciplines..with oddments of folklore, some of such dubious accuracy that they are dismissed as ‘fakelore’ by skeptics. |