Editing Folklore (section)

=== Tradition-bearer and audience ===
[[File:Walaskie fujary.webm|thumb|Presentation of traditional Wallachian pipes at the [[Wallachian Open Air Museum]], Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic, 2017]]
Transmission is a communicative process requiring a binary: one individual or group who actively transmits information in some form to another individual or group. Each of these is a defined role in the folklore process. The tradition-bearer{{sfn|Ben-Amos|1997b}} is the individual who actively passes along the knowledge of an artifact; this can be either a mother singing a lullaby to her baby, or an Irish dance troupe performing at a local festival. They are named individuals, usually well known in the community as knowledgeable in their traditional lore. They are not the anonymous "folk", the nameless mass without of history or individuality.

The audience of this performance is the other half in the transmission process; they listen, watch, and remember. Few of them will become active tradition-bearers; many more will be passive tradition-bearers who maintain a memory of this specific traditional artifact, in both its presentation and its content.

There is active communication between the audience and the performer. The performer is presenting to the audience; the audience in turn, through its actions and reactions, is actively communicating with the performer.{{sfn|Sims|Stephens|2005|page=127}} The purpose of this performance is not to create something new but to re-create something that already exists; the performance is words and actions which are known, recognized and valued by both the performer and the audience. For folklore is first and foremost remembered behavior. As members of the same cultural [[reference group]], they identify and value this performance as a piece of shared cultural knowledge.

[[File:Bikkessy Heinbucher Táncoló magyarok.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|''Dancing Hungarians'' by {{nowrap|J. B. Heinbucher}}, 1816]]
[[File:XIX üldtantsupidu 13.JPG|thumb|upright=1.35|Some elements of folk culture might be in the center of local culture and an import part of self-identity. For instance [[folk dance]] is highly popular in [[Estonia]] and it has evolved into a sort of a national sport.{{efn|See {{cite web |url=http://www.estonica.org/en/Culture/The_art_of_dance/Folk_dance/ |title=Folk dance |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303215849/http://www.estonica.org/en/Culture/The_art_of_dance/Folk_dance/ |archive-date=2016-03-03 |website=Estonica}}}} XIX Estonian Dance Celebration in 2015 that was held together with [[Estonian Song Festival]].]]