Add to ORKGThe Archive of Folk Song, renamed the Archive of Folk Culture in 1981, has provided over fifty years of special service to scholars in the fields of folklore, folklife, and ethnomusicological studies. Yet in spite of its extraordinary impact upon academic and popular social movements, few scholars are aware of its complex history and the role which the Library of Congress has played in the documentation and preservation of traditional culture in the United States. The dissertation provides a detailed history of the Archive\u27s activities from its founding in 1928 to its fiftieth anniversary in 1978. It does so by analyzing correspondence, annual reports, memoranda, and a broad range of archival acquisitions and it presents accounts of the ...
This chapter investigates sound archives as dispositives of politics of national identity through so...
Released in 1952, The Anthology of American Folk Music was the singular vision of the enigmatic arti...
This chapter investigates sound archives as dispositives of politics of national identity through so...
Beginning in the mid-1930s, government-sponsored fieldworkers canvassed the nation as part of a seri...
This article is published in two parts: part 1, vol. 2, no. 1 and part 2, vol. 2, no. 2
Thesis (Ph.D.) - Indiana University, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2010American folklorists have lon...
The American Folklife Preservation Act is the only piece of Congressional legislation that signifies...
The American Folklife Preservation Act is the only piece of Congressional legislation that signifies...
This article is published in two parts: part 1, vol. 2, no. 1 and part 2, vol. 2, no. 2
Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Washington, 2019Carrie Grover, a homemaker and folk singer from Gorha...
This dissertation explores different approaches to collecting African American music in the United S...
I n response t o the many queries it receives from the public and scholarly communities, the Archive...
was created in 1976 by the U.S. Congress to “preserve and present American folklife ” through pro-gr...
This thesis is concerned with the history of folk music collecting in America and seeks to demonstra...
The American Folklore Society and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress collaborat...
This chapter investigates sound archives as dispositives of politics of national identity through so...
Released in 1952, The Anthology of American Folk Music was the singular vision of the enigmatic arti...
This chapter investigates sound archives as dispositives of politics of national identity through so...
Beginning in the mid-1930s, government-sponsored fieldworkers canvassed the nation as part of a seri...
This article is published in two parts: part 1, vol. 2, no. 1 and part 2, vol. 2, no. 2
Thesis (Ph.D.) - Indiana University, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2010American folklorists have lon...
The American Folklife Preservation Act is the only piece of Congressional legislation that signifies...
The American Folklife Preservation Act is the only piece of Congressional legislation that signifies...
This article is published in two parts: part 1, vol. 2, no. 1 and part 2, vol. 2, no. 2
Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Washington, 2019Carrie Grover, a homemaker and folk singer from Gorha...
This dissertation explores different approaches to collecting African American music in the United S...
I n response t o the many queries it receives from the public and scholarly communities, the Archive...
was created in 1976 by the U.S. Congress to “preserve and present American folklife ” through pro-gr...
This thesis is concerned with the history of folk music collecting in America and seeks to demonstra...
The American Folklore Society and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress collaborat...
This chapter investigates sound archives as dispositives of politics of national identity through so...
Released in 1952, The Anthology of American Folk Music was the singular vision of the enigmatic arti...
This chapter investigates sound archives as dispositives of politics of national identity through so...