Collection Items

  • Film, Video
    Blind Boys of Alabama I "Amazing Grace" The Blind Boys of Alabama perform "Amazing Grace" at the Library of Congress, June 5, 2002. Forms part of the The Blind Boys of Alabama Concert Collection. videorecording | videorecording ; 4 min | Homegrown Concert Series. (Source). June 5, 2002. (Date). Forms part of the The Blind Boys of Alabama Concert Collection. (Source Note). Videorecording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Carter, Jimmy Lee - Blind Boys of Alabama - Fountain, Clarence
    • Date: 2002
  • Film, Video
    Blind Boys of Alabama II "Keep the Devil in the Hole" Blind Boys of Alabama perform "Keep the Devil in the Hole" at the Library of Congress, June 5, 2002. Forms part of the The Blind Boys of Alabama Concert Collection. videorecording | videorecording ; 4 min | Homegrown Concert Series (Source). Forms part of The Blind Boys of Alabama Concert Collection. (Source Note). June 5, 2002. (Date). Videorecording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Carter, Jimmy Lee - Blind Boys of Alabama - Fountain, Clarence
    • Date: 2002
  • Audio Recording
    Yup'ik song about a vision of a sailing ship in 1777 sound recording | 1 audio file. | Chuna McIntyre explains the song in English, then sings it in Central Yup'ik. (Content). The song concerns a vision of the arrival of Europeans in Alaska by a Yup'ik medicine man a year before the exploration of the Alaska coastline by Captain James Cook between April and September, 1778. The Yup'ik had little further contact with Europeans...
    • Contributor: Nunamta Yup'ik Eskimo Dancers - Library of Congress - McIntyre, Chuna
    • Date: 2003
  • Film, Video
    Benton Flippen and the Smokey Valley Boys videorecording | 1 videorecording: 59 min | Homegrown Concert Series. (Source). August 17, 2005. (Date). Videorecording (Form).
    • Contributor: Smokey Valley Boys - Flippen, Benton - Bode, Frank - Clifton, Verlen - Library of Congress - Brown, Paul
    • Date: 2005
  • Film, Video
    Dale Jett and the Carter Singers perform a Carter Family Tribute Dale Jett and the Carter Singers perform a Carter Family Tribute at the Library of Congress, September 20, 2005. videorecording | videorecording ; 63 min | Homegrown Concert Series. (Source). September 20, 2005. (Date). Videorecording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Wilson, Joe - Dale Jett and the Carter Singers
    • Date: 2005
  • Film, Video
    Sing Along with Pete Seeger videorecording | videorecording ; 29 min | Forms part of the Seeger Family Tribute Collection (Source). Recorded at the Library of Congress (Venue). 4:3 Videorecording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Seeger, Pete
    • Date: 2007
  • Collection
    Los Texmaniacs, traditional conjunto dance music from Texas,
    Los Texmaniacs concert and interview collection, 2013 September 11 | Homegrown 2013, the music of America | American Folklife Center concert, 2013-09-11
    Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress on September 11, 2013 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Los Texmaniacs founder Max Baca is a renowned innovator on the bajo sexto, a twelve-string Mexican guitar, which customarily provides rhythm accompaniment for the button accordion, creating the core of the...
    • Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Texmaniacs (Musical Group) - Texas Folklife (Organization) - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2013-01-01
  • Film, Video
    The southern journey of Alan Lomax : words, photographs, and ...
    American Folklife Center lecture, 2013-02-20
    Tom Piazza discussed his new book, The Southern Journey of Alan Lomax: Words, Photographs, and Music, on February 20, 2013, in a lecture sponsored by Library of Congress Center for the Book and the American Folklife Center. The book was published by the Library of Congress in association with W.W. Norton & Company in 2013, with an introduction by folklorist William R. Ferris, and...
    • Contributor: Piazza, Tom - Library of Congress. Center for the Book - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2013-01-01
  • Film, Video
    Harmonia, an oral history interview with group members conduc...
    Oral history with Harmonia band
    Oral history interview with three members of the musical group Harmonia: Walt Mikhailovich, Alexander Fedoriouk, and Andrei Pidkivka, regarding learning folk and classical music and playing music as part of community life among Slavic Americans in Cleveland, Ohio and other cities and towns in the central and northeastern United States. They discuss their varied repertoire of older music and music of diverse ethnic groups...
    • Contributor: Harmonia (Musical Group) - American Folklife Center - Austen, Theadocia Millich
    • Date: 2013-01-01
  • Film, Video
    Flory Jagoda oral history interview conducted by Howard Bass,
    Oral history with traditional artist Flory Jagoda
    Flory Jagoda tells her life story. Born in Sarajevo, she discusses her upbringing in Bosnia, keeping her family's Jewish traditions in Ladino while speaking Serbo-Croatian in school, remembering the culture of the Sephardim in the Balkans, her family, her grandmother; Jews escaping Bosnia and the Germans during World War II; her life as a refugee on the island of KorcÌŒula and in Bari, Italy;...
    • Contributor: Jagoda, Flory - Bass, Howard - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2013-01-01
  • Collection
    Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon...
    Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line | American Folklife Center concert, 2015-09-09 | American Folklife Center symposium, 2015-09-10
    In celebration of the legacy of the pioneering old-time musician Ola Belle Reed (1916-2002), Reed's son Dave Reed, her nephew Hugh J. Campbell, and members of the acclaimed bluegrass band Danny Paisley and Southern Grass performed bluegrass and gospel songs in the Coolidge Auditorium on September 9, 2015. A symposium program, chaired by Betsy Peterson, Director, American Folklife Center on Sept. 10 included Clifford...
    • Contributor: Peach, Douglas Dowling - Paisley, Ryan - McCoury, Ronnie - McCoury, Rob - Glassie, Henry - Southern Grass (Musical Group) - Murphy, Clifford R. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - McCoury, Del - Paisley, Michael ... Peach, Douglas Dowling - Paisley, Ryan - McCoury, Ronnie - McCoury, Rob - Glassie, Henry - Southern Grass (Musical Group) - Murphy, Clifford R. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - McCoury, Del - Paisley, Michael - Riale, Frances Mann - Ledbetter, Steven Lance - Reed, David Arthur - Lundy, T. J. - Paisley, Danny - Peterson, Betsy - Turner, Jessica Anderson - Campbell, Hugh Jones - National Council for the Traditional Arts
    • Date: 2015
  • Film, Video
    Cowboy Poetry: History, Origins, Influences, and Forms videorecording | 1 videorecording: 63 min | Benjamin Botkin Lecture Series. (Source). September 14, 2996. (Date). Recorded at the Library of Congress. (Venue). Videorecording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Stanley, David
    • Date: 2006