Publications from the American Folklife Center

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American Folk Architecture: A Selected Bibliography, by Howard W. Marshall (1981).

American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings: A Selected List, edited by Jennifer Cutting. Annual 1984 - 1992. Specify year(s).

American Folklife: A Commonwealth of Culture, by Mary Hufford (1991). Full-color, illustrated, 20-page booklet with definition and history of folklife study.

American Folklife Center: An Illustrated Guide. Library of Congress (2004).

Documenting Martitime Folklife: An Introductory Guide, by David Taylor (1992).

Ethnic Folklife Dissertations from the United States and Canada, 1960 - 1980: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography, by Catherine Kerst (1986).

Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: A Contributer's Guide, by Stephanie A. Hall (1995).

Explore Your Community: A Community Heritage Poster for the Classroom.

Federal Cylinder Project: A Guide to Field Cylinder Collections in Federal Agencies. Volumes 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8.

Folklife and Fieldwork: A Layman's Introduction to Field Techniques (revised 2002). Spanish version also available: La Tradición Popular y la Investicación de Campo .

Folklife Annual 90, edited by James Hardin (1991).

Folklife Center News, Quarterly. Some back issues available.

Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis. Council on Library and Information Sources. (2001).

Folk Recordings: Selected from the Archive of Folk Culture. Catalog and order form for recordings available from the Library of Congress.

Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States, by Peter Bartis and Stephanie A. Hall.

Grouse Creek Cultural Survey: Integrating Folklife and Historic Preservation Field Research, by Thomas Carter and Carl Fleischhauer (1988).

Old Ties, New Attachments: Italian-American Folklife in the West, by David A. Taylor and John Alexander Williams (1992). Hardcover, 224 pages, with 197 black-and-white illustrations.

Pennsylvania German Fraktur: A Guide to the Collections in the Library of Congress, by Paul Conner and Jill Roberts (1988).

A Teacher's Guide to Folklife Resources. Searchable database of educational resources by Carol Moran and Catherine Hiebert Kerst

Quilt Collections: A Directory for the United States and Canada, compiled by Lisa Turner Oshins (1987).