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    "We're Not Leaving": responders' oral histories redefine 9/11
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2011-09-10 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Documentation of a presentation in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Dr. Benjamin Luft, Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and founder of the Long Island World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Center, which follows approximately 6,000 responders to the 9/11 disaster, discussed the oral histories he has collected as...
    • Contributor: Luft, Benjamin J. - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2011
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    Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver concert and interview collection,
    Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver | American Folklife Center concert, 2006-09-13 | Bluegrass and gospel music from Bristol, Tennessee | Homegrown 2006, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Collection of video and sound recordings of a concert featuring bluegrass and gospel band Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver in conjunction with their 2006 NEA National Heritage Fellowship award, performed in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress on September 13, 2006, as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Lawson has taken the white and black gospel quartet singing traditions...
    • Contributor: Lawson, Doyle - Wamu-Fm (Radio Station : Washington, D.C.) - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Daley, Katy - Quicksilver (Musical Group) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2006
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    James "Super Chikan" Johnson concert and interview collection,
    James "Super Chikan" Johnson, traditional blues guitar from Mississippi | James "Super Chikan" Johnson interview conducted by Larry Morrisey | American Folklife Center concert, 2006-05-23 | Traditional blues guitar from Mississippi | Homegrown 2006, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     James Johnson of Clarksdale, Mississippi, performed Delta blues in concert with special guest Richard Crisman "Daddy Rich," performed in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress on May 23, 2006, as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Johnson is also an instrument maker and performed on several of the hand painted guitars he calls "Chikantars." The collection includes a...
    • Contributor: Morrisey, Larry - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Super Chikan - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Daddy Rich
    • Date: 2006
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    Mary Louise Defender Wilson and Keith Bear concert and interview collection,
    Mary Louise Defender Wilson and Keith Bear | American Folklife Center concert, 2006-08-16 | Homegrown 2006, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Collection of video recordings of a performance of storytelling by National Heritage Fellowship Award winner Mary Louise Defender Wilson, a Dakotah/Hidatsa elder enrolled with the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota and by Keith Bear, a Mandan/Hidatsa flute player and storyteller enrolled with the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota, performed in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress on August 16, 2006, as...
    • Contributor: Defender-Wilson, Mary Louise - Bear, Keith - National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center - Geist, Troyd A. (Troyd Andrew)
    • Date: 2006
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    Carmen Agra Deedy and Karla Campillo-Soto : Lado a lado (side by side) -- contemporary Latin American storytelling,
    Latina storyteller oral history | American Folklife Center concert, 2016-04-07 | Lado a lado (side by side): contemporary Latin American storytelling | Homegrown 2016, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of an oral history conducted by Stephen D. Winick following a performance in the Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on April 7, 2016 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Carmen Agra Deedy and Karla Campillo-Soto performed "Lado a Lado (Side by Side): Contemporary Latin American Storytelling." They shared...
    • Contributor: Winick, Stephen D. - Deedy, Carmen Agra - Library of Congress. Music Division - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Campillo-Soto, Karla - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2016
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    American Folklife Center directors' roundtable : a retrospective of the Center's first forty years,
    AFC directors' roundtable: a retrospective of the Center's first forty years | American Folklife Center lecture, 2016-05-17 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Documentation of American Folklife Center director Betsy Peterson, former director Alan Jabbour, and former director Peggy Bulger discussing the history and future of the Center in a roundtable discussion moderated by Cliff Murphy, director of the Folk and Traditional Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts.
    • Contributor: Jabbour, Alan - Bulger, Peggy A. - Murphy, Clifford R. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Peterson, Betsy - American Folklife Center - Dewhurst, C. Kurt
    • Date: 2016
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    South-Central Georgia Folklife Project Collection The South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection resulted from an ethnographic field project conducted in the summer of 1977 by the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress and the Arts Experiment Station of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia. The eight-county area chosen for the study is in the center of the "Wiregrass" region of Georgia.
    • Contributor: Jabbour, Alan - Lightfoot, William E. (William Edwin) - McGraw, Hugh - Adler, Thomas A. - Stanley, David - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Beverly J. - Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College - Marshall, Howard W. - Fleischhauer, Carl - American Folklife Center - Blackmarr, Syd - Coelho, Dennis - Hamrick, Raymond C.
    • Date: 1977

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    Open mic: Jayme Stone interview, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Sound recording and photographs of an Open Mic interview with banjoist and composer Jayme Stone, Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on May 4, 2017. Interview conducted by Todd Harvey, American Folklife Center. Jayme Stone discussed his albums "Jayme Stone's Folklife" and "Jayme Stone's Lomax Project" and the influence of Alan Lomax's field recordings on his creative process.
    • Contributor: Stone, Jayme - Harvey, Todd - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2017
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    Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project The Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project was conducted by the American Folklife Center in cooperation with the National Park Service. Ten folklorists from the American Folklife Center conducted fieldwork in August and September 1978, and collected related materials from 1977 to 1981. The materials were collected for use in designing and improving National Park Service interpretive programs along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
    • Contributor: Mullen, Patrick B. - Richardson, Larry - Bryan, Mamie - Jarrell, Tommy - Severt, Carrie - Wolfe, Charles K. - Owen, Blanton - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - United States. National Park Service - Todd, Zenna ... Mullen, Patrick B. - Richardson, Larry - Bryan, Mamie - Jarrell, Tommy - Severt, Carrie - Wolfe, Charles K. - Owen, Blanton - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - United States. National Park Service - Todd, Zenna - Marshall, Howard W. - Owen, Margaret Counts - Wilson, Joe - Shockley, Maggie - Jabbour, Alan - Choate, Donna - Eiler, Terry - Fleischhauer, Carl - American Folklife Center - Johnson, Geraldine Niva - Adler, Thomas A. - Patton, Ila - Ray, Roxie - Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project - Eiler, Lyntha Scott - Cruise, Crystal - Stanley, Lura
    • Date: 1977

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    Memorialization and justice as an ancestral imperative : two American cases
    American Folklife Center lecture, 2015-06-25 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Ken Bilby, Smithsonian Research Associate, discussed the role of orally transmitted ancestral memory in ongoing struggles to overcome past injustices, which is proving critical in the struggle for human rights, civil rights, and justice. In this context, he reflected on two pathbreaking cases of recent public memorialization: the Moiwana Massacre, which took place in the Republic of Suriname, South America in 1986 and the...
    • Contributor: Bilby, Kenneth M. - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2015
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    South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Collection of documentary materials resulting from an ethnographic field research project conducted by the American Folklife Center in eight counties of south central Georgia, and at Mt. Zion, Georgia, in July and August 1977 in cooperation with the Arts Experiment Station of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. Topics of research were hymn singing conventions, gospel singing of white and African American residents, fiddling and old-time...
    • Contributor: Jabbour, Alan - Lightfoot, William E. (William Edwin) - McGraw, Hugh - Adler, Thomas A. - Stanley, David - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Beverly J. - Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College - Marshall, Howard W. - Fleischhauer, Carl - American Folklife Center - Blackmarr, Syd - Coelho, Dennis - Hamrick, Raymond C.
    • Date: 1977
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    Ledward Kaapana oral history, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available John Fenn interviewed Ledward Kaapana about his upbringing, his musical family, as well as the slack-key style of guitar playing. Kaapana demonstrated the musical style during the interview. Ledward "Led" Kaapana is a master of the two leading string instruments in Hawaii: the Hawaiian ukulele and ki ho'alu, the slack key guitar, a fingerstyle guitar art form that originated in Hawaii. This talent, combined...
    • Contributor: Fenn, John - Kaapana, Ledward - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2017
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    Muslim American Journeys Listening Event, co-sponsored with MALA (Muslim American Leadership Alliance) and StoryCorps,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2018-07-24 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Documentation of a presentation in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. This public listening event showcased narratives from the American Folklife Center's StoryCorps collection that illustrate the diversity of Muslim American cultural identity. The event featured excerpts of Muslim American stories recently collected as part of a StoryCorps outreach partnership to encourage more Muslim Americans to document their...
    • Contributor: Muslim American Leadership Alliance - American Folklife Center - Storycorps (Project) - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2017
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    Stepping Back in Time : Storytelling with Connie Regan-Blake and Barbara Freeman,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2018-09-06 | Storytelling with Connie Regan-Blake & Barbara Freeman | Homegrown 2018, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a performance in the Mumford Room, James Madison Building, Library of Congress on September 6, 2018 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Storytellers Connie Regan-Blake and first cousin Barbara Freeman take the stage in a rare joint performance and interview for the Library of Congress in our Nation's Capital. Barbara...
    • Contributor: Winick, Stephen D. - Library of Congress. Music Division - Regan-Blake, Connie - Freeman, Barbara - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2018