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    Collecting and performing traditional song in the republic of Georgia,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2005-11-17 | American Folklife Center concert, 2005-11-17 Catalog Record Only     Lecture and performance of Georgian three-part choral polyphony demonstrating three polyphonic styles: chanting, singing, and humming. Includes a history of sacred and secular music in the republic of Georgia, including Georgian folksongs, dance music, and folk instruments. Malkhaz Erkvanidze has spent years rescuing church hymns and prayers that were suppressed in the Soviet communist era; he is an ethnomusicologist, scholar, and performer who has...
    • Contributor: Erkvanidze, Malkhaz - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Tʻbilisis Ančʻisxatis Tażari. Gundi
    • Date: 2005
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    Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress This collection present ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Deposited as unpublished typescripts in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until a manuscript curator rediscovered them in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection in 1997. The plays reflect Hurston's life experience, travels, and research, especially her knowledge of folklore in...
    • Contributor: Hurston, Zora Neale
    • Date: 1925

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    Peggy Seeger : A Life of Music, Love, and Politics, lecture by Jean R. Freedman,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2017-09-07 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Documentation of a presentation in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture, Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, September 7, 2017, 12:00-1:00 pm. Drawing from her recently published biography of Peggy Seeger's life and contributions as a performer, song writer, and activist on both sides of the Atlantic, author Jean Freedman discusses Peggy Seeger's career from...
    • Contributor: Freedman, Jean R. (Jean Rose) - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2017
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    National Book Festival 2001 : American Folklife Center Storytelling Pavilion,
    National Book Festival 2001, Storytelling Pavilion | American Folklife Center concert, 2001-09-08 Catalog Record Only     Collection of planning documents, correspondence, contracts, programs, publicity, and video documentation of events at the Storytelling Pavilion, National Book Festival, held on the East Lawn of the U.S. Capitol on September 8, 2001. The American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress planned and produced the performances and events held at the Storytelling Pavilion. Documents include publicity materials from performers, including six color photographic...
    • Contributor: Smith, Samuel Jesse - Deedy, Carmen Agra - National Book Festival (U.S.) - Bruchac, Joseph - Burrows, Derek - Taylor, Jim - Fink, Cathy - Marxer, Marcy - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Little, Keith Morrison ... Smith, Samuel Jesse - Deedy, Carmen Agra - National Book Festival (U.S.) - Bruchac, Joseph - Burrows, Derek - Taylor, Jim - Fink, Cathy - Marxer, Marcy - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Little, Keith Morrison - New Arcadia Puppet Troupe - Daise, Natalie - Daise, Ronald - Pan Masters Steel Orchestra - American Folklife Center - Adams, Sheila Kay
    • Date: 2001
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    Eva Ybarra, the "Queen of the Accordion," and her band concert,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2017-09-13 | Homegrown 2017, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on September 13, 2017 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Conjunto originated in the late 19th century in working-class communities along Texas-Mexico border, and is distinct to that region. Using the accordion as the lead instrument, conjunto bands...
    • Contributor: Ybarra, Eva - Library of Congress. Music Division - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2017
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    Lone Piñon : Acoustic Conjunto from New Mexico concert,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2018-08-01 | Homegrown 2018, the music of America | Lone Piñon Concert Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on August 1, 2018 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Lone Piñon is an acoustic conjunto band from Northern New Mexico whose music celebrates the diversity and integrity of their region's cultural roots. Using violins, accordion, quinta huapangera,...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Lone Piñon (Musical Group)
    • Date: 2018
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    The Transformative Power of Storytelling : A Social Force for Social Change, lecture by Kiran Singh Sirah,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2016-05-25 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Documentation of a lecture by Kiran Singh Sirah, executive director of the International Storytelling Center, producer of the world-acclaimed National Storytelling Festival, based in Jonesborough, Tennessee. He discussed storytelling as a community-building tool that we can use to foster, cultivate, and strengthen peace and collaboration in our communities, and explored how we collectively might use new storytelling forms in the arenas of peace and...
    • Contributor: Sirah, Kiran Singh - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2016
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    Documenting culture in the 21st century symposium,
    Documenting culture in the twenty-first century | American Folklife Center symposium, 2015-06-04 Catalog Record Only     Speakers consider how evolving approaches to ethics, social justice, ownership rights, and privacy are affecting the acquisition, stewardship, and sharing of materials at repositories like the Library of Congress. They explore how such approaches are creating other, newer opportunities for archiving and sharing cultural resources.
    • Contributor: Martin-Moats, Meredith - Saylor, Nicole - Chan, Roy - Alvarez, Maribel L. - Johnson, Birgitta - Rankin, Tom - Sullivan, Will - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Nagoski, Ian - Cooper, Talya - Blank, Trevor J. - American Folklife Center - Hennessy, Kate
    • Date: 2015
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    Stetson Kennedy : Applied Folklore and Cultural Advocacy, lecture and reading by Peggy A. Bulger,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2017-09-19 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Documentation of a presentation in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture, Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, September 19, 2017, 12:00-1:00 pm. Reading from her recently published biography, author Peggy A. Bulger discusses Stetson Kennedy (1916-2011) who led a remarkable life as a political activist, writer, and folklorist. His life was one of cultural advocacy...
    • Contributor: Bulger, Peggy A. - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2017
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    Dance Battle with Urban Artistry, emceed by Junious Brickhouse,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2017-02-22 | Dance Battle with Urban Artistry | Homegrown 2017, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on February 22, 2017 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. This concert presented a series of dance battles, set to the beats of DJ Baronhawk Poitier, with Junious Brickhouse as the event's emcee. Dance battles are a common...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2017
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    Sattriya Dance Company with the Dancing Monks of Assam,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2018-04-19 | Sattriya Dance Company with the Dancing Monks of Assam, 2018 April 19 | Homegrown 2018, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on April 19, 2018 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. The Philadelphia-based Sattriya Dance Company was launched in 2009 with a mission to tell the story of Sattriya and raise awareness about Majuli and its sattras (monasteries) through...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2018
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    Ethnographic archives, communities of origin, and intangible cultural heritage symposium, Catalog Record Only Collection of video recordings of the opening session of the Ethnographic Archives, Communities of Origin, and Intangible Cultural Heritage Symposium, held on August 2, 2006 at the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C. A Society of American Archivists (SAA) Annual Meeting Pre-Conference Symposium, co-sponsored by the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress; National Anthropological Archives & Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution,...
    • Contributor: National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) - Society of American Archivists - American Folklife Center - National Anthropological Archives
    • Date: 2006
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    National Book Festival 2003 : American Folklife Center Storytelling Pavilion,
    Third annual National Book Festival : American Folklife Center Storytelling Pavilion, 2003 October 4 | National Book Festival 2003, Storytelling Pavilion | American Folklife Center concert, 2003-10-04 Catalog Record Only     Collection of planning and logistics materials, contracts, and programs for the Storytelling Pavilion organized by staff of the American Folklife Center, at the Library of Congress 3rd annual National Book Festival. Participants included: Howard Bass, Bobby McMillon, Gayle Ross, Cynthia Millman, Frankie Manning, Nancy Groce, Ed Gero, Emery Battis, Tinh Mahoney, Carmen Deedy, Paul Zarzyski, Norman Kennedy, and Djimo Kouyate. American Folklife Center staff...
    • Contributor: National Book Festival (U.S.) - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2003
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    National Press Club collection, 2009-2013. Catalog Record Only Collection of field recordings of oral history interviews conducted by Carol Elise Bennett and Hale Montgomery, members of the National Press Club History and Heritage Committee, from April 2009 through July 2013. The persons interviewed were award-winning journalists and public radio reporters plus one actor. The collection includes interview logs, some transcripts, and a number of photographs of the interviewees.
    • Contributor: Gotbaum, Rachel - National Press Club (U.S.). History and Heritage Committee - Occupational Folklife Project - Bennett, Carol Elise - Justis, Doris H. - Brownstein, Elizabeth Smith - Pippert, Wesley G. - Montgomery, Hale - Beasley, Maurine Hoffman - American Folklife Center - Marshall, Tyler - Rowe, Stephen
    • Date: 2009
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    Artemio Posadas : Mexican music and dance from California,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2016-09-28 | Title from program flyer: Artemio Posadas: Mexican music and dance from California | Title from program flyer: Homegrown 2016, the music of America Catalog Record Only     Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on September 28, 2016 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellow and 2016 Bess Lomas Hawes award recipient Artemio Posadas is a musician, dancer, teacher, and tireless cultural organizer. He was...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - American Folklife Center - Posadas Jiménez, Artemio - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2016
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    My secret autobiography : The letters of Ballad Scholar Francis James Child to William Ellery Sedgwick,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2018-05-08 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Documentation of a presentation in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Beginning in 1846, soon after his graduation from Harvard College, Francis James Child, Harvard professor, eventual first president of the American Folklore Society, and the greatest ballad scholar of the nineteenth century, began what would become a twenty-year correspondence with his closest college friend and future brother-in-law,...
    • Contributor: American Folklife Center - Bell, Michael J. (Michael Joseph) - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2018
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    Women documenting the world : women as folklorists, ethnomusicologists & fieldworkers,
    Women documenting the World : women as folklorists, ethnomusicologists and fieldworkers | American Folklife Center symposium, 2019-09-26 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Documentation of the symposium which calls attention to the role of women in establishing many of the foundational collections that enrich the American Folklife Center archive as well as other ethnographic archives throughout the world. It features presentations by contemporary researchers who are currently engaged in both national and international fieldwork, and includes brief presentations by American Folklife Center staff about important fieldwork collections...
    • Contributor: American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2019
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    Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera's Celebratory Event "Speak the People/the Spark/el Poema" panel and concert,
    Speak the People / the Spark / el Poema: Celebrating Juan Felipe Herrera Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     A host of acclaimed scholars, musicians and community organizers joined Juan Felipe Herrera to close his second term as U.S. Poet Laureate. The panel discussion with Juan Felipe Herrera and Martha Gonzalez, Hugo Morales and Louie Perez was moderated by Rafael Perez-Torres. Grammy Award-winning band Quetzal closed the evening with a concert.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Herrera, Juan Felipe - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. Poetry Office - Library of Congress. Hispanic Division - American Folklife Center - Quetzal (Musical Group)
    • Date: 2017
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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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    The long black freedom struggle, African American soldiers in WWI and Korea,
    African American soldiers in WWI & Korea | Many paths to freedom: looking back, looking ahead at the long civil rights movement | American Folklife Center lecture, 2014-03-18 | American Folklife Center symposium, 2014-03-18 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     In a Scholars Roundtable as part of the series "Many Paths to Freedom: Looking Back, Looking Ahead at the Long Civil Rights Movement," scholar Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University, discusses black soldiers' experiences in World War I and stresses the importance of World War I in the long civil rights movement by arguing that it provided a crucial training ground and intellectual crucible for the...
    • Contributor: Patrick, Robert - Blacks in Government (U.S.). Library of Congress Chapter - American Folklife Center - Veterans History Project (U.S.) - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Cline, David P. - Lentz-Smith, Adriane
    • Date: 2014
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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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    Folks of Bengal : Traditional Song, Music, and Visual Art from Bengal, India,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2018-06-29 | Title from program flyer: Homegrown 2018, the music of America Catalog Record Only     Sound recording and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on June 29, 2018 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Mystic minstrels from the Indian state of Bengal, the Bauls are known for devotional songs that honor the divine within. There are about 2500 Bauls in Bengal. Their philosophy rejects...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2018
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    Legends and legacies : remembering Archie Green,
    Legends and legacies: an American Folklife Center celebration of public folklore | American Folklife Center symposium, 2009-10-10 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Archie Green memorial: remembering Archie, with speakers Nancy Pelosi, Judy McCulloh, Eddie Bond and Josh Ellis (fiddle & banjo), Mike Munoz, Paula Johnson, Joseph T. Wilson, Northern Neck Chantey Singers, Derek Green, and Bill Ferris (September 10, 2009, 1-5 pm)
    • Contributor: Ferris, William R. - Pelosi, Nancy - Johnson, Paula J. - McCulloh, Judith - Munoz, Michael S. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center - Wilson, Joe
    • Date: 2009
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    Lomax legacy: folklore in a globalizing century, symposium 2006 January 18-20
    Lomax legacy: folklore in a globalizing century | American Folklife Center symposium, 2006-01-18 to 2006-01-20 | American Folklife Center lecture, 2006-01-19 to 2006-01-20 Catalog Record Only     Video and audio documentation of the daytime sessions held during a symposium celebrating Alan Lomax's legacy, January 19-20, 2006, sponsored by the American Folklife Center and the Association for Cultural Equity, New York, in collaboration with the Music Division, Library of Congress and the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage.
    • Contributor: Ferris, William R. - Bulger, Peggy A. - Cohen, Ronald D. - Homiak, John P. (John Paul) - Grauer, Victor - Harvey, Todd - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Cantú, Norma E. - Lyons, Bertram - Peterson, Betsy ... Ferris, William R. - Bulger, Peggy A. - Cohen, Ronald D. - Homiak, John P. (John Paul) - Grauer, Victor - Harvey, Todd - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Cantú, Norma E. - Lyons, Bertram - Peterson, Betsy - Quigley, Colin - Bishop, John Melville - Szwed, John F. - Sheehy, Daniel - Sapoznik, Henry - American Folklife Center - Wood, Anna Lomax - Salsburg, Nathan - Plastino, Goffredo - Spitzer, Nicholas R. - Titon, Jeff Todd - Cohen, Judith R. - Association for Cultural Equity
    • Date: 2006
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    John McCutcheon : Traditional Folk Music From the American Folklife Center Archive,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2018-09-12 | John McCutcheon in Concert | Homegrown 2018, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on September 12, 2018 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. McCutcheon played music from the American Folklife Center's collections, including material from Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger's collections, as well as his own.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - McCutcheon, John - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2018