Index of Site Contents

This index includes materials on the web pages of the American Folklife Center, as well as links to selected folklife-related web presentations sponsored by other divisions of the Library of Congress as noted. Some documents are presented in PDF and require free Adobe Reader software.

A

• About the American Folklife Center.
• Abrahams, Roger: "Folklore's Champion: Ben Botkin," presented by Roger D. Abrahams. 2007 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Acadian, Cajun: Marce Lacouture with David Greely and Kristi Guillory — Cajun Music from Louisiana. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Addresses, phone numbers, email addresses for AFC: Contact Information.
• AFC Concerts, Lectures, and Symposia with Webcasts, Photographs, and Essays.
• AFC Facebook page.
• AFCnews: See: RSS Feeds and Email Subscriptions.
• Afghanistan:
  • "Afghan Women's Stories: The Problematics of Cover," presented by Margaret Mills. 2007 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Politics and Poetics: Fieldwork in Afghanistan and Jamaica," Margaret Mills and Kenneth Bilby. 2006 Botkin lectures (flyer essay and webcast).
• Africa, African:
  • Balla Kouyaté and World Vision — Traditional Malian Music from Massachusetts. 2010 Homegrown concert (includes Malian-born American performers, and an Malian singer. Webcast and flyer essay).
  • "Competing Spheres: Religion, Society, and State in Morocco," presented by Mohsine El Ahmadi. Lecture sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division, 2009 (webcast).
  • "Translating Africa in Global Contexts," presented by Lee Lee Haring. 2010 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Vanishing Pasts, Ethnographic Presents, and Digital Futures: The Case of the Maasai Audiovisual Archives," presented by Guha Shankar. Lecture co-sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division and the American Folklife Center. April 7, 2010. This link goes directly to the webcast. Running time 53 minutes.
  • See: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• African Americans:
  • Aubrey Ghent and Friends — Sacred Steel Lap Guitar. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • The Alan Lomax Collection (selected examples of photographs and manuscripts from a major collection).
  • Balla Kouyaté and World Vision — Traditional Malian Music from Massachusetts. 2010 Homegrown concert (webcast and flyer essay).
  • Barbara Lynn and Friends — Texas Rhythm & Blues. 2009 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop," ethnomusicologist Kip Lornell discussed the book of the same title he coauthored with Charles C. Stephenson, Jr. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Ben Payton and the Thundering Harps — Blues Quartet from Mississippi. 2011 Homegrown concert (flyer essay).
  • Birmingham Sunlights. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Blind Boys of Alabama. 202 Homegrown 2002 concert (webcast excerpts: Part One, Part Two).
  • "The Capital Pool Checkers Club: Tradition, Competition, and Community in Washington, DC," presented by ethographic photographer Peggy Fleming with Professor Maurice Jackson and club members Oliver Griffin and Tal Roberts. 2011 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Experiencing War: African Americans at War: Fighting Two Battles. Veterans History Project (online exhibit, multi-media).
  • Experiencing War: Buffalo Soldiers. Veterans History Project (multi-media online exhibit).
  • Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (online collection: essays, manuscripts, and audio).
  • Folk-Songs of America: The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932 (online presentation based on the 1977 LP recording, including photographs, liner notes, and MP3 audio).
  • "From Virginia to Vermont: a Trek from Slavery to Freedom," an audio illustrated lecture presented by Dr. Jane Beck. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • James "Super Chikan" Johnson and Richard Christman Blues Guitar from Mississippi. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Laborlore Conversations IV: Documenting Occupational Folklore Then and Now. 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • "Making a Way Out of No Way: Martin Luther King's Use of Proverbs for Civil Rights," presented by Wolfgang Mieder. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • McIntosh County Shouters — Gullah-Geechee Ring Shout from Georgia. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast)
  • Mister Jelly Roll, Mister Lomax and the Invention of Jazz — Illustrated Lecture by John Szwed. 2006 Homegrown lecture/concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • National Visionary Leadership Project Collection Showcase 2008 (webcast).
  • Negrura Peruana — Afro Peruvian Music and Dance from Connecticut. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Northern Kentucky Brotherhood Singers. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • Odetta! An Interview for the American Folklife Center, November, 2003 (webcast).
  • Opalanga Pugh — African American Storytelling from Colorado. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Politics and Poetics: Fieldwork in Afghanistan and Jamaica," a special presentation by Margaret Mills and Kenneth Bilby. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Reverb. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
  • Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • "Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories," John Barton discusses the creation of the online collection. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • "Waking up the People", presented by Linda Goss. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in Mississippi," presented by Tracy Sugarman (flyer essay and webcast).
  • The Zionaires — Gospel Music from Maryland and Delaware. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• After the Day of Infamy: The "Man on the Street Interviews" Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 (online collection: essays and audio).
• Agriculture:
  • "'And Wheat Completed the Cycle': Flour Mills, Social Memory, and Industrial Culture in Sonora, Mexico," presented by Maribel Alvarez. 2010 Botkin Lecture. (flyer essay and webcast)
  • Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-82 (online collection: essays, photographs, audio, and film).
  • Living and Building Between Tradition and Change: Vernacular Architecture in Northern Sweden presented by Mats Widbom. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast)
  • Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
  • Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• Ahmadi, Mohsine El: "Competing Spheres: Religion, Society, and State in Morocco," presented by Mohsine El Ahmadi. Lecture sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division, 2009 (webcast).
• AIDS Quilt: "What's in a Name? AIDS, Vernacular Risk Perception and the Culture of Ownership," presented by Diane Goldstein. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Alabama:
  • Birmingham Sunlights. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Blind Boys of Alabama. 2002 Homegrown concert (webcast excerpts: Part One, Part Two).
  • Community Roots: Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs, project descriptions).
  • "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • Odetta! An Interview for the American Folklife Center, November, 2003 (webcast).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
  • "Take Me Out to the Library of Congress," 2009 (the link goes directly to the webcast; running time 0:51:55). The Librarian of Congress, Dr. James Billington, presents Ernie Banks with the Library's Living Legend Award.
  • Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• The Alan Lomax Collection (selected examples of photographs and manuscripts from a major collection).
• The Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies, offered by the Kluge Center, Library of Congress.
• Alaska:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs, project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• "Alan Lomax — The Man Who Recorded the World: A Bio-Ethnography," presented by John Szwed. 2010 Botkin Lecture. (flyer essay and webcast)
• Albania and Albanian American: Merita Halili and the Raif Huseni Orchestra. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Allen, Ray: "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
• Alstrom, Ed: Baseball Americana Symposium 2009 (website includes a program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Alvarez, Maribel:
  • "'And Wheat Completed the Cycle': Flour Mills, Social Memory, and Industrial Culture in Sonora, Mexico," presented by Maribel Alvarez. 2010 Botkin Lecture. (flyer essay and webcast)
  • Laborlore Conversations IV, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
• American English Dialect Recordings: The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection (online collection: essays and audio).
• American Family History and Folklife Online Resource.
• American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings: A Selected List (annual issues 1988-1992).
• American Folklife: A Commonwealth of Cultures, booklet by Mary Hufford (HTML and PDF).
• American Folklife Center:
  • About the American Folklife Center
  • American Folklife Center: An Illustrated Guide.
  • American Folklife Center Collections Policy Statement (PDF, 9 pp. 70KB).
  • American Folklife Center Home Page.
  • Contact Information.
  • Facebook Page
  • Print Publications from the American Folklife Center.
  • Public Law 94-201, enabling legislation for the American Folklife Center, 1976.
  • Public Law 105-275 [PDF 96KB/32 pages. Requires free Adobe Reader software.]; scroll down to p. 627, section 312 for AFC permanent authorization, 1999.
  • Public Law 106-380 establishing the Veterans History Project, 2000.
  • Published Recordings from the American Folklife Center.
  • Veterans History Project.
• American Indians and Native Alaskans:
  • "Bridles, Bits and Beads: Folk and Fieldwork from the High, Wide and Handsome State of Montana," an illustrated lecture presented by Dr. Alexandra Swaney of the Montana Arts Council. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Carlos Nakai — American Indian Flute Music from Arizona. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast). [Multiple traditions represented and/or discussed, including Great Plains, Kiowa-Comanchee, Navajo, Omaha, Southern Athabascan, Ute, and Zuni. Traditional music and contemporary compositions.]
  • Celebrating Native American Language Revitalization in Film. Presentations and film screenings, June 21, 2011.
  • "'Do All Indians Live in Tipis?' and Other Compelling Questions for Education," presented by Edwin Schupman. 2008 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Reclaiming Lost Languages: The Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages," presented by Leanne Hinton. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
  • Society of American Archivists Pre-Conference Symposium: Ethnographic Archives, Communities of Origin, and Intangible Cultural Heritage. 2006 symposium (program, resource guide, and photo album).
  • Tribes:
    • See: Aztec.
    • See: Chocktaw.
    • See: Chumash.
    • See: Kiowa-Comanche.
    • See: Mandan Hidatsa.
    • See: Navajo.
    • See: Ojibwe/Chippewa.
    • See: Omaha.
    • See: Paiute.
    • See: Passamaquoddy.
    • See: Seminole.
    • See: Sioux.
    • See: Ute.
    • See: Wampanoag.
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
  • See also: Historic AFC LP Liner Note Booklets (in PDF).
• American Memory Collections: See Online Collections and Presentations.
• American Samoa:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
• Amish Culture:
  • "Amish Resources at the Library of Congress," presented by Paul Connor, reference specialist, Local History and Genealogy Reading Room. Lecture sponsored by the Library of Congress Journies and Crossings webcast series, 2009.
  • "The Two Worlds of the Pennsylvania Dutch," presented by Don Yoder. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Amuma Says No: Traditional and Contemporary Basque Music from Idaho, 2010 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• "And Wheat Completed the Cycle": Flour Mills, Social Memory, and Industrial Culture in Sonora, Mexico, presented by Maribel Alvarez. 2010 Botkin Lecture. (flyer essay and webcast)
• Announcements:
  • AFC RSS feeds.
  • What's Happening at the American Folklife Center?
• Annual Reports of the American Folklife Center.
• Archie Green Fellowship
• Architecture:
  • "Barns," a lecture by John Michael Vlatch sponsored by the Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks Lecture Series (webcast).
  • Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (webcasts, resource page, and photo album). See the presentation by Brian Carter.
  • "Living and Building Between Tradition and Change: Vernacular Architecture in Northern Sweden," presented by Mats Widbom. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Archive of Folk Culture:
  • American Folklife Center: An Illustrated Guide.
  • Archive of Folk Culture Finding Aids.
  • Collections and Research Services: The Archive of Folk Culture.
  • How to do Research in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Archival Practice:
  • American Folklife Center Collections Policy Statement (PDF, 9 pp. 70KB).
  • Carpenter, James Madison: "From Oral Tradition to Critical Edition: The James Madison Carpenter Collection of Folk Music and Drama," presented by the James Madison Carpenter Project Team. 2008 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Chorus and Verse: The Challenges of Designing the Roud Folk Song Index," presented by Steve Roud. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: A Contributor's Guide brochure by Stephanie A. Hall.
  • "Facing the Music: Traditional Culture and Copyright," Dr. Bryan Bachner. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Field Schools for Cultural Documentation.
  • Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
  • Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis: Symposium and Products (includes program, essays, texts of keynote speeches, and webcasts).
  • Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis report from CLIR, provided on the CLIR web site.
  • "Historic Sound Recordings Collections Win Save America's Treasures Preservation Grant," article by James Hardin.
  • "Intellectual Property Rights and Audiovisual Archives and Collections," article by Anthony Seeger.
  • "No Time to Dawdle: Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis," article by James Hardin.
  • "Preservation of Audio," article by Elizabeth Cohen.
  • "Preserving Sound Recordings," article by Stephanie A. Hall.
  • Save Our Sounds Project.
  • Society of American Archivists Pre-Conference Symposium: Ethnographic Archives, Communities of Origin, and Intangible Cultural Heritage, 2006 symposium (program, resource guide, and photo album).
  • "Stating the Obvious: Lessons Learned While Accessing Archival Audio Collections," article by Virginia Danielson.
• Ardrey, Julie: Laborlore Conversations IV, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
• Arenson, Adam: Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
• Arizona:
  • Arizona Heritage Project: Heritage Projects and Place-Based Education.
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Dineh Tah Navajo Dancers from Arizona and New Mexico. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Arkansas:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots(online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • "Folklore and Seeing: Photographs from Cummins Prison, 1915-2010," an illustrated lecture by Bruce Jackson, University at Buffalo (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Sonny Burgess and the Pacers — Rockabilly Music from Arkansas. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Armenia: David & Levon Ayriyan: Armenian Music from Rhode Island. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• "Arnold Resnicoff on Faith and Foxholes: Religion in the Military," presented by Arnold Resnicoff. Lecture co-sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division and the American Folklife Center, May 6, 2010. (The link goes directly to the webcast. Running time 58 minutes.)
  
• Art Culture and Government: The New Deal at 75. 2008 symposium (program, research guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Asians:
  • "Baghdad Jews in British Burma," lecture by anthropologist Ruth Fredman Cernea, sponsored by the Asian Division and the Hebrew Language Table (the link goes directly to the webcast).
  • "The Changing Worlds of the Patuas of West Bengal," Presented by Frank Korom. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Chinese Folk Art Today," an illustrated lecture by Yong Xianrang. (2004 Botkin lecture, flyer essay).
  • "Eight Sounds of Chinese Music," an illustrated lecture by Nora Yeh. 2004 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
  • Korean Culture Art Program and Concert, 2009 (webcast). Multiple sponsors, see webcast text.
  • "Kunqü: China's First Great Multi-Art Theatrical Tradition," presented by Marjory Bong-Ray Liu. 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Revolutionaries, Nursery Rhymes, and Edison Wax Cylinders: The Remarkable Tale of the Earliest Korean Sound Recordings," presented by Robert Provine. 2009 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Song & Silence," Sara M. Davis on ethnic Tai Lües. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • "The Sound of Islamic Music: Women's Voices and the Indonesian Religious Soundscape," presented by Anne K. Rasmussen. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
  • See also: "Blooming Cherry Blossoms, Falling Cherry Blossoms: Symbolism of the Flower in Japanese Culture," Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. Lecture sponsored by the Kluge Center, Library of Congress, 2009 (webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
  • See also: "How Do Flowers Kill? - The Japanese Emperor and Modern Dictators," Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. Lecture sponsored by the Kluge Center, Library of Congress, 2009 (webcast).
• Asian Americans:
  • "Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month: Leadership to Meet the Challenges of a Changing World," presented by Christopher Yung, Kurt Chew-Een Lee, Peter Young, and John Whang. A presentation honoring Asian and Pacific veterans sponsored by the Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, June 2010 (the link goes directly to the webcast).
  • Experiencing War: Asian Pacific Americans: Going for Broke. Veterans History Project (online exhibit: multi-media).
  • Natasinh Dancers & Musicians — Lao Music and Dance from Iowa. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Sreevidhya Chandramouli and Friends — Northern Indian Vina music from Oregon. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Unsung Heros: A Symposium on the Heroism of Asian Pacific Americans During World War II, Part 1 October 26, 2009 (webcast).
  • Unsung Heros: A Symposium on the Heroism of Asian Pacific Americans During World War II, Part 2October 26, 2009 (webcast).
• Auman, Elizabeth: "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
• Awards: Research Awards and Fellowships (Parson's Fund Award, Blanton Owen Award, Henry Reed Award, Alan Lomax Fellowship, Archie Green Fellowship, etc.).
• Ayriyan: David & Levon Ayriyan: Armenian Music from Rhode Island. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Aztec: Ollin Yoliztli Calmecac — Aztec Dance Ensemble from Pennsylvania. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).

B

• Bachner, Bryan: "Facing the Music: Traditional Culture and Copyright," presented by Dr. Bryan Bachner. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• The Bajich Brothers — Serbian American Tambura Music from Kansas. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Balaphon: Balla Kouyaté and World Vision — Traditional Malian Music from Massachusetts. 2010 Homegrown concert (webcast and flyer essay).
• Balla Kouyaté and World Vision — Traditional Malian Music from Massachusetts. 2010 Homegrown concert (webcast and flyer essay).
• Ballads:
  • Carter Family Tribute — Old Time Music from Virginia. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Folksongs of America: the Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932 (online presentation of recordings and photographs from the 1978 LP).
  • Margaret MacArthur — Ballads and Songs from Vermont. 2005 Homegrown (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See Also: Published Sound Recordings from the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Balzer, Marjorie Mandelstam: "Warning of Global Warming? Shamanic Tradition, Politics and Ecological Change in Siberia," presented by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Banjo Music:
  • Bar J Wranglers — Cowboy Music from Wyoming. 2008 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • The Beehive Band — Traditional Mormon String Band Music from Utah. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Benton Flippen and the Smokey Valley Boys — Old Time Music from North Carolina. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • California Gold: Northern California Folk Music From the Thirties (online collection: essays, photographs, drawings, and audio).
  • Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (online collection: essays, manuscripts, and audio).
  • Gandydancer — Traditional String Band Music from West Virginia. 2007 Homegrown (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionán Sands. 2008 Rediscover Northern Ireland concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Tony Ellis, Banjo Master from Ohio With the Musicians of Braeburn. 2011 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay).
  • Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• Banks, Ernie:
  • Baseball Americana Symposium 2009 (website includes a program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
  • See also: "Take Me Out to the Library of Congress," 2009 (the link goes directly to the webcast; running time 0:51:55). The Librarian of Congress, Dr. James Billington, presents Ernie Banks with the Library's Living Legend Award.
• Bar J Wranglers — Cowboy Music from Wyoming. 2008 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Barbara Lynn and Friends — Texas Rhythm & Blues. 2009 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• "Barns," a lecture by John Michael Vlatch sponsored by the Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks Lecture Series (webcast).
• Bartis, Peter:
  • Folklife and Fieldwork booklet by Peter Bartis.
  • Folklife Sourcebook directory database.
• Barr, Christina: participant in Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Barton, John: "Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories," John Barton discusses the creation of the online collection. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Barton, Matthew: "Not the Same Old (Folk) Song and Dance: Field Recordings in the European Communities of the United States," presented by Matthew Barton. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Baseball:
  • Baseball Americana Symposium 2009 (website includes a program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
  • See also: Take Me Out to the Library of Congress, 2009 (the link goes directly to the webcast; running time 0:51:55). The Librarian of Congress, Dr. James Billington, presents Ernie Banks with the Library's Living Legend Award.
• Basque and Basque Americans:
  • Amuma Says No: Traditional and Contemporary Basque Music from Idaho, 2010 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Basque Culture in the Western United States," an illustrated lecture by Maria Carmen RA. Gambliel. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Battiest-Tomasi, D. J.: Tim Tingle and D.J. Battiest-Tomasi: Oklahoma Choctaw Storytellers and Flute Players. 2011 Homegrown concert.
• Bear, Keith: Mary Louise Defender Wilson & Keith Bear — Sioux and Mandan Hidatsa Storytelling. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Beck, Jane: "From Virginia to Vermont: a Trek from Slavery to Freedom," an audio illustrated lecture presented by Dr. Jane Beck. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• The Beehive Band — Traditional Mormon String Band Music from Utah. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Belief and Religion:
  • "Afghan Women's Stories: The Problematics of Cover," presented by Margaret Mills. 2007 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Amish Resources at the Library of Congress," presented by Paul Connor, reference specialist, Local History and Genealogy Reading Room. Lecture sponsored by the Library of Congress Journies and Crossings webcast series, 2009 (webcast).
  • "Arnold Resnicoff on Faith and Foxholes: Religion in the Military," presented by Arnold Resnicoff. Lecture co-sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division and the American Folklife Center, May 6, 2010. (The link goes directly to the webcast. Running time 58 minutes.)
  • "Built with Faith: Place Making and the Religious Imagination in Italian New York," presented by Joseph Sciorra. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Chaplains: Reflections from the Past," Ross Trower, Linda George, Michael McCoy, Nathan Abramowitz 2011 Veterans History Project presentation (The link goes directly to the webcast. Running time 1:20:34).
  • "Competing Spheres: Religion, Society, and State in Morocco," presented by Mohsine El Ahmadi. Lecture sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division, 2009 (webcast).
  • Coptic Orthodox Liturgical Chant & Hymnody: The Ragheb Moftah Collection at the Library of Congress (Music Division online presentation).
  • "Empires, Multiculturalisms, and Borrowed Heartsongs: What Does It Mean to Sing Russian/Mennonite Songs?", presented by Jonathan Dueck. 2008 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Inauguration 2009 Sermons and Orations Project.
  • See: Jewish Culture.
  • See: Legends.
  • "Makers of the Sacred Harp," presented by David Warren Steel. 2010 Botkin Lecture (webcast and flyer essay).
  • McIntosh County Shouters — Gullah-Geechee Ring Shout from Georgia. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast)
  • "Politics and Poetics: Fieldwork in Afghanistan and Jamaica," Margaret Mills and Kenneth Bilby. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Seeing Mary: Belief, Politics, and Practice at Marian Apparition Sites," presented by Anne Pryor 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • A Selected List of Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture Containing Sermons and Orations.
  • "States of Mind: Music in Islamic Sufi Rituals," presented by Taoufiq ben Amor as part of the Music Division's 2010 Music and the Brain Lecture Series (the link goes directly to the webcast).
  • "The Sound of Islamic Music: Women's Voices and the Indonesian Religious Soundscape," presented by Anne K. Rasmussen. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
  • "Trance Formation: Music, Trance, Religious Experience, and the Brain," presented by Robin Sylvan as part of the Music Division's Music and the Brain lecture series (the link goes directly to the webcast).
  • "The Two Worlds of the Pennsylvania Dutch," presented by Don Yoder. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Ben Amor, Taoufiq: "States of Mind: Music in Islamic Sufi Rituals," presented by Taoufiq ben Amor as part of the Music Division's 2010 Music and the Brain Lecture Series (the link goes directly to the webcast).
• Ben Payton and the Thundering Harps — Blues Quartet from Mississippi. 2011 Homegrown concert (flyer essay).
• Benjamin Botkin Lecture Series:
  • Benjamin Botkin Lecture Series Online Archives with flyer lectures, selected Webcasts, and links to related information.
  • Bennett, Margaret: Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance. Participant in the 2009 symposium (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
  • Benton Flippen and the Smokey Valley Boys — Old Time Music from North Carolina. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Bergey, Barry:
  • Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Bernard, Jean Stéphane: Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
• The Berntsons — Traditional Norwegian American Dance Music from Virginia, 2009 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Bibliographies: Historic Bibliographies and Reference Aids.
• Bilby, Kenneth: "Politics and Poetics: Fieldwork in Afghanistan and Jamaica," Margaret Mills and Kenneth Bilby. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Biography:
  • "Alan Lomax — The Man Who Recorded the World: A Bio-Ethnography," presented by John Szwed. 2010 Botkin Lecture. (flyer essay and webcast)
• Birmingham Sunlights. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Blind Boys of Alabama. Homegrown 2002 concert (webcast excerpts. Part One, Part Two).
• Block, Brendan Carey: Brendan Carey Block — Cape Breton Fiddle Music from New Hampshire. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• "Blooming Cherry Blossoms, Falling Cherry Blossoms: Symbolism of the Flower in Japanese Culture," Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. Lecture sponsored by the Kluge Center, Library of Congress, 2009 (webcast).
• Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project:
  • Blue Ridge Harvest:A Region's Folklife in Photographs. Edited by Lyntha Scott Eiler; Terry Eiler; and Carl Fleischhauer. (Book. PDF, 123 pp., 44.38MB).
  • See: Published Recordings from the Archive of Folk Culture, Children of the Heavenly King CD.
  • See: Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• Bluegrass:
  • Douglas, Jerry: Performer at the NCTA Concert, Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore, 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
  • Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver — Bluegrass and Gospel Music from Tennessee. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Not Too Bad Bluegrass Band — Bluegrass from Indiana. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Blues:
  • Ben Payton and the Thundering Harps — Blues Quartet from Mississippi. 2011 Homegrown concert (flyer essay).
  • Folksongs of America: the Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932 (online presentation of recordings and photographs from the 1978 LP. Includes photographs, liner notes, and MP3 audio).
  • "Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues," an illustrated lecture by William R. Ferris. 2010 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression," presented by Rich Remsberg. 2010 Botkin Lecture (webcast).
  • James "Super Chikan" Johnson and Richard Christman Blues Guitar from Mississippi. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • "Between Midnight and Day: The Last Unpublished Blues Archive," an illustrated lecture on the book of the same name presented by Dick Waterman. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Board of Trustees of the American Folklife Center.
• Bold, Valentina:
  • "A Bard of Nature's Making: Robert Burns and Scottish Traditional Culture," presented by Valentina Bold. 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance, participant in the 2009 symposium (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Bong-Ray Liu, Marjory: "Kunqü: China's First Great Multi-Art Theatrical Tradition," 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Boone, Mary: particpant in Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
• Botkin, Benjamin:
  • Benjamin Botkin Lecture Series: Current Schedule.
  • Benjamin Botkin Lecture Series: AFC Concerts, Lectures, and Symposia with Webcasts, Photographs, and Essays.
  • "Benjamin Botkin's Legacy-in-the-Making," article by Jerrold Hirsch.
  • "Folklore's Champion: Ben Botkin," presented by Roger D. Abrahams. 2007 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Botkin, Daniel: "The Folklore Behind Ecology, or Why Scientists in Ecology Need Help from Folklorists," Dr. Daniel B. Botkin. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Brannan, Beverly: Art Culture and Government: The New Deal at 75, participant in the 2008 symposium (program, research guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Breiseth, Christopher: Art Culture and Government: The New Deal at 75, participant in the 2008 symposium (program, research guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Brendan Carey Block — Cape Breton Fiddle Music from New Hampshire. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• "Bringing in the May," presented by Jennifer Cutting, from the Library's Journeys and Crossings webcast series.
• Brujo de la Mancha: Ollin Yoliztli Calmecac — Aztec Dance Ensemble from Pennsylvania. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-82 (online collection: essays, photographs, audio, and film).
• Buffalo Soldiers (WWII): Experiencing War: Buffalo Soldiers, Veterans History Project (online exhibit: multi-media).
• "Built with Faith: Place Making and the Religious Imagination in Italian New York," presented by Joseph Sciorra. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Bulgaria: Rice, Timothy: "Music in Bulgaria: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture," an illustrated lecture by Prof. Timothy Rice. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Burma: "Baghdad Jews in British Burma," lecture by anthropologist Ruth Fredman Cernea, sponsored by the Asian Division and the Hebrew Language Table (the link goes directly to the webcast).
• Burns, Robert (1759 - 1796):
  • "A Bard of Nature's Making: Robert Burns and Scottish Traditional Culture," presented by Valentina Bold 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance 2009 symposium (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Burton: Mary Sheppard Burton Collection (online collection: photographs with related narratives).

C

• Cajun, see: Acadian, Cajun.
• California:
  • California Gold: Northern California Folk Music From the Thirties (online collection: essays, photographs, drawings, and audio).
  • Celebrating Native American Language Revitalization in Film. Presentations and film screenings, June 21, 2011.
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and descriptions of projects).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • National Sampler: Selections from California Collections.
  • Odetta! An Interview for the American Folklife Center, November, 2003 (webcast).
  • Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection (online collection).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Camp, Charles: Art Culture and Government: The New Deal at 75, Participant in the 2008 symposium (program, research guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Canada, Canadian:
  • Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
  • Brendan Carey Block — Cape Breton Fiddle Music from New Hampshire. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Cannon, Hal: Laborlore Conversations IV, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
• Cantú, Norma E.: "La Quinceañera: A Coming of Age Ritual in Latino Communities," 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Cantwell, Robert: "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute. Participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
• "The Capital Pool Checkers Club: Tradition, Competition, and Community in Washington, DC," presented by ethographic photographer Peggy Fleming with Professor Maurice Jackson and club members Oliver Griffin and Tal Roberts. 2011 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal (online collection: essays, audio, and one film).
• "The Capital Pool Checkers Club: Tradition, Competition, and Community in Washington, DC," presented by ethographic photographer Peggy Fleming with Professor Maurice Jackson and club members Oliver Griffin and Tal Roberts. 2011 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Caribbean:
  • Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (online collection: essays, manuscripts, and audio).
  • Major League Tassa — Indo-Caribbean Drumming and Dance from New York. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Politics and Poetics: Fieldwork in Afghanistan and Jamaica," Margaret Mills and Kenneth Bilby. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Carpenter, James Madison: "From Oral Tradition to Critical Edition: The James Madison Carpenter Collection of Folk Music and Drama," presented by the James Madison Carpenter Project Team. 2008 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Carrroll, Liz: Liz Carroll with John Doyle — Irish American Fiddling from Illinois. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay).
• Carter, Brian: Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
• Carter Family Tribute — Old Time Music from Virginia. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Catalog:
  • List of Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
  • Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog (1933-1950) (online collection and research tool).
• CDs: See Published Recordings.
• Celebrating Native American Language Revitalization in Film. Presentations and film screenings, June 21, 2011.
• Center for Applied Linguistics Collection: American English Dialect Recordings: The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection (online collection: essays, and audio).
• Ceresi, Frank: Baseball Americana Symposium 2009. See the website for the program and a photograph of Ceresi (website includes a program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts). .
• Cernea, Ruth Fredman: "Baghdad Jews in British Burma," lecture by anthropologist Ruth Fredman Cernea, sponsored by the Asian Division and the Hebrew Language Table (the link goes directly to the webcast).
• Champ, Henry: Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
• Chandramouli, Sreevidhya: Sreevidhya Chandramouli and Friends — Northern Indian Vina music from Oregon. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Chaplains:
• "Arnold Resnicoff on Faith and Foxholes: Religion in the Military," presented by Arnold Resnicoff. Lecture co-sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division and the American Folklife Center, May 6, 2010. (The link goes directly to the webcast. Running time 58 minutes.)
• "Chaplains: Reflections from the Past," Ross Trower, Linda George, Michael McCoy, Nathan Abramowitz 2011 Veterans History Project presentation (The link goes directly to the webcast. Running time 1:20:34).
• Checkers: "The Capital Pool Checkers Club: Tradition, Competition, and Community in Washington, DC," presented by ethographic photographer Peggy Fleming with Professor Maurice Jackson and club members Oliver Griffin and Tal Roberts. 2011 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Cherry Blossoms: "Blooming Cherry Blossoms, Falling Cherry Blossoms: Symbolism of the Flower in Japanese Culture," Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. Lecture sponsored by the Kluge Center, Library of Congress, 2009 (webcast).
• China, Chinese:
  • "Chinese Folk Art Today," an illustrated lecture by Yong Xianrang. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • "Eight Sounds of Chinese Music," an illustrated lecture by Nora Yeh. 2004 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
  • "Kunqü: China's First Great Multi-art Theatrical Tradition," presented by Marjory Bong-Ray Liu. 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Song & Silence," Sara M. Davis on ethnic Tai Lües. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Choctaw:Tim Tingle and D.J. Battiest-Tomasi: Oklahoma Choctaw Storytellers and Flute Players. 2011 Homegrown concert.
• "Chorus and Verse: The Challenges of Designing the Roud Folk Song Index," presented by Steve Roud. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Chumash: Celebrating Native American Language Revitalization in Film. Presentations and film screenings, June 21, 2011.
• Church, Susan: Laborlore Conversations IV, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
• Chute, Mary L.: Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Civil Rights Activities, Protests, Songs, and Conflicts:
  • "Afghan Women's Stories: The Problematics of Cover," presented by Margaret Mills. 2007 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Force and Violins: What the FBI had on Folksingers, presented by David Dunaway. 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in Mississippi," presented by Tracy Sugarman (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "What's in a Name? AIDS, Vernacular Risk Perception and the Culture of Ownership," presented by Diane Goldstein. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See also: AFC Concerts, Lectures, and Symposia with Webcasts, Photographs, and Essays.
• Clark, Robert: Art Culture and Government: The New Deal at 75, participant in the 2008 symposium (program, research guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Cleary, Beth: Art Culture and Government: The New Deal at 75, participant in the 2008 symposium (program, research guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Code Talker (Navajo):
  • Keith Little, Navajo Code Talker, Veterans History Project (webcast).
  • Merril L. Sandoval, Navajo Code Talker, Veterans History Project (webcast).
• Cohen, Elizabeth: "Preservation of Audio," article by Elizabeth Cohen.
• Cohen, John: "The High Lonesome Sound Revisited: Documenting Traditional Culture in America," presented by filmmaker John Cohen. 2009 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Cohn, D'Vera: participant in Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Cole, John:
  • Art Culture and Government: The New Deal at 75, participant in the 2008 symposium (see website for program, photographs, and webcasts).
  • Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance, participant in the 2009 symposium (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Collection Policy: American Folklife Center Collections Policy Statement.
• Collections:
  • American Folklife Center: An Illustrated Guide.
  • Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
  • List of Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
  • Online Collections and Special Presentations from the Archive of Folk Culture.
  • Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog, 1933-1950 (online collection and research tool).
• Collections and Research Services: The Archive of Folk Culture.
• Colorado:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection (online collection: essays, manuscripts, and audio).
  • Opalanga Pugh — African American Storytelling from Colorado. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Comanchee: See Kiowa-Comanche.
• Community Roots: Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and descriptions of projects).
• "Competing Spheres: Religion, Society, and State in Morocco," presented by Mohsine El Ahmadi. Lecture sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division, 2009 (webcast).
• Concerts:
  • See: What's Happening at the American Folklife Center for upcoming events.
  • See: AFC Concerts, Lectures, and Symposia with Webcasts, Photographs, and Essays (includes available webcasts).
  • See: Online Archive of Past Symposia (symposia frequently include performances. Includes available webcasts).
• Connecticut:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and descriptions of projects).
  • Negrura Peruana — Afro Peruvian Music and Dance from Connecticut. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Contact Information for the American Folklife Center.
• Contact Information for the Veterans History Project.
• Contributors Guide: Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: A Contributor's Guide a booklet by Stephanie A. Hall.
• Cook, Murray: Baseball Americana Symposium 2009 (website includes a program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Cook, Robert: Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (online collection: essays, manuscripts, and audio).
• Coptic Orthodox Liturgical Chant & Hymnody: The Ragheb Moftah Collection at the Library of Congress (Music Division online presentation).
• Correa, Jennifer: participant in Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Costume: "The Two Worlds of the Pennsylvania Dutch," presented by Don Yoder. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Cowan, Ted: Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance, participant in the 2009 symposium (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Cowboys:
  • Bar J Wranglers — Cowboy Music from Wyoming. 2008 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Bridles, Bits and Beads: Folk and Fieldwork from the High, Wide and Handsome State of Montana," an illustrated lecture presented by Dr. Alexandra Swaney of the Montana Arts Council. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-82 (online collection: essays, photographs, audio, and film).
  • Cowboy poet Paul Zarzyski and cowboy singer-composer Wylie Gustafson from Montana, 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • D. W. Groethe "Cowboy Songs and Poetry from Montana," 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • David Stanley, "Cowboy Poetry: History, Origins, Influences, Forms." 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Cowell, Sidney Robertson: California Gold: Northern California Folk Music From the Thirties (online collection: essays, photographs, drawings, and audio).
• Cranberries, PDF 3 MB, 36 pp. Requires free Adobe Reader software. (AFC booklet presenting materials from the Pinelands Folklife Project).
• Crawford, Jim: "Down in the Old Belt: Voices from the Tobacco South," a film screening and lecture by filmmaker Jim Crawford. 2007 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Crawford, Robert: Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance, participant in the 2009 symposium (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• The Creation of the American Folklife Center: Public Law 94-201.
• Cultural Democracy: "Cultural Democracy in a Time of Diminished Resources," presented by Bau Graves. 2010 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Cultural Documentation Matierals and Techniques.
• Cutting, Jennifer: "Bringing in the May," by Jennifer Cutting, from the Library's Journeys and Crossings webcast series.
• Cybercasts: see Webcasts.

D

• D'Abate, Richard: participant in Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Dance:
  • The Berntsons — Traditional Norwegian American Dance Music from Virginia, 2009 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Dallas Chief Eagle and Jasmine Pickner, Hoop Dancing. The performers are tribal members of the Rosebud Sioux and Crow Creek Sioux respectively. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Dineh Tah Navajo Dancers from Arizona and New Mexico. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Drago Ensemble, a Russian Romani music and dance ensemble. Concert sponsored by the Open World Russian Leadership Program, 2009. (webcast)
  • The Gannon Family: Irish Music and Dance from Missouri. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Gary Haleamau — Traditional Hawaiian Music from Las Vegas. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Major League Tassa — Indo-Caribbean Drumming and Dance from New York. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Natasinh Dancers & Musicians — Lao Music and Dance from Iowa. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Negrura Peruana — Afro Peruvian Music and Dance from Connecticut. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Old Cultures/New Contexts: Presenting the Traditional Music and Dance of Urban Immigrant Communities presented by Ethel Raim. 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Ollin Yoliztli Calmecac — Aztec Dance Ensemble from Pennsylvania. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Omaha Indian Music (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • The Sama Ensemble: Traditional Iranian Music and Dance. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Surati — Classical and Folk Indian Dance from New Jersey. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Danielson, Virginia: "Stating the Obvious: Lessons Learned While Accessing Archival Audio Collections," article by Virginia Danielson.
• Davis, Sara M.: "Song & Silence," Sara M. Davis on ethnic Tai Lües. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Death, Dying, and Grief: "Giving a Voice to Sorrow: Creative Responses to Death," an illustrated lecture presented by Illana Harlow. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Defender Wilson, Mary Louise: Mary Louise Defender Wilson & Keith Bear — Sioux and Mandan Hidatsa Storytelling. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Delaney, Frank: "The Beautiful Bridge: Crossing The Span Between Oral Tradition and the Written Creative Word," presented by Frank Delaney. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Delaware:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • The Zionaires — Gospel Music from Maryland and Delaware. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• DeLoach, Lynda: participant in Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Demba, Adjaratou "Tapani": Balla Kouyaté and World Vision — Traditional Malian Music from Massachusetts. 2010 Homegrown concert (webcast and flyer essay).
• Dewhurst, C. Kurt: participant in Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Dialects: American English Dialect Recordings: The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection (online collection: essays and audio).
• Diamond, Beverly: Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
• Dickens, Hazel: Laborlore Conversations IV, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
• Dickson, Paul: Baseball Americana Symposium 2009 (website includes a program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Dierker, Larry: Baseball Americana Symposium 2009(website includes a program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Digital collections: See Online Collections and Special Presentations.
• Dineh Tah Navajo Dancers from Arizona and New Mexico. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Directories:
  • Contact Information for the American Folklife Center.
  • Contact Information for the Veterans History Project.
  • Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
  • Folklife Sourcebook directory database.
  • Online Collections and Special Presentations from the Archive of Folk Culture.
  • Published Sound Recordings from the Archive of Folk Culture.
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • Folklife Resources for Educators, searchable database of educational resources by Carol Moran and Catherine Hiebert Kerst.
• Disability: "Experiencing War: Disabled Veterans: The Unhealed Wounds," Veterans History Project online presentation.
• District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.):
  • "The Capital Pool Checkers Club: Tradition, Competition, and Community in Washington, DC," presented by ethographic photographer Peggy Fleming with Professor Maurice Jackson and club members Oliver Griffin and Tal Roberts. 2011 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • "The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop," ethnomusicologist Kip Lornell discussed the book of the same title he coauthored with Charles C. Stephenson, Jr. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • Reverb. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Djelis: See Griots
• Documentary film: See: Ethnographic Film and Filmmaking.
• "Documenting Katrina and Rita in Houston," presented by Carl Lindahl and Pat Jasper. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Documenting Maritime Folklife book by David A. Taylor.
• Donating Collections: Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: A Contributor's Guide a booklet by Stephanie A. Hall.
• Douglas, Jerry: Performer at the NCTA Concert, Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore, 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• "Down in the Old Belt: Voices from the Tobacco South," a film screening and lecture by filmmaker Jim Crawford. 2007 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver — Bluegrass and Gospel Music from Tennessee. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Drama (Folk Drama):
  • Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection (online collection: essays, manuscripts, and audio).
• Drums:
  • Balla Kouyaté and World Vision — Traditional Malian Music from Massachusetts. 2010 Homegrown concert (webcast and flyer essay).
  • Dineh Tah Navajo Dancers from Arizona and New Mexico. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Kiu Haghighi Master of the Persian Santour with Tooraj Moshref-Zadeh. 2011 Homegrown concert.
  • Major League Tassa — Indo-Caribbean Drumming and Dance from New York. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Ollin Yoliztli Calmecac — Aztec Dance Ensemble from Pennsylvania. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Opalanga Pugh — African American Storytelling from Colorado. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "There's More that Unites Than Divides Us." Spoken and performed by Gary Hastings and Brian Mullen. Rediscover Northern Ireland Programme, 2007 (flyer essay and webcast).
• Dukes, Josh: Performer at the NCTA Concert (with Mick Moloney), Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore, 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Dunaway, David King:
  • "Force and Violins: What the FBI had on Folksingers," presented by David Dunaway. 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
• Dueck, Jonathan: "Empires, Multiculturalisms, and Borrowed Heartsongs: What Does It Mean to Sing Russian/Mennonite Songs?", presented by Jonathan Dueck. 2008 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Duplication Service: See Ordering Copies of Recordings from Archive of Folk Culture Collections.
• Durst, James: "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
• Drago Ensemble, a Russian Romani music and dance ensemble. Concert sponsored by the Open World Russian Leadership Program, 2009 (webcast).
• Dyster, Paul: Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).

E

• Easter Eggs: Egg Art, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1982 (European egg decorating traditions, booklet in PDF).
• Ecology:
  • "The Folklore Behind Ecology, or Why Scientists in Ecology Need Help from Folklorists," Dr. Daniel B. Botkin. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
• Educational Resources:
  • American Folklife: A Commonwealth of Cultures booklet by Mary Hufford (HTML and PDF).
  • Cultural Documentation Matierals and Techniques
  • Educational Opportunities and Programs.
  • Explore Your Community K-12 educational poster.
  • Field Schools for Cultural Documentation
  • Folklife and Fieldwork booklet by Peter Bartis.
  • Folklife Sourcebook database.
  • Getting Started: How do I do Folklife?
  • Heritage Projects and Place-Based Education (includes links to the Montana and Arizona projects).
  • Print publications, see: American Folkife Center Publications.
  • Folklife Resources for Educators, searchable database of educational resources by Carol Moran and Catherine Hiebert Kerst.
  • Training Program for Indigenous Communitites (press release May 14, 2008).
  • World Wide Web Resources for Cultural Heritage Research Projects (links).
  • Veterans History Project: Classroom Resources page from the Veterans History Project.
  • What is an Ethnographic Field Collection?
• Edwards, Nat: Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance, participant in the 2009 symposium (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Eff, Elaine:
  • "From Bridge to Boardwalk, an Audio Journey Across Maryland's Eastern Shore," an illustrated lecture based on the CD and book of the same name presented by Douglas Manger, Tatiana Irvine, and Elaine Eff. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Laborlore Conversations IV, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
• Egg Art, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1982 (European egg decorating traditions, booklet. PDF.)
• Eiler, Lyntha Scott: Blue Ridge Harvest:A Region's Folklife in Photographs. Edited by Lyntha Scott Eiler; Terry Eiler; and Carl Fleischhauer. (Book. PDF, 123 pp., 44.38MB).
• Eiler, Terry: Blue Ridge Harvest:A Region's Folklife in Photographs. Edited by Lyntha Scott Eiler; Terry Eiler; and Carl Fleischhauer. (Book. PDF, 123 pp., 44.38MB).
• Ellis, Tony: Tony Ellis, Banjo Master from Ohio With the Musicians of Braeburn. 2011 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay).
• "Empires, Multiculturalisms, and Borrowed Heartsongs: What Does It Mean to Sing Russian/Mennonite Songs?", presented by Jonathan Dueck. 2008 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Emrich, Duncan:
  • See the menu page: Historic AFC LP Liner Note Booklets (in PDF) for liner notes and essays by this author for various long-playing recordings issued by the Library of Congress.
  • See also: Finding aids to Individual Collections under "E."
• The Endangered Music Project: See Published Recordings.
• English Language (study of): American English Dialect Recordings: The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection (online collection: essays and audio).
• Erkvanidze, Malkhaz: Malkhaz Erkvanidze on collecting traditional sacred and secular music in the Republic of Georgia with examples provided by the Anchiskhati Choir. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: A Contributor's Guide a booklet by Stephanie A. Hall.
• Ethnographic Films and Filmmaking:
  • "Down in the Old Belt: Voices from the Tobacco South," a film screening and lecture by filmmaker Jim Crawford. 2007 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • "The High Lonesome Sound Revisited: Documenting Traditional Culture in America," presented by filmmaker John Cohen. 2009 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Ethnographic methods:
  • Cultural Documentation Matierals and Techniques.
  • Explore Your Community K-12 educational poster.
  • Field Schools for Cultural Documentation.
  • Folklife and Fieldwork booklet by Peter Bartis.
  • Shankar, Guha: "Vanishing Pasts, Ethnographic Presents, and Digital Futures: The Case of the Maasai Audiovisual Archives," presented by Guha Shankar. Lecture co-sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division and the American Folklife Center. April 7, 2010. This link goes directly to the webcast. Running time 53 minutes.
• Ethnographic Sound Recording, Early History:
  • Omaha Indian Music (Online collection. See especially the album notes from the original LP Omaha Indian Music).
  • "Preserving Sound Recordings," article by Stephanie A. Hall.
  • "Revolutionaries, Nursery Rhymes, and Edison Wax Cylinders: The Remarkable Tale of the Earliest Korean Sound Recordings," presented by Robert Provine, 2009 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• "Ethnography, Identity, and Ethnohistory: Studying Narrative in Contemporary and Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico," presented by Jacqueline Messing. 2009 Kluge Center Lecture (webcast).
• Europe:
  • "A Bard of Nature's Making: Robert Burns and Scottish Traditional Culture," presented by Valentina Bold 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • "Living and Building Between Tradition and Change: Vernacular Architecture in Northern Sweden," presented by Mats Widbom. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Rediscover Northern Ireland Programme, 2007 symposium and events (program, photo album, flyer essays, and webcasts).
  • Rediscover Northern Ireland 2008 events.
  • "Music in Bulgaria: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture," an illustrated lecture by Prof. Timothy Rice 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • "Not the Same Old (Folk) Song and Dance: Field Recordings in the European Communities of the United States," presented by Matthew Barton. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance, 2009 symposium (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Events and Announcements: What's Happening at the American Folklife Center?
• Event Archive: AFC Concerts, Lectures, and Symposia with Webcasts, Photographs, and Essays:
  • Benjamin Botkin Lecture Series Online Archive.
  • Homegrown Concert Series Online Archive.
  • Symposia Online Archive.
• "The Evolution of Welsh Music," a lecture illustrated with music examples, presented by Gwilym Morus. 2009 lecture co-sponsored by the Kluge Center and the American Folklife Center.
• Experiencing War: Stories from the Veterans History Project (thematic presentations: webcasts and audio).
• Experiencing War Series, presentations listed aphabetically by last name.
• Explore Your Community K-12 educational poster.

F

• Facebook: AFC Facebook page.
• Faid, Julian: Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
• Family Folklife: American Family History and Folklife Online Resource.
• Farms and Farming: Living and Building Between Tradition and Change: Vernacular Architecture in Northern Sweden presented by Mats Widbom. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Ferris, William R.:
  • "Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues," an illustrated lecture by William R. Ferris. 2010 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Fellowships:
  • The Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies, offered by the Kluge Center, Library of Congress.
  • Archie Green Fellowship.
  • Research Awards and Fellowships (information on all AFC awards and fellowships).
• Fiddle Music:
  • Bar J Wranglers — Cowboy Music from Wyoming. 2008 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • The Beehive Band — Traditional Mormon String Band Music from Utah. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Benton Flippen and the Smokey Valley Boys — Old Time Music from North Carolina. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Brendan Carey Block — Cape Breton Fiddle Music from New Hampshire. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • California Gold: Northern California Folk Music From the Thirties (online collection: essays, photographs, drawings, and audio).
  • Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (online collection: essays, manuscripts, and audio).
  • Gandydancer — Traditional String Band Music from West Virginia 2007 Homegrown (flyer essay and webcast).
  • The Gannon Family: Irish Music and Dance from Missouri. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Liz Carroll with John Doyle — Irish American Fiddling from Illinois. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay).
  • New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters: Performers at the NCTA Concert, Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore, 2009 (see the website for a description of the group, photographs, and webcasts).
  • Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionán Sands. 2008 Rediscover Northern Ireland concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Tony Ellis, Banjo Master from Ohio With the Musicians of Braeburn. 2011 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay).
  • Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• Field schools:
  • Cultural Documentation Matierals and Techniques.
  • Field Schools for Cultural Documentation.
  • Shankar, Guha: "Vanishing Pasts, Ethnographic Presents, and Digital Futures: The Case of the Maasai Audiovisual Archives," presented by Guha Shankar. Lecture co-sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division and the American Folklife Center. April 7, 2010. This link goes directly to the webcast. Running time 53 minutes.
• Film: See Ethographic Films and Filmmaking.
• Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Finding Aids to Individual Collections.
• Finding aids: Finding Aids Organized by Topic.
• Fischer, David Hackett: Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
• Fleischhauer, Carl:
  • Blue Ridge Harvest:A Region's Folklife in Photographs. Edited by Lyntha Scott Eiler; Terry Eiler; and Carl Fleischhauer. (Book. PDF, 123 pp., 44.38MB).
  • Laborlore Conversations IV, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
• Fleming, Peggy: "The Capital Pool Checkers Club: Tradition, Competition, and Community in Washington, DC," presented by ethographic photographer Peggy Fleming with Professor Maurice Jackson and club members Oliver Griffin and Tal Roberts. 2011 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Fletcher, Alice Cunningham: Omaha Indian Music (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• Flippen, Benton: Benton Flippen and the Smokey Valley Boys — Old Time Music from North Carolina. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Florida:
  • Aubrey Ghent and Friends — Sacred Steel Lap Guitar, 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Celebrating Native American Language Revitalization in Film. Presentations and film screenings, June 21, 2011.
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (online collection: essays, manuscripts, and audio).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • National Sampler: Selections from Florida Collections.
  • Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
  • Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Flute:
  • Carlos Nakai — American Indian Flute Music from Arizona. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Folk Music from the Slovak Mountains: Lecture/Demonstration of the Fujara and Other Overtone Flutes," presented by Bob Rychlik. 2010 Botkin Lecture and performance (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Tim Tingle and D.J. Battiest-Tomasi: Oklahoma Choctaw Storytellers and Flute Players. 2011 Homegrown concert.
• Folk Art (artifacts):
  • "Afghan Women's Stories: The Problematics of Cover," presented by Margaret Mills. 2007 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Bridles, Bits and Beads: Folk and Fieldwork from the High, Wide and Handsome State of Montana," an illustrated lecture presented by Dr. Alexandra Swaney of the Montana Arts Council. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • "The Changing Worlds of the Patuas of West Bengal," Presented by Frank Korom. 2006 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Chinese Folk Art Today," an illustrated lecture by Yong Xianrang. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • "Giving a Voice to Sorrow: Creative Responses to Death," an illustrated lecture presented by Illana Harlow. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • The New Yellow Ribbon Tradition two articles by Gerald E. Parsons (full text, photographs).
  • Herman, Bernard: "Quilters' Save Our Stories," presented by Bernard Herman. 2007 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio)
  • "What's in a Name? AIDS, Vernacular Risk Perception and the Culture of Ownership," presented by Diane Goldstein. 2006 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis Symposium and Products (program, essays, text of keynote speeches, and webcasts).
• "Folk Music from the Slovak Mountains: Lecture/Demonstration of the Fujara and Other Overtone Flutes," presented by Bob Rychlik. 2010 Botkin Lecture and performance (flyer essay and webcast).
• Folklife and Fieldwork booklet by Peter Bartis.
• Folklife Center News (full text online).
• Folklife Resources for Educators, searchable database of educational resources by Carol Moran and Catherine Hiebert Kerst.
• Folklife Sourcebook directory database.
• "Folklore and Seeing: Photographs from Cummins Prison, 1915-2010," an illustrated lecture by Bruce Jackson, University at Buffalo (flyer essay and webcast).
• Folk-Songs of America: the Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932 (online presentation of recordings and photographs from the 1978 LP, including photographs, liner notes, and MP3 audio).
• Folksong Index:"Chorus and Verse: The Challenges of Designing the Roud Folk Song Index," presented by Steve Roud. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Folksong Revival, History of:
  • Force and Violins: What the FBI had on Folksingers, presented by David Dunaway. 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • How Can I Keep from Singing? A Seeger Family Tribute, 2007 symposium and concert (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
  • Laborlore Conversations IV: Documenting Occupational Folklore Then and Now, 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
• Foodways: Cranberries, PDF 3 MB, 36 pp. Requires free Adobe Reader software. (AFC booklet presenting materials from the Pinelands Folklife Project).
• "Force and Violins: What the FBI had on Folksingers," presented by David Dunaway. 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Francis McPeak Family Concert Rediscover Northern Ireland, 2007 (flyer essay and webcast).
• Frank, Russell: Baseball Americana Symposium 2009 (website includes a program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Fujara: "Folk Music from the Slovak Mountains: Lecture/Demonstration of the Fujara and Other Overtone Flutes," presented by Bob Rychlik. 2010 Botkin Lecture and performance (flyer essay and webcast).

G

• Gambliel, Maria Carmen RA.: "Basque Culture in the Western United States," an illustrated lecture by Maria Carmen RA. Gambliel. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Games:
  • Baseball Americana Symposium 2009 (website includes a program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
  • "The Capital Pool Checkers Club: Tradition, Competition, and Community in Washington, DC," presented by ethographic photographer Peggy Fleming with Professor Maurice Jackson and club members Oliver Griffin and Tal Roberts. 2011 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Gandydancer — Traditional String Band Music from West Virginia. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• The Gannon Family: Irish Music and Dance from Missouri. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Gary Haleamau — Traditional Hawaiian Music from Las Vegas. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Georgia (country): Malkhaz Erkvanidze on collecting traditional sacred and secular music in the Republic of Georgia with examples provided by the Anchiskhati Choir. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Georgia (U.S.A.):
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs with descriptions of projects).
  • McIntosh County Shouters — Gullah-Geechee Ring Shout from Georgia. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast)
  • "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
  • Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• German Americans: "The Two Worlds of the Pennsylvania Dutch," presented by Don Yoder. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Getting Started: How do I do Folklife?
• Ghent, Aubrey: Aubrey Ghent and Friends — Sacred Steel Lap Guitar. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Gift Funds for private donations to the American Folklife Center.
• Gilespie, Angus: "The Lore of America's Coal Miners: A Fresh Look at the George Korson Collection," presented by Angus Gilespie. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Goldstein, Diane: "What's in a Name? AIDS, Vernacular Risk Perception and the Culture of Ownership," Diane Goldstein. 2006 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Gordon, Robert Winslow: Folk-Songs of America: the Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932 (online presentation of recordings and photographs from the 1978 LP with liner notes, photographs, and MP3 audio).
• Gospel Music:
  • Birmingham Sunlights. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Blind Boys of Alabama. Homegrown 2002 concert (webcast excerpts. Part One, Part Two).
  • Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver — Bluegrass and Gospel Music from Tennessee. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • Reverb. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • The Zionaires — Gospel Music from Maryland and Delaware. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Goss, Linda: "Waking up the People," 2006 Botkin presentation (flyer essay and webcast).
• Graham, Len: "'It's Of My Rambles...' A Journey in the Song Tradition of Ulster," presented by Len Graham (2008 Northern Ireland/Botkin lecture and webcast).
• Grants: Research Awards and Fellowships.
• Graves, James Bau: "Cultural Democracy in a Time of Diminished Resources," presented by Bau Graves. 2010 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Gray, Patricia: Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance, participant in the 2009 symposium (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Greeley, David: Marce Lacouture with David Greely and Kristi Guillory — Cajun Music from Louisiana. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Green, Archie:
  • Archie Green, 1917-2009.
  • Archie Green received the Living Legend Award from the Library of Congress, on August 16, 2007.
  • Archie Green was honored at the American Folklife Center symposium, Laborlore Conversations IV: Documenting Occupational Folklore Then and Now, August 15-16, 2007 (Green was not present. See website for a program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
  • "Folklorist Archie Green Honored with Living Legend Award," in the Library of Congress Information Bulletin, October 2007, Vol. 66, No. 10.
  • Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
  • "Recognition of Archie Green," published in the Congressional Record. (This is a one page 71 K PDF file; Requires free Adobe Reader software.
• Green, Derek:
  • Accepted the Living Legend Award on behalf of his father, Archie Green, at the Laborlore Conversations IV: Documenting Occupational Folklore Then and Now, 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
  • Participant in Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Greenhouse, Stephen: participant in Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Greer, Taylor Aitken: "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
• Griots, Djelis: Balla Kouyaté and World Vision — Traditional Malian Music from Massachusetts. 2010 Homegrown concert (webcast and flyer essay).
• Groen, Jeffrey: participant in Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Groethe, D. W.: D. W. Groethe — Cowboy Songs and Poetry from Montana. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Guam:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
• Guatemalan Americans: Marimba Linda Xelajú: Guatemalan Marimba Music from Maryland. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Guides:
  • Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: A Contributor's Guide a booklet by Stephanie A. Hall.
  • Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
  • Folklife and Fieldwork booklet by Peter Bartis.
  • Documenting Maritime Folklife a book by David A. Taylor.
  • Folklife Resources for Educators, searchable database of educational resources by Carol Moran and Catherine Hiebert Kerst.
  • See also: Directories.
• Guillory, Kristi: Marce Lacouture with David Greely and Kristi Guillory — Cajun Music from Louisiana. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Gullah: McIntosh County Shouters — Gullah-Geechee Ring Shout from Georgia. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast)
• Gustafson, Wylie: Cowboy poet Paul Zarzyski and cowboy singer-composer Wylie Gustafson from Montana, 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Guthrie, Woody: Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song, Correspondence 1940-1950 (online collection: essay, manuscripts, photographs).
• Gypsy: See Romani.

H

• Haghighi, Kiu: Kiu Haghighi Master of the Persian Santour with Tooraj Moshref-Zadeh. 2011 Homegrown concert.
• Hall, Stephanie:
  • Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: A Contributor's Guide brochure by Stephanie A. Hall.
  • Folklife Sourcebook directory database.
  • "Preserving Sound Recordings," article by Stephanie A. Hall.
• "Halloween: The Fantasy and Folklore of All Hallows," article by Jack Santino.
• Halpert, Herbert: Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (online collection: essays, manuscripts, and audio).
• Hannesson, Hjalmar W.: "The Icelandic Edda: Myth and the Mind," presented by Hjalmar W. Hannesson, Alexander Stein, and Taru Spiegel. Part of the Music Division's 2010 Music and the Brain Lecture Series. The talks deal with Icelandic sagas, not music. (the link goes directly to the webcast).
• Hanukkah: See: An Overview of Judaica in the Library of Congress by Peggy Pearlston, Head, Hebraic Section of the African and Middle Eastern Divsion, Library of Congress, and "Quick to the Party: Southern Jews and the Americanization of Hanukkah," by Dianne Ashton, 2007 presented by the African and Middle Eastern Division (two talks in one webcast).
• "Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression," presented by Rich Remsberg. 2010 Botkin Lecture (webcast).
• Hardin, James:
  • "Alan Lomax, 1915-2002," an appreciation by James Hardin.
  • "Historic Sound Recordings Collections Win Save America's Treasures Preservation Grant," article by James Hardin.
  • "No Time to Dawdle: Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis," article by James Hardin.
• Haring, Lee: "Translating Africa in Global Contexts," presented by Lee Haring. 2010 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Harlow, Illana: "Giving a Voice to Sorrow: Creative Responses to Death," an illustrated lecture presented by Illana Harlow. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Harvy, Todd: "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
• Harris, Corey: Performer at the NCTA Concert (with Phil Wiggins), Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore, 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Hastings, Gary: "There's More that Unites Than Divides Us." Spoken and performed by Gary Hastings and Brian Mullen. Rediscover Northern Ireland Programme, 2007 (flyer essay and webcast).
• Hawaii, Hawaiian:
  • See: Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and descriptions of projects).
  • Gary Haleamau — Traditional Hawaiian Music from Las Vegas. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See: Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• "Hear, O Israel: Yiddish American Radio 1925-1955," presented by Henry Sapoznik, 2009 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Henry Reed: Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• Heritage Projects and Place-Based Education.
• Herman, Bernard: "Quilters' Save Our Stories" presented by Bernard Herman, Professor of American Material Culture Studies and Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware. July 24, 2007.
• Hickerson, Joseph C.:
  • "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
  • See: Finding Aids to Collections Organized by Topic in the Archive of Folk Culture (past series editor).
  • See: List of Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• "The High Lonesome Sound Revisited: Documenting Traditional Culture in America," presented by filmmaker John Cohen. 2009 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Hillerich, John, III: Baseball Americana Symposium 2009 (website includes a program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Hillman, Chris: Rock Hall of Fame Guitarist Chris Hillman, 2009 (the link goes directly to the webcast; running time 1:22:26. Chris Hillman discusses his career. Sponsored by the Music Divison and the American Folklife Center.
• Hinton, Leanne. "Reclaiming Lost Languages: The Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages," presented by Leanne Hinton. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Hispanic / Latino:
  • California Gold: Northern California Folk Music From the Thirties (online collection: essays, photographs, drawings, and audio).
  • "Ethnography, Identity, and Ethnohistory: Studying Narrative in Contemporary and Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico," presented by Jacqueline Messing. 2009 Kluge Center Lecture (webcast).
  • Experiencing War: Hispanics in Service (Veteran's History project online exhibit).
  • Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection (online collection: essays, manuscripts, and audio).
  • Marimba Linda Xelajú: Guatemalan Marimba Music from Maryland. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Negrura Peruana — Afro Peruvian Music and Dance from Connecticut, 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "La Quinceañera: A Coming of Age Ritual in Latino Communities," by Norma E. Cantú. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection (online collection).
  • See also: Ollin Yoliztli Calmecac — Aztec Dance Ensemble from Pennsylvania. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Historic AFC LP Liner Note Booklets (in PDF).
• Homegrown Concert Series.
• Homegrown Concert Series Online Archives (including flyer essays, webcasts, and links to related materials).
• Hoog, Ann:
  • "Pearl Harbor Oral Histories," by Ann Hoog. 2004 Webcast from the Library's Journeys and Crossings webcast series.
  • September 11, 2001 Documentary Project (online collection: essays, manuscripts, children's artwork, photographs, and audio).
  • "September 11, 2001 Documentary Project," presented by Ann Hoog (webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections Organized by Topic in the Archive of Folk Culture (series editor).
• Hoop Dancing:
  • Dallas Chief Eagle and Jasmine Pickner, Hoop Dancing, presenters are tribal members of the Rosebud Sioux and Crow Creek Sioux respectively. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Omaha Indian Music (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• Hope Diamond: "The History and Curse of the Hope Diamond," presented by Richard Kurin. Lecture sponsored by the Center for the Book, Library of Congress (webcast).
• "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute. 2007 symposium and concert (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
• How to Contact The American Folklife Center and the Veterans History Project.
• How to do Research in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Hufford, Mary:
  • American Folklife: A Commonwealth of Cultures booklet by Mary Hufford (HTML and PDF).
  • Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
• Hurston, Zora Neale:
  • Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (online collection: essays, manuscripts, and audio).
  • Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.

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• "'I am a Wee Weaver': Weaving and Singing in Northern Ireland," presented by Maurice Leyden. 2008 Rediscover Northern Ireland and Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• "The Icelandic Edda: Myth and the Mind," presented by Hjalmar W. Hannesson, Alexander Stein, and Taru Spiegel. Part of the Music Division's 2010 Music and the Brain Lecture Series. The talks deal with Icelandic sagas, not music. (the link goes directly to the webcast).
• Idaho:
  • Amuma Says No: Traditional and Contemporary Basque Music from Idaho, 2010 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• "If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews: Irish and Jewish Influences on the Music of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley," presented by Mick Moloney, 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Illinois:
  • Kiu Haghighi Master of the Persian Santour with Tooraj Moshref-Zadeh. 2011 Homegrown concert.
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation).
  • "Hear, O Israel: Yiddish American Radio 1925-1955," presented by Henry Sapoznik, 2009 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Liz Carroll with John Doyle — Irish American Fiddling from Illinois, 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • National Sampler: Selections from Illinois Collections.
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Immigration, Migration:
  • "Baghdad Jews in British Burma," lecture by anthropologist Ruth Fredman Cernea, sponsored by the Asian Division and the Hebrew Language Table (the link goes directly to the webcast).
  • "Basque Culture in the Western United States," an illustrated lecture by Maria Carmen RA. Gambliel. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • "Built with Faith: Place Making and the Religious Imagination in Italian New York," presented by Joseph Sciorra. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • California Gold: Northern California Folk Music From the Thirties (online collection: essays, photographs, drawings, and audio).
  • "Empires, Multiculturalisms, and Borrowed Heartsongs: What Does It Mean to Sing Russian/Mennonite Songs?", presented by Jonathan Dueck. 2008 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Hear, O Israel: Yiddish American Radio 1925-1955," presented by Henry Sapoznik, 2009 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews: Irish and Jewish Influences on the Music of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley," presented by Mick Moloney, 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Old Cultures/New Contexts: Presenting the Traditional Music and Dance of Urban Immigrant Communities presented by Ethel Raim. 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Not the Same Old (Folk) Song and Dance: Field Recordings in the European Communities of the United States," presented by Matthew Barton. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Place and the Politics of Belonging," presented by Debra Lattanzi Shutika, 2010 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See also: The Homegrown Concert Series Online Archive (including webcasts and flyer essays).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• In Country: The Vietnam War, 30 Years After Veterans History Project symposium (webcast).
• Inauguration 2009 Sermons and Orations Project.
• India, East Indians, and East Indian Americans:
  • "The Changing Worlds of the Patuas of West Bengal," presented by Frank Korom, 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Sreevidhya Chandramouli and Friends — Northern Indian Vina music from Oregon. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Surati — Classical and Folk Indian Dance from New Jersey, 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Indian, Americans: See American Indians.
• Indiana:
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Not Too Bad Bluegrass Band — Bluegrass from Indiana. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Indigenous Communities:
  • Celebrating Native American Language Revitalization in Film. Presentations and film screenings, June 21, 2011.
  • "Facing the Music: Traditional Culture and Copyright," presented by Dr. Bryan Bachner. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "From Patent Medicines to Patents for Indigenous Knowledge — Material and Spiritual Economies," an illustrated lecture by Margaret Kruesi. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • "Reclaiming Lost Languages: The Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages," presented by Leanne Hinton. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
  • Society of American Archivists Pre-Conference Symposium: Ethnographic Archives, Communities of Origin, and Intangible Cultural Heritage, 2006 symposium (program, resource guide, and photo album).
  • Training Program for Indigenous Communitites, press release May 14, 2008.
  • See also: American Indians.
• Indo-Caribbean: Major League Tassa — Indo-Caribbean Drumming and Dance from New York. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Indonesia: "The Sound of Islamic Music: Women's Voices and the Indonesian Religious Soundscape," presented by Anne K. Rasmussen. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Internships.
• Iowa:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Natasinh Dancers & Musicians: Lao Music and Dance from Iowa. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Iran: The Sama Ensemble: Traditional Iranian Music and Dance. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Iraq: "Baghdad Jews in British Burma," lecture by anthropologist Ruth Fredman Cernea, sponsored by the Asian Division and the Hebrew Language Table (the link goes directly to the webcast).
• Irish and Irish Americans:
  • "The Beautiful Bridge: Crossing The Span Between Oral Tradition and the Written Creative Word," presented by Frank Delaney. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • The Gannon Family: Irish Music and Dance from Missouri. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews: Irish and Jewish Influences on the Music of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley," presented by Mick Moloney, 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Liz Carroll with John Doyle — Irish American Fiddling from Illinois. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay).
  • See also: Northern Ireland.
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Irvine, Tatiana: "From Bridge to Boardwalk, an Audio Journey Across Maryland's Eastern Shore," an illustrated lecture based on the CD and book of the same name presented by Douglas Manger, Tatiana Irvine, and Elaine Eff. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Islam, Islamic:
  • "Afghan Women's Stories: The Problematics of Cover," presented by Margaret Mills. 2007 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Competing Spheres: Religion, Society, and State in Morocco," presented by Mohsine El Ahmadi. Lecture sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division, 2009 (webcast).
  • "Politics and Poetics: Fieldwork in Afghanistan and Jamaica," Margaret Mills and Kenneth Bilby. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • The Sama Ensemble: Traditional Iranian Music and Dance. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "States of Mind: Music in Islamic Sufi Rituals," presented by Taoufiq ben Amor as part of the Music Division's 2010 Music and the Brain Lecture Series (the link goes directly to the webcast).
  • "The Sound of Islamic Music: Women's Voices and the Indonesian Religious Soundscape," presented by Anne K. Rasmussen. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Italian Americans:
  • "Built with Faith: Place Making and the Religious Imagination in Italian New York," presented by Joseph Sciorra. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Ivan Kupalo: "Ivan Kupalo: Ritual in Post-Soviet Ukraine," an illustrated lecture by Dr. Natalie Kononenko. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Ivey, Bill: "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
• Iyengar, Sunil: participant in Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).

J

• Jabbour, Alan: Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• Jackson, Bruce: "Folklore and Seeing: Photographs from Cummins Prison, 1915-2010," an illustrated lecture by Bruce Jackson, University at Buffalo (flyer essay and webcast).
• Jagoda, Flory: Flory Jagoda and Friends — Traditional Sephardic Music from the Former Yugoslavia and the World. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• James, Willis Laurence: "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• Jasper, Pat: "Documenting Katrina and Rita in Houston," presented by Carl Lindahl and Pat Jasper. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Jazz: Mister Jelly Roll, Mister Lomax and the Invention of Jazz — Illustrated Lecture by John Szwed 2006 Homegrown lecture/concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Jamaica: "Politics and Poetics: Fieldwork in Afghanistan and Jamaica," Margaret Mills and Kenneth Bilby 2006 Botkin lectures. (flyer essay and webcast).
• Japan:
  • "Blooming Cherry Blossoms, Falling Cherry Blossoms: Symbolism of the Flower in Japanese Culture," Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. Lecture sponsored by the Kluge Center, Library of Congress (link goes directly to the webcast).
  • "How Do Flowers Kill? - The Japanese Emperor and Modern Dictators," Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, 2009. Lecture sponsored by the Kluge Center, Library of Congress (link goes directly to the webcast).
• Jewish Heritage:
  • "Arnold Resnicoff on Faith and Foxholes: Religion in the Military," presented by Arnold Resnicoff. Lecture co-sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division and the American Folklife Center, May 6, 2010. (The link goes directly to the webcast. Running time 58 minutes.)
  • "Baghdad Jews in British Burma," lecture by anthropologist Ruth Fredman Cernea, sponsored by the Asian Division and the Hebrew Language Table (the link goes directly to the webcast).
  • Experiencing War: Jewish Veterans of World War II. Veterans History Project (online exhibit).
  • Flory Jagoda and Friends — Traditional Sephardic Music from the Former Yugoslavia and the World, 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Hear, O Israel: Yiddish American Radio 1925-1955," presented by Henry Sapoznik, 2009 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews: Irish and Jewish Influences on the Music of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley," presented by Mick Moloney, 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See also: "Jews and Shoes," presented by Edna Nahshon. Lecture sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress, 2008 (webcast).
  • See also: An overview of Judaica in the Library of Congress by Peggy Pearlston, Head, Hebraic Section of the African and Middle Eastern Divsion, Library of Congress, and "Quick to the Party: Southern Jews and the Americanization of Hanukkah," by Dianne Ashton, 2007. Presented by the African and Middle Eastern Division (two talks in one webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• "John and Ruby Lomax" [from title]: Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
• Johnson, James: James "Super Chikan" Johnson and Richard Christman Blues Guitar from Mississippi. 2006 Homegrown concert (webcast).
• Johnson, Mamie "Peanut": Baseball Americana Symposium 2009 (website includes a program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Johnson, Paula:
  • Laborlore Conversations IV, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
  • Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Jones, Lewis Wade: "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).

K

• Kansas:
  • The Bajich Brothers — Serbian American Tambura Music from Kansas. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Katz, Harry L.: Baseball Americana Symposium 2009 (website includes a program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Katzman, Laura: Art Culture and Government: The New Deal at 75, participant in the 2008 symposium (program, research guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Kay, Billy: Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance, participant in the 2009 symposium (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Kazin, Michael: Art Culture and Government: The New Deal at 75, participant in the 2008 symposium (program, research guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Kefeli, Agnes: "The Tale of Joseph and Zulahkha and Tatar National Identity on the Volga Frontier," presented by Agnes Kefeli, a lecture sponsored by the Kluge Center, 2009 (webcast).
• Kennedy, Keith J.: Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Kennedy, Stetson:
  • Art Culture and Government: The New Deal at 75, participant in the 2008 symposium (see website for program, webcasts, and a photograph of Kennedy).
  • Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (online collection: essays, manuscripts, and audio).
  • "How Can I Keep From Singing?" A Seeger Family Tribute — Photo Album (see website for a photograph of Kennedy).
  • Stetson Kennedy, talked about his life and work in conversation with Dr. Peggy Bulger, Director of the American Folklife Center. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay, press release, and webcast).
• Kentucky:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • "The High Lonesome Sound Revisited: Documenting Traditional Culture in America," presented by filmmaker John Cohen. 2009 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Northern Kentucky Brotherhood Singers. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Kerst, Catherine Hiebert:
  • Art Culture and Government: The New Deal at 75, participant in the 2008 symposium (program, research guide, photo album, and webcasts).
  • Folklife Resources for Educators, searchable database of educational resources by Carol Moran and Catherine Hiebert Kerst.
• King, Martin Luther: "Making a Way Out of No Way: Martin Luther King's Use of Proverbs for Civil Rights," presented by Wolfgang Mieder. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Kiowa-Comanchee:
  • Carlos Nakai — American Indian Flute Music from Arizona. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast). [Opens with a Kiowa-Comanchee piece.]
  • Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts). [The concert includes a performance by Tom Mauchahty-Ware,Thomas Ware, III, and Chester Tieyah, Jr.]
• Kiu Haghighi Master of the Persian Santour with Tooraj Moshref-Zadeh. 2011 Homegrown concert.
• Kononenko, Natalie: "Ivan Kupalo: Ritual in Post-Soviet Ukraine," an illustrated lecture by Dr. Natalie Kononenko. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Konrad, Victor: Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
• Korea, Korean:
  • Korean Culture Art Program and Concert, 2009 (webcast). Multiple sponsors, see webcast text.
  • "Revolutionaries, Nursery Rhymes, and Edison Wax Cylinders: The Remarkable Tale of the Earliest Korean Sound Recordings," presented by Robert Provine. 2009 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • For oral histories related to the Korean War (1950-1955) see: Veterans History Project: Experiencing War (thematic presentations — webcasts and audio).
• Kornbluh, Mark: Oral History in the Digital Age, 2010 lectures by Mark Kornbluh and Douglas Oard (webcast)
• Korom, Frank: "The Changing Worlds of the Patuas of West Bengal," Presented by Frank Korom, 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Kouyaté, Balla: Balla Kouyaté and World Vision — Traditional Malian Music from Massachusetts. 2010 Homegrown concert (webcast and flyer essay).
• Kraig, Bruce: Baseball Americana Symposium 2009 (website includes a program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Kruesi, Margaret: "From Patent Medicines to Patents for Indigenous Knowledge — Material and Spiritual Economies," an illustrated lecture by Margaret Kruesi. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• "Kunqü: China's First Great Multi-art Theatrical Tradition," presented by Marjory Bong-Ray Liu. 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Kurin, Richard: "The History and Curse of the Hope Diamond." Lecture sponsored by the Center for the Book, Library of Congress (webcast).

L

• La Flesche, Francis:Omaha Indian Music (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• Labor:
  • Laborlore Conversations IV: Documenting Occupational Folklore Then and Now, 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
  • Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Lacoutoure, Marce: Marce Lacouture with David Greely and Kristi Guillory — Cajun Music from Louisiana. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Lambert, Marc: Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance, participant in the 2009 symposium (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Lands' End All-American Quilt Contest Collection: See: Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• Lane, James: Laborlore Conversations IV, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
• Laos / Laotians:
  • Natasinh Dancers & Musicians: Lao Music and Dance from Iowa (2006 Homegrown concert and webcast).
  • "Song & Silence," Sara M. Davis on ethnic Tai Lües 2005. Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Latino: See Hispanic.
• Lectures:
  • Benjamin Botkin Lecture Series Online Archives (includes available flyer essays and webcasts).
  • AFC Concerts, Lectures, and Symposia with Webcasts, Photographs, and Essays (access to Botkin lectures, lectures presented in AFC symposia, and lectures related to other events, with available webcasts).
  • See: What's Happening at the American Folklife Center for upcoming lectures.
  • Veterans History Project event webcasts (lectures and symposia).
• Lee, Kurt Chew-Een : "Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month: Leadership to Meet the Challenges of a Changing World," presented by Christopher Yung, Kurt Chew-Een Lee, Peter Young, and John Whang. A presentation honoring Asian and Pacific veterans sponsored by the Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, June 2010 (the link goes directly to the webcast).
• Legends:
  • "The History and Curse of the Hope Diamond," presented by Richard Kurin. Lecture sponsored by the Center for the Book, Library of Congress (webcast).
  • "Tales of the Jersey Devil," an illustrated lecture presented by Stephen D. Winick. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Lewis, Anne: Laborlore Conversations IV, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
• Leyden, Maurice: "'I am a Wee Weaver': Weaving and Singing in Northern Ireland," presented by Maurice Leyden 2008 Rediscover Northern Ireland and Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Liner notes: Historic AFC LP Liner Note Booklets (in PDF)
• Lindahl, Carl: "Documenting Katrina and Rita in Houston," presented by Carl Lindahl and Pat Jasper. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Linguistics:
  • American English Dialect Recordings: The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection (online collection: essays, and audio).
  • Celebrating Native American Language Revitalization in Film. Presentations and film screenings, June 21, 2011.
  • "Reclaiming Lost Languages: The Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages," presented by Leanne Hinton. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
  • "Translating Africa in Global Contexts," presented by Lee Lee Haring. 2010 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast.
• Links:
  • Folklife Sourcebook directory database.
  • Resources for Sound Archives.
  • World Wide Web Resources for Cultural Heritage Research Projects.
  • See also: Symposia and Related Events resource lists.
• List of Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Listserv: See: RSS Feeds and Email Subscriptions.
• Lithuania:
  • Egg Art, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1982 (European egg decorating traditions, booklet. PDF.).
• Little, Keith: Keith Little, Navajo Code Talker Veterans History Project (webcast).
• "Living and Building Between Tradition and Change: Vernacular Architecture in Northern Sweden," presented by Mats Widbom. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Liz Carroll with John Doyle — Irish American Fiddling from Illinois. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay).
• Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
• Lohman, Jon: Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Lomax, Alan:
  • After the Day of Infamy: The "Man on the Street Interviews" Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 (online collection: essays and audio).
  • "Alan Lomax, 1915-2002," an appreciation by James Hardin.
  • The Alan Lomax Collection (selected examples of photographs and manuscripts from a major collection).
  • The Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies, offered by the Kluge Center, Library of Congress.
  • "Alan Lomax — The Man Who Recorded the World: A Bio-Ethnography," presented by John Szwed. 2010 Botkin Lecture. (flyer essay and webcast)
  • Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal (online collection: essays, audio, and one film).
  • Mister Jelly Roll, Mister Lomax and the Invention of Jazz — Illustrated Lecture by John Szwed 2006 Homegrown lecture/concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song, Correspondence 1940-1950 (online collection).
  • See the menu page: Historic AFC LP Liner Note Booklets (in PDF) for liner notes and essays by this author for various long-playing recordings issued by the Library of Congress.
• Lomax, John and Ruby:
  • Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal (online collection: essays, audio, and one film).
  • Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
  • See the menu page: Historic AFC LP Liner Note Booklets (in PDF) for liner notes and essays by this author for various long-playing recordings issued by the Library of Congress.
• Lornell, Kip: "The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop," ethnomusicologist Kip Lornell discussed the book of the same title he coauthored with Charles C. Stephenson, Jr. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Loughran, Maureen: participant in Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Louisiana:
  • "Documenting Katrina and Rita in Houston," presented by Carl Lindahl and Pat Jasper. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • Lacoutoure, Marce: Marce Lacouture with David Greely and Kristi Guillory — Cajun Music from Louisiana. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots(online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
  • Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Lutheran: "The Two Worlds of the Pennsylvania Dutch," presented by Don Yoder. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Lynch, Timothy: Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
• Lynn, Barbara: Barbara Lynn and Friends — Texas Rhythm & Blues. 2009 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).

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• Maasai: "Vanishing Pasts, Ethnographic Presents, and Digital Futures: The Case of the Maasai Audiovisual Archives," presented by Guha Shankar. Lecture co-sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division and the American Folklife Center. April 7, 2010. This link goes directly to the webcast. Running time 53 minutes.
• MacArthur, Margaret: Margaret MacArthur — Ballads and Songs from Vermont. 2005 Homegrown (flyer essay and webcast).
• Maine:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • Wayne Newell and Blanch Sockabasin — Traditional Passamaquoddy Music from Maine. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Major League Tassa — Indo-Caribbean Drumming and Dance from New York. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• "Makers of the Sacred Harp," presented by David Warren Steel. 2010 Botkin Lecture (webcast and flyer essay).
• "Making a Way Out of No Way: Martin Luther King's Use of Proverbs for Civil Rights," presented by Wolfgang Mieder. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Malian and Malian Americans: Balla Kouyaté and World Vision — Traditional Malian Music from Massachusetts. 2010 Homegrown concert (webcast and flyer essay).
• Mandan (American Indian tribe).
  • Mandan Hidatsa: Mary Louise Defender Wilson & Keith Bear — Sioux and Mandan Hidatsa Storytelling. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Mandinka language: Balla Kouyaté and World Vision — Traditional Malian Music from Massachusetts. 2010 Homegrown concert (webcast and flyer essay).
• Manger, Douglas: "From Bridge to Boardwalk, an Audio Journey Across Maryland's Eastern Shore," an illustrated lecture based on the CD and book of the same name presented by Douglas Manger, Tatiana Irvine, and Elaine Eff. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Marce Lacouture with David Greely and Kristi Guillory — Cajun Music from Louisiana. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Marimba Linda Xelajú: Guatemalan Marimba Music from Maryland. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Maritime Folklife: Documenting Maritime Folklife a book by David A. Taylor.
• Marshall, Howard W.: Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-82 (online collection: essays, photographs, audio, and film).
• Mary Sheppard Burton Collection (online collection: photographs with related narratives).
• Maryland:
  • "From Bridge to Boardwalk, an Audio Journey Across Maryland's Eastern Shore," an illustrated lecture based on the CD and book of the same name presented by Douglas Manger, Tatiana Irvine, and Elaine Eff. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Marimba Linda Xelajú: Guatemalan Marimba Music from Maryland. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Mary Sheppard Burton Collection (online collection: photographs with related narratives).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • The Zionaires — Gospel Music from Maryland and Delaware. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Mashpee Wampanoag: Celebrating Native American Language Revitalization in Film. Presentations and film screenings, June 21, 2011.
• Massachusetts:
  • Balla Kouyaté and World Vision — Traditional Malian Music from Massachusetts. 2010 Homegrown concert (webcast and flyer essay).
  • Celebrating Native American Language Revitalization in Film. Presentations and film screenings, June 21, 2011.
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Mauchachty-Ware, Tom: Performer at the NCTA Concert, Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore, 2009 (see the website for biography, photograph, and a link to the concert webcast).
• Matthiesen, Birgit: Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
• May Day: "Bringing in the May," by Jennifer Cutting, from the Library's Journeys and Crossings webcast series.
• McCarl, Robert:
  • Laborlore Conversations IV, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
  • Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• McComiskey, Billy: Performer at the NCTA Concert, Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore, 2009 (see the website for biography, photographs, and a link to the concert webcast).
• McCulloh, Judith: Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore, 2009. (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• McDannell, Colleen: Art Culture and Government: The New Deal at 75, participant in the 2008 symposium (program, research guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• McIntosh County Shouters — Gullah-Geechee Ring Shout from Georgia. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast)
• McPeake: Francis McPeak Family Concert Rediscover Northern Ireland Programme, 2007 (flyer essay and webcast).
• McNeil, Bryan: Laborlore Conversations IV, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
• Medicine (folk medicine, patent medicines): "From Patent Medicines to Patents for Indigenous Knowledge — Material and Spiritual Economies," an illustrated lecture by Margaret Kruesi. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Meer, Mark: Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
• Meisner, Steve: The Steve Meisner Band: Traditional and Contemporary Polka from Wisconsin. 2010 Homegrown Concert (flyer and webcast).
• Mennonites:
  • "Empires, Multiculturalisms, and Borrowed Heartsongs: What Does It Mean to Sing Russian/Mennonite Songs?", presented by Jonathan Dueck. 2008 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "The Two Worlds of the Pennsylvania Dutch," presented by Don Yoder. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Messing, Jacqueline: "Ethnography, Identity, and Ethnohistory: Studying Narrative in Contemporary and Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico," presented by Jacqueline Messing. 2009 Kluge Center Lecture (webcast).
• Mexica: Ollin Yoliztli Calmecac — Aztec Dance Ensemble from Pennsylvania. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Mexican and Mexican Americans:
  • "'And Wheat Completed the Cycle': Flour Mills, Social Memory, and Industrial Culture in Sonora, Mexico," presented by Maribel Alvarez. 2010 Botkin Lecture. (flyer essay and webcast)
  • "Ethnography, Identity, and Ethnohistory: Studying Narrative in Contemporary and Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico," presented by Jacqueline Messing. 2009 Kluge Center Lecture (webcast).
  • Ollin Yoliztli Calmecac — Aztec Dance Ensemble from Pennsylvania. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Place and the Politics of Belonging," presented by Debra Lattanzi Shutika, 2010 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Michigan:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Mid-summer ritual: "Ivan Kupalo: Ritual in Post-Soviet Ukraine," an illustrated lecture by Dr. Natalie Kononenko. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Middle East, Middle Eastern: See Near East, Near Eastern.
• Mieder, Wolfgang: "Making a Way Out of No Way: Martin Luther King's Use of Proverbs for Civil Rights," presented by Wolfgang Mieder. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Military:
  • "Arnold Resnicoff on Faith and Foxholes: Religion in the Military," presented by Arnold Resnicoff. Lecture co-sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division and the American Folklife Center, May 6, 2010. (The link goes directly to the webcast. Running time 58 minutes.)
  • See also: Veterans
  • See also: War
• Miller, Barbara: Laborlore Conversations IV, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
• Miller, Ed: Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance, participant in the 2009 symposium (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Mills, Margaret:
  • "Afghan Women's Stories: The Problematics of Cover," presented by Margaret Mills. 2007 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Politics and Poetics: Fieldwork in Afghanistan and Jamaica," Margaret Mills and Kenneth Bilby. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Minnesota:
  • Celebrating Native American Language Revitalization in Film. Presentations and film screenings, June 21, 2011.
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture
• Mississippi:
  • Ben Payton and the Thundering Harps — Blues Quartet from Mississippi. 2011 Homegrown concert (flyer essay).
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • James "Super Chikan" Johnson and Richard Christman Blues Guitar from Mississippi. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
  • Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • "We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in Mississippi," presented by Tracy Sugarman (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Missouri:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • The Gannon Family: Irish Music and Dance from Missouri. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Moloney, Mick:
  • "If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews: Irish and Jewish Influences on the Music of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley," presented by Mick Moloney, 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Panelist, Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore, 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
  • Performer at the NCTA Concert, Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore, 2009 (see the website for biography, photographs, and concert webcast).
• Montana:
  • "Bridles, Bits and Beads: Folk and Fieldwork from the High, Wide and Handsome State of Montana," an illustrated lecture by Dr. Alexandra Swaney of the Montana Arts Council. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Cowboy poet Paul Zarzyski and cowboy singer-composer Wylie Gustafson from Montana, 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • D. W. Groethe — Cowboy Songs and Poetry from Montana. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Montana Heritage Project: Heritage Projects and Place-Based Education.
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Morgan, Mindy: Art Culture and Government: The New Deal at 75, participant in the 2008 symposium (program, research guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Moran, Carol: Folklife Resources for Educators, searchable database of educational resources by Carol Moran and Catherine Hiebert Kerst.
• Mormon: The Beehive Band — Traditional Mormon String Band Music from Utah. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Morocco: "Competing Spheres: Religion, Society, and State in Morocco," presented by Mohsine El Ahmadi. Lecture sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division, 2009 (webcast).
• Morris, Alton: Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (online collection: essays, manuscripts, and audio).
• Morton, Ferdinand: Mister Jelly Roll, Mister Lomax and the Invention of Jazz — Illustrated Lecture by John Szwed. 2006 Homegrown lecture/concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Morus, Gwilym : "The Evolution of Welsh Music," a lecture illustrated with music examples, presented by Gwilym Morus. 2009 lecture co-sponsored by the Kluge Center and the American Folklife Center.
• Moulden, John: Northern American Influence on a North Irish Song Collection, presented by John Moulden, Rediscover Northern Ireland, 2007.
• Mullen, Brian: "There's More that Unites Than Divides Us." Spoken and performed by Gary Hastings and Brian Mullen. Rediscover Northern Ireland Programme, 2007 (flyer essay and webcast).
• Mullvihill, Brendan: Performer at the NCTA Concert, Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore, 2009 (see the website for biography, photographs, and a link to the concert webcast).
• Munoz, Mike:
  • Laborlore Conversations IV, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
  • Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Muslim: See Islam, Islamic.
• Mythology: "The Icelandic Edda: Myth and the Mind," presented by Hjalmar W. Hannesson, Alexander Stein, and Taru Spiegel. Part of the Music Division's 2010 Music and the Brain Lecture Series.The talks deal with Icelandic sagas, not music. (the link goes directly to the webcast).

N

• Nakai, R. Carlos: Carlos Nakai — American Indian Flute Music from Arizona. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Narrative:
  • "Afghan Women's Stories: The Problematics of Cover," presented by Margaret Mills, Ohio State University 2007 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • American English Dialect Recordings: The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection (online collection: essays, and audio).
  • Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-82 (online collection, search on "narrative").
  • "Ethnography, Identity, and Ethnohistory: Studying Narrative in Contemporary and Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico," presented by Jacqueline Messing. 2009 Kluge Center Lecture (webcast).
  • Mary Sheppard Burton Collection (online collection: photographs with related narratives)
  • Opalanga Pugh — African American Storytelling from Colorado. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • StoryCorps FAQ and links.
  • Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia (online collection: search on “story”).
  • Tim Tingle and D.J. Battiest-Tomasi: Oklahoma Choctaw Storytellers and Flute Players. 2011 Homegrown concert.
  • Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionán Sands. 2008 Rediscover Northern Ireland concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Veterans History Project: Experiencing War (thematic presentations — webcasts and audio).
  • Voices from the Dust Bowl (online collection: search on “story”).
  • Voices from the Days of Slavery (online collection).
  • "Waking up the People," Linda Goss, professional storyteller. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Mary Louise Defender Wilson & Keith Bear — Sioux and Mandan Hidatsa Storytelling. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "The Tale of Joseph and Zulahkha and Tatar National Identity on the Volga Frontier," presented by Agnes Kefeli, a lecture sponsored by the Kluge Center, 2009 (webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• National Sampler Project:
  • Selections from California Collections.
  • Selections from Florida Collections.
  • Selections from Illinois Collections.
  • Selections from Rhode Island Collections.
• Native Americans: See American Indians.
• National Visionary Leadership Project Collection Showcase (NVLP).
• Navajo:
  • Carlos Nakai — American Indian Flute Music from Arizona. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Dineh Tah Navajo Dancers from Arizona and New Mexico. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Keith Little, Navajo Code Talker. Veterans History Project (webcast).
  • Merril L. Sandoval, Navajo Code Talker (Veterans History Project and webcast).
• Near East, Near Eastern:
  • "Afghan Women's Stories: The Problematics of Cover," presented by Margaret Mills. 2007 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • David & Levon Ayriyan: Armenian Music from Rhode Island. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Malkhaz Erkvanidze on collecting traditional sacred and secular music in the Republic of Georgia with examples provided by the Anchiskhati Choir. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Politics and Poetics: Fieldwork in Afghanistan and Jamaica," Margaret Mills and Kenneth Bilby. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • The Sama Ensemble: Traditional Iranian Music and Dance. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Nebraska:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Omaha Indian Music (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • The River Boys Polka Band — Dutch Hop Polka Music from Nebraska. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Negrura Peruana — Afro Peruvian Music and Dance from Connecticut. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Nevada:
  • Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-82 (online collection: essays, photographs, audio, and film).
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Gary Haleamau — Traditional Hawaiian Music from Las Vegas. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters: Performers at the NCTA Concert, Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore, 2009 (see the website for a description of the group, photographs, and webcasts).
• New Deal:
  • Art Culture and Government: The New Deal at 75. 2008 symposium (program, research guide, photo album, and webcasts).
  • California Gold: Northern California Folk Music From the Thirties (online collection: essays, photographs, drawings, and audio).
  • Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (online collection: essays, manuscripts, and audio).
  • Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• New Hampshire:
  • Brendan Carey Block — Cape Breton Fiddle Music from New Hampshire. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• New Jersey:
  • Cranberries, PDF 3 MB, 36 pp. Requires free Adobe Reader software. (AFC booklet presenting materials from the Pinelands Folklife Project).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Surati — Classical and Folk Indian Dance from New Jersey (2008 Homegrown concert and webcast).
  • "Tales of the Jersey Devil," an illustrated lecture presented by Stephen D. Winick. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• New Mexico:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Dineh Tah Navajo Dancers from Arizona and New Mexico. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection (online collection: essays, manuscripts, and audio).
  • Keith Little, Navajo Code Talker. Veterans History Project (webcast).
  • Merril L. Sandoval, Navajo Code Talker. Veterans History Project (webcast).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• New North Carolina Ramblers — Old-Time Stringband Music. 2010 Homegrown Concert. (flyer essay)
• The New Yellow Ribbon Tradition.
• New York (State):
  • "Built with Faith: Place Making and the Religious Imagination in Italian New York," presented by Joseph Sciorra. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast)
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • "Hear, O Israel: Yiddish American Radio 1925-1955," presented by Henry Sapoznik, 2009 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Major League Tassa — Indo-Caribbean Drumming and Dance from New York. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Merita Halili and the Raif Huseni Orchestra. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Old Cultures/New Contexts: Presenting the Traditional Music and Dance of Urban Immigrant Communities presented by Ethel Raim. 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "September 11, 2001 Documentary Project," presented by Ann Hoog (webcast).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • Witness and Response: September 11, 2001 Acqusitions at the Library of Congress (exhibition: children's artwork, photographs, manuscripts, and audio).
  • Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song, Correspondence 1940-1950 (online collection).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Newell, Wayne: Wayne Newell and Blanch Sockabasin — Traditional Passamaquoddy Music from Maine. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• News:
  • AFC RSS Feeds.
  • Folklife Center News.
  • What's Happening at the American Folklife Center?
• Newton, Cate: Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance, participant in the 2009 symposium (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• North American Indian: See American Indian.
• North Carolina:
  • Benton Flippen and the Smokey Valley Boys — Old Time Music from North Carolina. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Blue Ridge Harvest:A Region's Folklife in Photographs. Edited by Lyntha Scott Eiler; Terry Eiler; and Carl Fleischhauer. (Book. PDF, 123 pp., 44.38MB).
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • New North Carolina Ramblers — Old-Time Stringband Music. 2010 Homegrown Concert. (flyer essay)
  • Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• North Dakota:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Mary Louise Defender Wilson & Keith Bear — Sioux and Mandan Hidatsa Storytelling. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Ar chive of Folk Culture.
• Northern Ireland:
  • Dáithí Sproule and Robert Watt in Concert, Rediscover Northern Ireland, 2007 (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Francis McPeak Family Concert Rediscover Northern Ireland, 2007 (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "'I am a Wee Weaver': Weaving and Singing in Northern Ireland," presented by Maurice Leyden. 2008 Rediscover Northern Ireland and Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "'It's Of My Rambles...' A Journey in the Song Tradition of Ulster," presented by Len Graham. 2008 Rediscover Northern Ireland and Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Northern American Influence on a North Irish Song Collection," presented by John Moulden. Rediscover Northern Ireland, 2007 (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Rediscover Northern Ireland Programme, 2007 symposium and events (program, photo album, flyer essays, and webcasts).
  • Rediscover Northern Ireland 2008 events.
  • Rosie Stewart in Concert, Rediscover Northern Ireland Programme, 2007 (webcast and flyer essay).
  • "There's More that Unites Than Divides Us," Spoken and performed by Gary Hastings and Brian Mullen. Rediscover Northern Ireland Programme, 2007 (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionán Sands. 2008 Rediscover Northern Ireland concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Northern Kentucky Brotherhood Singers. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Norwegian Americans: The Berntsons — Traditional Norwegian American Dance Music from Virginia, 2009 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• "Not the Same Old (Folk) Song and Dance: Field Recordings in the European Communities of the United States," presented by Matthew Barton. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Not Too Bad Bluegrass Band — Bluegrass from Indiana. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• Nye, Pearl R.:Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal (online collection: essays, audio, and one film).

O

• Oard, Douglas: Oral History in the Digital Age, 2010 lectures by Mark Kornbluh and Douglas Oard (webcast)
• Occupational Folklife:
  • Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada 1945-1982 (online collection: essays, photographs, audio, and film).
  • Documenting Maritime Folklife a book by David A. Taylor.
  • Laborlore Conversations IV: Documenting Occupational Folklore Then and Now, 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
  • "The Lore of America's Coal Miners: A Fresh Look at the George Korson Collection," presented by Angus Gilespie. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
  • Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • See also: Published Sound Recordings from the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Odetta! An Interview for the American Folklife Center, November, 2003 (webcast).
• Ohio:
  • Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal (online collection: essays, audio, and one film).
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • Tony Ellis, Banjo Master from Ohio With the Musicians of Braeburn. 2011 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko:
  • "Blooming Cherry Blossoms, Falling Cherry Blossoms: Symbolism of the Flower in Japanese Culture." Lecture sponsored by the Kluge Center, Library of Congress, 2009 (webcast).
  • "How Do Flowers Kill? - The Japanese Emperor and Modern Dictators," Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. Lecture sponsored by the Kluge Center, Library of Congress, 2009 (webcast).
• Ojibwe (or Chippewa): Celebrating Native American Language Revitalization in Film. Presentations and film screenings, June 21, 2011.
• Oklahoma:
  • Celebrating Native American Language Revitalization in Film. Presentations and film screenings, June 21, 2011.
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • Tim Tingle and D.J. Battiest-Tomasi: Oklahoma Choctaw Storytellers and Flute Players. 2011 Homegrown concert.
  • Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Old Cultures/New Contexts: Presenting the Traditional Music and Dance of Urban Immigrant Communities presented by Ethel Raim. 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Old-Time Music:
  • Benton Flippen and the Smokey Valley Boys — Old Time Music from North Carolina. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Gandydancer — Traditional String Band Music from West Virginia. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters: Performers at the NCTA Concert, Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore, 2009 (see the website for a description of the group, photographs, and webcasts).
  • New North Carolina Ramblers — Old-Time Stringband Music. 2010 Homegrown Concert. (flyer essay)
  • The Beehive Band — Traditional Mormon String Band Music from Utah. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Olin, Julia: Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Ollin Yoliztli Calmecac — Aztec Dance Ensemble from Pennsylvania. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Omaha (American Indian tribe).
  • Omaha Indian Music (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• Online Archive of Past American Folklife Center Events. See:
  AFC Concerts, Lectures, and Symposia with Webcasts, Photographs, and Essays.
  • Benjamin Botkin Lecture Series Online Archive.
  • Homegrown Concert Series Online Archive.
  • Symposia and Related Events Online Archive.
• Online Collections and Presentations
• Opalanga Pugh — African American Storytelling from Colorado. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Oral History:
  • American Family History and Folklife Online Resource.
  • Folklife and Fieldwork a booklet by Peter Bartis.
  • Oral History in the Digital Age, 2010 lectures by Mark Kornbluh and Douglas Oard (webcast)
  • Veterans History Project Kit.
• Oregon:
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • Sreevidhya Chandramouli and Friends — Northern Indian Vina music from Oregon. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Ordering Copies of Unpublished Recordings from Archive of Folk Culture Collections.
• Ordering Copies of Photographic Materials from Archive of Folk Culture Collections.
• Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• Owen Fund: Blanton Owen Fund.

P

• Paiute: See Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-82 (online collection: essays, photographs, audio, and film).
• Pacific Americans:
  • Experiencing War: Asian Pacific Americans: Going for Broke, Veterans History Project (online exhibit).
  • Gary Haleamau — Traditional Hawaiian Music from Las Vegas, 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Unsung Heros: A Symposium on the Heroism of Asian Pacific Americans During World War II, Part 1 October 26, 2009 (webcast)
  • Unsung Heros: A Symposium on the Heroism of Asian Pacific Americans During World War II, Part 2October 26, 2009 (webcast)
• Paper Cutting, American Folklife Center publication, 1982. Available in PDF [16 p. booklet. 757KB. Requires free Adobe Reader software.]
• Parsons, Gerald E.:
  • The Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons Fund Award.
  • The New Yellow Ribbon Tradition two articles by Gerald E. Parsons.
  • What is an Ethnographic Field Collection?
  • See also: List of Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Parstuga: Living and Building Between Tradition and Change: Vernacular Architecture in Northern Sweden. presented by Mats Widbom. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Passamaquoddy: Wayne Newell and Blanch Sockabasin — Traditional Passamaquoddy Music from Maine. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Payton, Ben: Ben Payton and the Thundering Harps — Blues Quartet from Mississippi. 2011 Homegrown concert (flyer essay).
• Pearl Harbor:
  • After the Day of Infamy: The "Man on the Street Interviews" Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 (online collection: essays and audio).
  • "Pearl Harbor Oral Histories," presented by Ann Hoog, 2004. from the Library's Journeys and Crossings webcast series.
• Pennsylvania:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • "The Lore of America's Coal Miners: A Fresh Look at the George Korson Collection," presented by Angus Gilespie. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • Ollin Yoliztli Calmecac — Aztec Dance Ensemble from Pennsylvania. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Place and the Politics of Belonging," presented by Debra Lattanzi Shutika, 2010 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "The Two Worlds of the Pennsylvania Dutch," presented by Don Yoder. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
  • "Waking up the People," presented by Linda Goss. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Pennsylvania Dutch: "The Two Worlds of the Pennsylvania Dutch," presented by Don Yoder. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Peruvian American: Negrura Peruana — Afro Peruvian Music and Dance from Connecticut, 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Persian-American: Kiu Haghighi Master of the Persian Santour with Tooraj Moshref-Zadeh. 2011 Homegrown concert.
• Peterson, Betsy: participant in Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Photographs: Ordering Copies of Photographic Materials from Archive of Folk Culture Collections.
• "Place and the Politics of Belonging," presented by Debra Lattanzi Shutika, 2010 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Place, Jeff: "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
• Plantenga, Bart: "Yodel-Ay-Ee-Ooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World," a lecture based on his recent book. Featuring yodelers Randy Irwin and Cathy Fink. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Podcasts:
  • Slave Narratives podcast series.
• Polish American:
  • Paper Cutting, American Folklife Center publication, 1982. Available in PDF [16 p. booklet. 757KB. Requires free Adobe Reader software.]
• Polka:
  • The River Boys Polka Band — Dutch Hop Polka Music from Nebraska, 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • The Steve Meisner Band: Traditional and Contemporary Polka from Wisconsin, 2010 Homegrown Concert (flyer and webcast).
• Popovich, Mark: participant in Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Preservation:
  • Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis: Symposium and Products (program, essays, text of keynote speeches, and webcasts).
  • Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis (report from CLIR, provided on the CLIR Web site).
  • "Historic Sound Recordings Collections Win Save America's Treasures Preservation Grant," article by James Hardin.
  • "No Time to Dawdle: Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis," article by James Hardin.
  • "Preservation of Audio," article by Elizabeth Cohen.
  • "Preserving Sound Recordings," article by Stephanie Hall.
  • Save Our Sounds Project.
• Prisons:
  • Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (online collection: essays, manuscripts, and audio). Search keyword "prison."
  • "Folklore and Seeing: Photographs from Cummins Prison, 1915-2010," an illustrated lecture by Bruce Jackson, University at Buffalo (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio). Search keyword "prison."
• Proverbs: "Making a Way Out of No Way: Martin Luther King's Use of Proverbs for Civil Rights," presented by Wolfgang Mieder. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Provine, Robert: "Revolutionaries, Nursery Rhymes, and Edison Wax Cylinders: The Remarkable Tale of the Earliest Korean Sound Recordings," presented by Robert Provine. 2009 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Pryor, Anne: "Seeing Mary: Belief, Politics, and Practice at Marian Apparition Sites," presented by Anne Pryor. 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Public Sector Folklife:
  • "Cultural Democracy in a Time of Diminished Resources," presented by Bau Graves. 2010 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See: Folklife Sourcebook (database).
• Publications available in print: See: American Folkife Center Publications.
• Published Recordings:
  • Folksongs of America: the Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932 (online presentation of recordings and photographs from the 1978 LP).
  • Historic AFC LP Liner Note Booklets (in PDF)
  • Published Recordings from the Archive of Folk Culture
• Puerto Rico:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
• Purkey, Elaine: Laborlore Conversations IV, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).

Q

• Quaker: See: Society of Friends.
• Quinceañera: "La Quinceañera: A Coming of Age Ritual in Latino Communities," Norma E. Cantú (2006 Botkin lecture and webcast).
• Quilts:
  • "Quilters' Save Our Stories," presented by Bernard Herman. 2007 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • "What's in a Name? AIDS, Vernacular Risk Perception and the Culture of Ownership," presented by Diane Goldstein. 2006 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.

R

• Rachleff, Peter: Art Culture and Government: The New Deal at 75, participant in the 2008 symposium (program, research guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Radio:
  • "Hear, O Israel: Yiddish American Radio 1925-1955," presented by Henry Sapoznik, 2009 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Rael, Juan B.: Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection (online collection: essays, manuscripts, and audio).
• Ragheb Moftah Collection: Coptic Orthodox Liturgical Chant & Hymnody: The Ragheb Moftah Collection at the Library of Congress (Music Division online presentation).
• Rahn, Millie: "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
• Raim, Ethel: "Old Cultures/New Contexts: Presenting the Traditional Music and Dance of Urban Immigrant Communities," Nancy Groce interviews Ethel Raim. 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Rapid Fire Theatre: Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
• Rasmussen, Anne K.: "The Sound of Islamic Music: Women's Voices and the Indonesian Religious Soundscape." 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Ray, Joyce: participant in Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• "Reclaiming Lost Languages: The Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages," presented by Leanne Hinton. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Recordings (sound recordings): See Sound Recordings.
• Rediscover Northern Ireland:
  • Rediscover Northern Ireland Programme, 2007 symposium and events (program, photo album, flyer essays, and webcasts).
  • Rediscover Northern Ireland 2008 events (flyer essays and webcasts).
• Reed, Henry: Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• Religion, Religious Music: See Belief and Religion.
• Reference: Collections and Research Services: The Archive of Folk Culture.
• Remsberg, Rich:
  • Art Culture and Government: The New Deal at 75, participant in the 2008 symposium (program, research guide, photo album, and webcasts).
  • "Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression," presented by Rich Remsberg. 2010 Botkin Lecture (webcast).
• Reports: Annual Reports of the American Folklife Center.
• Research Awards and Fellowships.
• Research: How to do Research in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Resnicoff, Arnold: "Arnold Resnicoff on Faith and Foxholes: Religion in the Military," presented by Arnold Resnicoff. Lecture co-sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division and the American Folklife Center, May 6, 2010. (The link goes directly to the webcast. Running time 58 minutes.)
• "Revolutionaries, Nursery Rhymes, and Edison Wax Cylinders: The Remarkable Tale of the Earliest Korean Sound Recordings," presented by Robert Provine. 2009 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Reyburn, Susan: Participant in Baseball Americana Symposium 2009(website includes a program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Rhode Island:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • David & Levon Ayriyan: Armenian Music from Rhode Island. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • National Sampler: Selections from Rhode Island Collections.
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Rhodes, Willard: See the menu page: Historic AFC LP Liner Note Booklets (in PDF) for liner notes and essays by this author for various long-playing recordings issued by the Library of Congress.
• Rhythm and blues: Barbara Lynn and Friends — Texas Rhythm & Blues. 2009 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Ribbons: The New Yellow Ribbon Tradition.
• Rice, Timothy: "Music in Bulgaria: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture," an illustrated lecture by Prof. Timothy Rice. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Ricou, Laurie: Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
• Ring shout: McIntosh County Shouters — Gullah-Geechee Ring Shout from Georgia. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast)
• The River Boys Polka Band — Dutch Hop Polka Music from Nebraska. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance, 2009 symposium (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Robson, Patrick J.: Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
• Rock and Roll:
  • Barbara Lynn and Friends — Texas Rhythm & Blues. 2009 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Rock Hall of Fame Guitarist Chris Hillman, 2009 (the link goes directly to the webcast; running time 1:22:26). Chris Hillman discusses his career. Sponsored by the Music Divison and the American Folklife Center.
• Roediger, David: Laborlore Conversations IV, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
• Rogers, Nancy: participant in Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Romani: Drago Ensemble, a Russian Romani music and dance ensemble. Concert sponsored by the Open World Russian Leadership Program, 2009. (webcast)
• Rosenberg, Neil: "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
• Rothstein, Donna S.: Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Roud, Steve: "Chorus and Verse: The Challenges of Designing the Roud Folk Song Index," presented by Steve Roud. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• RSS Feeds and Email Subscriptions (AFC news and announcement services)
• Russian Federation:
  • Drago Ensemble, a Russian Romani music and dance ensemble. Concert sponsored by the Open World Russian Leadership Program, 2009. (webcast)
  • "Warning of Global Warming? Shamanic Tradition, Politics and Ecological Change in Siberia," presented by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
  • "The Tale of Joseph and Zulahkha and Tatar National Identity on the Volga Frontier," presented by Agnes Kefeli, a lecture sponsored by the Kluge Center, 2009 (webcast).
• Ryan, Kay: Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance, participant in the 2009 symposium (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Rychlik, Bohuslav "Bob": "Folk Music from the Slovak Mountains: Lecture/Demonstration of the Fujara and Other Overtone Flutes," presented by Bob Rychlik. 2010 Botkin Lecture and performance (flyer essay and webcast).

S

• Sacred Harp: "Makers of the Sacred Harp," presented by David Warren Steel. 2010 Botkin Lecture (webcast and flyer essay).
• Salmond, Alex, MP, MSP: Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance, participant in the 2009 symposium (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• The Sama Ensemble: Traditional Iranian Music and Dance. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Sands, Tommy:
  • Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionán Sands. 2008 Rediscover Northern Ireland concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Santa Ynez Chumash: Celebrating Native American Language Revitalization in Film. Presentations and film screenings, June 21, 2011.
• Santino, Jack: "Halloween: The Fantasy and Folklore of All Hallows," article by Jack Santino.
• Santour: Kiu Haghighi Master of the Persian Santour with Tooraj Moshref-Zadeh. 2011 Homegrown concert.
• Sapoznik, Henry:
  • Art Culture and Government: The New Deal at 75. 2008 symposium (program, research guide, photo album, and webcasts).
  • "Hear, O Israel: Yiddish American Radio 1925-1955," presented by Henry Sapoznik, 2009 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Save Our Sounds Project
• Scandinavia:
  • The Berntsons — Traditional Norwegian American Dance Music from Virginia, 2009 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Spaelimenninir: Music and Stories from Scandinavia," a Library Live program, 2003.
  • Widbom, Mats: "Living and Building Between Tradition and Change: Vernacular Architecture in Northern Sweden," 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Schupman, Edwin: "'Do All Indians Live in Tipis?' and Other Compelling Questions for Education," presented by Edwin Schupman. 2008 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Sciorra, Joseph: "Built with Faith: Place Making and the Religious Imagination in Italian New York," presented by Joseph Sciorra. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Scotland, Scottish:
  • "A Bard of Nature's Making: Robert Burns and Scottish Traditional Culture," presented by Valentina Bold 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance, 2009 symposium (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Seeger, Anthony:
  • "Intellectual Property Rights and Audiovisual Archives and Collections," article by Anthony Seeger.
  • "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
• Seeger, Charles:
  • "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, biography and resources on the website for the the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
  • See the menu page: Historic AFC LP Liner Note Booklets (in PDF) for liner notes and essays by this author for various long-playing recordings issued by the Library of Congress.
• Seeger Family (about):
  • "Force and Violins: What the FBI had on Folksingers," presented by David Dunaway 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute 2007 symposium and Seeger Family Concert. Includes panel presentations and/or performances by Peggy, Mike, Anthony, Kate, and Pete Seeger (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
  • "Ruth Crawford Seeger, Modernist Composer in the Folk Revival: Biography as Music History," lecture by Judith Tick, sponsored by the Music Division, Library of Congress March 26, 2008 (webcast).
  • Seeger Family Concert, 2007. Part of the symposium, "How Can I Keep from Singing": A Seeger Family Tribute (webcast).
• Seeger, Kate: "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, participant in the 2007 concert. Select the concert for the webcast.
• Seeger, Peggy: "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, participant in the 2007 symposium and concert (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
• Seeger, Pete: "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, participant in the 2007 symposium and concert (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
• Seeger, Mike:
  • "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, participant in the 2007 symposium and concert (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
  • Laborlore Conversations IV, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
• Seeger, Ruth Crawford:
  • "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, biography and resources on the website for the the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
  • Judith Tick, "Ruth Crawford Seeger, Modernist Composer in the Folk Revival: Biography as Music History", sponsored by Music Division, Library of Congress March 26, 2008. Select the link to see the webcast of this lecture.
• Seminole:
  • Celebrating Native American Language Revitalization in Film. Presentations and film screenings, June 21, 2011.
  • Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (online collection: essays, manuscripts, and audio).
• Semmel, Marsha: participant in Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Sephardic Music: Flory Jagoda and Friends:Traditional Sephardic Music from the Former Yugoslavia and the World (2007 Homegrown Concert and webcast).
• September 11, 2001 presentations:
  • September 11, 2001 Documentary Project (online collection: essays, manuscripts, children's artwork, photographs, and audio).
  • "September 11, 2001 Documentary Project" presented by Ann Hoog (webcast).
  • Witness and Response: September 11, 2001 Acqusitions at the Library of Congress (exhibition: manuscripts, children's artwork, photographs, and audio).
• Sermons:
  • Inauguration 2009 Sermons and Orations Project.
  • A Selected List of Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture Containing Sermons and Orations.
• Shamanism: "Warning of Global Warming? Shamanic Tradition, Politics and Ecological Change in Siberia," presented by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Shankar, Guha: "Vanishing Pasts, Ethnographic Presents, and Digital Futures: The Case of the Maasai Audiovisual Archives," presented by Guha Shankar. Lecture co-sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division and the American Folklife Center. April 7, 2010. This link goes directly to the webcast. Running time 53 minutes.
• Sheehy, Dan: Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Shutika, Debra Lattanzi: "Place and the Politics of Belonging," presented by Debra Lattanzi Shutika, 2010 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Siberia: "Warning of Global Warming? Shamanic Tradition, Politics and Ecological Change in Siberia," presented by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Sidney Robertson Cowell: California Gold: Northern California Folk Music From the Thirties (online collection: essays, photographs, drawings, and audio).
• Sights and Sounds: Voices from the Veterans History Project (special presentation: audio).
• Sioux:
  • Dallas Chief Eagle and Jasmine Pickner, Hoop Dancing. Performers are tribal members of the Rosebud Sioux and Crow Creek Sioux respectively. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Mary Louise Defender Wilson & Keith Bear — Sioux and Mandan Hidatsa Storytelling. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Sklarew, Myra: Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance, participant in the 2009 symposium (website includes a program, photographs, and webcasts).
• Slave Narratives podcast series.
• Slavery:
  • Beck, Jane: "From Virginia to Vermont: a Trek from Slavery to Freedom," an audio illustrated lecture presented by Dr. Jane Beck. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Slave Narratives podcast series.
  • Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • "Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories." John Barton discussed the creation of the online collection. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Slovak and Slovak American:
  • "Folk Music from the Slovak Mountains: Lecture/Demonstration of the Fujara and Other Overtone Flutes," presented by Bob Rychlik. 2010 Botkin Lecture and performance (flyer essay and webcast).
• Slovenian and Slovenian American: The Steve Meisner Band: Traditional and Contemporary Polka from Wisconsin, 2010 Homegrown Concert (flyer and webcast).
• Smith, Claire: Baseball Americana Symposium 2009 (website includes a program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Sockabasin, Blanch: Wayne Newell and Blanch Sockabasin — Traditional Passamaquoddy Music from Maine. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Society of American Archivists Pre-Conference Symposium: Ethnographic Archives, Communities of Origin, and Intangible Cultural Heritage, 2006 symposium (program, resource guide, and photo album).
• Society of Friends (Quaker): "The Two Worlds of the Pennsylvania Dutch," presented by Don Yoder. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Sociolinguistics: American English Dialect Recordings: The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection (online collection: essays and audio).
• Sonkin, Robert: Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• "The Sound of Islamic Music: Women's Voices and the Indonesian Religious Soundscape," presented by Anne K. Rasmussen. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Sound Recordings:
  • American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings: A Selected List (annual issues 1988-1992).
  • American Folklife Center: An Illustrated Guide.
  • Collections and Presentations Available Online from the American Folklife Center's Archive.
  • Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis: Symposium and Products.
  • Folksongs of America: the Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932 (online presentation of recordings and photographs from the 1978 LP).
  • Historic AFC LP Liner Note Booklets (in PDF)
  • National Sampler Project
  • Ordering Copies of Unpublished Recordings from Archive of Folk Culture Collections.
  • Published Recordings from the Archive of Folk Culture.
  • Save Our Sounds Project.
  • See also: Ethnographic Sound Recordings, Early History.
• South American:
  • Negrura Peruana — Afro Peruvian Music and Dance from Connecticut. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• South Carolina:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
  • Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• South Dakota:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Dallas Chief Eagle and Jasmine Pickner, Hoop Dancing. Performers are tribal members of the Rosebud Sioux and Crow Creek Sioux respectively. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
• "Spaelimenninir: Music and Stories from Scandinavia," a 2003 Library Live program (webcast).
• Spirituals:
  • Folksongs of America: the Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932 (online presentation of recordings and photographs from the 1978 LP).
  • "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
  • See also: Published Recordings from the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Spitzer, Nick:
  • Laborlore Conversations IV, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
  • Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
  • Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Sports:
  • Baseball Americana Symposium 2009 (website includes a program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
  • See also: Take Me Out to the Library of Congress, 2009 (the link goes directly to the webcast; running time 0:51:55). The Librarian of Congress, Dr. James Billington, presents Ernie Banks with the Library's Living Legend Award.
  • See also: Baseball Resources at the Library of Congress
• Sproule, Dáithí: Dáithí Sproule and Robert Watt in Concert, Rediscover Northern Ireland Programme, 2007 (flyer essay and webcast).
• Sreevidhya Chandramouli and Friends — Northern Indian Vina music from Oregon. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Staff:
  • Contact Information for the American Folklife Center.
  • Contact Information for the Veterans History Project.
• Stanley, David: David Stanley, "Cowboy Poetry: History, Origins, Influences, Forms." 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• States (U.S.A.):
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
• "States of Mind: Music in Islamic Sufi Rituals," presented by Taoufiq ben Amor as part of the Music Division's 2010 Music and the Brain Lecture Series (the link goes directly to the webcast).
• Steel, David Warren: "Makers of the Sacred Harp," presented by David Warren Steel. 2010 Botkin Lecture (webcast and flyer essay).
• The Steve Meisner Band: Traditional and Contemporary Polka from Wisconsin, 2010 Homegrown Concert (flyer and webcast).
• Stewart, Rosie: Rosie Stewart in Concert, Rediscover Northern Ireland Programme, 2007 (flyer essay and webcast).
• StoryCorps FAQ and links.
• Storytelling: See Narrative.
• Stovel, Nora Foster: Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
• String Band (or Stringband) Music:
  • The Beehive Band — Traditional Mormon String Band Music from Utah. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Gandydancer — Traditional String Band Music from West Virginia. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters: Performers at the NCTA Concert, Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore, 2009 (see the website for a description of the group, photographs, and webcasts).
  • New North Carolina Ramblers — Old-Time Stringband Music. 2010 Homegrown Concert. (flyer essay)
  • Tony Ellis, Banjo Master from Ohio With the Musicians of Braeburn. 2011 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay).
• Sufi, Sufisim:
  • The Sama Ensemble: Traditional Iranian Music and Dance. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "States of Mind: Music in Islamic Sufi Rituals," presented by Taoufiq ben Amor as part of the Music Division's 2010 Music and the Brain Lecture Series (the link goes directly to the webcast).
• Sugarman, Tracy: "We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in Mississippi," (flyer essay and webcast).
• Surati — Classical and Folk Indian Dance from New Jersey. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston: "Documenting Katrina and Rita in Houston," presented by Carl Lindahl and Pat Jasper. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Swaney, Alexandra: "Bridles, Bits and Beads: Folk and Fieldwork from the High, Wide and Handsome State of Montana," an illustrated lecture presented by Dr. Alexandra Swaney of the Montana Arts Council. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Sweden: Living and Building Between Tradition and Change: Vernacular Architecture in Northern Sweden presented by Mats Widbom. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Sweet Heaven Kings: Performers at the NCTA Concert, Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore, 2009 (see the website for a description of the group, photographs, and a link to the concert webcast).
• Swiss-American: "The Two Worlds of the Pennsylvania Dutch," presented by Don Yoder. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Sylvan, Robin: "Trance Formation: Music, Trance, Religious Experience, and the Brain," presented by Robin Sylvan as part of the Music Division's Music and the Brain lecture series (the link goes directly to the webcast).
• Symposia:
  • Art Culture and Government: The New Deal at 75. 2008 symposium (program, research guide, photo album, and webcasts).
  • Baseball Americana Symposium 2009 (program, webcasts, photo album, and research guide)
  • Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
  • Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis Symposium and Products 2000 (program, essays, text of keynote speeches, and webcasts).
  • "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, 2007 symposium and concert (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
  • In Country: The Vietnam War, 30 Years After. Veterans History Project symposium (webcast).
  • Laborlore Conversations IV: Documenting Occupational Folklore Then and Now, 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
  • Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore, 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
  • Rediscover Northern Ireland Programme 2007, symposium and events (program, photo album, flyer essays, and webcasts).
  • Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance, 2009 symposium (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
  • Society of American Archivists Pre-Conference Symposium: Ethnographic Archives, Communities of Origin, and Intangible Cultural Heritage, 2006 symposium (program, resource guide, and photo album).
  • Symposia and Related Events Online Archive.
  • Symposium (upcoming event): See: What's Happening at the American Folklife Center?
  • War's End: Eyewitness to History Symposium May, 2005, Veterans History Project (see the website for program, photographs, and webcasts).
  • Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Szwed, John:
  • "Alan Lomax — The Man Who Recorded the World: A Bio-Ethnography," 2010 Botkin Lecture. (flyer essay and webcast)
  • "Mister Jelly Roll, Mister Lomax and the Invention of Jazz — an Illustrated Lecture." 2006 Homegrown lecture/concert (flyer essay and webcast).

T

• Tabb, Derrick: participant in Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Taft, Michael:
  • Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
  • "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
  • Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Tailand: "Song & Silence," Sara M. Davis on ethnic Tai Lües. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Tambura, Tamburitza: The Bajich Brothers — Serbian American Tambura Music from Kansas. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Tarbell, Reaghan: Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
• Tatar: "The Tale of Joseph and Zulahkha and Tatar National Identity on the Volga Frontier," presented by Agnes Kefeli, a lecture sponsored by the Kluge Center, 2009 (webcast).
• Taylor, David A.:
  • Baseball Americana Symposium 2009, panel moderator (website includes a program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
  • Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
  • Documenting Maritime Folklife a book by David A. Taylor.
  • Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• A Teacher's Guide (retitled): Folklife Resources for Educators, searchable database of educational resources by Carol Moran and Catherine Hiebert Kerst.
• Tennessee:
  • Aubrey Ghent and Friends — Sacred Steel Lap Guitar. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver — Bluegrass and Gospel Music from Tennessee. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
• Texas:
  • Barbara Lynn and Friends — Texas Rhythm & Blues. 2009 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • "Documenting Katrina and Rita in Houston," presented by Carl Lindahl and Pat Jasper. 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Textiles:
  • "'I am a Wee Weaver': Weaving and Singing in Northern Ireland," presented by Maurice Leyden. 2008 Rediscover Northern Ireland/Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • See also: Quilts.
• Tick, Judith:
  • "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
  • "Ruth Crawford Seeger, Modernist Composer in the Folk Revival: Biography as Music History," lecture sponsored by the Music Division, Library of Congress March 26, 2008 (webcast).
• Tidwell, John Edgar: Art Culture and Government: The New Deal at 75, participant in the 2008 symposium (program, research guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Tingle, Tim: Tim Tingle and D.J. Battiest-Tomasi: Oklahoma Choctaw Storytellers and Flute Players. 2011 Homegrown concert.
• Tobacco Growing: "Down in the Old Belt: Voices from the Tobacco South," a film screening and lecture by filmmaker Jim Crawford. 2007 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Todd, Charles L.: Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• Tombak (drum): Kiu Haghighi Master of the Persian Santour with Tooraj Moshref-Zadeh. 2011 Homegrown concert.
• Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionán Sands. 2008 Rediscover Northern Ireland concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Tony Ellis, Banjo Master from Ohio With the Musicians of Braeburn. 2011 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay).
• Topical Finding Aids: Finding aids: Finding Aids Organized by Topic.
• Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog (1933-1950) (online collection and research tool).
• Training Program for Indigenous Communitites, press release May 14, 2008.
• Trance (cultural aspects):
  • "States of Mind: Music in Islamic Sufi Rituals," presented by Taoufiq ben Amor as part of the Music Division's 2010 Music and the Brain Lecture Series (the link goes directly to the webcast).
  • "Trance Formation: Music, Trance, Religious Experience, and the Brain," presented by Robin Sylvan as part of the Music Division's Music and the Brain lecture series (the link goes directly to the webcast).
• "Translating Africa in Global Contexts," presented by Lee Lee Haring. 2010 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast.
• "The Two Worlds of the Pennsylvania Dutch," presented by Don Yoder. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Txalaparta (musical instrument): Amuma Says No: Traditional and Contemporary Basque Music from Idaho, 2010 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).

U

• Ukranian and Ukrainian American:
  • Egg Art, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1982 (European egg decorating traditions, booklet. PDF.).
  • "Ivan Kupalo: Ritual in Post-Soviet Ukraine," an illustrated lecture by Dr. Natalie Kononenko. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Ulster: "'It's Of My Rambles...' A Journey in the Song Tradition of Ulster," presented by Len Graham. 2008 Rediscover Northern Ireland. 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Union of Myanmar: "Baghdad Jews in British Burma," lecture by anthropologist Ruth Fredman Cernea, sponsored by the Asian Division and the Hebrew Language Table (the link goes directly to the webcast).
• Unsung Heros: A Symposium on the Heroism of Asian Pacific Americans During World War II, Part 1 October 26, 2009 (webcast)
• Unsung Heros: A Symposium on the Heroism of Asian Pacific Americans During World War II, Part 2 October 26, 2009 (webcast)
• Urban Immigrants: "Old Cultures/New Contexts: Presenting the Traditional Music and Dance of Urban Immigrant Communities," Nancy Groce interviews Ethel Raim. 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Utah:
  • The Beehive Band — Traditional Mormon String Band Music from Utah. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Ute: Carlos Nakai — American Indian Flute Music from Arizona. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).

V

• "Vanishing Pasts, Ethnographic Presents, and Digital Futures: The Case of the Maasai Audiovisual Archives," presented by Guha Shankar. Lecture co-sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division and the American Folklife Center. April 7, 2010. This link goes directly to the webcast. Running time 53 minutes.
• Vermont:
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Beck, Jane: "From Virginia to Vermont: a Trek from Slavery to Freedom," an audio illustrated lecture presented by Dr. Jane Beck. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Margaret MacArthur — Ballads and Songs from Vermont. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Veterans:
  • "Arnold Resnicoff on Faith and Foxholes: Religion in the Military," presented by Arnold Resnicoff. Lecture co-sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division and the American Folklife Center, May 6, 2010. (The link goes directly to the webcast. Running time 58 minutes.)
  • "Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month: Leadership to Meet the Challenges of a Changing World," presented by Christopher Yung, Kurt Chew-Een Lee, Peter Young, and John Whang. A presentation honoring Asian and Pacific veterans sponsored by the Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, June 2010 (the link goes directly to the webcast).
  • "Chaplains: Reflections from the Past," Ross Trower, Linda George, Michael McCoy, Nathan Abramowitz 2011 Veterans History Project presentation (The link goes directly to the webcast. Running time 1:20:34).
  • In Country: Vietnam Thirty Years After Veterans History Project, May 2005 (webcast).
  • Unsung Heros: A Symposium on the Heroism of Asian Pacific Americans During World War II, Part 1 October 26, 2009 (webcast)
  • Unsung Heros: A Symposium on the Heroism of Asian Pacific Americans During World War II, Part 2October 26, 2009 (webcast)
  • Veterans History Project (home page).
  • Veterans History Project event webcasts (lectures and symposia).
  • Veterans History Project: Experiencing War (thematic presentations — webcasts and audio).
  • War's End: Eyewitness to History Symposium May, 2005. Veterans History Project.
  • Webcasts from the Experiencing War Series listed aphabetically by last name.
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Video: See: Webcasts.
• Virgin Islands
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
• Virginia:
  • The Berntsons — Traditional Norwegian American Dance Music from Virginia, 2009 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Blue Ridge Harvest:A Region's Folklife in Photographs. Edited by Lyntha Scott Eiler; Terry Eiler; and Carl Fleischhauer. (Book. PDF, 123 pp., 44.38MB).
  • Carter Family Tribute — Old Time Music from Virginia. 2005 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • "Place and the Politics of Belonging," presented by Debra Lattanzi Shutika, 2010 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • The Sama Ensemble: Traditional Iranian Music and Dance. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
  • Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Visiting The American Folklife Center: How to do Research in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Vlatch, John Michael: "Barns," a lecture sponsored by the Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks Lecture Series (webcast).
• Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• "Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories," John Barton discusses the creation of the online collection. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• Volunteer Internship Program at the American Folklife Center.

W

• Wallace, Andy: Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Wales, Welsh:
  • "The Evolution of Welsh Music," a lecture illustrated with music examples, presented by Gwilym Morus. 2009 lecture co-sponsored by the Kluge Center and the American Folklife Center.
• Wampanoag: Celebrating Native American Language Revitalization in Film. Presentations and film screenings, June 21, 2011.
• War:
  • After the Day of Infamy: The "Man on the Street Interviews" Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 (online collection: essays and audio).
  • "Arnold Resnicoff on Faith and Foxholes: Religion in the Military," presented by Arnold Resnicoff. Lecture co-sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division and the American Folklife Center, May 6, 2010. (The link goes directly to the webcast. Running time 58 minutes.)
  • "Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month: Leadership to Meet the Challenges of a Changing World," presented by Christopher Yung, Kurt Chew-Een Lee, Peter Young, and John Whang. A presentation honoring Asian and Pacific veterans sponsored by the Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, June 2010 (the link goes directly to the webcast).
  • In Country: Vietnam Thirty Years After. Veterans History Project, May 2005 (webcast).
  • "Pearl Harbor Oral Histories," presented by Ann Hoog, from the Library's 2004 Journeys and Crossings webcast series.
  • September 11, 2001 Documentary Project (online collection: essays, manuscripts, children's artwork, photographs, and audio).
  • "September 11, 2001 Documentary Project," presented by Ann Hoog (webcast).
  • Veterans History Project (home page).
  • Veterans History Project event webcasts of lectures and symposia.
  • Veterans History Project: Experiencing War (thematic presentations — webcasts and audio).
  • War's End: Eyewitness to History Symposium May, 2005, Veterans History Project.
  • Witness and Response: September 11, 2001 Acqusitions at the Library of Congress (exhibition: children's artwork, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
• "Warning of Global Warming? Shamanic Tradition, Politics and Ecological Change in Siberia," presented by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Washington (State):
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Washington, D.C.: See District of Columbia.
• Waterman, Dick: "Between Midnight and Day: The Last Unpublished Blues Archive," an illustrated lecture on the book of the same name presented by Dick Waterman. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Watt, Robert: Dáithí Sproule and Robert Watt in Concert, Rediscover Northern Ireland Programme, 2007 (flyer essay and webcast).
• Wayne Newell and Blanch Sockabasin — Traditional Passamaquoddy Music from Maine. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• "We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in Mississippi," presented by Tracy Sugarman (flyer essay and webcast).
• The Weavers: Force and Violins: What the FBI had on Folksingers, presented by David Dunaway. 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Weaving: "'I am a Wee Weaver': Weaving and Singing in Northern Ireland," presented by Maurice Leyden. 2008 Northern Ireland event, Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Webcasts and moving image online:
  • Benjamin A. Botkin Lecture Series Online Archive (with flyer essays and webcasts of past events).
  • "Bringing in the May," by Jennifer Cutting, from the Library's Journeys and Crossings webcast series.
  • Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-82 (online collection: essays, photographs, audio, and film).
  • Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal (online collection: essays, audio, and one film).
  • Experiencing War: Stories from the Veterans History Project:
    • Experiencing War home page with thematic presentations (photographs, audio, and video).
    • Webcasts from the Experiencing War Series listed aphabetically by last name.
  • Folklife Heritage Collections in Crisis, 2000 (program, essays, text of keynote speeches, and webcasts).
  • Homegrown Concert Series Online Archive (with webcasts of past events).
  • In Country: The Vietnam War, 30 Years After, Veterans History Project symposium (webcast).
  • National Visionary Leadership Project Collection Showcase (webcast).
  • Online Archives for Past American Folkllife Center Events.
  • "Pearl Harbor Oral Histories," presented by Ann Hoog, from the Library's 2004 Journeys and Crossings webcast series).
  • Rediscover Northern Ireland Programme, 2007 symposium and events (program, photo album, flyer essays, and webcasts).
  • Rediscover Northern Ireland 2008 events (flyer essays and webcasts).
  • Search the LC Webcast site on "Folklife" (results will include folklife-related presentations from other LC divisions).
  • Search the LC Webcast site for Veterans History Project events (does not include Experiencing War).
  • Symposia and Related Events Online Archive (programs, photographs, and webcasts).
• Welsh: See: Wales, Welsh.
• West Virginia:
  • Gandydancer — Traditional String Band Music from West Virginia 2007 Homegrown (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Whang, John: "Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month: Leadership to Meet the Challenges of a Changing World," presented by Christopher Yung, Kurt Chew-Een Lee, Peter Young, and John Whang. A presentation honoring Asian and Pacific veterans sponsored by the Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, June 2010 (the link goes directly to the webcast).
• What is an Ethnographic Field Collection?
• What is Folklife?
• What's Happening at the American Folklife Center?
• Widbom, Mats: "Living and Building Between Tradition and Change: Vernacular Architecture in Northern Sweden," 2009 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Widdis, Randy: Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
• Wiggins, Phil: Performer at the NCTA Concert, Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore, 2009 (see the website for biography, photograph, and a link to the concert webcast).
• Williams, Freda: Laborlore Conversations IV, participant in the 2007 symposium (program, photo album, resource guide, and webcasts).
• Wilson, Joseph T.:
  • Legends and Legacies: An American Folklife Center Celebration of Public Folklore 2009 (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
• Winick, Stephen:
  • Baseball Americana Symposium 2009, panel moderator (website includes a program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
  • Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the Canada-US Boundary. 2010 symposium (program, webcasts, resource page, and photo album).
  • Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance, participant in the 2009 symposium (program, resource guide, photo album, and webcasts).
  • "Tales of the Jersey Devil," an illustrated lecture presented by Stephen D. Winick. 2005 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
  • Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Wisconsin:
  • The Berntsons — Traditional Norwegian American Dance Music from Virginia, 2009 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • The Steve Meisner Band: Traditional and Contemporary Polka from Wisconsin, 2010 Homegrown Concert (flyer and webcast).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.
• Women Artists:
  • Aldape, Jill: Amuma Says No: Traditional and Contemporary Basque Music from Idaho, 2010 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • American Women: Guide to Resources at the Library of Congres: American Folklife Center (online book chapter).
  • Berntson, Eleanore: The Berntsons — Traditional Norwegian American Dance Music from Virginia, 2009 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast). Also performing in this group: Andrea Hoag and Loretta Kelley.
  • Defender Wilson, Mary Louise: Mary Louise Defender Wilson & Keith Bear — Sioux and Mandan Hidatsa Storytelling. 2006 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Demba, Adjaratou "Tapani": Balla Kouyaté and World Vision — Traditional Malian Music from Massachusetts. 2010 Homegrown concert (webcast and flyer essay).
  • Goss, Linda: "Waking up the People," (2006 Botkin presentation, storytelling and webcast).
  • Haili, Merita: Merita Halili and the Raif Hyseni Orchestra — Albanian Music from New York. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Jagoda, Flory: Flory Jagoda and Friends — Traditional Sephardic Music from the Former Yugoslavia and the world (2007 Homegrown concert and webcast).
  • "Kunqü: China's First Great Multi-Art Theatrical Tradition," presented by Marjory Bong-Ray Liu. 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Lacouture, Marce: Marce Lacouture with David Greely and Kristi Guillory — Cajun Music from Louisiana. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Lynn, Barbara: Barbara Lynn and Friends — Texas Rhythm & Blues. 2009 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Mary Sheppard Burton Collection (online collection: photographs with related narratives).
  • MacArthur, Margaret: Margaret MacArthur — Ballads and songs from Vermont. 2005 Homegrown (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Pickner, Jasmine: Dallas Chief Eagle and Jasmine Pickner, Hoop Dancing performers are tribal members of the Rosebud Sioux and Crow Creek Sioux respectively. 2007 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Pugh, Opalanga: African American Storytelling from Colorado. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • Salazar, Beverly and Jennifer: Marimba Linda Xelajú: Guatemalan Marimba Music from Maryland. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Seeger, Kate and the Short Sisters: "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, participant in the 2007 concert. Select the concert for the webcast).
  • Seeger, Peggy: "How Can I Keep from Singing?": A Seeger Family Tribute, participant in the 2007 symposium and concert (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
  • Sockabasin, Blanch: Wayne Newell and Blanch Sockabasin — Traditional Passamaquoddy Music from Maine. 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Stewart, Rosie: Rosie Stewart in Concert 2007.
  • Surati — Classical and Folk Indian Dance from New Jersey. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Women at work:
  • Experiencing War: Women at War.
  • Experiencing War: Women of Four Wars.
  • Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
  • Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• Women Folklorists, Ethnomusicologists, and scholars in related disciplines:
  • American Women: Guide to Resources at the Library of Congres: American Folklife Center (chapter).
  • Alvarez, Maribel (select for list of presentations)
  • Bold, Valentina (select for list of presentations)
  • Bong-Ray Liu, Marjory: "Kunqü: China's First Great Multi-Art Theatrical Tradition." 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Cantú, Norma E.: "La Quinceañera: A Coming of Age Ritual in Latino Communities." 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Cowell, Sidney Robertson: California Gold: Northern California Folk Music From the Thirties (online collection: essays, photographs, drawings, and audio).
  • Hufford, Mary: Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia (online collection: essays, manuscripts, photographs, and audio).
  • Mills, Margaret:
    • "Afghan Women's Stories: The Problematics of Cover," presented by Margaret Mills. 2007 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
    • "Politics and Poetics: Fieldwork in Afghanistan and Jamaica," Margaret Mills and Kenneth Bilby. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Pryor, Anne: "Seeing Mary: Belief, Politics, and Practice at Marian Apparition Sites," 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Raim, Ethel: "Old Cultures/New Contexts: Presenting the Traditional Music and Dance of Urban Immigrant Communities," Nancy Groce interviews Ethel Raim. 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Seeger, Peggy: "How Can I Keep from Singing?": Seeger Sympsium and Concert 2007, participant in the symposium and concert (program, photo album, information about the Seegers, a resource guide, and webcasts).
  • Shutika, Debra Lattanzi: "Place and the Politics of Belonging," presented by Debra Lattanzi Shutika, 2010 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Yeh, Nora: "Eight Sounds of Chinese Music." an illustrated lecture by Nora Yeh. 2004 Botkin Lecture, flyer essay).
  • See also: "Blooming Cherry Blossoms, Falling Cherry Blossoms: Symbolism of the Flower in Japanese Culture," presented by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. Lecture sponsored by the Kluge Center, Library of Congress, 2009 (webcast).
  • See also: "How Do Flowers Kill? - The Japanese Emperor and Modern Dictators," Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. Lecture sponsored by the Kluge Center, Library of Congress, 2009 (webcast).
• Women's Traditions:
  • "Afghan Women's Stories: The Problematics of Cover," presented by Margaret Mills. 2007 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • American Women: Guide to Resources at the Library of Congres: American Folklife Center (online book chapter).
  • "Kunqü: China's First Great Multi-Art Theatrical Tradition," presented by Marjory Bong-Ray Liu. 2008 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "La Quinceañera: A Coming of Age Ritual in Latino Communities," presented by Norma E. Cantú. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Politics and Poetics: Fieldwork in Afghanistan and Jamaica," Margaret Mills and Kenneth Bilby. 2006 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
  • Surati — Classical and Folk Indian Dance from New Jersey. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song, Correspondence 1940-1950 (online collection).
• Work, John Wesley, III :"Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting (online collection: essays, photographs, and audio).
• WPA Projects: See New Deal.
• Wunder, Steve: participant in Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• Wycinanki:
  • Paper Cutting, American Folklife Center publication, 1982. Available in PDF [16 p. booklet. 757KB. Requires free Adobe Reader software.]
  • See also: American Folklife Center: An Illustrated Guide, chapter on "Material Culture" for some additional images of Polish wycinanki.
• Wyoming:
  • Bar J Wranglers — Cowboy Music from Wyoming. 2008 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots (online presentation: photographs and project descriptions).
  • Folklife in Your State (includes trusts, territories, and DC).
  • See also: Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture.

X

• Xianrang, Yong: "Chinese Folk Art Today," an illustrated lecture by Yong Xianrang. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).

Y

• Yeh, Nora: "Eight Sounds of Chinese Music," an illustrated lecture by Nora Yeh. 2004 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Yellow Ribbon: The New Yellow Ribbon Tradition, two articles by Gerald E. Parsons.
• Yiddish: "Hear, O Israel: Yiddish American Radio 1925-1955," presented by Henry Sapoznik, 2009 Botkin lecture (flyer essay and webcast).
• Yodeling:
  • Bar J Wranglers — Cowboy Music from Wyoming. 2008 Homegrown Concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • Cowboy poet Paul Zarzyski and cowboy singer-composer Wylie Gustafson from Montana, 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
  • "Yodel-Ay-Ee-Ooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World," a lecture based on his book. Featuring yodelers Randy Irwin and Cathy Fink. 2004 Botkin lecture (flyer essay).
• Yoder, Don. "The Two Worlds of the Pennsylvania Dutch," presented by Don Yoder. 2011 Botkin Lecture (flyer essay).
• Young, Peter: "Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month: Leadership to Meet the Challenges of a Changing World," presented by Christopher Yung, Kurt Chew-Een Lee, Peter Young, and John Whang. A presentation honoring Asian and Pacific veterans sponsored by the Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, June 2010 (the link goes directly to the webcast).
• Yung, Christopher: "Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month: Leadership to Meet the Challenges of a Changing World," presented by Christopher Yung, Kurt Chew-Een Lee, Peter Young, and John Whang. A presentation honoring Asian and Pacific veterans sponsored by the Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, June 2010 (the link goes directly to the webcast).

Z

• Zarzyski, Paul: Cowboy poet Paul Zarzyski and cowboy singer-composer Wylie Gustafson from Montana, 2009 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Zeitlin, Steve: participant in Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans, 2010 Symposium (webcasts, photographs, resource guide).
• The Zionaires — Gospel Music from Maryland and Delaware. 2008 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).
• Zuni: Carlos Nakai — American Indian Flute Music from Arizona. 2010 Homegrown concert (flyer essay and webcast).