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Film, Video The Poetry of Everyday Life: Reflections of an Urban Folklorist

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Title

  • The Poetry of Everyday Life: Reflections of an Urban Folklorist

Summary

  • Folklorist Steve Zeitlin, the founding director of City Lore, one of America's leading research centers for the documentation of urban folklife and grassroots culture, eloquently reflects on his career, recounts some of his most meaningful projects, and discusses the relationship of folklore to everyday language and speech in contemporary America. Drawing on his experiences as both a folklorist and a poet, he discusses how colloquial speech and shared verbal art forms like poetry work to preserve cultural heritage and create community in a complex metropolitan landscape like New York and, more broadly, throughout 21st-century America.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2022-12-08.

Notes

  • -  Steve Zeitlin, Nicky Saylor.
  • -  Recorded on 2022-12-08.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024698325

Online Format

  • video
  • online text
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. The Poetry of Everyday Life: Reflections of an Urban Folklorist. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -12-08, 2022. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024698325/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2022) The Poetry of Everyday Life: Reflections of an Urban Folklorist. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -12-08. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024698325/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. The Poetry of Everyday Life: Reflections of an Urban Folklorist. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -12-08, 2022. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024698325/>.