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    Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin migrant workers collection, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available The collection includes field recordings made in July and August, 1940 and 1941 in Farm Security Administration migrant worker camps in California. These included the Arvin, Shafter, Visalia, Firebaugh, Westley, Thornton, and Yuba FSA camps. Recordings were made of dance music, popular songs, ballads and folk songs, original songs, conversations, camp council meetings, poems, and stories describing life in the camps, whose residents were...
    • Contributor: Lange, Dorothea - Todd, Charles L. - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Rothstein, Arthur - Hemmig, Robert - Pike, Russ - Archive of American Folk Song - Lomax, Alan - Sonkin, Robert - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 1939
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    Italian Americans in the West Project collection, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available The collection consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, graphic materials (including color slides, black-and-white negatives, and photographic prints), and moving images collected during a field research project documenting Italian American occupational, cultural, and religious traditions in several locations in the western United States. Fieldwork was conducted in Gilroy, California; San Pedro, California; Pueblo, Colorado; Carbon County, Utah; Walla Walla, Washington; and several mining and...
    • Contributor: Light, Ken - Taylor, David Alan - Frank, Russell - Williams, John Alexander - Carter, Thomas - Wood, Myron - Graham, Andrea - Owen, Blanton - Parks, Valerie - Manini, Paula Marie ... Light, Ken - Taylor, David Alan - Frank, Russell - Williams, John Alexander - Carter, Thomas - Wood, Myron - Graham, Andrea - Owen, Blanton - Parks, Valerie - Manini, Paula Marie - Siporin, Steve - Roeder, Beatrice A. - Lund, Jens - Notarianni, Philip F. - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - DeNatale, Douglas - Tavarelli, Paola
    • Date: 1988
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    World War II Rumor Project collection, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Manuscript collection created by the Office of War Information in 1942-1943. Field representatives of various federal agencies in 42 states enlisted individuals who collected rumors generated in the United States during World War II. These individuals or "correspondents" included dentists, beauty shop operators, policemen, proprietors, and librarians who had access to rumors in their communities. Reports were submitted to Dr. Eugene Horowitz at the...
    • Contributor: Horowitz, Eugene - United States. Office of War Information
    • Date: 1942
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    Stetson Kennedy and "Building Democracy in America,"
    Stetson Kennedy, his life and work as Florida folklorist, social activist and author | Conversation with Stetson Kennedy | Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2005-05-24 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Collection includes digital video and analog sound recording of the Stetson Kennedy and Peggy Bulger lecture and discussion; one black-and-white photograph of Stetson Kennedy seated at the base of a tree taken by Ivy Bigbee; and a program flyer for the event. Kennedy begins by discussing his memories of Benjamin Botkin, and collecting "folksay" and folklore idioms for the WPA folklore project. Kennedy discusses...
    • Contributor: Bulger, Peggy A. - Kennedy, Stetson - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2005
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    The folklore behind ecology : or why scientists in ecology need help from folklorists,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2006-04-05 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Daniel B. Botkin lectured on various stories that ecologists and other scientists have told to back up their conclusions about ecological processes and the balance of nature. He discussed the importance of being able to tell the difference between science and folklore in evaluating scientific claims.
    • Contributor: American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Botkin, Daniel B.
    • Date: 2006
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    Not the same old (folk) song and dance : field recordings in the European communities of the United States,
    Title from program flyer: Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2006-07-27 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Videorecording of a lecture by Matthew Barton on the early field recordings made in non-English speaking communities of the United States by field collectors from the Library of Congress during the 1930s. Collectors John A. Lomax and his son Alan Lomax recorded Spanish and French music extensively in Texas and Louisiana. In 1938 Alan Lomax recorded Irish, Serbian, Romanian, Polish, French-Canadian, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian,...
    • Contributor: Barton, Matthew - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2006
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    La quinceañera : a coming of age ritual in Latino communities,
    Coming of age ritual in Latino communities | Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2006-11-08 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Norma E. Cantú describes the social practices of la quinceañera, the coming of age ritual for young Latina women. She discusses the origins of the custom in indigenous Mexican tradition and European tradition, the performance of the feminine through this ritual and its meanings in Mexican American families and communities.
    • Contributor: Cantú, Norma E. - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2006
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    Paul Zarzyski and Wylie Gustafson concert collection,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2009-10-07 | Cowboy poet Paul Zarzyski and cowboy singer-composer Wylie Gustafson from Montana | Homegrown 2009, the music of America | Cowboys Paul Zarzyski & Wylie Gustafson Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Collection of sound recordings, photographs, and video of a concert featuring cowboy poetry and music in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, October 7, 2009 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Performed by rodeo poet Paul Zarzyski, who was born in Wisconsin, but has spent many years in Montana, where he lives in Great Falls in collaboration...
    • Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Gustafson, Wylie - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Zarzyski, Paul
    • Date: 2009
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    Revolutionaries, nursery rhymes, and Edison wax cylinders : the remarkable tale of the earliest Korean sound recordings,
    Earliest Korean sound recordings | Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2009-01-27 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording and photographs of a lecture delivered by Robert Provine in the Mary Pickford Theater, Library of Congress, on January 27, 2009, in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Provine discussed wax cylinder recordings that were made by Alice Fletcher of Korean songs sung by three Korean men in Washington, D.C. in 1896. Photographs of the event...
    • Contributor: American Folklife Center - Provine, Robert C. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2009
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    We had sneakers, they had guns : the kids who fought for civil rights in Mississippi,
    Kids who fought for civil rights in Mississippi | Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2009-05-05 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording and photographs of a lecture delivered by Tracy Sugarman in the Mumford Room, James Madison Building LM 649, Library of Congress, on May 5, 2009, as part of the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. As an illustrator and journalist, Tracy Sugarman covered the nearly one thousand student volunteers who traveled to the Mississippi Delta in 1964...
    • Contributor: Sugarman, Tracy - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2009
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    Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston,
    Documenting Katrina and Rita in Houston | Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2009-08-13 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording and photographs of a lecture delivered by Carl Lindahl and Pat Jasper in the Mary Pickford Theater, Library of Congress, on August 13, 2009, as part of the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston was the first large-scale project in which the survivors of a major disaster have taken the lead...
    • Contributor: Lindahl, Carl - Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston (Project) - Jasper, Pat - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2009
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    Hear, O Israel : Yiddish-American broadcasting 1925-1965,
    Yiddish-American radio | Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2009-10-14 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording and photographs of a lecture delivered by Henry Sapoznik in the Mary Pickford Theater, Library of Congress, on October 14, 2009, as part of the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Sapoznik discusses the wide range of Yiddish radio shows in the United States, particularly in New York city -- from rabbinical advice programs to live Yiddish...
    • Contributor: Sapoznik, Henry - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2009
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    If it wasn't for the Irish and the Jews' : Irish and Jewish influences on the music of vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley,
    Irish and Jewish influences on the music of vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley | Title from program flyer: Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2009-12-01 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording of a lecture delivered by Mick Moloney in the Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, on December 1, 2009, as part of the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. In vaudeville's heyday between 1880 and 1920, Irish and Jewish collaborations on stage were commonplace. They were attended by all sorts of interesting identity ambiguities, illustrated...
    • Contributor: Moloney, Mick - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2009
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    Gary Haleamau concert and interview collection,
    Gary Haleamau in concert | Gary Haleamau : traditional Hawaiian music from Las Vegas | Gary Haleamau and his band : | Homegrown 2008, the music of America | American Folklife Center concert, 2008-08-20 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Collection of digital video, sound recordings, and photographs documenting a concert by Gary Haleamau and his band on August 20, 2008 in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. The performance includes Hawaiian visual interpretation of some of the songs using signs and hula dance. Gary Haleamau, who is Portuguese American, discusses...
    • Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Snetselaar, Rebecca - Haleamau, Gary - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2008
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    Bar J Wranglers concert collection,
    Bar J Wranglers : | Cowboy music from Wyoming | Homegrown 2008, the music of America | American Folklife Center concert, 2008-10-02 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Collection of digital video, sound recordings, and photographs documenting a concert by the Bar J Wranglers on October 2, 2008 in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. The group performs at the Bar J Ranch near Wyoming's Teton Range, just beyond the town of Wilson (pop. 200). Songs include many from...
    • Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Bar J Wranglers (Musical Group)
    • Date: 2008
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    Force and violins : what the FBI had on folksingers,
    What the FBI had on folksingers | Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2008-03-19 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording and photographs of a lecture delivered by David King Dunaway in the Mary Pickford Theater, Library of Congress, on March 19, 2008, in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Dunaway presents his research resulting from his successful suit under the Freedom of Information Act to reveal the surveillance conducted by the FBI and CIA on the...
    • Contributor: American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Dunaway, David King
    • Date: 2008
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    Seeing Mary : belief, politics, and practice at Marian apparition sites,
    Belief, politics, and practice at Marian apparition sites | Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2008-06-03 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording and photographs of a lecture delivered by by Anne Pryor in the Montpelier Room, Library of Congress, on June 3, 2008, as part of the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Pryor discusses her ethnographic research at Marian apparition sites in Necedah, Wisconsin; Conyers, Georgia; Cold Spring, Kentucky; and Emmitsburg, Maryland.
    • Contributor: Pryor, Anne - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2008
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    Do all Indians live in tipis? and other compelling questions for education,
    Do all Indians live in tipis? | Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2008-08-05 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording and photographs of a lecture delivered by Edwin Schupman in the Montpelier Room, Library of Congress, on August 5, 2008, as part of the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Edwin Schupman, citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, is an education materials developer at the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). He discusses countering...
    • Contributor: Schupman, Edwin - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2008
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    Afghan women's stories : the problematics of cover,
    Afghan women's stories | Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2007-09-19 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording and photographs of a lecture delivered by Margaret A. Mills in the Mary Pickford Theater, Library of Congress, on September 19, 2007, as part of the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Afghan women in burkas have become iconic representations of women's oppression in western media, but this representation is contested in various ways by Afghan women...
    • Contributor: American Folklife Center - Mills, Margaret Ann - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2007
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    Folklore's champion, Ben Botkin,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2007-08-15 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording of a lecture delivered by Roger Abrahams in the West Dining Room, LM 621, Library of Congress, on August 15, 2007, as part of the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Roger Abrahams discusses the contributions of Benjamin A. Botkin, focusing on Botkin's work on collecting narratives of former slaves during the 1930s and 1940s. As folklore...
    • Contributor: Abrahams, Roger D. - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2007
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    The Quilters' Save Our Stories Project,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2007-07-24 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Photographs of and a program for a lecture delivered by Bernard L. Herman in the Mary Pickford Theater, Library of Congress, on July 24, 2007, as part of the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. The collection includes the text and slides of Herman's lecture. Herman discussed the Quilters' Save Our Stories Project (Quilters' S.O.S.) of the Alliance for...
    • Contributor: Herman, Bernard L. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2007
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    Reverb : African American a capella singing from Washington, DC,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2007-02-07 | Reverb | Homegrown 2007, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Collection of digital video, sound recordings, and photographs documenting a concert by Reverb on February 7, 2007 in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Introductions by Debra Murphy and Mike Licht, who discuss the history and events scheduled for African American History Month. Reverb is a Washington, D.C. a cappella gospel...
    • Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Reverb (Vocal Group) - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2007
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    Flory Jagoda concert collection,
    Flory Jagoda and friends | Flory Jagoda : NEA Heritage Award winner | Homegrown 2007, the music of America | American Folklife Center concert, 2007-03-21 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Collection of digital video, sound recordings, and photographs documenting a concert by Flory Jagoda on March 21, 2007 in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Award winner Flory Jagoda performs Sephardic music and songs in Ladino, including folk songs, ballads, children's songs, and religious songs,...
    • Contributor: Jagoda, Flory - Bass, Howard - Chancey, Tina - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2007
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    Folklore and seeing : photographs from Cummins Prison, 1915-2010,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2010-03-25 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording and photographs of a lecture delivered by Bruce Jackson in the Mary Pickford Theater, Library of Congress, on March 25, 2010, as part of the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center.
    • Contributor: Jackson, Bruce - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2010
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    Cultural democracy in a time of diminished resources,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2010-07-22 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording and photographs of a lecture delivered by Bau Graves in the Mary Pickford Theater, Library of Congress, on July 22, 2010, as part of the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center.
    • Contributor: Graves, James Bau - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2010