Title: Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection
Speakers: John Fenn, Stephen Winick, Ann Hoog, Ralph Metcalfe Jr., James Mack, Carl Fleischhauer, John Katsikas, Jens Lund, Paul Sveinbjorn Johnson, Mrs. Johnson, Gamaliel “Bobby” Ramírez, Michelle Stefano, Beverly Robinson, Margaret Burroughs, Edith Wilson, Magic Slim.
Series: Folklife Today
Date: September 30, 2019
Running Time: 55:16 minutes
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Description:
Hosts John Fenn and Stephen Winick, and their guests Ann Hoog, Carl Fleischhauer, and Michelle Stefano, discuss the Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection, created as part of the American Folklife Center's first fieldwork project in 1977. The collection, featuring sound recordings, manuscripts, and photographs from 25 ethnic communities in Chicago, is online at loc.gov They discuss the challenges of getting the collection online and of making connections between the collection and the current Chicago community. They play excerpts of interviews with artists from the Greek American, Puerto Rican, African American, and Icelandic American communities, and music from the Greek American, African American, and Irish American communities.
For full audio of items excerpted in the podcast, and more great folklife content, visit the Folklife Today blog.
