Event Videos
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Film, Video'Native America: Language Is Life' Panel Discussion From Hollywood films on the big screen to sacred writing deep within the Earth, from long-lost voices captured in wax cylinders, Native people are fighting to keep their languages and ways of life alive. Though many of the approximately 170 Native languages spoken across the United States remain at risk today, it is a time of hope. A revolutionary effort to revitalize traditional languages...- Contributor: Soctomah, Donald - Glassman, Gary - Golding, Daniel
- Date: 2023-11-09
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Film, VideoEl Camino del Mole a New Orleans El Camino del Mole a New Orleans chronicles the story of Ivan Castillo, originally from Veracruz, who immigrated to New Orleans after Katrina. He began working in clean up and reconstruction but soon moved to the restaurant industry. He worked in multiple kitchens, then as head cook in a Honduran-owned restaurant. In pursuit of more autonomy, he opened a street food vending business in...- Contributor: Gissela Maldonado, Saira - Cortez, Ivan Castillo - Flores, Gilberto - Donnelly, Briyith
- Date: 2023-11-07
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Film, VideoEl Camino del Pan a Baltimore El Camino del Pan a Baltimore chronicles the life of José Vargas, owner of a bakery and taqueria located in Highlandtown, a neighborhood in East Baltimore. Vargas migrated to Baltimore from Huaquechula, Mexico and decided to build on his family tradition of baking bread. Jos??'s story began in Mexico with his family's bakery, but after arriving in Baltimore he established a business selling Mexican...- Contributor: Vargas, José
- Date: 2023-11-07
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Film, VideoListening to Divergent Histories through Canadian Music Canadian ethnomusicologist Beverley Diamond reflects on how her approaches to documenting culture have shifted over 50 years, echoing not only changes in the academic realm but changes in her relations with Indigenous and other culturally diverse communities. She suggests that her approach may align with differences between Canadian and American institutions more generally, given such factors as two official languages and multiple forms of...- Contributor: Diamond, Beverley
- Date: 2023-10-16
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Film, VideoNEA National Heritage Fellowship Award Public Ceremony The NEA National Heritage Fellowships is the nation's highest honor in folk and traditional arts. Each year since 1982, the program recognizes recipients' artistic excellence, lifetime achievement, and contributions to our nation's traditional arts heritage.- Date: 2023-09-29
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Film, VideoNani Noam Vazana: Ladino Singer, Musician, Composer Noam "Nani" Vazana is one of the only artists in the world who writes and composes new songs in the endangered Ladino (or Judeo-Spanish) language, a very archaic form of Castilian Spanish spoken by Sephardic Jews living mostly in Israel, the Balkans, North Africa, Greece, and Turkey. Ladino, which traveled to these areas with Jewish communities expelled from Spain in 1492, is very nearly...- Contributor: Vazana, Nani Noam
- Date: 2023-09-14
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Film, VideoSinging in Solidarity: Women's Voices Celebrate Labor Day In celebration of Labor Day, the Library's American Folklife Center honors the contributions of women of both the past and present. This compilation of Folklife Homegrown and other concerts includes performances by Thea Hopkins, Ialoni, Martha Gonzales, Rachel Sumner and Traveling Light, Piper Hayes, and the group, Windborne that feature the voices of women.- Date: 2023-09-06
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Film, VideoConversation with Nani Noam Vazana Noam "Nani" Vazana is one of the only artists in the world who writes and composes new songs in the endangered Ladino (or Judeo-Spanish) language, a very archaic form of Castilian Spanish spoken by Sephardic Jews living mostly in Israel, the Balkans, North Africa, Greece and Turkey. Ladino, which traveled to these areas with Jewish communities expelled from Spain in 1492, is very nearly...- Contributor: Winick, Stephen - Vazana, Noam "Nani"
- Date: 2023-09-06
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Film, VideoDeitsch: Traditional Folk Music, Made in Germany Deitsch plays traditional songs and dance tunes from Germany, some of them 250 years old. For years, German folk music was neglected and nearly forgotten, or derided as old-fashioned and conservative. But now, arranged and interpreted in the style of modern folk music from Germany's European neighbors, it emerges timeless and contemporary at the same time.- Contributor: Deitsch
- Date: 2023-08-23
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Film, VideoConversation with Gundrun Walther and Jürgen Treyz of Deitsch Gudrun Walther (voice, violin, viola, diatonic accordion) and Jürgen Treyz (guitar, mandolin, mandola, voice) had built up years of experience with award-winning bands and projects before founding Deitsch as a duo in the mid 2000s. Their duo recordings won many awards, including the German Record Critics' Quarterly Prize in 2009. They have since added Barbara Hintermeier (violin, viola, voice) and Steffen Gabriel (flute, bagpipes,...- Contributor: Treyz, Jürgen - Walther, Gundrun - Winick, Stephen
- Date: 2023-08-23
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Film, VideoFolklore Today/Folklore Tomorrow: Expanding the Conversation with Marilyn White Folklorist Marilyn White, current President of the American Folklore Society, retired Professor at Kean University, and a pivotal member of such influential groups as the Association of African and African American Folklorists, City Lore (NYC), and the New Jersey Folklore Society, reflects on her career and the challenges that must be met for the field to become more inclusive and reflective of 21st century...- Contributor: White, Marilyn M. - Saylor, Nicole
- Date: 2023-08-16
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Film, VideoHudaki Village Band, Music from the Heart of Ukraine The Hudaki Village Band is made up of nine master musicians from the Ukrainian Carpathians. In the Maramures region, a mountainous area of Southwest Ukraine on the border with Romania and Hungary, village musicians are called hudaki. Various ethnic musical influences make the traditional music multifaceted and unique.Archaic Slavic vocal traditions, Romanian melodies, Jewish rhythms and Romany temperament blend together in a local cross...- Contributor: Hudaki Village Band
- Date: 2023-08-02
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Film, VideoConversation with Yuri Bukovynets of Hudaki Village Band Watch a conversation with The Hudaki Village Band, who is made up of nine master musicians from the Ukrainian Carpathians. In the Maramures region, a mountainous area of Southwest Ukraine on the border with Romania and Hungary, village musicians are called hudaki. Various ethnic musical influences make the traditional music multifaceted and unique. Archaic Slavic vocal traditions, Romanian melodies, Jewish rhythms and Romany temperament...- Contributor: Winick, Stephen - Bukovynets, Yuri
- Date: 2023-08-02
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Film, VideoTeaching Culture, Teaching Culturally: The Significance of Folklife Education in the Schools Folklorists Paddy Bowman and Lisa Rathje from Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education present an overview of folklore in K-12 education in the United States.- Contributor: Rathje, Lisa - Bowman, Paddy - Groce, Nancy
- Date: 2023-07-28
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Film, VideoAli Doğan Gönültaş Quartet Ali Doğan Gönültaş is a Kurdish musician born in Turkey. A graduate of Kocaeli University in both archaeology and communications, he started his professional music career by founding the band Ze Tijê; the group has since released two albums and has performed hundreds of concerts in Turkey. Ali's oral history and field research, which he began in 2007, has led to the 2022 album...- Contributor: Ali Doğan Gönültaş Quartet
- Date: 2023-07-12
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Film, VideoA Conversation with Ali Doğan Gönültaş Quartet Watch a conversation with the musicians of Ali Doğan Gönültaş Quartet.- Contributor: Ali Doğan Gönültaş Quartet - Winick, Stephen
- Date: 2023-07-12
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Film, VideoRewriting America: Alessandro Portelli The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress hosted a one-day symposium bringing together the contemporary perspectives of public scholars, documentary producers and curators on the legacy of the Federal Writers' Project (1935-39). The event focused attention on the ways in which the Library's extraordinary archival collection of materials continues to inform and inspire public outreach and interdisciplinary scholarship in fields ranging from...- Contributor: Portelli, Alessandro
- Date: 2023-06-16
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Film, VideoRewriting America: Public Humanities & Education The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress hosted a one-day symposium bringing together the contemporary perspectives of public scholars, documentary producers and curators on the legacy of the Federal Writers' Project (1935-39). The event focused attention on the ways in which the Library's extraordinary archival collection of materials continues to inform and inspire public outreach and interdisciplinary scholarship in fields ranging from...- Contributor: Kaplan, Anna - Mutnick, Deborah - De La Piedra, Benji - Fazio, Michele
- Date: 2023-06-16
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Film, VideoRewriting America: Recovering Voices in the Federal Writer's Project The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress hosted a one-day symposium bringing together the contemporary perspectives of public scholars, documentary producers and curators on the legacy of the Federal Writers' Project (1935-39). The event focused attention on the ways in which the Library's extraordinary archival collection of materials continues to inform and inspire public outreach and interdisciplinary scholarship in fields ranging from...- Contributor: Morris Davis, Maggie - Robinson, Greg - Curtin, Maureen - Bair, Barbara - Rivera, Diana Noreen - Sun, James
- Date: 2023-06-16
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Film, VideoRewriting America: Politics, Vision, Purpose - Rewriting American Identity The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress hosted a one-day symposium bringing together the contemporary perspectives of public scholars, documentary producers and curators on the legacy of the Federal Writers' Project (1935-39). The event focused attention on the ways in which the Library's extraordinary archival collection of materials continues to inform and inspire public outreach and interdisciplinary scholarship in fields ranging from...- Contributor: Tidwell, John Edgar - Rutkowski, Sara - Hirsch, Jerrold - Rubenstein Demasi, Sue - Stewart, Catherine
- Date: 2023-06-16
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Film, VideoRewriting America: Archival Resources In Creative Culture and Media Productions The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress hosted a one-day symposium bringing together the contemporary perspectives of public scholars, documentary producers and curators on the legacy of the Federal Writers' Project (1935-39). The event focused attention on the ways in which the Library's extraordinary archival collection of materials continues to inform and inspire public outreach and interdisciplinary scholarship in fields ranging from...- Contributor: Taylor, David - Hiebert Kerst, Catherine - Morris, C. Zawadi - Emberton, Carole - Shankar, Guha
- Date: 2023-06-16
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Film, VideoConversation with Christylez Bacon Hip-Hop artist Christylez Bacon speaks to Stephen Winick of the American Folklife Center.- Contributor: Bacon, Christylez - Winick, Stephen
- Date: 2023-06-15
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Film, VideoChristylez Bacon: African American Roots and Hip-Hop Watch a special performance by Christylez Bacon, a Grammy Nominated Progressive Hip-Hop artist and multi-instrumentalist from Southeast, Washington, D.C.- Contributor: Bacon, Christylez - Gueye, Uasuf - Saylor, Nicole - Winick, Stephen
- Date: 2023-06-15
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Film, Video"Kitchen Girl" and "Polka in G (Lady of the Lake)" The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress challenged musical artists to interpret material from its unparalleled archive of ethnographic recordings of traditional folk music. Artists were asked to put their own spin on these archival treasures, and to perform them at a special showcase during the Folk Alliance International conference in Kansas City, Missouri in 2023. The showcase was recorded for this...- Contributor: Marxer, Marcy - Tian, Chao - Fink, Cathy
- Date: 2023-05-01
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Film, Video"Love Is Teasing" The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress challenged musical artists to interpret material from its unparalleled archive of ethnographic recordings of traditional folk music. Artists were asked to put their own spin on these archival treasures, and to perform them at a special showcase during the Folk Alliance International conference in Kansas City, Missouri in 2023. The showcase was recorded for this...- Contributor: Aines, Ernest
- Date: 2023-05-01