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Archive: July 2014 (12 Posts)

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It’s Never too Late to be an Ethnomusicologist: A Conversation with AFC Intern Kirk Sullivan, Part II

Posted by: Nicole Saylor

This is a guest post by Folklife Specialist Ann Hoog, who coordinates AFC’s internship program. This is the second in a two-part series stemming from a conversation with one of our summer interns, Kirk Sullivan. Part I was about how he went from having an established career in software engineering to becoming a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology. Today, …

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

It’s Never too Late to be an Ethnomusicologist: A Conversation with AFC Intern Kirk Sullivan

Posted by: Nicole Saylor

This is a guest post by Folklife Specialist Ann Hoog, who coordinates AFC’s internship program. This is the first in a two-part series stemming from a conversation with one of our summer interns, Kirk Sullivan. Part II is available at this link. This week I sat down to talk with one of our summer interns, Kirk Sullivan, …

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

Interview Series Explores Folk Culture in the Digital Age

Posted by: Nicole Saylor

Folklorist Trevor J. Blank is an assistant professor of communication at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Readers of Folklife Today might enjoy a series of posts on the Library of Congress’s digital preservation blog, The Signal. In a two-part Insights Interview series, folklorist Trevor J. Blank talks about digital culture on the …