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Archive: March 2014 (2 Posts)

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Highlighting Ozark Collections for a Distinguished Guest

Posted by: Stephen Winick

This week, I had the distinct honor and pleasure of highlighting the American Folklife Center’s Ozark Mountain collections, especially those from the state of Missouri, in a lecture and audio-visual presentation in the Library’s Whittall Pavilion. It was a great opportunity to share our collections with an audience of interested folks who all have firsthand …

Posted in: Alan Lomax, Folk Music, Folksong

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

Preserving America’s Voices: Who’s Listening?

Posted by: Stephen Winick

Note: This blog post is reprinted from Library of Congress Magazine, for which it was written by Stephen Winick and edited by Audrey Fischer.  The full issue contains two more articles about the American Folklife Center’s oral-history collections.  You can download it here. Preserving America’s Voices: Who’s Listening? How Can We Use Oral-History Collections to …

Posted in: Oral History