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Archive: October 2017 (2 Posts)

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What’s in a Whistle? The Curious Beginnings of an Ending Trope

Posted by: John Fenn

This is a guest post by American Folklife Center archivist Kelly Revak. As I covered in a previous blog post, I have been exploring the “experimental recordings’ of Jesse Walter Fewkes and discovering a number of items of folkloric interest therein. One of these Fewkes recordings is at least somewhat well-known and that is this …

Posted in: Folk Music

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

Films in AFC’s Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian Collection Include Unreleased Footage of Allen Ginsberg and William Kunstler

Posted by: John Fenn

This is a guest post by AFC intern Adam Schutzman, who worked at the Center in the late summer. Over the course of my summer internship at the American Folklife Center, I had the pleasure of working on a large collection of 16mm films and videos found within the Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian Collection …

Posted in: Archival Practice