Archive: March 2018 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Stephen Winick; (Year) 2018; (Month) March

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

Soul Got a Hiding Place: Hidden Spirituals from the McIlhenny Manuscript

March 19, 2018

This blog post about the hidden spirituals sung by Becky Elzy and Alberta Bradford for E.A. McIlhenny is part of a series called “Hidden Folklorists,” which examines the folklore work of surprising people, including people better known for other pursuits. In preparing this post, I was greatly aided by Shane K. Bernard, the archivist at …

Posted in: African American History

Alan Jabbour and the American Folklife Center

March 12, 2018

Posted by: Stephen Winick

This is a guest blog post by Carl Fleischhauer. It presents a version of the talk he gave at our Alan Jabbour tribute event earlier this year. It has been edited for presentation in this blog. These remarks are about Alan Jabbour as founding director of the American Folklife Center: his thinking, activities at the …

Posted in: AFC History

Refined by: (Author) Stephen Winick; (Year) 2018; (Month) March