Archive: February 2018 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) John Fenn; (Year) 2018; (Month) February

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

Botkin Lectures to Go!: African American Online Cultural Resources

February 27, 2018

The following is a guest post from AFC Folklife Specialist Nancy Groce. A previous Folklife Today blog, “Botkin Lectures to Go!,” drew readers’ attention to an engaging and readily accessible AFC resource: the more than 100 AFC Botkin Lectures on a wide variety of folklore and folklife topics that are currently available free-of-charge through the …

Posted in: AFC Events

“Roll On, Columbia”: Newly-discovered Woody Guthrie discs acquired by AFC

February 22, 2018

Posted by: John Fenn

This is a guest post by AFC acquisitions coordinator, Todd Harvey. “Big things come in small packages,” they say. I coordinate acquisitions for the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and I can attest to the wisdom of this adage. Our archive accessions about a quarter-million items annually and they range from the …

Posted in: Acquisitions

Refined by: (Author) John Fenn; (Year) 2018; (Month) February