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Posted by: Stephen Winick
Episode 16 of the Folklife Today Podcast (or Season 2, Episode 4) is ready for listening! Find it at this page on the Library’s website, or on itunes, or with your usual podcatcher. Get Your Podcast Here! We’re also happy to announce that we’re now available on Stitcher as well–use this link here! In the episode, …
Posted by: Stephen Winick
This is a guest post by Valentina Bold and Nancy Groce. It has been updated to include the video of the James Hogg Symposium. Scroll down or read on to watch the symposium. On February 21, 2020, the American Folklife Center joined the University of Stirling to present a one-day public symposium celebrating the 250th …
Posted in: AFC Events, Celtic Music
Posted by: Stephen Winick
This post examines the history of buses and of the word "bus," looking closely at a legend about a man named Omnes who was important in the naming of the "omnibus."
Posted in: Legends
Posted by: Stephen Winick
The American Folklife Center has recently received some coverage for our efforts to research and recognize African American history which we'd like to tell you about. Last weekend the Atlanta Journal Constitution published this article about the spiritual "Kumbaya." In the article, Shelia M. Poole interviews AFC staff members John Fenn and Stephen Winick (hey, that's me) and even call me "the folklorist version of Sherlock Holmes" for locating what we believe to be the first sound recording of "Kumbaya" some years ago. She also interviews Griffin Lotson, who did research here and in Georgia, and who helped get the song declared the first State Historical Song of Georgia. We wrote about that research here on the blog. We also did a podcast about it, at this link. And we've previously been covered and interviewed by the New York Times, which you can find here.
Posted in: African American History