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Archive: July 2022 (8 Posts)

Modesta Yangmog of Asor Island, Ulithi Atoll interviewing master lavalava weaver Conchita Leyangrow of Lamotrek Atoll in Talguw on Yap Island

AFC’s Community Collections Grants Recipients: Habele Outer Island Education Fund, Federated States of Micronesia

Posted by: Michelle Stefano

This is an excerpt from a post on the Library’s Of the People blog highlighting the 2022 AFC Community Collections Grant recipient, Habele Outer Island Education Fund and their project, “The Warp and Weft of the Remathau.” Written by AFC Senior Folklife Specialist Nancy Groce, the post is part of the Of the People blog …

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

Capturing Military Stories with the Veterans History Project and Military Voices Initiative

Posted by: Allina Migoni

This post is written in collaboration with Megan Harris, Senior Reference Specialist for the Veterans History Project On Tuesday, August 9, 2022 3 pm EST, the American Folklife Center will host the panel discussion, “Sharing Military Voices Archived at the American Folklife Center,” at the Library of Congress—and you’re invited! The American Folklife Center invites …

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

Conversation with Nathan Salsburg, Curator at the Lomax Association for Cultural Equity

Posted by: Todd Harvey

The American Folklife Center’s partnership with the Association for Cultural Equity dates from the Library’s acquisition of the Alan Lomax collection in 2004. The partnership focuses on creating access to and awareness of Lomax Family collections. The following is a conversation between Todd Harvey and Nathan Salsburg, respective curators from the American Folklife Center (AFC) …

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

Music and Dance collections at the American Folklife Center

Posted by: Todd Harvey

Music and dance have such prevalence in American Folklife Center collections that, appropriately, we announce guides to these cultural expressions in the same Folklife Today post. The resource guides “Music in the United States” and “Dance” provide descriptive access to more than 1000 AFC collections. Music and dance are intangible cultural expressions that lend themselves …

In this photo of The Chosen Few, eight men sit in pews in a church.

Homegrown Plus Premiere: The Chosen Few’s a Cappella Gospel from Virginia

Posted by: Stephen Winick

We're continuing the Homegrown Plus Premiere series with The Chosen Few, a Virginia gospel group that stands firmly in the great tradition of unaccompanied religious singing by African American residents of the Tidewater region of the mid-Atlantic states. As is usual for the series, this blog post includes an embedded concert video, an interview video, and a set of related links to explore!

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

AFC’s Community Collections Grants Recipients: An Interview with Urban Artistry’s Junious Brickhouse

Posted by: Michelle Stefano

In March, the Library announced the ten recipients of the AFC's Community Collections Grants, officially launching this new, multiyear program. The Community Collections Grants program is part of the Library’s Of the People: Widening the Path initiative, which seeks to create new opportunities for more Americans to engage with the Library of Congress and to add their perspectives to the Library’s collections, allowing the national library to share a more inclusive American story. The 2022 recipients' projects are now well underway. To get to know them better, we are featuring each of the recipients and their projects on the Library's Of the People blog over the course of this first, grant program year. And kicking off this series is an interview with Junious Brickhouse, the founding director of Urban Artistry (Silver Spring, Maryland), one of the ten awardees of the Community Collections Grants program.

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

Ukrainian Traditions on the Folklife Today Podcast

Posted by: Stephen Winick

We're back with another episode of the Folklife Today podcast, this one on Ukrainian Traditions! The latest Russian invasion of Ukraine occurred just days before our most recent previous episode was released, and we’ve been thinking since then of our Ukrainian friends and colleagues. So we decided to do an episode of the Folklife Today podcast focusing on Ukrainian materials and traditions in the Archive. Find links to it in this blog post, along with links to related Ukrainian content, videos, and audio selections. 

In this photo of Rodopi Ensemble, five men play musical instruments: Kyriakos Petras (violin), Nikos Angousis (clarinet), Alkis Zopoglou (kanun), Yorgos Pagozidis (drum), Drosos Koutsokostas (lute).

Homegrown Plus Premiere: Rodopi Ensemble’s Traditional Music from Thrace

Posted by: Stephen Winick

We're continuing the Homegrown Plus Premiere series with Rodopi Ensemble, an accomplished traditional band playing music from the Thracian mountains of Greece, North Macedonia, and Bulgaria. As is usual for the series, this blog post includes an embedded concert video, an interview video, and a set of related links to explore!