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Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This post summarizes the second roundtable presentations of the distinguished panelists of the American Folklife Center's Community-driven Archives discussion event, which was held in September 2023 and is now available online.
Posted in: AFC Events, Archival Practice, Intangible Cultural Heritage
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This post, which is the first in a two-part series, is co-authored with folklorist Robert Baron and provides a summary of the first roundtable of the American Folklife Center's Community-driven Archives online discussion event, held in September 2023 and now available online.
Posted in: AFC Events, Archival Practice, Intangible Cultural Heritage
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This Folklife Today post is written by Dr. Sarah Fouts, UMBC, who shares the second film in the American Folklife Center Homegrown Foodways Film Series, available for viewing in this post and on the Library of Congress YouTube channel.
Posted in: AFC Events, Film, Foodways, Homegrown Foodways Premieres, Latino/a, Louisiana
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This Folklife Today post is written by Dr. Sarah Fouts, UMBC, who shares the first film in the American Folklife Center Homegrown Foodways Film Series, available for viewing in this post and on the Library of Congress YouTube channel.
Posted in: AFC Events, Film, Foodways, Homegrown Foodways Premieres, Latino/a, Maryland
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
A guest blog post by Professor Sarah Fouts, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, on this year’s AFC Homegrown Foodways Film Series: Baltimore and New Orleans, which features two films premiering on the Folklife Today blog: El Camino del Pan a Baltimore on Tuesday November 7th @ noon ET; and El Camino del Mole a New Orleans on Tuesday November 14th @ noon ET.
Posted in: AFC Events, Foodways, Homegrown Foodways Premieres, Latino/a, LGBTQ, Louisiana, Maryland
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
In celebration of Labor Day, we wanted to honor the contributions of women to all forms of labor, of both the past and present, and what better way to do that than through song. So we started looking back at our Homegrown Concert videos, of which many are available online, as well as our Archive Challenge series and other documented performances, to create a special concert video. The result is this compilation of performances by Thea Hopkins, the women's ensemble Ialoni, Martha González, Rachel Sumner and Traveling Light, Piper Hayes, and the group Windborne. They all feature the voices of women, with the support of their male colleagues. Watch and read about the Singing in Solidarity video in this post!
Posted in: AFC Events, Archive Challenge, Bluegrass, Concerts with Archive Challenge Content, Homegrown Concert Series, Native American History, Old Time Music, Women's History
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This is an announcement for the latest episode of the American Folklife Center's Folklife Today Podcast, which features songs from the Center's 2023 Homegrown Concert Series
Posted in: AFC Events, Homegrown Concert Series, Podcasts
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This is an announcement for a Friday, September 8th online discussion event focused on community-based cultural documentation and archival efforts, hosted by the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
Posted in: AFC Events, Archival Practice, Fieldwork, Intangible Cultural Heritage
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This post is a save-the-date announcement for the online discussion event, the Community-driven Archives: Local Needs/Global Practices in Safeguarding Living Cultural Heritage, bringing together panelists to discuss examples of community-guided documentation and archival preservation work from international perspectives. The event is hosted by the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, in collaboration with the American Folklore Society and the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore.
Posted in: AFC Events, Archival Practice, Fieldwork