Homegrown Plus: BeauSoleil Quartet!
Posted by: Stephen Winick
Concert and oral history interview with Cajun powerhouse the Beausoleil Quartet.
Posted in: AFC Events, Folk Music, French American History, Homegrown Concert Series, Homegrown Plus
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Pics of the Week: John McCutcheon!
Posted by: Stephen Winick
This week, we had a very special guest at AFC: folksinger, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist John McCutcheon. John brought us a masterful performance of traditional music, much of it gleaned from fieldwork he donated years ago to the AFC archive. He also graciously sat for an oral history interview. Both were recorded and will become webcasts, …
Posted in: Homegrown Concert Series, Old Time Music
Come to an Irish Session on July 28
Posted by: Stephen Winick
This summer, the American Folklife Center is hosting a series of informal jams to celebrate our living folk traditions, and to bring to life the collections from our vast ethnographic archive. The idea grew out of the jam we held to honor our founding director, Alan Jabbour (see a video here), and the series started …
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Music educators: How might you imagine using our resources?
Posted by: John Fenn
Back in December 2017, a colleague of ours here at the Library published a short piece in the Music Educator’s Journal highlighting the many video recordings of musical performances at the Library of Congress hosted on the Library’s YouTube channel. Focusing on videos documenting the American Folklife Center’s Homegrown concert series, Lee Ann Potter (Director, …
Posted in: Homegrown Concert Series
Botkin Lectures to Go!: African American Online Cultural Resources
Posted by: John Fenn
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 …
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Botkin Lectures to Go!
Posted by: Stephen Winick
The following is a guest post from AFC Folklife Specialist Nancy Groce. Botkin Lectures to Go! Learn More About Folklife, Ethnomusicology, and Oral History through the American Folklife Center’s Online Resources Have you always wanted to know more about folklore? Do you regret not taking that ethnomusicology course in college? Does finding out more about …
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James Mooney Recordings of American Indian Ghost Dance Songs, 1894
Posted by: Stephanie Hall
In the summer of 1894 James Mooney, a scholar of American Indian culture and language, made recordings of songs of the Ghost Dance in several languages. The James Money Recordings of American Indian Ghost Dance Songs have recently been updated and are part of the presentation, Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry. …
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Reel Folk: Cultural Explorations on Film Screening and Discussion Event
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
On September 29th and 30th, 2017, the Library of Congress is hosting “Reel Folk: Cultural Explorations on Film,” a series of free film screenings and discussions organized by the American Folklife Center. The films feature fascinating explorations of traditional culture in the U.S., focused particularly on cultural communities, traditional artists and their cultural practices in …
Posted in: AFC Events, Alan Lomax, Film
Nancy Yunhwa Rao Speaks About Chinese Opera
Posted by: Stephen Winick
The following is a guest post by Wendi Maloney of the Library’s Office of Communications. It is an excerpt of this longer post, which originally appeared on the Library of Congress Blog. Music scholar Nancy Yunhwa Rao will discuss her research and her new book at the Library of Congress at noon on August 9 …
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