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Mumming at the American Folklife Center

Posted by: Stephen Winick

This post gives general background to our mumming tradition. For more posts with play texts, videos, audio, and scholarship on the background, please visit this link. Every year, in the week before Christmas, staff members of the American Folklife Center put our research and performance skills into play, bringing collections to life in a dramatic …

Posted in: AFC Events, Folk Drama, Folk Music, Folksong, Holidays, Mumming

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

Symposium sparks broad discussion of ethnographic archives

Posted by: Nicole Saylor

In the weeks since The American Folklife Center hosted the Cultural Heritage Archives Symposium at the Library of Congress, we have learned about several collaborations that developed at the event. Fellow panelists are now co-authoring an article, others are creating a consortial grant application, and attendees from the same city who first met at the symposium …

Posted in: AFC Events, Archival Practice, Cultural Heritage