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The American Folklife Center: 40 Years of Change

Posted by: Stephen Winick

The following post is part of a series of blog posts about the 40th Anniversary Year of the American Folklife Center. Visit this link to see them all! This year the Library’s American Folklife Center (AFC) turns 40. Detailed histories of AFC are available elsewhere [1], so we thought we’d do something different in this …

Posted in: AFC 40th Anniversary, AFC Awards, AFC Events, AFC History, Alan Jabbour, Alan Lomax, Archival Practice, Folklorists, Internship program, Material Culture, Oral History, U.S. Congress

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

American Folklife Center Reissues Four Historic LPs

Posted by: Stephen Winick

The following guest post by Jennifer Cutting is part of a series of blog posts about the 40th Anniversary Year of the American Folklife Center. Visit this link to see them all! The American Folklife Center (AFC) is pleased to announce the availability online of four titles from our historic series of record albums, Folk …

Posted in: AFC 40th Anniversary, AFC Events, AFC History, African American History, African Americans, Alan Jabbour, Alan Lomax, Cowboy and Western Music, Cowboys, Duncan Emrich, ethnomusicologists, Folk Music, Folklorists, Folksong, John Lomax, John Wesley Work III, Marshall W. Stearns, Native American History, Old Time Music, Willard Rhodes