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

Work Songs and Other Laborlore for Labor Day

Posted by: Stephen Winick

With Labor Day approaching, I’d love to introduce you to some of our resources on the folklore and folklife of labor. This area of study has many names, from the more formal “occupational folk culture” to the more colloquial “laborlore.”  It also has many sub-areas, from the study of occupational folk speech, including jargon, to …

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The Quebe Sisters: Western Swing & Texas-Style Fiddle

Posted by: Stephen Winick

The following is a guest post by Charles Lockwood, the Operations & Development Director of Texas Folklife, Austin Texas. Mr. Lockwood has an MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Quebe Sisters Band performed in AFC’s Homegrown Concert Series on August 20, 2014. See the concert in the player below: While …