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COVID Recollections: “Documenting COVID-19: A Panel Discussion on Community-Based Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Now Available Online

Posted by: Douglas D. Peach

On March 11, 2025, the American Folklife Center held a panel discussion with four cultural documentarians of the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of the COVID-19 American History Project. In this post, we feature the webcast of the panel discussion, alongside photos from the event.

Posted in: African Americans, Archival Practice, COVID-19 American History Project, COVID-19 pandemic, ethnomusicologists, Fieldwork, Folklorists, Kentucky, Latino/a, Narratives, Native American History, New York, Ohio, Oral History, Photographs, Storytelling

Community Collections Grant: Los Pleneros de la 21 and Documenting Bomba and Plena Musicians in the Diaspora

Posted by: Douglas D. Peach

In 2024, Los Pleneros de la 21--a NYC-based organization whose members specialize in teaching and performing the Puerto Rican musical genres of bomba and plena--were awarded with a Community Collections Grant (CCG) by the American Folklife Center, to document musicians, teachers, and community members involved in bomba and plena music in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. This post is an excerpt of an interview with LeAna López, the primary interviewer for the project, about the group's CCG work. The full interview is accessible on the Library of Congress' Of the People blog.

Posted in: Community Collections Grants, Fieldwork, Folk Music, Folksong, New York, Oral History, Puerto Rican Americans