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Gold Miners, Circus Performers, and Hairdressers – Stories from the Occupational Folklife Project

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

This post was written by Nancy Groce, an ethnomusicologist and folklorist who is a Senior Folklife Specialist in the American Folklife Center.  After years of planning, research, fieldwork, and archiving, the American Folklife Center is excited to begin online posting of material from its Occupational Folklife Project, a major oral history initiative featuring in-depth interviews …