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Open Folklore Web Archive

Collected by: Indiana University Web Collections

Archived since: Sep, 2011

Description:

The Open Folklore Web Archive is a growing curated collection of websites relevant to the study of folklore to ensure that dependable website information about folklore will always be available. Our collection emphasizes the websites of academic folklore departments and programs, and of public-sector and independent folklore organizations.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Folklore

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Title: The Public Folk Arts and Folklife Projects of the Upper Midwest

URL: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/w/wiarchives/csumc.html

Description: A series of project collection guides highlighting a wealth of ethnographic documentation and public productions generated in the upper Midwestern region since the 1970s.

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Subject:   Folklore Folk Culture Minnesota Upper Midwest Wisconsin Iowa Illinois Missouri Michigan Collection Guides Documentary,  Ethnography

Title: The University of Wisconsin Folklore Program

URL: http://folklore.wisc.edu/

Description: The dynamic and ever-emergent Folklore Program engages varied comparative and interdisciplinary approaches in a broad range of courses on oral, material, social, and spiritual aspects of African, Middle Eastern, Asian, European, American Indian, North, Central, and South American folklore, on theory and the history of scholarship, and on the public presentation of folklore through archives, exhibits, festivals, media productions, and other modes of representation.

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Subject:   Folklore Post-Secondary Education Cultural Expression Oral Histories Spirituality Language,  Ethnography

Title: The American Studies Program at Penn State Harrisburg

URL: http://harrisburg.psu.edu/hum/amst/

Description: The American Studies Program at Penn State Harrisburg integrates perspectives on United States history, culture, and society and represents a vibrant academic field with its own theories, methods, and applications. The Program emphasizes cultural and historical inquiry and the application of American Studies to public policy and heritage --including education, governmental work, museums, cultural agencies, archives, public policy, and communications.

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Subject:   Post-Secondary Education Folklore Folk Culture,  Ethnography ,  Cultural Heritage Popular Culture Ethnicity Race Gender Age Performance Oral Histories

Title: Ozark Studies Institute at Missouri State University

URL: http://ozarksstudies.missouristate.edu/

Description: The Ozark Studies Institute at Missouri State University looks to study the culture of the Ozarks and the people who inhabit the area. This website provides content on the Jews in the Ozarks, folk festivals in the area, as well as information on the Ozark Plateaus and the various collections they have for research.

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Subject:   Folk Festivals Post-Secondary Education,  Ethnography ,  Religion Regional Ethnonology Regional Identity Research Institutes

Title: Texas A&M Department of Performance Studies

URL: http://perf.tamu.edu/

Description: Established in 1999, the Department of Performance Studies is the first department at Texas A&M solely devoted to the arts. The Department offers a B.A. and minor in both Music and Theatre Arts. The B.A. in Music offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of music, with courses in composition, ethnomusicology, music history, music theory, music technology, and performance through various means. The B.A. in Theatre Arts provides training in the classroom and in an integrated theatre production program. The curriculum preparesstudents for professional theatre training programs and/or graduate work in the liberal and fine arts, teaching theatre in the secondary school, and a variety of careers in the professional arena or the world of business and industry.

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Subject:   Music Theatre Arts Ethnomusicology Fine Arts,  Ethnography ,  Cultural Preservation Festivals Religious Ceremonies Storytelling Folklore Indigenous Arts Women's Studies Ritual

Title: Memorial University of Newfoundland Department of Folklore

URL: http://www.mun.ca/folklore/

Description: The Memorial University of Newfoundland is the only Anglophone university in Canada to offer comprehensive folklore programs at all levels. Memorial University is also a vital part of its community - one steeped in unique lifestyles and traditions, and where the study and celebration of culture and heritage is considered crucial. This provides folklorists with rich opportunities for innovative community partnerships and learning experiences.

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Subject:   Post-Secondary Education Folklore Canada,  Ethnography ,  Women's Studies Arts Administration Oral Histories Music Folksongs Childlore Language Popular Culture

Title: Peter and Doris Kule Centre for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore

URL: http://www.ukrfolk.ualberta.ca/

Description: The Kule Folklore Centre aspires to become the most important centre for the study of Ukrainian culture outside of Ukraine. Five strategic priorities have been identified which will be prominent in the Centre's profile: • teaching undergraduate and graduate programs • developing internet materials, including course delivery and resource banks • conducting fieldwork and maintaining a growing archive • reaching out to the community with publications and by other means • supporting researchers and students with scholarships and assistantships

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Subject:   Post-Secondary Education Folklore Cultural Studies Arts Traditions Anthropology,  Ethnography

Title: Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies

URL: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/culturalstudies/

Description: Drawing together students and faculty from various disciplines (Literature, Radio-Television-Film, Ethnomusicology, Theatre and Drama), APCCS provides a forum for engaging with scholarship from a variety of fields and working to synthesize them in the pursuit of distinctive research. Our starting point is ethnographic approaches to performance, representation, visual culture, aesthetics, affect, space, and publics. Our principal attention is geared towards how people perform, produce, and project cultural forms through verbal, visual, musical, kinesthetic, material, and dramatic means.

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Subject:   Post-Secondary Education,  Ethnography ,  Anthropology Performance

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