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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: University of Southern California Folklore

URL: http://dornsife.usc.edu/folklore/

Description: At USC, one can study folklore in various courses, or as part of the new interdisciplinary minor, "Folklore and Popular Culture". The core course: ANTH 333- Forms of Folklore aims to introduce students to the wide variety of folklore from around the world (and from their own lives), and to the basic methods of studying such material. Connected to the course is the USC digital multimedia folklore archive, which connects age-old folklore archiving techniques with cutting-edge technology. The archives is available to the worldwide scholarly community.

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Subject:   Folklore Popular Cutlure Mythology Legends,  Music ,  Dance

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: Mississippi Arts Commission

URL: http://www.arts.state.ms.us/

Description: The Mississippi Arts Commission is a government body that exists to promote arts in Mississippi through programming and administrative means. It is a grant giving body that employs government help to provide for all citizen participation in the arts as well as ties arts in Mississippi to economic growth and development. Besides the grant giving aspect of the Commission there are also the roles that the commission plays in the arts around Mississippi. These tasks include: fostering networks of local leaders and volunteers among arts of all disciplines, consult on community arts programs, and lastly provide training in managing the arts, art education planning, and community wide cultural planning.

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Subject:   Public Art Art Government Departments Art Education Poetry Writing Folk Art,  Music

Title: Brooklyn Arts Council

URL: http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/

Description: The Brooklyn Arts Council looks to utilize the benefits of the Brooklyn Community by showcasing the arts from this area of Manhattan as well as fiscally supporting them. The Brooklyn Arts Council supports the visual artists, dancers, and musicians of this community through grants and providing space for them to perform or display their art. This council is also heavily involved in encouraging arts in schools by providing Arts in Education, a program that looks to immerse teachers and students in educational arts experiences in the full range of arts disciplines.

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Subject:   Folk Art,  Music ,  Visual Arts Culture Communities Dance Folk Dance Art Education Grants

Title: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

URL: http://www.folkways.si.edu/

Description: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution and is dedicated to supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding among peoples through the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of sound.

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Subject:   Folklore,  Music ,  Sound Recordings United States of America

Title: Local Learning

URL: http://www.locallearningnetwork.org/

Description: Local Learning began as the National Task Force for Folk Arts in Education during a 1993 national roundtable at the National Endowment for the Arts. Today, it is a loose network of hundreds of people interested in engaging young people with their own traditional culture and with the local culture and folklore of their families, regions, and the larger world. Local Learning is an organization comprising folk cultural specialists, folk artists, and educators, who have developed Folk Arts in Education (FAIE) programs in a wide variety of educational venues.

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Subject:   Folk Art Folklore Education Folklorists Oral Histories,  Music ,  Dance Cultural Conservation Traditions Popular Cutlure

Title: Folklife in Louisiana

URL: http://www.louisianafolklife.org/

Description: The Louisiana Folklife Program, within the Division of the Arts, is designed to identify, document, conserve, and present the folk cultural resources of Louisiana. Folklife includes living traditions learned informally over time within ethnic, regional, occupational, and family groups.

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Subject:   Folklife Louisiana Folk Art Arts Crafts Language,  Music ,  Film Oral Histories Traditions

Title: Keepers of Tradition

URL: http://www.massfolkarts.org/

Description: This web site — and a complementary exhibition that was on display at the National Heritage Museum from May 18, 2008-June 7, 2009 — draws on eight years of fieldwork by folklorists at the Massachusetts Cultural Council. This investigation took researchers into homes, dance halls, boat yards, places of worship, and festival sites — places where folk art is produced, used and valued. They found, talked with, photographed, and recorded people practicing folk art traditions, with the goal of understanding these practices from an insider's point of view.

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Subject:   Folk Art Massachusetts Celebrations Dance,  Music ,  Religion Immigrants

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: Northwest Folklife

URL: http://www.nwfolklife.org/

Description: The Northwest Folklife Festival spotlights traditional arts across the worlds of dance, art, and storytelling. This festival is a major focal point for many traditional and ethnic performers in the Northwest area. The four-day festival features artists that vary from hip-hop emcees, Irish cloggers, Bluegrass fiddlers, and West African dancers. This festival is a great asset to the folklife community of the Northwest.

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Subject:   Folklife Folk festivals Northwest American Culture,  Music ,  Dance Arts Folk arts

Title: New York Folklore Society

URL: http://www.nyfolklore.org/

Description: The New York Folklore Society recognizes and celebrates the extraordinary in everyday life, bringing focus to the traditions of our state’s diverse peoples. NYFS is the leading resource for folklore and folklife by disseminating research and information throughout the state.

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Subject:   Folklife New York Folk Art,  Music ,  Dance Festivals Celebrations Legends Folktales Foodways

Title: The University of Pennsylvania Graduate Program in Folklore and Folklife

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/folklore/

Description: The Graduate Program in Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania began in 1962 under the direction of MacEdward Leach, a medievalist who taught in the English department, and whose sound recordings from Jamaica, Newfoundland, and the Southern Mountains launched the Folklore Archive. Over the next four decades nearly 250 students earned the Ph.D. in Folklore from Penn. In 1999, the Department of Folklore and Folklife was restructured as a Graduate Program and a Center for Folklore and Ethnography (open 1999-2008).

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Subject:   Folklore Folklife Post-Secondary Education,  Music ,  Performance Folk Art Cultural Studies Popular Culture Film Religion Urban Folklore Anthropology Oral Histories

Title: Traditional Arts Indiana

URL: http://www.traditionalartsindiana.org/

Description: Traditional Arts Indiana is dedicated to expanding public awareness of Indiana’s traditional practices and nurturing a sense of pride among Indiana’s traditional artists. TAI identifies, documents, and seeks to understand more fully the many ways in which cultural values are embedded in daily life. TAI actively documents Indiana’s traditional arts and artists through interviewing, recording, and photographing individuals and groups throughout the state about their crafts and traditions.

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Subject:   Folk Art Indiana Folk Culture Cultural Heritage Cultural Conservation Folklorists Folklife,  Music ,  Crafts

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