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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 Alaska Native Heritage Center

URL: http://alaskanative.net/

Description: The mission of the Alaska Native Heritage Center is to share, perpetuate and preserve the unique Alaska Native culture, languages, traditions and values through celebration and education. The Center does this by promoting the arts and languages of these people through programs in school and at the Center that focus on the culture around these arts and languages. The Center also focuses on preserving the past as well as establishing a clear idea of the present culture of the people in this area.

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Subject:   Art Education Culture Languages Education,  Folk Culture ,  Folk Museums Indigenous Arts Indigenous People

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: YouTube Channel for The Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures: Part 1

URL: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/uwcsumc/uploads?max-results=50

Description: The YouTube Channel for the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures.

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Subject:   Folklore,  Folk Culture ,  Minnesota Upper Midwest Wisconsin Iowa Illinois Missouri Michigan Moving Image Recordings

Title: YouTube Channel for The Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures: Part 2

URL: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/uwcsumc/uploads?max-results=50&start-index=50

Description: The YouTube Channel for the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures.

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Subject:   Folklore,  Folk Culture ,  Minnesota Upper Midwest Wisconsin Iowa Illinois Missouri Michigan Moving Image Recordings

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: California Traditional Music Society

URL: http://www.ctmsfolkmusic.org/

Description: The California Traditional Music Society is an educational organization that supports, promotes and encourages participation in traditional arts of the diverse communities of southern California. The California Traditional Music Society attempts to accomplish these goals through festivals, concerts, and other events, public education and services to artists. The two major ways they achieve this is by holding Music in the Schools workshop series and a House Concert Series.

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Subject:   Education Folk Music,  Folk Culture ,  Concerts Music Festivals Outreach Programs

Title: Philadelphia Folklore Project

URL: http://www.folkloreproject.org/

Description: Here at the Philadelphia Folklore Project, we are committed to paying attention to the experiences and traditions of "ordinary" people. Our focus is to build critical folk cultural knowledge, sustain vital and diverse living cultural heritage in communities in our region, and create equitable processes and practices for nurturing local grassroots arts and humanities.

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Subject:   Folk Art Folklore,  Folk Culture ,  Cultural Heritage Grassroots Folklife

Title: Institute for Community Research

URL: http://www.incommunityresearch.org/

Description: The Institute for Community Research looks to use collaborative action research to bring their projects and programs directly into communities. The Institute looks to hold their research in the place where residents live, work and socialize. By being in the place where the residents call home the Institute looks to open up a dialogue process that drives their partnership with the community and its leaders where everyone can determine the priority concerns for the community. The Institute for Community Research looks to incorporate their cornerstone principles of collaboration and partnership, action research, recognizing the value of culture, and intervention, health promotion and health prevention. These pillars of the organization allows for the foundation to work in collaboration with the community they are doing action research in while also helping other communities through new methods of health initiatives and preservation of community culture.

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Subject:   Community Research Research Institutes,  Folk Culture ,  Cultural Diversity Health Care

Title: Traditional Arts in Upstate New York

URL: http://www.tauny.org/

Description: The Traditional Arts in Upstate New York is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to showcasing the folklife, folk arts, and culture of the upper counties of New York state. TAUNY does this by preserving, promoting, and collecting the arts that come from the people of this section of the state of New York. This organization is dedicated to helping people appreciate and understand the traditions and local culture of the people of North Country.

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Subject:   New York Folk Art Culture,  Folk Culture ,  Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, Inc. North Country (N.Y.) Folk Life

Title: Texas Folklife

URL: http://www.texasfolklife.org/

Description: Texas Folklife is a statewide organization dedicated to preserving and presenting the diverse cultures and living heritage of the Lone Star State. Since its beginning twenty-nine years ago, Texas Folklife has honored the cultural traditions passed down within communities across Texas and have showcased them through exhibits, educational programs, and outreach activities. To further their goal of making the arts and culture of Texas accessible Texas Folklife holds performances, puts on radio and television programs, and hosts community residencies.

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Subject:   Folklife Texas,  Folk Culture ,  Texas Folklife Exhibitions Outreach Programs Nonprofit organizations

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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