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Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: University of Southern California
Publisher: University of Southern California
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: Mason's Folklore Studies Program is a leading center for the study of vernacular cultures and the historical, cultural and social context in which these cultures are rooted. The program has a distinguished 35-year history that offers students of all levels opportunities to study the broad range of human expression including narrative, dance, material culture, verbal art, cultural performances, foodways, and sense of place. Our diverse course offerings provide theoretical and historical grounding in the study of folklore with a strong emphasis in writing and ethnographic research methods.
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Subject: Post-Secondary Education, Dance , Arts, Performance, Foodways, Storytelling
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: George Mason University
Publisher: George Mason University
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The program is nationally recognized and offers an undergraduate minor in Folklore and a Master’s Degree in American Studies with a concentration in Folklore. The Folklore Program provides a flexible and interdisciplinary approach to study, small class sizes, student-centered faculty, and close interaction between faculty and students. Utah State University houses the Fife Folklore Archives, a nationally recognized archive and repository for the papers of the American Folklore Society,
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Subject: Post-Secondary Education, Archives, Traditions, Oral Histories, Folktales, Folklife, Festivals, Dance
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: Utah State University
Publisher: Utah State University
Type: Web Archive
Collection: New Media and Literary Initiatives in Africa (NEMLIA)
Description: The Lagos Book and Art Festival is a comprehensive, four day programme of events; readings, conversations around books, art and craft displays, kiddies’ art workshops and reading sessions, book exhibitions, live music and dance. It will run from November 11th to 14th November 2010 at the large exhibition hall of the National Theatre, Lagos. It is the prime project of the Committee for Relevant Art (CORA), the Cultural 'Landscapists' founded in June 1991 with the mission to create an enabling environment for the flourishing of the contemporary arts of Nigeria and to increase human capacity of the continent. VISION is to make Culture the Prime Investment Destination for the Country and the Continent by 2018.
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Subject: Festivals, Books, Arts, Crafts, Music, Dance , Nigeria
Creator: Committee for Relevant Art (CORA)
Publisher: Committee for Relevant Art (CORA)
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Rose Center Council for the Arts is an organization that is based out of the Rose Center and focuses on folk artists and their works. This center used to be a school and has become the cultural center for Morristown and Hamblen County, Tennessee. The organization puts on a major festival entitled Mount Makins Festival, which focuses on folk arts such as painting, storytelling, and sewing. The Rose Center also houses galleries that feature local artists and folk artists and the exhibits include painting, photography, and student art.
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Subject: Folk Festivals, Education, Photography, Painting, Performing Arts Center, Storytelling, Folk Artists, Performing Arts Centers, City Centers, Dance
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: World Music Institute is a not for profit organization that seeks to present concerts that showcase music from around the world. WMI encourages cross cultural exchange through music and dance by bringing acts to different locations in New York City as well as sponsoring nation wide tours of acts from overseas. WMI was founded in 1985 and is committed to the research presentation, and documentation of the finest in traditional and contemporary music and dance from around the world.
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Subject: World Music, Folk Music, World Music Institute, Dance , Folk dance music, Performance, Concerts
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The mission of ChinaVine is to educate English speakers about China’s cultural heritage. To complete this mission, ChinaVine has created an interactive website to help bring the English speaking community information about the folk art of China as well as the evolving visual, dramatic, and fiber arts of the country. Another goal of ChinaVine is to preserve the folk art of the rural parts of this country since many young people are moving to the cities of China to further their education.
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Subject: Folk Art, Education, Architecture, Dance , Festivals, Culture, Religion, Fiber Art, Literature, Drama, Visual Arts
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Creator: National Task Force for Folk Arts in Education
Publisher: National Task Force for Folk Arts in Education
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The mission of the New England for the Arts is to build connections among artists, arts organizations, and funders powering the arts to energize communities in New England, the nation, and the world. This program was established with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts in an effort to strengthen the arts on a regional level. The programs that NEFA looks to sponsor have a regional, national, and international scope that looks to build a stronger and more dynamic art community in the New England region.
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Subject: New England, Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts, Performing Arts, Dance , Native American, Publications
Creator: New England Foundation for the Arts
Publisher: New England Foundation for the Arts
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Creator: New York Folklore Society
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: WACD is defined by a dynamic interdisciplinary approach that encourages intercultural literacies and repertoires, including and transcending geography, ethnicity, class, and other distinctions of identity. WACD is designed for self-motivated students who want to study the arts in global and local contexts.
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Subject: Post-Secondary Education, Arts, Dance , Cultural Studies
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