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Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: Advantageously situated within the Department of English with an emphasis on theoretical and writing strategies, the study of folklore at MU offers a unique opportunity for a truly interdisciplinary experience. With associated and affiliated faculty in Religious Studies, Sociology, Classical Studies, Anthropology, Women and Gender Studies, Theater, Art History, African Diaspora Studies, and Romance Languages, just to name a few, and the range of theoretical approaches students can explore increases even more. Folklore itself doesn’t exist in a vacuum: at MU, we believe the study of folklore shouldn’t either.
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Subject: Post-Secondary Education, Religion, Arts, Classical Studies, Anthropology, Gender, Language, Oral Histories , Performance
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: University of Missouri
Publisher: University of Missouri
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: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publisher: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: Penn State Harrisburg
Publisher: Penn State Harrisburg
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: USE THIS SEED TO CAPTURE PDFS FROM ISFNR WEBSITE; DO NOT NEED TO MAKE VISIBLE FROM PUBLIC SITE
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Subject: Oral Histories , Best Practices, Authority Control
Creator: International Society for Folk Narrative Research
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: Talking Across the Lines is a folklife documentary consulting and production firm. This firm looks to tell the stories of minority groups and underrepresented groups that have not been represented in modern media. The oral histories they capture include ethnic groups from all over the southern United States as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender stories.
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Subject: Oral Histories , Interviews, Folklore, Folk Art, Research, Ethnic Groups, Education, Folklife
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: On May 12, 2009, the U. S. Congress authorized a national initiative by passing The Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-19). The law directs the Library of Congress (LOC) and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) to conduct a survey of existing oral history collections with relevance to the Civil Rights Movement (CRM), and to record new interviews with people who participated in the Movement. The survey information and portions of selected interviews will be made available worldwide through the Project website. The interviews will become a permanent part of the national library and the national museum.
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Subject: Civil Rights, Collection Guides, Oral Histories , American Folklore Society
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: Long Island Traditions documents the culture and folk around the Long Island area. This group, in part, focuses on the local architecture that surrounds the area including bay houses, garden apartments, and farm buildings. Since Long Island has a disappearing maritime and farming culture, the Long Island Traditions is looking to preserve the traditions of this culture. Since Long Island has a wealth of diverse ethnic cultures they support major cultural activities including Irish stepdance, African American quilting, and Jewish klezmer music. By employing field interviews and oral histories, Long Island Traditions looks to preserve the cultural heritage of the people of the Island as well as break down boundaries between existing groups.
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Subject: Oral Histories , Folk Art, Historic Preservation, Ethnic Groups, Traditions, Education, Folk Artists, Architectural History
Creator: Long Island Traditions
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Publisher: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
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
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: University of Pennsylvania
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Maine Folklife Center, sponsored by the University of Maine, looks to promote, preserve, research, teach about, engage communities, and provide public programming in the vernacular arts and culture of Maine and the Maritime Provinces. The Folklife Center also offers a Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History that looks to preserve the oral histories of those who have lived in this area of Maine as well as artifacts of the culture that exists there. The Folklife Center also provides students at University of Maine with an opportunity to complete a minor concentration in folklore and provides them with hands on experience of research.
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Subject: Folk Life, Research, Folk Festivals, Preservation, Post-Secondary Education, Folklife Archives, Oral Histories
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