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Description: [The Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University supports the learning, teaching, research, and outreach of folklorists and students of folklore. With participation from across the colleges of Arts and Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Education and Human Ecology, the Center provides OSU folklorists with a network for cooperation and interdisciplinary dialogue.]
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Subject: Post-Secondary Education, Folklore
Description: [City Lore’s mission is to foster New York City – and America’s – living cultural heritage through education and public programs. They document, present, and advocate for New York City’s grassroots cultures to ensure their living legacy in stories and histories, places and traditions. They work in four cultural domains: urban folklore and history; preservation; arts education; and grassroots poetry traditions. In each of these realms, they see ourselves as furthering cultural equity and modeling a better world with projects as dynamic and diverse as New York City itself.]
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Subject: New York, Heritage, Cultural studies
Description: [The Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures (CSUMC) is committed to the languages and cultural traditions of this region's diverse peoples. CSUMC fosters research and the preservation of archival collections, while producing educational and outreach programs for a broad public audience.]
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Subject: Folklore, Sound Recordings, Folk Music, Language, Folk Culture, Minnesota, Upper Midwest, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan
Description: [The Folklore Program at the University of Oregon offers perspectives on ethnic, regional, occupational, gender, and other traditional identities of individuals in specific societies. Students study the extent to which tradition continues to enrich and express the dynamics of human behavior throughout the world.]
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Subject: Post-Secondary Education, Folklore
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
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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
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
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
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
Description: [Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation develops partnerships and programs that reinforce artists’ capacity to create and present work, advance access to and participation in the arts, and promote a more sustainable arts ecology. This blog will include essays and entries from guest bloggers, advertise folk happenings around the region, and share other information the Mid Atlantic Folk Art Foundation thinks might be of use to their readers.]
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Subject: Folk Art
Description: [Museum Anthropology Review is an open access journal whose purpose is the wide dissemination of peer-reviewed articles, reviews, essays, obituaries and other content advancing the field of material culture and museum studies, broadly conceived.]
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Subject: Anthropology, Museum culture
Description: [The Alliance for California Traditional Arts is the only state organization focused on all folk and traditional arts. Recognized for its culturally competent leadership, intellectual capital, and excellence in program administration, ACTA is the California Arts Council's official partner in serving the state's folk and traditional arts field. Dedicated to sustaining and fostering the growth of cultural traditions found within the California’s diverse communities, ACTA ensures that its core values of respect, cultural pluralism, and cultural democracy permeate every aspect of its activity and programming. ACTA helps people connect to their past and keep traditions a central part of life today and tomorrow. By supporting folk and traditional artists, ACTA supports the health, cultural continuity and diversity of California.]
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Subject: California, Folk Art
Description: [An association of people who study and communicate knowledge about folklore throughout the world. The web site provides content on The AFS Review, the Society's activities, and The Folklore Commons.]
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Subject: Professional Associations, Folklorists
Description: [The Kule Folklore Centre aspires to become the most important centre for the study of Ukrainian culture outside of Ukraine.]
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Subject: Canada, Ukraine, Post-Secondary Education, Folklore
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
Description: [The International Society for Folk Narrative Research is a scholarly and professional organization of international specialists in the areas of folk narrative, popular literature, folklore, and related fields. According to its statutes, the Society’s main goal is "to develop scholarly work in the field of folk narrative research and to stimulate contacts and the exchange of views among its members." Acknowledging developments in the field, this goal has broadened in recent years to covering all aspects of narrative as representing the pivotal category of human communication.]
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Subject: Professional Associations, Folk Narratives, Folklore
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
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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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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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
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
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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Description: [A collection of folk and mythology electronic texts, edited and translated by D. L. Ashliman at the University of Pittsburgh.]
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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
Description: [The Georgia State University Master of Heritage Preservation Program offers compelling opportunities to pursue careers relating to the preservation, restoration, and interpretation of the physical past.]
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