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).

Captured  on Mar 30, 2012

Videos: 4 Videos Captured

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

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.

Captured  on Jan 20, 2012

Subject:   Post-Secondary Education,  Folklore,  Canada,  Ethnography,  Women's Studies,  Arts Administration,  Oral Histories ,  Music,  Folksongs,  Childlore,  Language,  Popular Culture

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.

Captured  on Feb 24, 2012

Videos: 144 Videos Captured

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

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.

Captured 2 times between Mar 09, 2012 and Mar 09, 2012

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

Title: Civil Rights History Project

URL: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/

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.

Captured  on Feb 24, 2012

Subject:   Civil Rights,  Collection Guides,  Oral Histories

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.

Captured  on Jan 20, 2012

Subject:   Post-Secondary Education,  Folklore,  Folk Culture,  Ethnography,  Cultural Heritage,  Popular Culture,  Ethnicity,  Race,  Gender,  Age,  Performance,  Oral Histories

Title: The University of Wisconsin Folklore Program

URL: http://folklore.wisc.edu/

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.

Captured  on Jan 27, 2012

Videos: 3 Videos Captured

Subject:   Folklore,  Post-Secondary Education,  Cultural Expression,  Oral Histories ,  Spirituality,  Language,  Ethnography