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Collection: Open Folklore
Description: The American Folklore Society is an association of people who communicate knowledge about folklore throughout the world. Its more than 2,200 members and subscribers are scholars, teachers, and libraries at colleges and universities; professionals in arts and cultural organizations; and community members involved in folklore work.
Captured 2 times between Sep 01, 2010 and Oct 07, 2010
Subject: Folklore
Collection: Open Folklore
Description: The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is an international exposition of living cultural heritage annually produced outdoors on the National Mall of the United States in Washington, D.C., by the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. The Festival takes place for two weeks every summer overlapping the Fourth of July holiday. It is an educational presentation that features community-based cultural exemplars.
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Subject: Folklore , Folk Festivals
Collection: Open Folklore
Description: The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is a research and educational unit of the Smithsonian Institution promoting the understanding and continuity of diverse, contemporary grassroots cultures in the United States and around the world. The Center produces the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, exhibitions, documentary films and videos, symposia, publications, and educational materials.
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Subject: Folklore , Folklife, Folk Culture
Collection: Open 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
Collection: Open Folklore
Description: The collections of the American Folklife Center include Native American song and dance; ancient English ballads; the tales of "Bruh Rabbit," told in the Gullah dialect of the Georgia Sea Islands; the stories of ex-slaves, told while still vivid in the minds of those who endured one of the most harrowing periods of American history; an Appalachian fiddle tune that has been heard on concert stages around the world; a Cambodian wedding in Lowell, Massachusetts; a Saint Joseph's Day Table tradition in Pueblo, Colorado; Balinese Gamelan music recorded shortly before the Second World War; documentation from the lives of cowboys, farmers, fishermen, coal miners, shop keepers, factory workers, quilt makers, professional and amateur musicians, and housewives from throughout the United States; first-hand accounts of community events from every state; and international collections from every region of the world.
Captured on Mar 30, 2011
Subject: Folklore , Folklife
Group: American Folklife Center
Creator: American Folklife Center
Publisher: American Folklife Center
Document Type: Web Site
Collection: Open Folklore
Description: A regional nonprofit organization based in Elko, Nevada, the Western Folklife Center works to expand our understanding of ourselves and our neighbors by celebrating the everyday traditions of people who live and work in the American West.
Captured 9 times between Sep 16, 2010 and Oct 14, 2010
Videos: 387 Videos Captured
Subject: Folklore , Cowboy Poetry, Folklife, American West
Group: Western Folklife Center
Creator: Western Folklife Center
Publisher: Western Folklife Center
Document Type: Web Site
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