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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: Folkvine is an ongoing interdisciplinary partnership project at the University of Central Florida that attempts to place art on the web in a manner that adequately represents select artists and their communities. In other words, the Folkvine Group collaboratively works to artistically tell the stories of selected artists within the context of their community settings.
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Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: Established in 1999, the Department of Performance Studies is the first department at Texas A&M solely devoted to the arts. The Department offers a B.A. and minor in both Music and Theatre Arts. The B.A. in Music offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of music, with courses in composition, ethnomusicology, music history, music theory, music technology, and performance through various means. The B.A. in Theatre Arts provides training in the classroom and in an integrated theatre production program. The curriculum preparesstudents for professional theatre training programs and/or graduate work in the liberal and fine arts, teaching theatre in the secondary school, and a variety of careers in the professional arena or the world of business and industry.
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Subject: Music, Theatre Arts, Ethnomusicology, Fine Arts, Ethnography, Cultural Preservation, Festivals, Religious Ceremonies, Storytelling , Folklore, Indigenous Arts, Women's Studies, Ritual
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: Texas A&M University
Publisher: Texas A&M University
Type: Web Archive
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: Folklore Studies enable students to explore the processes of tradition that move through multiple expressive forms, such as folktales, folk beliefs, folk medicine, folk art, folksong, and literature. A discipline based on ethnographic fieldwork, studies in folklore offer a chance to work in communities and collect living traditional materials that are critical to human identity and values. Interdisciplinary by nature, folklore thrives on local particularities as well as compelling global connections.
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Subject: Storytelling , Folklore
Creator: George Mason University
Type: Web Archive
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