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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
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