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Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The South Georgia Folklife Project is an outgrowth of ten years of field documentation and public programs from 1996-2006. This collection that is housed at Valdosta State University includes both published and unpublished materials that document the traditional culture of the southern third of Georgia. Highlights of this collection include online exhibits and a radio archive as well as the practical tool of a finding aid.
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Subject: Folklore, Folklore Libraries, Georgia, Research , Radio Archives, Sacred Harp, Finding Aids, Archives, Folklife Archives
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Center for the Study of Southern Culture looks to investigate, document, research, interpret, and teach about the American South. The interdisciplinary investigation of the South is mindset of this program while the academic program is the heart and main focus of the researchers. The students and professors of this program focus on the region of Mississippi and the Delta. Over the last quarter century the Center has become a focal point for innovative education and research on the American South, promoting scholarship on many aspects of southern culture, and encouraging public understanding of the South.
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Subject: Southern States, Post-Secondary Education, Folklife, Research , Blogs, Publications
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: Talking Across the Lines is a folklife documentary consulting and production firm. This firm looks to tell the stories of minority groups and underrepresented groups that have not been represented in modern media. The oral histories they capture include ethnic groups from all over the southern United States as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender stories.
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Subject: Oral Histories, Interviews, Folklore, Folk Art, Research , Ethnic Groups, Education, Folklife
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Institute for Community Research looks to use collaborative action research to bring their projects and programs directly into communities. The Institute looks to hold their research in the place where residents live, work and socialize. By being in the place where the residents call home the Institute looks to open up a dialogue process that drives their partnership with the community and its leaders where everyone can determine the priority concerns for the community. The Institute for Community Research looks to incorporate their cornerstone principles of collaboration and partnership, action research, recognizing the value of culture, and intervention, health promotion and health prevention. These pillars of the organization allows for the foundation to work in collaboration with the community they are doing action research in while also helping other communities through new methods of health initiatives and preservation of community culture.
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Subject: Community, Research , Research Institutes, Folk Culture, Cultural Diversity, Health Care
Creator: Institute for Community Research
Publisher: Institute for Community Research
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Jubilee Community Arts seeks to preserve and present the traditional arts of the Southern Appalachians. The organizations defined mission is “to promote, preserve and present the performing arts of the Southern region and to nurture the cultural milieu responsible for the birth and evolution of these and related art forms”.
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Subject: Archives, Research , Radio, Folk Festivals, Education, Folk Art Museums, Folk Art, Concerts, Concert Halls
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Maine Folklife Center, sponsored by the University of Maine, looks to promote, preserve, research, teach about, engage communities, and provide public programming in the vernacular arts and culture of Maine and the Maritime Provinces. The Folklife Center also offers a Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History that looks to preserve the oral histories of those who have lived in this area of Maine as well as artifacts of the culture that exists there. The Folklife Center also provides students at University of Maine with an opportunity to complete a minor concentration in folklore and provides them with hands on experience of research.
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Subject: Folk Life, Research , Folk Festivals, Preservation, Post-Secondary Education, Folklife Archives, Oral Histories
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