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Archive of Folk Culture of the U.S. Library of Congress
Features the Archive of Folk Culture within the American Folklife Center of the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Notes that the Archive is a repository for American folk music, and that it includes photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings, and moving images. Offers online access to collections from the archive. Links to other related sites on the archive and the American Folklife Center.
Library of Congress American Folklife Center
The collections in the American Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture contain one-of-a-kind documentation of traditional cultural expressions that date from the end of the 19th century through the dawn of the 21st. Today, there are more than 3 million items of ethnographic documentation in the archive, a treasure trove that represents over 100 years of fieldwork. Chapters: A National Project with Many Workers; Folk Music & Song; Story & Other Narrative Forms; Dance; Material Culture; Community Life & Celebration; For Further Reading; & Music & Spoken Word from the Archive of Folk Culture: A Compact Disc of Audio Recordings Selected by the Staff of the American Folklife Center. Color & b&w photos.
Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture
This booklet provides a practical guide for those interested in contributing material to the Archive of Folk Culture in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The Archive houses one of the largest collections of ethnographic documentation in the world, protects these materials for the future generations, and makes them available to researchers in the study of culture. Its holdings encompass all aspects of folk music, dance, narrative, arts, and material culture of all nations. This booklet explains the legal implications of giving a collection to the Library of Congress and describes how to organize, label, and document the material before transfer. It also includes advice ...
Library of Congress American Folklife Center
Traces the growth of the Library's folklife collection from its roots in the Archive of American Folk-Song, which was founded at the Library in 1928 as a repository for American folk music, to a collection of oral histories of Americans at the turn of the 21st century. The Archive owas incorporated into the AFC when the center was created by Congress in 1976 "to preserve and present American folklife." Today, the collection encompasses all aspects of folk culture from the United States and around the world.--Publisher's description.
