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Friend of “the folk” appointed role in Obama transition team
It is heartening news to learn that Bill Ivey has been appointed to lead the Obama transition team with responsibility for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the...
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The Watershed Years of Public Folklore
The American Folklore Society has been around for over a century. As one might imagine, members include folklorists who work in academia, researching, teaching, and publishing. But during the last 35...
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NEA Heritage Award Fellows
Ever since 1982, The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded National Heritage Fellowships, the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. Although this year there are no...
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A Folklorist’s Folklorist: Bess L. Hawes (1921-2009)
. Addressing the American Folklore Society at the 1988 Centennial Meetings, Bess Lomax Hawes told a story about doing fieldwork, the sine qua non of the folklore profession. When she was teaching years...
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