A Note

In early August of 2015, as a graduate student in Folklore at the University of Missouri-Columbia, I participated in the Missouri Audio Project, a six-day intensive radio workshop organized by Julija Šukys of the English Department and taught by expert radio producer...
Photographing Folk Artists We Interview

Photographing Folk Artists We Interview

National Heritage Fellows (left to right) Chitresh Das (2009), Norma Miller (2008), Agustin Lira (2007), Evalena Henry (2007), Frank Newsome (2011), Qi Shu Fang (2008). All photos by Alan Govenar. Photographs can document the skills and art forms that individuals and...

Interview as Curriculum and Collaboration

About the Photo: Warm Springs during Pi-Ume-Sha pow-wow 2013.Photo by Riki Saltzman. Introductionby Emily West Hartlerode A folklorist’s approach to interviewing is not only a technique employed for producing high- quality archives, valuable ethnographic research, and...

Filming Deaf Stories

Zilvinas Paludnevicius, second from left, teaching lighting for interviews. This article touches on cultural, linguistic, and technical issues that arise in video recording stories of Deaf individuals who use American Sign Language (ASL). Whether you are Deaf or...

The Artful Interview in Documentary Production

Reprinted from CARTS, a publication of City Lore and Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education.   For seven years, the Oregon Historical Society Folklife Program staff taught youth video production skills to document their communities’...