A Future from the Past

by | Sep 16, 2023

The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, houses the works of the ethnomusicologist Frances Theresa Densmore, including a collection of more than 2,500 American Indian songs she recorded between 1907 and 1941. Approximately 260 of Densmore’s cataloged...

The Local Learning Teaching with Folk Sources Team answers

by | Sep 15, 2023

Primary sources force us to complicate what we accept as the full story. Alexandra S. Antohin, Journal of Folklore and Education Guest Editor Primary sources allow us to think of documentation as beyond the reporting of information and repetition of established...

Introduction

by | Sep 15, 2023

For me, primary sources have long had an enduring appeal because of their direct link to people and their knowledge. In fact, helping create the conditions for people to share a piece of their lives is what attracted me to anthropology and specifically fieldwork that...

Folklife Education

by | Sep 6, 2023

I work at the Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School (FACTS) in Philadelphia. New teachers coming to teach at our school are unlikely to have had any courses in folklife education in their preservice training, so we kick off new staff orientation with a day that...

Journal of Folklore and Education 2022 Reviews

by | Sep 15, 2022

Advancing Folkloristics. Jesse A. Fivecoate, Kristina Downs, and Meredith A. E. McGriff, eds. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021, 223 pp.) Martha Sims is an Independent Folklorist.   Inspired by presentations and discussions at the 2017 Future of...