Connecting Themes and Stories

by | Sep 16, 2023

Introduction The West Virginia Folklife Collection housed at West Virginia University Libraries holds over 2,500 items of documented fieldwork produced by the West Virginia Folklife Program, a project of the West Virginia Humanities Council. Digital and publicly...

What About Delia?

by | Sep 16, 2023

Delia Zapata Olivella, daughter, mother, sister, friend, bruja…. She was an Afro-Colombian woman born in 1926 in Santa Cruz de Lorica and lived her childhood in Cartagena, Colombia. Delia Zapata Olivella was a renowned dancer, artist, teacher, activist,...

OurStoryBridge

by | Sep 16, 2023

For thousands of years tribal elders would sit down with the children and tell them stories. The stories were always the same, there was never a word out of place. It had to be that way, it had to be accurate.   Darren Parry, author of  “History and Perspective” and...

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...