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...

“An Electromagnetic Tenderness of Remembering”

by | Sep 15, 2022

This interview engages with how one folklorist’s interests in recording spoken sounds and memories of his grandmother opened a pathway to recording the memories and sounds of living descendants of traditional Appalachian balladry. Through the processes of engaging...

“Il repose ici”

by | Sep 15, 2022

The Great October Storm of 1893, despite remaining one of the largest natural disasters in the U.S. to date, was lost to history for nearly 100 years. It remained untold in hurricane treatises and in general literature and lingered only in the colloquial memory of...