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Alan Lomax | Folklife Today
Cormac Ó hAodha and the Múscraí Gaeltacht: Botkin Plus Podcast! June 13, 2024 Posted by: Stephen Winick We're back with another entry in the Botkin Plus series AND another episode of the Folklife Today podcast! In this entry, we'll provide the video of a Botkin Lecture and a podcast interview, both of them featuring Cormac Ó hAodha. Cormac is the most recent Lovelace Fellow (aka Lomax Scholar) at the Library of Congress's John W. Kluge Center.
John Lomax | Folklife Today
Guess Who Just Turned 50? Lead Belly on a Milestone Disc from the Archive March 18, 2026 Posted by: Stephen Winick In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the American Folklife Center, we take a look at the 50th disc accessioned for the Archive of Folk Song. The disc numbered AFS 50 features Huddie Ledbetter, more generally known as “Lead Belly,” singing “Go Down Old Hannah” and “In Them Long Hot Summer Days” in 1935.
Semiconductor Thermal and Electrical Properties Decoupled by Localized Phonon Resonances (Adv. Mater. 26/2023)
Graphical Abstract Phonon-Engineered Thermoelectricity In article 2209779, Mahmoud I. Hussein, Kris A. Bertness, and co-workers demonstrate a reduction in the in-plane thermal conductivity of semiconductor membranes by coupling heat-carrying phonons to the localized phonon resonances emerging from deposited nanopillars. This full-spectrum resonance–hybridization mechanism decouples the electrical and thermal properties, paving the way for novel thermoelectric materials.
More Haitian Voices: The Rigaud collection finding aid goes online
This guest post was authored by Marcia K. Segal, an archivist at the American Folklife Center who processed and authored the finding aid to the collection she describes below. Melville Herskovits, Alan Lomax, and Laura Boulton – three notable collectors, whose recordings of religious expression in Haiti are among the collections at the American Folklife Center.
Archive: September 2022 (9 Posts)
Homegrown Plus Premiere: Vigüela’s Traditional Song and Music from Central Spain September 14, 2022 Posted by: Stephen Winick We're continuing the Homegrown Plus Premiere series with Vigüela, a a traditional folk quintet with a commitment to the rural musical traditions of central Spain.
Crowdsourcing Information and Disinformation: The World War II Rumor Project available through By the People
Staff from the American Folklife Center and By the People have again teamed up for a crowdsourcing campaign. We are asking volunteers to read and transcribe the Center’s World War II Rumor Project. The digital collection is online and the crowdsourcing campaign is now live. The World War II Rumor project was conceived by U.S. Government’s Office of War Information (OWI) in 1942, a time when people learned about world events from radio, newspapers, and from each other.
Archive: August 2022 (8 Posts)
Botkin Folklife Lectures Plus: Camille Moreddu on French American Traditions August 10, 2022 Posted by: Stephen Winick This post features a lecture by Camille Moreddu, a cultural historian from France who is studying what she calls the "French Creole Corridor," French-speaking communities, primarily in the Upper Midwest, which retained fascinating French music and song recorded by collectors in the 20th and 21st centuries. In her lecture.
Guthries, Lomaxes, and Seegers
The “Great Folk Scare” of the 1930s-1950s had few surnames more prominent than Guthrie, Lomax, or Seeger. They were multi-generational families who today continue to practice folk music and illuminate tradition bearers. The American Folklife Center holds archival collections documenting these families and so we have produced guides to aid research access.
Category: Ruth Crawford Seeger
Guthries, Lomaxes, and Seegers August 22, 2022 Posted by: Todd Harvey The "Great Folk Scare" of the 1930s-1950s had few surnames more prominent than Guthrie, Lomax, or Seeger. They were multi-generational families who today continue to practice folk music and illuminate tradition bearers. The American Folklife Center holds archival collections documenting these families and so we have produced guides to aid research access. This blog post explains and introduces the new guides.
Woody Guthrie | Folklife Today
Arlo Guthrie Birth Announcement by Woody Guthrie Featured at No Depression July 8, 2020 Posted by: Stephen Winick As our readers may remember, we've been working with No Depression, The Journal of Roots Music, which is published by the nonprofit Freshgrass Foundation. They're publishing a column called Roots in the Archive, featuring content from the American Folklife Center and Folklife Today.
Archive: July 2022 (8 Posts)
AFC’s Community Collections Grants Recipients: An Interview with Urban Artistry’s Junious Brickhouse July 18, 2022 Posted by: Michelle Stefano In March, the Library announced the ten recipients of the AFC's Community Collections Grants, officially launching this new, multiyear program.
Conversation with Nathan Salsburg, Curator at the Lomax Association for Cultural Equity
The American Folklife Center’s partnership with the Association for Cultural Equity dates from the Library’s acquisition of the Alan Lomax collection in 2004. The partnership focuses on creating access to and awareness of Lomax Family collections. The following is a conversation between Todd Harvey and Nathan Salsburg, respective curators from the American Folklife Center (AFC) and Association for Cultural Equity (ACE). TH: Hi Nathan, thanks for taking time to talk.
Music and Dance collections at the American Folklife Center
Music and dance have such prevalence in American Folklife Center collections that, appropriately, we announce guides to these cultural expressions in the same Folklife Today post. The resource guides “Music in the United States” and “Dance” provide descriptive access to more than 1000 AFC collections. Music and dance are intangible cultural expressions that lend themselves to documentation and research (given their public or community-based nature).
ETL: Searching the Lomax family papers through the magic of crowdsourcing
“ETL” is a wonderful acronym, a non-word, a nickname for a phrase by which insiders describe a complex process. ETL in the context of digital collections at the Library of Congress is short for “extract, transform, and load.” To a curator working with crowdsourced archival material “ETL” in an email subject line signals the final step in a process by which an archival collection becomes full-text searchable, the gold standard for access to manuscript materials.
OPINION EXCHANGE | Counterpoint: Work's about pulling your weight, not finding your bliss
If millennials such as Erin Lowry ("Millennials and the Great Resignation," Opinion Exchange, Nov. 2) learned just a little bit of history, they wouldn't so readily dismiss us baby boomers. Specifically, they'd learn the history of the 1960s and '70s, of the seismic upheaval of cultural norms and values that took place then, and of the subsequent social advances in so many areas that were largely a result of boomer pressure.
Donate toys for holiday
I would like to ask the public to help in filling the Toys for Tots boxes. T have seen a lot of boxes that have none or very few donations of toys. Each child deserves to have something for Christmas and this is a great way of helping out.There are drop off boxes across our area.There is a Toys for Tots box at the Sunbury police station that I would love to see filled. So please drop off your new, unwrapped toy and help a child have a Christmas. Todd Harvey,Sunbury
Church and state: A personal and public tug of war
“Are you one of those Moon people?” The question was a challenge, tinged with hostility. I sighed and thought to myself: “Here we go again.” “Witnessing” for the Unification Church (Moonies) in the 1970s was not easy. In the beginning, we were able to pass ourselves off as just another Christian splinter sect, and people were mildly supportive. But the more they heard about us, the tougher it became. The press was mostly negative, with stories of mistreatment, brainwashing and “heretical” teachings.
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