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Homegrown Plus Premiere: Chinese Hammered Dulcimer with Chao Tian
We’re continuing the Homegrown Plus Premiere series with Chao Tian, a master of the yángqín, or Chinese hammered dulcimer, as well as a sound designer and visual artist. As is usual for the series,...
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AFC’s Community Collections Grants: Documenting Lao New Year in Iberia...
Below is an excerpt of a guest post on the Library’s Of the People blog comprised of notes, observations, and an interview by Sami Haggood (Project Assistant Director) with Phanat Xanamane (Project...
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Personal Connections to Folklife Collections: The Linda LaMacchia Collection
The following is a guest post by AFC archivist Sara Ludewig. Among the best parts of my job as a Processing Archivist are the interesting human connections that are unearthed during archival...
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National Women’s History Month on the Folklife Today Podcast
We’re back with another episode of the Folklife Today podcast! Find it at this page on the Library’s website, or on Stitcher, iTunes, or your usual podcatcher. In this episode, reference librarian...
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The Alice Fletcher Korean Cylinder Recordings : A Small Part of D.C. History
Alice Cunningham Fletcher, anthropologist and ethnologist, is most known for her work with Native American groups and her early field recordings of Native American culture. However, this blog will...
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Homegrown Plus: Tenzin Choegyal’s Tibetan Music from Australia
Welcome back to Homegrown Plus! We’re continuing to place the 2021 series of Homegrown Plus online, after interrupting it to premiere the 2022 series right here on the blog. (Find the whole Homegrown...
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Asian Pacific American Heritage Month on the Folklife Today Podcast
We’re back with another episode of the Folklife Today podcast! Find it at this page on the Library’s website, or on Stitcher, iTunes, or your usual podcatcher. In this episode, John Fenn and I talk to...
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Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month with VHP interviews in Los Angeles
The following is a guest blog post by Andrew Huber, a liaison specialist for the Library of Congress Veterans History Project (VHP). The idea of an event focusing on collecting stories from Asian...
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Homegrown Plus: From China to Appalachia with Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer, and...
Welcome back to Homegrown Plus! We’re continuing the series with a concert and interview featuring Grammy Award winning American Roots artists Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer together with accomplished...
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Botkin Folklife Lectures Plus: Joseph Palackal on Syriac Christian Music
In the Botkin Folklife Lectures Plus series, we present selected lectures in our Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lectures series that also had accompanying oral history interviews, placing both together in an...
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“A Couple of Guys and an Idea”: Preserving Japanese American Veteran Voices...
The following is a guest blog post by Don Bannai and George Wada, Veterans History Project interviewers with the Asian American Community Media Project. Two years ago a couple of guys, George Wada and...
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Homegrown Plus: Somapa Thai Dance Company and Orchestra Concert and Interview
In the Homegrown Plus series, we present concert recordings from the Homegrown Concert Series that also had accompanying oral history interviews, placing both together in an easy-to-find blog post...
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