By Juwen Zhang—It is my honor to share the news of the publication of a trilogy of translations: one volume of essays on proverb studies by Wolfgang Mieder and three volumes of essays on fairy tale studies by Jack Zipes, both published in 2022, following a volume of essays by Dan Ben-Amos published in 2018 – all in Chinese!
News from the Field
Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives, directed by Burt Feintuch, is an exquisitely photographed volume of interviews with contemporary zydeco musicians.
The Utah Division of Arts & Museums seeks a new Folk Arts Coordinator who will be responsible for planning and implementing the State of Utah's folk and traditional arts initiatives. Apply by September 5.
The Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor, in Ethnomusicology (open rank and open field of research).
This two-day hybrid gathering, September 6-7, 2022, invites you to explore the issues complicating and supporting sustainability work across sectors, hosted by Goucher College, the University of Glasgow in Scotland, and the Universidade Federal de Sergipe in Brazil.
The Musical Instrument Museum is looking for a candidate who can preserve this tradition, build on it, and carry the MIM Music Theater forward into the next decade.
Los Cenzontles has been digging into their archives, digitizing archival footage, and sharing them with the broader public.
South Arts has assembled a list of arts organizations and other resources that are guiding recovery efforts for Kentucky as they begin to recover from the devastating floods that hit the Eastern part of the state.
Sixth-generation West Virginian Black writer-poet, advocate, entrepreneur, culture worker, and newspaper publisher Crystal Good was the feature and consulting producer on the 2022 “Black in Appalachia” episode of United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell for CNN.
The National Council of Traditional Arts (NCTA) released the August edition of its Resilience, Reframing, Actions (RARRA) Newsletter, featuring resources for arts organizations and artists to find funding and support.