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Recent Releases
Emily Hilliard explores contemporary folklife in West Virginia in Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia, which is available from the University of North Carolina Press.
Roots of American Culture: A Cross-Country Visit with Living Treasures of the Folk and Traditional Arts, which celebrates the 2022 NEA National Heritage Fellowship honorees, is available to view now.
The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum and the University of Illinois Press are partnering to co-publish and distribute books on country music and related music styles. The first release in the partnership is Western Edge: The Roots and Reverberations of Los Angeles Country-Rock, the museum’s new companion book to its major multi-year exhibition of the same name.
Descendant, which screened at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society, is available today on Netflix.
The National Council of Traditional Arts (NCTA) released the October edition of its Resilience, Reframing, Actions (RARRA) Newsletter, featuring resources for arts organizations and artists to find funding and support.
Tulsa-based Moheindu Chemjong Karki has translated her grandfather's book of folk tales published in Nepal more than 50 years ago, in Kirati Folk Stories, by Iman Singh Chemjong (Outskirts Press).
The Fall issue (v. 135, no. 538) of the JAF: A Global Quarterly will be available online and will arrive in mailboxes soon
The Notable Folklorists of Color online exhibition, sponsored by the American Folklore Society, now features Expanding the Frames, with more than 135 new ancestor scholars who have contributed to folklore studies, as well as a variety of rich supplemental material. A preview of the new exhibition is available now, with the rest of the new material to be released over the course of the next few weeks.
Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) shares a recently published report, Communities of Change: Traditional Arts as Enduring Social Practice in California’s Bay Area, commissioned by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and written by Amy Kitchener, Executive Director, and Lily Kharrazi, longtime