On February 19, German’s national radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur ran a 55-minute program largely focused on Jim Leary’s work with the folk/vernacular/roots music of German-speaking (Austrian, German, Swiss) immigrants to the US. Though the article and the radio program are both in German, excerpts of
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The Smithsonian’s Recovering Voices initiative will host a monthly film-screening series highlighting the crucial role languages play in daily life. Presented virtually this year, the sixth annual Mother Tongue Film Festival features 45 films in 39 languages from regions across the globe.
The Folklore Studies Association of Canada/l’Association canadienne d’ethnologie et de folklore (FSAC/ACEF) will hold its 2021 annual meeting online. The meeting will take place between June 2 and 7. Specific dates and technologies will be communicated shortly. The theme of the conference is
Scholars, graduate students, public folklorists, independent researchers, and tradition bearers are invited to submit proposals for this special folklife issue of the Journal of Ethnic American Literature (JEAL). The 2021 issue will focus on topics related to North American Folklife. The journal welcomes articles,
In Wayne State University’s recently released book, Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales, Christy Williams uses the metaphor of mapping to examine the narrative strategies employed in popular twenty-first-century fairy tales. Mapping Fairy-Tale Spaceanalyzes the television shows Once Upon a Time and Secret Garden (a
The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma invites applicants for college internships in anthropology, archaeology, history, computer science, GIS, and related fields. The Miami Tribe is a federally recognized Tribal Nation with over 5,500 citizens who considers the lower great lakes its original homeland
The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to present “Forward-Looking Philanthropy: A Virtual Conversation Among Funders and Black Scholars” on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 4-5:30 PM EST. Learn more about this event here. This conversation is part of their Humanistic Knowledge in
The National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the National Council for the Traditional Arts, will present “The Culture of America: A Cross-Country Visit with the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows,” on March 4, 2021 at 8:00 pm
The following Journal of American Folklore articles were the 20 most viewed, printed, or downloaded from JSTOR during 2020. 1. E. C. Perrow. 1915. “Songs and Rhymes from the South.” JAF 28:108.6863 prints, views, or downloads 2. Fletcher Gardner. 1906. “Philippine (Tagalog) Superstitions.” JAF 19:74.6352 prints, views, or downloads
The editors of, Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies, are compiling a special issue that will center around the theme: “The Energy Force of Matriculture in Mythology and Storytelling Around the World,” with a publication date of May 2022. Mythology, storytelling, and story-work hold
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