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.
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The Pennsylvania Rural Arts Alliance has recently been named as a provisional partner in the PA Council on the Arts’ Folk and Traditional Arts program. As a part of the new initiative, PRAA seeks to hire a folklorist/consultant to build the program.Â
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics welcomes new submissions on the subject areas of ethnology, folkloristics, museology, socio-cultural anthropology, cultural studies and related disciplines.
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections invites proposals for speaker presentations, posters, and panel discussions at its 57th annual conference, May 17-20, 2023. The deadline for presentation proposals is January 6, 2023.
The 2022 AAR elections for the Board of Directors have concluded. Leela Prasad has been elected Vice President and Keri Day has been elected At-Large Director.
The Jazz & Heritage Archive is now accepting Applications for their Competitive Two-year Fellowship. The deadline to apply is December 20, 2022.
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The American Folklore Society proposes five amendments to the AFS Bylaws for your consideration. Together, these proposed amendments aim to make AFS more inclusive, adaptable, agile, and sustainable for the long term.
The 2022 Member Survey is now available securely online and available until December 30, 2022.
We thank all who joined us in Tulsa or online for the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society!
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