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FOLK MUSIC

Started before there was a music industry when the role of music was about your life - about the life and times that most of us don't experience anymore and originally folk music was sung because it helped the people get through life and tell stories about their life and work.

Definition of Folk Process

The origin of the phrase " folk process " has been attributed to musician Pete Seeger .

"In ancient days, all the men knew the same hunting songs, and all the women knew the same lullaby. Then, when agriculture was invented, then class society developed and you have priesthood and aristocracy that owned the land, and now they could afford to have, for example, [story telling] music made for them . And this was the beginning of high art.

TEACH HISTORY THROUGH SONG

CUTLURE MAKERS

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Teacher Planbook:
Integrating Folk Music, Folklore and Traditional Culture Instruction Into K-12 Education

WHO COLLECTS AND PRESERVES IT? YOU DO !! National Childrens Folksong Repository

PARTICIPATE IN THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOLKSONG REPOSITORY AN ONLINE PUBLIC FOLKLORE PROJECT

High School Curriculum for Traditional Music


FOLK MUSIC
40's - 60's

FOLK MUSIC GENERAL

  • American Folksong History aligned to state standards
  • Bone playing 'rhythm bones', 'rattling bones' and 'bone playing'
  • 1941 The Helene Stratman-Thomas Collection of ethnic music recordings is especially rich in the songs of French-Canadian, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Cornish, and German immigrants. It also contains the music of Native American groups (in particular the Ho Chunk); occupational songs by lumberjacks, sailors, miners, railroadmen, and cranberry pickers; and Appalachian music performed by Kentuckians who settled in northern Wisconsin . Music Database
  • Ibiblio Folk Music Index
  • Mance Lipscomb
  • A Guide to the Ethnomusicology LP Collection in the Oberlin College Conservatory - Main Library Collection
  • Folk Songs, Airs, Anthems, Ballads, Canons, Ditties,Hymns
  • Wisconsin Folksong Collection 1937-1946
  • D.K. Wilgus Folksong Collection
  • Free Sheet Music
  • Duke Historic American Sheet Music Collection
  • American Memory collections (which also include field recordings
  • Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, we have over 3100 recordings available find a catalog listing or, contact the archivists, Jeff Place 202-275-1150 Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage number, or Dan Sheehy 202/275-1153 Director and Curator Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 750 Ninth Street, NW Suite 4100 Washington, DC 20560-0953
  • Stories of Mountain Folk , Stories of Mountain Folk is an all-sound oral history collection produced by Catch the Spirit of Appalachia, a western North Carolina not-for-profit. The archived files were created from a series of radio interviews that aired weekly on a local radio station. Over 150 half-hour radio programs capture “local memory” detailing traditions, events, and life stories of mountain people. A wide range of interviewees include down-home gardeners, herbalists, and farmers, as well as musicians, artists, local writers, and more. Significant aspects of the American story. Stories of Mountain Folk is the library's first sound collection. Hunter Library's Digital Collections
  • Folklife Sourcebook : A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States, revised and expanded, 1997, is available online. Chapters include directories for archives, graduate programs, public agencies and organizations, serial publications, and more.
  • Save Our Sounds project of the American Folklife Center - Mickey Hart is Rex Foundation board member, trustee of the American Folklife Center and Save Our Sounds Leadership Committee member
  • American Memory Collection
    Captain Pearl R. Nye Life on the Ohio and Erie Cana l.
  • Digital Sheet Music Collection : University of Colorado over 150,000 pieces complete archive of digitized songs by title or theme.
  • Free Sheet Music
  • Library's collection of 6000 cylinder recordings for online access . From the first recordings made on tinfoil in 1877 to the last produced on celluloid in 1929, cylinders spanned a half-century of technological development in sound recording. As documents of American cultural history and musical style, cylinders serve as an audible witness to the sounds and songs through which typical audiences first encountered the recorded human voice. And for those living at the turn of the 20th century, the most likely source of recorded sound on cylinders would have been Thomas Alva Edison's crowning achievement, the phonograph.
  • Canadian Historical Sound Recordings the Library and Archives of Canada multimedia database devoted to the earliest days of recorded music in Canada.
  • The James Madison Carpenter Collection is a major collection of traditional song and drama, plus some items of traditional instrumental music, dance, custom, narrative and children's folklore, from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the USA, documented in the period 1927-55.
  • Richard Robinson's Tunebook
    Downloadable printed folk melodies from Europe
  • The Copper Family Documentry The traditions started with everybody singing in the pub, probably led by the Copper Family because they knew the songs and were the great singers in the village, but it was more of a communal experience - a sing-song and a pint. That then moved to people going to see them, but the important thing to them is singing; they are not that bothered about people watching it.
  • The Max Hunter FolkSong Collection is an archive of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folksongs, recorded between 1956 and 1976. A traveling salesman from Springfield, Missouri, Hunter took his reel-to-reel tape recorder into the hills and backwoods of the Ozarks, preserving the heritage of the region by recording the songs and stories of many generations of Ozark history. As important as the songs themselves are the voices of the Missouri and Arkansas folks who shared their talents and recollections with Hunter. Designed to give increased public access to this unique and invaluable resource, this site is a joint project of the Southwest Missouri State University Department of Music and the Springfield-Greene County Library in Springfield, Missouri,where the permanent collection is housed.
    The Library Center
    4653 S. Campbell
    Springfield, MO 65810-1723
    (417) 874-8110 phone
    (417) 874-8120 fax
  • Mary Celestia Parler Folksong Collection
    Special Collections- University of Arkansas Libraries
    365 N. Ozark Ave. Fayetteville, AR 72701-4002
    (479) 575-5577 phone
    (479) 575-3472 fax
  • Wolf Ozark Folksong Collection ALSO see song list
    Lyon College Regional Studies Center
    Attn: Judy Blackwell
    2300 Highland Rd. Batesville, AR 72501
    (870) 698-4330
    jblackwell@lyon.edu
  • Ozark Folk Center Archives
    Ozark Folk Center State Park
    Attn: Archive P.O. Box 500
    Mountain View, AR 72560
    (870) 269-3851
    ozarkfolkcenter@arkansas.com
  • The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection interested in Ozark Folklore and song form 1952-1970
  • Lesley Nelson
  • Musipedia - searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes. Visitors can also whistle or sing a melody through their computer's microphone in order that they might search the site and find out more about that individual song or melody.
  • Mudcat Folk Music Index - Find references "DT" -- that's the Digital Tradition 9000 song database, a forum where a lot of additional material is discussed.
  • Macscouter - Songs for Scouts and Scouters, short songs, silly songs, and chants.
  • 2006 -Using Folksongs as a metephore - Folksongs for the Five Points The Lower East Side Tenement Museum invited digital artists to create works that explore contemporary immigrant experiences in New York City. With the kind assistance of the Institute for Museum and Library Services (along with the J.M. Kaplan Fund), this rather remarkable multimedia collection allows visitors to explore this very vibrant and diverse community through sounds, text, and language. Upon entering the site, visitors are presented with a visual representation of the Lower East Side, overlaid with a series of dots. Each dot represents a different audio sample recorded at that particular location, such as the sound of steam coming up through a manhole cover or a seafood salesman at work. Visitors can toggle these sounds on and off as they see fit, and even create their own mix of sounds, if they so desire. In terms of both understanding the culture of urban neighborhoods and interrogating notions of immigration and belonging, this website is a tremendous success and may serve as a model for others who wish to follow in this direction.
  • The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
    Indexes to the collections of some of the best-known folk music collectors of the twentieth century is owned and maintained by the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS)

BALLADS

Bawdy Ballads

Folk Music Business

SONGWRITERS TOUR GUIDE by Erik Balkey

Folk Alliance
International and US regional conferences where you network w/ performers, bookers and DJs. Learn the biz, get noticed, find gigs.

FolkBiz and FolkVenu mailing lists

A listing of music open mike nights in the US

Folklife Radio

Whole Wheat Radio is an internet webcast originating from Talkeetna, Alaska.

The Internet Folk Radio List
database of 532 listings about 75% of the programs focus exclusively on contemporary singer-songwriters. The next 20% are bluegrass, and the remaining 5% are traditional music.

American Radio Works

American Routes

Radio Ballads

Alabama Folkways Radio Series

Music from the Sunshine State

The Cumberland Trail

WUMB University of Massachusetts/Boston


Girl bluegrass bands by Joe Wilson Jul 26, 2006
Thanks to Willie for recalling Robert Coltman's fine 1978 JEMF article detailing the many women who performed in Appalachian string bands long before the advent of bluegrass . The Bowman Sisters from northeastern Tennessee were on vaudeville circuits with female groups, playing violin, mandolin, banjo and guitar, beginning in 1926. It seems that Coltman's research, like most other writing about early country music, is based upon a survey of recordings. Records are good and relatively durable artifacts, but offer a somewhat distorted view of this time when a front porch and parlor music was becoming popular entertainment. Live radio seems to have been a far more important and democratic medium of the time, one with a greater personal touch and reach, and many influential artists - women and men -- did well on radio but did not record . A very thoughtful veteran of both mediums, John Hopkins of The Hill Billies told me in an interview that the early success of radio, beginning in 1922, persuaded the well established recording industry to "stop being so uppity." Yet the record people still missed some stunning artists that left big tracks. I will mention just one of scores of possible examples: Kate O'Neill. A ballad singer and songwriting cousin of AP Carter, Kate was performing in a string band as early as 1914. A resident of Josephine, a tiny community near the coal-mining town of Norton, Virginia, Kate perfomed both solo and with all-women groups until the 1980s, and was on radio for over 50 years. Among her many compositions is a favorite hymn of the coal fields, A Deep Settled Peace. Also known as Kate Peters and Kate Sturgill due to marriages, she was among the first mountain singers on radio (1924) and she taught hundreds to play the guitar in Norton. Norton's Country Cabin, a center for jam sessions, dancing, and good times, is a grateful community's memorial to Kate, and an important place on the Crooked Road, Virginia's Heriage Music Trail. I know of no impressions that Kate left in shellac, but her loving spirit and boundless generosity left a huge impression in the hearts of the people of the coal fields. I never met her, yet I have felt her presence in Norton.

Joe Wilson


archie 1962

FOLK AWARDS

Archie Green June 29, 1917 - March 22, 2009

North America's most prominent scholar of labor-related folklore, has been an essential guiding force in the history of AFC. It was largely through his efforts that the Center was created. From 1969 to 1976, Green put his academic career on hold, to live in Washington, D.C. and lobby Congress for the passage of the American Folklife Preservation Act. This act, which created the AFC, was passed unanimously by Congress and signed by President Ford in 1976. As a scholar, Green was best known for his work on occupational folklore and on early hillbilly music recordings. Archie Green's excellent JAF article, Hillbilly Music: Source and Symbol contains the etymology of the word Hillbilly and Ralph S. Peer of Okeh records originated the terms 'Hillbilly' and 'Race' as applied to the record business. Music editor Abel Green the first writer, to combine hillbilly and music in print, but he went to the heart of show business's exploitation of the new product.

American Folklife Center Society Wide Award Nominations

The Center incorporates the Library's Archive of Folk Culture which was founded in 1928 as a repository for American folk music. The Center carries out its congressional mandate through its collections, programs, and services, which have touched all fifty states.

The American Folklife Center

The American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress was created by the U.S. Congress in 1976 through Public Law 94-201 and charged to "preserve and present American folklife."

ALL PRIZES

The Archie Green Public Folklore Advocacy Award

Archie Green Public Folklore Advocacy Award
Nominate someone for this award.

As many of you know, at the 2008 AFS meetings in Louisville the Public Folklore Section voted to institute a second award, modeled on the Botkin Award, to honor individuals contributing to the field from outside the Society. The committee, chaired by Steve Zeitlin, and including Elaine Thatcher, Kathy Condon, Sue Eleuterio, and Peter Bartis were charged with finalizing the name for the award, and setting the process in motion. Marsha MacDowell is the AFS Board Representative. We decided upon "The Archie Green Public Folklore Advocacy Award." Like the Botkin prize, this is a Society-wide award.

Tom Davenport, folklore filmmaker and creator of Folkstreams.net was the first venerable award recipient. The committee, responding to a wide range of support letters, recognized Folkstreams as a visionary project, started at a time when streaming films on the web was in its infancy. It has gone on to become an extraordinary democratic initiative in public folklore and education, exponentially increasing the visibility of the field, and giving grassroots communities across the U.S. access to their own traditions, folklore, and cultural history. In addition, the committee recognized the excellence of Davenport's own work as a filmmaker documenting American folk culture.

Here is the information you will need to submit a nomination. Please submit nominations by August 1, 2010. The Archie Green Public Folklore Advocacy Award is not a cash prize, but the recipient receives a specially designed, framed certificate.

Who is this award for?

Devotees, community members, advocates, and others who generally operate outside the professional field of folklore and who have made significant contributions to the preservation and encouragement of folk traditions in the United States through public oriented projects, programs and other innovative activities. Awardees should have advanced the general mission of public sector folklore either individually or in concert with others, including professional folklorists.

Award Criteria

* Positive impact on tradition(s) and communty(ies). Areas of impact may include cultural preservation, presentation, funding, advocacy, and/or community engagement.
* Depth and quality of contribution.
* Quality and depth of nomination package, including support letters.

How to Submit a Nomination

Nominations should include a primary letter of nomination, a one or two page bio or resume on the individual being nominated, and no less than three and no more than five letters of support from a broad range of people, including community members who have benefited from the nominee's work, folklorists, and people from outside the folklore field. Letters of nomination should specifically address the above review criteria, providing evidence of the nominee's impact on particular traditions and communities.

All nominations and support materials must be submitted in electronic format so they can be distributed quickly and easily to the committee members. Nominations will be active for three years, so nominees from our first round will be once again considered. Please send nominations to Steve Zeitlin, steve (at) citylore.org. Please feel free to contact any of the committee members with questions or suggestions.

Committee Members

Steve Zeitlin steve (at) citylore -dot- org
(212) 529-1955, x 301

Peter Bartis
peba -(at)- loc -dot- gov
(202) 707-4919

Kathy Condon condonk -(at)- aol -dot- com
(718) 797-0236

Sue Eleuterio
sueeleu -(at)- gmail.com
(219) 902-1831

Marsha MacDowell macdowel -(at)- msu -dot- edu
(517) 355-6511

Elaine Thatcher elaine-dot-thatcher (at ) usu -dot- edu
(435) 797.0299



Elaine Thatcher
Proposal Development Specialist, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Program Coordinator, Mountain West Center for Regional Studies
Utah State University
0735 Old Main Hill
Logan UT 84322-0735
435.797.0299 voice
435.797.1092 fax

Botkin Award

Benjamin A. Botkin Prize

Each year, the Public Programs Section of the American Folklore Society joins with the AFS Executive Board to award the Benjamin A. Botkin Prize of $200 to an individual for significant achievement in public folklore. This prize is given in recognition of the work of Benjamin A. Botkin (1901-1975). Eminent New Deal-era folklorist, national folklore editor of the Federal Writers' Project in 1938-1939, advocate for the public responsibilities of folklorists, author and compiler of many publications on American folklore for general audiences, and head of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress from 1942 to 1945, Botkin has had a major impact on the field of public folklore and on the public understanding of folklore.

The review criteria are:

  • Engagement of a broad public audience in the materials of folklore
  • Impact on the field of public folklore: development of models, methodology, visibility, advocacy
  • Impact on communities/constituents and their traditional culture
  • Contributions to the body of materials of folklore/public folklore
  • Quality of artistry in presentation: writing, photography, stagecraft, etc.
  • Quality of scholarship
  • Impact on the discipline of folklore, its theories and methodology
  • Quality/adequacy of nomination package itself
  • Breadth of support, as evidenced by letters from community members and non-folklorists in addition to folklore colleagues

The next deadline for nominations is August 31, every year . Please direct nominations, as well as your questions, to Botkin Prize Committee chair Anne Pryor (608/266-8106), Folk and Traditional Arts Specialist at the Wisconsin Arts Board. Nominations should include a letter of nomination; a one- or two-page biography or resume of the nominee; three to five letters of support from a broad range of people, including community members who have benefited from the nominee's work and people from outside the folklore field in addition to colleagues. Letters should specifically address the review criteria listed above and should explain how the nominee has taken folklore to a broad public audience.
All nomination letters and support material must be submitted in electronic format so they can be distributed easily and quickly to the committee members. Nominations remain active for three years. Previous nominators should contact Pryor to ensure that their nominations are still in the pool, to arrange to send electronic versions of materials previously sent in hard copy, and to inquire about adding new or updated materials to those nominations.

Elli Köngäs-Maranda Award

Each year, the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society awards two prizes in honor of pioneering scholar Elli Köngäs-Maranda. The prizes recognize superior work on women's traditional, vernacular, or local culture and/or feminist theory and folklore.
Student Prize for an undergraduate or graduate student paper (up to 30 pages in length) · entrants must either be currently enrolled in a degree program as of the submission deadline or have been enrolled in one during the previous academic year.

  • carries an award of $100
  • submission deadline is September 15, of each year
  • may be submitted as either hard copy or (preferably) email attachment

Professional/Non-Student Prize

  • eligible work includes: publications, films, videos, exhibitions or exhibition catalogues, or sound recordings
  • materials should have been published/produced no more than two years prior to the submission deadline
  • carries an award of $250
  • submission deadline (postmarked) is September 1, 2010
  • please submit three copies of books, videos, etc.

    The awards will be announced at the American Folklore Society Annual Meeting. Prize recipients need
    not be members of the Society.

    Please direct all submissions and questions to:

    Yvonne J Milspaw
    618 West High Street
    Hummelstown, PA 17036
    yjmilspa@hacc.edu or yvonnemilspaw@yahoo.com
    717 - 566 - 4867


    About Elli Köngäs-Maranda
    Internationally renowned feminist folklorist Elli Kaija Köngäs-Maranda was born in Finland in 1932. She studied Finnish folklore at the University of Helsinki and did her doctoral dissertation at Indiana University (1963) on Finnish-American folklore. She held various research positions, and taught at the University of British Columbia (1970-1976) and at Laval University from 1976 until her premature death
    in 1982. She was elected a Fellow of the American Folklore Society in 1978. Academically, she was known for her structural analysis of traditional culture, demonstrating precision and mathematical intellect,
    but also for her eloquent writing. She published extensively and in
    English, French, Finnish, German, and Russian. Her feminism was
    particularly evident in her research and writing on the Lau people,
    based on fieldwork conducted between 1966 and 1976. In 1983, the
    American Folklore Society Women's section inaugurated two prizes in her
    memory, one for student work and one for professional work, funded by
    highly successful auctions, T-shirt sales, the making and raffling of a
    quilt, and, most recently, the sale of note cards commemorating that
    quilt.

    Barbro Klein's obituary gives the most personal feminist view of Elli
    (see Folklore Women's Communication, fall-winter 1983 (30-31):4-7). For
    an example of Elli's work, see “The Roots of the Two Ethnologies, and
    Ethnilogy.” Folklore Forum 15 #1 (1982):51-58, at
    ( http://hdl.handle.net/2022/1765
    ). See also Felix J. Oinas, “Elli Kaija Köngäs Maranda: In Memoriam.”
    Folklore Forum 15 #2 (1982):115-123, at
    (
    http://hdl.handle.net/2022/1778 ). A full bibliography of her work in
    French and English (as well as several example studies, a longer
    biography, and an introduction to her contributions to folkloristics) is
    in Travaux et Inédits de Elli Kaija Köngäs Maranda, Cahiers du CELAT 1,
    1983. A later consideration of Elli's intellectual contributions,
    particularly her unusual uniting of fieldwork and structural analysis,
    can be found in Leila K. Virtanen, “Folklorist Elli Kaija Köngäs
    Maranda: A Passionate Rationalist in the Field.” The Folklore Historian
    17 (2000):34-41.

    Yvonne J. Milspaw, Ph.D.
    Professor of English and Humanities
    Director, Honors Program
    Harrisburg Area Community College
    Harrisburg, PA 17110
    717-780-2555
    yjmilspa@hacc.edu

FOLK MUSIC, Folklife, Ethnographic Studies, Ethnomusicology Resources, Open folklore project

Alan Jabbour Director of the Archive of Folk Culture

The Center incorporates the Library's Archive of Folk Culture which was founded in 1928 as a repository for American folk music. The Center carries out its congressional mandate through its collections, programs, and services, which have touched all fifty states.

The American Folklife Center

The American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress was created by the U.S. Congress in 1976 through Public Law 94-201 and charged to "preserve and present American folklife."

The Open Folklore project

The Open Folklore Project is drawing a terrific map for societies unsure of how to proceed. Partnering with Indiana University libraries, the American Folklore Society is identifying where their literature is and how much of it is accessible, bringing attention to existing and potential open access journals, asking rights holders if material can be set free, digitizing gray literature so it will be preserved . . . these folks are sharp . And they're doing what scholarly societies should do: promoting the field and sharing its collective knowledge for the greater good.
Article by Ted Striphas on the bizarre blind spot that cultural studies scholars have about the system that they depend on for conveying ideas and (perhaps even in their wildest dreams) making a difference in the world. He points out that cultural studies often unpacks the politics of media - except for those media that they participate in most frequently. He takes issue with the claim that I and others make repeatedly, that they system is broken. He says on the contrary, "the system is functioning only too well " - it rakes in terrific profits based largely on unpaid labor and a captive workforce. It just doesn't work very well for scholars, He does a great job of analyzing the issues and laying out steps that cultural studies scholars should take. It's a rousing call to action, and it's perfectly tailored to the concerns of his field.
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library_babel_fish/open_to_change_how_open_access_can_work

The Folklife Center

The Folklife Center maintains a public reading room and reference service, sponsors concerts and events at the Library, and produces both print publications and published recordings from its collections. The Center initiates field research and also assists ethnographic researchers with an equipment loan program.

The Center also provides services via the Internet. The Folkline information service provides timely information on national events, jobs, and training opportunities in folklife. The Center's Web pages provide a developing area for multi-media information. Our first online collection is now available: California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties, an ethnographic field project documenting the music of a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish- speaking communities in Northern California collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell (pictured left: Mary Goshtigian playing the oud).

Folklife Sourcebook : A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States, revised and expanded, 1997, is available online. Chapters include directories for archives, graduate programs, public agencies and organizations, serial publications, and more.

For an essay on American traditional culture, see Mary Hufford's essay American Folklife: A Commonwealth of Cultures. For more information about folklife collections at the Library of Congress see Folklife Resources in the Library of Congress.

Go to:

Publications of the American Folklife Center including full texts and information about published recordings. A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings, new CD from Rounder Records. Brazilian Music from the Archive of Folk Culture, two new CDs released in cooperation with Rykodisc.

Parsons Fund for Ethnography at the Library of Congress Information about the Archive of Folk Culture including a growing list of guides to the collections.

A list of upcoming events sponsored by the American Folklife Center Folkline Information Service Information about our services to each of the fifty states A guide to other Internet resources related to ethnographic studiesInformation about the Folklife Center's gift funds for private donations. Address, phone numbers, and email information for the American Folklife Center Library of Congress Home Page

Library of Congress
Comments: lcweb@loc.gov (11/24/97)

Library of Congress
American Folklife Center
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Washington, D.C. 20540-4610

The Center's Adminstrative Office and Reading Room are open 8:30 am - 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday (except federal holidays). The Folklife Reading Room is located on the ground floor of the Jefferson Building, LJ G49.

Please include your name, phone number, postal address, and electronic mail address (if any) in any queries so that we may respond in the manner that is most appropriate.

Reference queries may be sent to the Folklife Reading Room at:

Folklife Reading Room: (202) 707-5510
Fax: (202) 707-2076
Email: folklife@loc.gov

Questions about the Veterans History Project may be sent to:

Veterans History Project: (202) 707-4916
Fax: (202) 252-2046
Email: vohp@loc.gov

Austen, Theadocia, Program Specialist, Public Events
Phone: (202) 707-1743
Email: taus@loc.gov

Barton, John, Digital Conversion Specialist
Phone: (202) 707-5870
Email: jbar@loc.gov

Barton, Matthew
(202) 707-1733
Email: mbarton@loc.gov

Berry, Gene, Assistant to the Director
Phone: (202) 707-6710
Email: gber@loc.gov

Bartis, Peter, Project Manager, Veterans History Project
Phone: (202) 707-4919
Email: peba@loc.gov

Briggs, Myron,Digital Conversion Specialist
Phone: (202) 707-5873
Email: mbri@loc.gov

Bulger Peggy, Director (Division Chief)
Phone: (202) 707-1745
Email: mbul@loc.gov

Myron Briggs, Digital Conversion Specialist
Phone:(202) 707-5873
Email: mbri@loc.gov

Craig, Doris, Administrative Assistant
Phone:(202) 707-1736
Email: dcra@loc.gov

Cutting, Jennifer, Folklife Specialist, Reference
Phone:(202)707-1731
Email: jcut@loc.gov

Dyer, Sheila, Veterans History Project
Phone: (202) 707-8215
Email: sdyer@loc.gov

Gold, Jonathan
(202) 707-1728
jongold@loc.gov

Gray, Judith, Folklife Specialist, Reference
Phone: (202) 707-1740
Email: jugr@loc.gov

Hall, Stephanie A., Automation Librarian
Phone: (202) 707-1741
Email: shal@loc.gov

Harlow, Ilana, Folklife Specialist
Phone: (202) 707-1735
Email: ihar@loc.gov

Harvey, Todd, Folklife Specialist, Reference
Phone: (202) 707-8245
Email: tharvey@loc.gov

Hoog, Ann, Folklife Specialist, Reference
Phone: (202) 707-4428
Email: ahoo@loc.gov

Kerst, Catherine Hiebert, Archivist
Phone: (202) 707-1730
Email: cker@loc.gov

Kruesi, Margaret, Cataloger
Phone: (202) 707-9022
Email: mkru@loc.gov

Lee, Jason, Staff Assistant, Veterans History Project
Phone: (202)-707-0919
Email: jlee@loc.gov

Ng, Judy, Processing Technician, Veterans History Project
Phone: (202) 707-0923
Email: jng@loc.gov

Roberts, Timothy, Administrative Officer, Veterans History Project
Phone:(202) 707-4916
Email: trobe@loc.gov

Rouse, Sarah, Program Officer, Veterans History Project
Phone: (202) 707-0213
Email: srou@loc.gov

Segal, Marcia, Processing Technician
Phone: (202) 707-5861
Email: mseg@loc.gov

Shankar, Guha, Folklife Specialist
Phone: (202) 707-4430
Email: gshankar@loc.gov

Spiegel, Taru, Program Officer, Veterans History Project
Phone: (202) 707-9814
Email: tspi@loc.gov

Taft, Michael, Head of the Archive of Folk Culture
Phone:(202)707-1739
Email: mtaf@loc.gov

Taylor,David A., Folklife Specialist
Phone: (202) 707-1737
Email:dtay@loc.gov

Wallace, Andrew, Public Events Coordinator
Phone:(202)707-1732
email: awallace@loc.gov

Yeh, Nora, Archivist
Phone:(202)707-4426
Email: nyeh@loc.gov