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The Alliance
for California Traditional Arts' web site "Artists
and Cultural Heirtage" page features Sound
Traditions and other documentation projects. Sound Traditions is maintained
by Lisa Richardson, Folk and Traditional Arts Manager, Los Angeles County
Arts Commission. It was originally created by the Public Corporation for
the Arts in Long Beach, California with support in part by the Lila Wallace
Readers' Digest Community Folklife Grant, the Fund for Folk Culture, the
City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment
for the Arts. |
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Hosted by Nick
Spitzer from New Orleans, American Routes is a radio
program from Public Radio International that covers the vast American musical
landscape, spanning genres and eras from Aretha Franklin to George Jones,
Los Lobos to Howlin' Wolf, Count Basie to Beck, Gershwin to Dylan, Armstrong
to Marsalis, a cappella to zydeco. |
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The Arhoolie
Foundation The Arhoolie Foundation's primary purpose is the documentation,
dissemination, and presentation of authentic traditional and regional vernacular
musics and by these activities educate and enlighten the public as well
as support and reinforce traditional community values. |
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John Bishop teaches
video production at the Department of World Arts and Cultures and the
Center for Digital Arts at the University of California Los Angeles. He
has produced ethnographic and cultural documentaries on grants and under
contract to a wide range of clients. As a free-lance cameraman, he has
filmed in Africa, the Himalayas, the South Pacific, the Caribbean, and
the United States. The subject matter has ranged over computer technology,
rock video, monkey play, contemporary jazz, Tibetan ritual, modern drama,
and traditional American craft and performance. |
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Documentary Arts Dedicated to the
preservation and presentation of historically and culturally significant
places and people. |
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The purpose of folkstreams.net is to create
a public cultural preserve of important films and videos about American
traditional or “roots” culture, to be video streamed on the Internet with
supporting materials about their artistic, social, and cultural meaning.
“Folkstreams.net” will make these works easy to find and to explore, giving
renewed and greater exposure to work. |
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The Historical
Museum of Southern Florida sponsors an ongoing folklife program
led by Stephen Steumpfle that documents South Florida's cultural diversity.
Current on-line exhibits feature the work of Steumpfle, Tina Bucuvalas,
Katherine Borland, and others. |
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"Iowa
Roots features music, stories, and talk with traditional artists
from a variety of ethnic, geographic, occupational, and religious groups
found in Iowa."
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Dr. James S. Griffith,
formerly of the University of Arizona Library's Southwest Folklore Center
is the author of three University of Arizona Library Web exhibits ...
Mission
Churches of the Sonoran Desert
Southern
Arizona Folk Arts
La Cadena Que
No Se Corta
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Jack Straw Productions has been
a community resource since 1962. Dedicated to the production and presentation
of all forms of audio art, Jack Straw focuses on arts & heritage
partnerships, arts and technology education, radio productions, Artist
Support Program, Writers Program and new music residency programs. Jack
Straw also runs a full-service recording studio that can be rented by
the hour. At Sonarchy,
an audio project of Jack Straw Productions, you can listen to or upload
sounds. |
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Utah Arts Council
Folk Arts Program booklets and CDs are all products of the
Folk Arts Program of the Utah
Arts Council, a state agency. They are produced to document Utah's
cultural and artistic traditions and to make this information available
to the general public. They have been produced with state and federal funds
and all proceeds from their sale are used to produce similar products
featuring the traditional arts of Utah's cultural communities. |
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Washington
State Arts Commission Folk Arts Program Heritage Tours and Guidebooks. “The tours consist of cassette tapes
and informative illustrated booklets providing sequential information and
a rich collection of sounds and images to be followed as you drive along various
heritage corridor routes. Produced by the Washington State Arts Commission,
the tours introduce you to the people of the different areas of the state
and their rich array of traditional expressions of culture.” |
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All of the
Western Folklife Center's web site is worth a long visit, but the Western Folklife
Media section is dedicated to telling the stories of the
wisdom and brilliance of ordinary people. The Media Office produces award-winning
programming for public radio and television nationwide. Radio efforts include
Voices of
the West, a series of one-hour documentaries on holiday celebration
in the West. The Western Folklife Center also produces video programming
and is working on a documentary, Why the Cowboy Sings. Stay tuned. |
