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Latinos
and Latinas in the South (Norma Cantu)
(PDF)
"This report presents data gathered during focus group meetings held
in the region in spring 2003. Teresa Hollingsworth from SAF and
the author visited four communities and met with various community groups
composed of artists, folkorist, cultural workers and others interested in
working with the Latino community."
The report was prepared for the Southern Arts Federation by Norma Cantu with
the research assistance of Rose Rodriguez Rabin.
Dorothy Howard: An Annotated
Bibliography This annotated bibliography of the work of folklorist
and educator Dorothy Howard (1902-1996) provides information on Howard’s
contributions to folklore and education and celebrate her vision and efforts
in the classroom.
Report Submitted to the Public/Academic
Relations Committee, a Subcommittee of the AFS Building a National Infrastructure
Initiative (Lisa Gabbert)
(PDF File)
"The American Folklore Society’s (AFS) “Building a National Infrastructure
Initiative,” discussed at AFS in 1998, grew out of regional folklore retreats
held in the south, mid-Atlantic, and the west during 1997 and 1998. These
retreats and the resulting AFS Initiative were designed to build and strengthen
connections between people working in the discipline with the hope of strengthening
the field as a whole."
State Database Needs Assessment
Survey (George Shoemaker)
(PDF file)
"In November of 2000, the Folk Arts peer group of the National Assembly
of State Arts Agencies met to discuss database needs and standards among state
folk arts programs in the United States. The consensus among folk arts programmers
was the critical function that databases played in the daily work of employees
of state arts agencies. The administration of grants, programming opportunities,
and the dissemination of program information to constituents are chief concerns
among state folk arts programs. Additionally, however, is a newer concern
for the materials that state programs are beginning to archive independently
or on a larger state level through state archives, state historical societies,
or through other digitization initiatives."
Regional Arts Organization
Traditional Arts Report (Jon Kay)
(Link takes you to the Southern Arts Federation web site <http://www.southarts.org/TraditionalArts.htm>)
"The Southern Arts Federation, Inc. (SAF) contracted folklorist Jon Kay
(White Springs, FL) to research, analyze, and prepare a report on the status
of Traditional Arts Programs within the seven Regional Arts Organizations
(RAO’s), partners of the National Endowment for the Arts. A Survey and Analysis
of Regional Traditional Arts Programs and Services is in response to a direct
request from the Partnership Committee of Building a National Infrastructure
for Folklore Initiative, an intiative that developed from sessions at American
Folklore Society and National Association of State Arts Agencies meetings.
This report was developed as a resource for building recommendations regarding
new regional traditional arts programming and the expansion of existing
regional programming. Funding was provided by the Traditional Arts Growth
(TAG) Program of the Naitonal Endowment for the Arts.
Potential Partnership
Organizations (Margaret McEntire)
"We thank the National Endowment for the Arts for funding this endeavor,
which sprang from the 1999 Folk Arts Coordinators’ Meeting at that year’s
conference of the National Assembly of States Arts Agencies. Folk arts
coordinators wanted a listing of other national and regional organizations
whose disciplines intersect with public sector folklore, particularly in the
areas of historic preservation, applied anthropology, cultural tourism, and
bioregionalism, and the coordinators thought it important to include information
about cultural tourism programs and related professional opportunities within
the U.S. Departments of Transportation and Agriculture, as well as the National
Park Service. This modest directory is the result."
American Folklore
Society Public Programs Bulletin
(Back issues on the AFSNet.org web site)
Riki Saltzman's Introduction to Folklore Syllabus.