This podcast, hosted by Kluge Center Distinguished Visiting Scholar Adam Rothman, explores the lives of three African Americans whose passages through the 19th-century are uniquely documented in the Library’s manuscripts.
Categories: Arts
Tags: American Folklife Center, cultural traditions, folklife, interviews, library of congress, LOC, music, oral history, songs, storytelling
Explore Global Heritage Issues: No Borders, Just Microphones Join your host, Dr. Sarah Chicone, Director of Johns Hopkins University’s Cultural Heritage Management graduate program, as she helps us keep our finger on the pulse of heritage in our changing world. Meet leading heritage professionals in the field and listen as they discuss the biggest challenges and accomplishments of heritage today.
Categories: Education, History
Tags: Archaeology, art, CulturalHeritage, Culture, folklife, heritage, History, museums, tourism, travel, worldheritage
America Works, an ongoing podcast series from the Library of Congress, features the voices of contemporary workers from throughout the United States talking about their lives, their workplaces, and their on-the-job experiences. Drawn from hundreds of longer oral history interviews collected by fieldworkers for the American Folklife Center’s Occupational Folklife Project (OFP), America Works is a testament to the wisdom, wit, knowledge, and dedication of today’s working Americans. These engaging oral histories, which have are preserved in the American Folklife Center’s archive, are enriching and expanding America’s historical record. Interview with cement plant worker Jude Bejarano, who was interviewed by historian Vyta Pivo as part of a project documenting the occupational culture of Cement Workers in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. The Lehigh Valley is considered “the birthplace of the American cement industry.”
Categories: Arts
Tags: America Works American Folklife Center, folklife, interviews, library of congress, LOC, occupational folklife, oral history, storytelling
Folklife Today tells stories about the cultural traditions and folklore of diverse communities, combining brand-new interviews and narration with songs, stories, music, and oral history from the collections of the Library of Congress’s American Folklife Center.
Categories: Arts
Tags: American Folklife Center, cultural traditions, folklife, Folklife Today, interviews, library of congress, LOC, music, oral history, songs, storytelling