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FINDING THE INVISIBLE: Folklore in Sense of Place

Online Folklife Scavenger Hunt:
Finding Folklore Across the American Memory Collections

1. Find contact information for a folklorist at a college or university, museum, or public agency near your community.
   Folklife Sourcebook

     Answer:

    

2. Choose two recordings of traditional music, one secular and one sacred, that you would like to own and briefly explain why. Search in these two online catalogs.
   1. Library of Congress and Rounder Records Folk Music
   2. The Endangered Music Project

     Choice #1:

     Choice #2:

    

3. What do you see that's related to folklife in this image?
   View to Television Bar, Willowbrook Estates

     Notes:

    

4. Find a Basque recording in California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties.

     Name of selection:

    

5. Search for an example of folk culture that is familiar to you and describe what you know about it as a "cultural insider."

    

6. Find three examples of traditional foodways in the American Memory collections.

    

    

7. Find something related to the following rituals in the American Memory collections. Note beside each ritual what you found.
   1. A wedding

   2. Funerals or graveyards

   3. Some other rite of passage

   4. A sacred or secular holiday celebration

8. Find images of three sacred places in the American Memory collections.

9. Find two types of elite, popular, or folk dance in the American Memory collections.

10. Find a lullaby in Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip.

    Name of lullaby:

    Name of performer(s):

    Place and date recorded:

 

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