Subject: "Voices from the Dust Bowl"
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 17:28:21 -0500
Message-Id: <v02130528b0eac56a7888@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 17:28:21 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: david@ninch.org (David Green) Subject: "Voices from the Dust Bowl"
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
January 20, 1998
"VOICES FROM THE DUST BOWL"
NOW AVAILABLE AT AMERICAN MEMORY
<http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html>
>Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 16:22:33 -0500
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>Subject: [COLLECTION] LC new digital collections
The American Folklife Center and the National Digital Library Program at
the Library of Congress announce the release of the online presentation:
"Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin
Migrant Worker Collection," a multi-format ethnographic field
collection from the American Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture,
has just been made available through the National Digital Library
Program of the Library of Congress
<http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html>. This collection
documents the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration
(FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. This
collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript
materials, publications, and ephemera generated during two separate
documentation trips undertaken by Todd and Sonkin.
In addition, viewers may enjoy "Today in History," accessible through
the Library of Congress's main homepage (http://lcweb.loc.gov/). The
entry uses the fiddle tune "Eighth of January" as represented in
"Voices from the Dust Bowl."
The following materials on our website may also be of interest:
* "California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the '30s,"
another ethnographic field collection from the American Folklife
Center's Archive of Folk Culture, continues to be available online
<http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/cowhome.html>. This elaborate
online collection includes sound recordings, still photographs,
drawings, and manuscripts documenting the musical traditions of a
variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities
in California. It comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in twelve
languages representing 185 musicians.
* "Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United
States," has been revised and expanded for 1997. Chapters include
directories for graduate programs, public sector folklore organizations,
archives, serial publications, and more. This edition will be available
as an online resource only. Please send updates on information in the
directory to Peter Bartis, peba@loc.gov. The URL for this publication
is: <http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/sourcebk.html>.
In addition, the Folklife Center's web pages
<http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/> include many popular publications,
guides to collections, information about projects to publish
recordings from the collections on CD, and the Folkline information
service.
Posted by:
Tom Bramel
NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY PROGRAM
American Folklife Center
Library of Congress
January 7, 1998
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