... Lyons , certified archivist, works as a folklife specialist and digital assets manager with the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Since 2002, he has served as archivist (and now consulting archivist) at the Alan Lomax Archive / Association for Cultural Equity in New...

..., it focuses on the digital tools and means of communication that made such an extensive collaborative undertaking possible. American Folklife Center American Folklore Society the Civil Rights Movement Oral History Survey Project Library of Congress National Museum of African American History and Culture...

... debt to previous literature is acknowledged and its cut-off date justified. The book’s partition into chapters and the importance of printed sources for the purposes of the songs’ analysis are explained. Several field recordings that are only available at the Library of Congress are transcribed...

.... These provide the major venues through which history becomes part of our memories. A short section on theory and major works on memory and memorials is followed by a personal reflection on history making in several major institutions in which the author worked: the Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress...

... Vera —recordings New Deal “One Morning in May” Shipp sisters Christine and Katherine Sturdivant Bozie technology Virginia Folklore Society Works Progress Administration WPA WPA Works Progress Administration ambient sounds A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings CD blues Fisk...

..., and vocal effects. Three of these numbers, along with the earliest published recordings of Muddy Waters, subsequently appeared on an album of African American blues and game songs issued by the Library of Congress. This news came as a surprise to her nephew, Sonny Milton. He then asked why anyone would care...

... Owen Cannon Gus Diddley Bo Forrester Howdy “Hungarian Rhapsody ” Winchell Walter WSM radio British broadsides Fisk University Library of Congress project Great Britain “Logan Waters ” Muddy Waters Burns Robert Curtis Roger Eliott George Augustus Far from the Madding Crowd Hardy French...

... Walk Your Log ” Library of Congress Muddy Waters television U S Constitution Brown Sterling “Freedom ” Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet aka Golden Gate Singers Hayes Roland jubilee singers Locke Alain White Josh Vera Hall housemaids Library of Congress recordings Another Man Done Gone Ruby...

... Library of Congress project Folk Music of the United States LC series —recordings lullabies technology A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings CD Gladden James Thomas Texas’s husband Gladden Mary James’s sister Gladden Mary Texas’s daughter Gladden family photographs Henrytown Va...

... Africa Douglass Frederick Equiano Olaudah Jacobs Harriet republicanism Dial The feminism abolitionism Ralph Waldo Emerson Margaret Fuller intellectual history Library of Congress Romanticism transcendentalism liberal Protestantism pro-slavery thought In the early years of the republic...

... at the U.S. Capitol, the National Archives, and the Library of Congress, and the stories they tell about George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and other famous white men they depict as proto-evangelical Christians. This chapter also introduces the Christian heritage industry, including early...

..., in 1908 and the rise of independents saw a restructuring of the American film industry. Edison Thomas phonograph Transmedia storytelling Kinetoscope Armat Thomas Black Maria Jenkins Charles Frances Lumière brothers Vitascope actualities Library of Congress nickelodeon era saloons The Big...

... at the Library of Congress, where we find the ghost writer at work, drafting and redrafting his novel. Bellow Saul Frank Anne James Henry Roth Philip early journalism Stern Richard Barthes Roland Foucault Michel Nietzsche Friedrich as used by Roth in discussing Bellow Coetzee J M Gooblar David Freedman...

...This chapter examines the state of soap opera collections in three major U.S. television archives: the University of California Los Angeles Film & Television Archive; the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound division; and the Paley Center for Media. Exploring...

...This chapter focuses on the development of a national film collection at the Library of Congress, a repository in which the outstanding films of each year could be collected and preserved for posterity. Efforts to achieve this have been ongoing, if fitful. A significant boost to the cause came...

... to authoritarianism under Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. Although the Library of Congress was a relatively small institution as US government agencies go and, with limited exceptions, had no explicit legal or budgetary mandate to involve itself in foreign policy, Billington continued efforts almost to the end of his...

...This chapter discusses three factors, specific to the Library of Congress, which are important in explaining why and how the Library interacted so intensively with Russia after 1987. The first was James H. Billington's appointment as Librarian of Congress and his personal commitment to using his...

... restoration Northeast Historic Film American Film Institute Colorization National Film Preservation Act 1988 Copyright Memory National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Humanities National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965 Barry Iris Young Colin Library of Congress...

... State of American Film Preservation Library of Congress Lukow Greg Melville Annette National Film Preservation Act 1992 Simmons Scott Memory National Film Preservation Board Orphan films Colorization Culture wars Jensen Richard National Endowment for the Arts Bandy Mary Lea Museum...