Folklore and Folklife

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William L. Alderson was a professor of literature at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon. The collection (1944-1963) folk songs, folk sayings, and tales, course outlines, correspondence, and transcriptions.

Abstract The Oregon Folklife Network is Oregon's folklife and traditional arts program and includes culture and heritage partners that operate on state and local levels to document, support, and celebrate Oregon's cultural traditions. This collection comprises folklore fieldwork documentation, newsletter articles, and public presentations created by the Oregon Folklife Network and professional folklorists Nancy Nusz, Debbie Fant, and Riki Saltzman in a survey of folk and traditional arts in six...

Abstract The Oregon Folklife Network is Oregon's folklife and traditional arts program and includes partners that operate on state and local levels to document, support, and celebrate Oregon's cultural traditions. This collection comprises digital color photographs taken by Oregon Folklife Network staff members at culture and heritage events in Oregon from 2013 to present. Community events documented include community festivals and performing arts festivals, such as FisherPoets Gathering, Oregon...

Abstract The Oregon Folklife Network is Oregon's folklife and traditional arts program, and includes culture and heritage partners that operate on state and local levels to document, support, and celebrate Oregon's cultural traditions and tradition bearers. The collection comprises folklore fieldwork documentation, newsletter articles, and public presentations created by the Oregon Folklife Network and professional folklorists Douglas Manger and Joseph O'Connell in a survey of folk and traditional...

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The Oregon Folklife Network is Oregon's folklife and traditional arts program, and includes culture and heritage partners that operate on state and local levels to document, support, and celebrate Oregon's cultural traditions. This collection comprises photographs of public events presented by the Oregon Folklife Network from 2013 to 2018. Photographs are in digital file formats and document the presentation of folk and traditional arts and artists in public programs.

Abstract The Oregon Folklife Network is Oregon's folklife and traditional arts program, and includes culture and heritage partners that operate on state and local levels to document, support, and celebrate Oregon's cultural traditions. This collection comprises folklore fieldwork documentation, newsletter articles, and public presentations created by the Oregon Folklife Network and professional folklorists Makaela Kroin, Douglas Manger, and Nancy Nusz in a survey of folk and traditional arts in five...

Abstract The Oregon Folklife Network is Oregon's folklife and traditional arts program, and includes culture and heritage partners that operate on state and local levels to document, support, and celebrate Oregon's cultural traditions. This collection comprises folklore fieldwork documentation, newsletter articles, and public presentations created by the Oregon Folklife Network in a survey of folk and traditional arts in four southern Oregon counties in 2013 and 2014. Fieldwork documentation includes...

Abstract The Oregon Folklife Network is Oregon's folklife and traditional arts program and comprises a network of statewide culture and heritage partners that operate on state, regional, county, and community levels to document, support, preserve, and celebrate Oregon's cultural traditions. The collection comprises folklore fieldwork documentation created in a survey of folk and traditional arts in six Oregon counties along the Willamette Valley in 2018. Fieldwork documentation includes 2285 color...

Abstract The Oregon Folklife Program provided statewide services supporting folklife, traditional arts and artists, and folk arts in education in Oregon from 1988 to 2009, first at Lewis and Clark College, 1988-1993, and then the Oregon Historical Society, 1993-2009. This collection comprises the Oregon Folklife Program’s records, 1988-2009, including folklore fieldwork documentation in the form of photographs, sound recordings, and video recordings of cultural events and traditional arts and artists...

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Sharon Sherman was a professor of English and Folklore at the University of Oregon. From 1976 to 2008 she taught courses and produced films and videos about folklore subjects. Her work—books, articles, reviews, and committee work in addition to her films—gave folkloric film a new prominence and led to its recognition as a valid form of academic research. The collection contains teaching and research files as well as film, video and audio recordings and correspondence.