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Becky Elzy and Alberta Bradford: Spiritual Folklorists
This blog post about the “Two Sweet Singers” Becky Elzy and Alberta Bradford is part of a series called “Hidden Folklorists,” which examines the folklore work of surprising people, including people...
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King David Kālakaua: Royal Folklorist
This blog post is part of a series called “Hidden Folklorists,” which examines the folklore work of surprising people, including people better known for other pursuits. King David Kalākaua (1836 –...
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“The Gal Who Will Use the Recording Machine:” Insights into the Sarah P....
1951 Library memo from Luther H. Evans (Librarian of Congress, 1945-1953) that reads: Mrs. Korson, Folklore Section: The wife of Dr. Mohamed Fadhel El-Jamali, Bagdad [sic], Iraq, Former Minister of...
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Alistair Cooke: Radio and TV Icon, Hidden Folklorist
This article about the broadcaster, journalist, and writer Alistair Cooke is part of a series called “Hidden Folklorists,” which examines the folklore work of surprising people, including people better...
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Langston Hughes: Experimental Folklorist
Langston Hughes, photographed by Gordon Parks for the Office of War Information in 1943. Find the original here. The following is a guest post by Sophie Abramowitz, a PhD Candidate working on a...
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Hidden Folklorists on the Folklife Today Podcast
Allan Pinkerton and Joan Carfrae Pinkerton. LC Prints and Photographs Division. For complete information, visit the original here. [//hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.07127]Episode seven of the Folklife Today...
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Arthur Miller: A View From the Field
This guest blog post by Matthew Barton about the playwright Arthur Miller is part of a series called “Hidden Folklorists,” which examines the folklore work of surprising people, including people better...
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Charles J. Finger: Gallant Rogue or Hidden Folklorist?
Part of a series of images of Charles J. Finger that survive among his papers at the University of Arkansas. The rest appear below. Courtesy of the University of Arkansas Libraries Special Collections....
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Hidden Folklorists Charles Finger and Nicholas Ray on the Folklife Today Podcast
Episode Eleven of the Folklife Today Podcast is ready for listening! Find it at this page on the Library’s website, or on iTunes, or with your usual podcatcher. This 1893 photo of Charles J. Finger...
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Hidden Folklorists: Harry Payne Reeves, the Mysterious Cowboy Singer Daca
In our 1000th post, we featured the song “Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle,” as misremembered by Alan Lomax from the singing of a mysterious figure named Daca, who, according to Lomax, owned a bookshop on...
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