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Louisiana Folklife Festival Records, 1979-1992

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Identifier
NFAI.O.00000010
Date
1979 - 1992 (Inclusive dates)
Creator and/or Contributor
Louisiana Folklife Program (creator)
Scope and Content Note

The Louisiana Folklife Festival, 1979-1992 collection is made up of records relating to the planning, production, and carrying out of the Louisiana Folklife Festival. Including correspondence, budgets, contracts, grant application materials, reports, press releases, brochures, programs, and newspaper clippings; the collection also comprises 265 cassette tapes, 128 cassette tape indexes, and 8 video recordings on VHS, UMATIC, and UMATIC-S tapes relating to the festival and its fieldwork.



Administrative/Biographical History Element

“The Louisiana Folklife Festival grew out of the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition in New Orleans; the following year it became a stand-alone event which finally found a home in Monroe, Louisiana. The festival presents a wide variety of living traditions, from cooking to crafts, storytelling to music. Gathered for the event are African-American, Native American, Italian-American, Creole and Cajun cooks, each demonstrating traditional recipes and techniques on a live foodways stage. Craft tents feature over 30 traditional crafts from Choctaw baskets, to African-American walking sticks, from Mardi Gras masks to river fishermen's hoopnets and traps. Master storytellers share their talents on the Tales and Talk Stage. The Kid's Stage serves as a special area for performances by and for young people. But for most, the heart of the festival is music on three stages: everything from blues to bluegrass, from Celtic to zydeco.”

Cooksey, John. “Louisiana: Louisiana Folklife Festival (Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots - Library of Congress).” American Memory from the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/legacies/LA/200003078.html.



System of Arrangement

Materials may be found in the following series within the Louisana Folklife Program Project Files:

  • Series V. Louisiana Folklife Festival (LFF)/Site Selection, 1990-1993
  • Series XX. Louisiana Folklife Festival (LFF), 1983-2001
  • Series XXIV. Oral History 
  • Series XXV. Video Tapes, 1982-1996
  • Series XXVI. Posters, ca. 1973-1999


General Note

Collection is available for review at LSU Libraries Special Collections, Hill Memorial Library, Baton Rouge, La.

The cover image, located in OS:L Box 1 Folder 6, is a flyer for an exhibition which took place at the Louisiana Folklife Festival of 1996.

Extent
6.5 (Linear Feet)
265 (Cassette tapes)
Language
English (Languages)
Other Subject Headings
Folk festivals--Louisiana. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Interviews. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Folk Narratives (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
African American folk art (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Artisans (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Bergeron, Maida Owens (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Bergey, Barry (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Bergey, Jane (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Blues (Music)-Louisiana (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Boatbuilding-Louisiana (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Broussard, Aaron (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Burgess Brassieur, Amy (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Burnett, Emma H. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Cajuns-Louisiana (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Calcasieu Arts and Humanities Council (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Chicot State Park (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Cowboys-Songs and music (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
De Caro, F. A. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Fiddlers-Louisiana (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Freeman, Robert L. (Bobby) (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Garrett Davis, Susan. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Gates, Robert. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Gordon, Derek. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Gospel music-Louisiana (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Gregory, Hiram F. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Grosby-Bergey, Jane. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Handicraft (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Hardy, Paul. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Harvison, ReneƩ C. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Hatley, Donald W. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Houma Indians (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Indians of North America (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Jackson, Joyce M. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve (La.) (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Joubert, Curtis (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Koasati Indians (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Perez, Irvan (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Powell, Robert E. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Public radio-Louisiana (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Quilting-Louisiana (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
River City Festivals Association (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Roach-Lankford, Susan (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Sabino, Richard A. (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Sandmel, Ben (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Sartisky, Michael (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Savoy, Ann (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Savoy, Marc (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Storytelling-Louisiana (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Tunica Indians (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Union Pacific Foundation (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Temporal Coverage
1979 - 1992
Geographic Coverage
Louisiana (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names)
Preferred Citation
Louisiana Folklife Program Project Files, Mss. 4730, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Related Entities:
Louisiana Folklife Program (creator)

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