Collection includes assessments, printed materials, correspondence, newspaper clippings, press releases, and photographs. Information about the 1997 Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife. Field school records include evaluations, handouts, and reports. Fieldworker records include contracts, reimbursement requests, notes and essays. Recordings from the project are housed at the Louisiana Tech University Archives.
Funded by a grant from the Fund for Folk Culture/Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Community Folklife Program with additional support from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the Delta Folklife Project mainly focuses on folk traditions in the Delta parishes region, but also includes occupational, ethnic, and other types of traditions existing within the area.
“The Louisiana Folklife Project was designed for implementation in three phases: 1) an ethnographic overview, 2) field school, documentation, and festival presentations, and 3) a publication...
Phase two of the project included documentation and presentation. Held in summer 1993 and partially funded by a grant from the Fund for Folk Culture, the Delta Folklife Field School provided training and field experience for fifty community scholars in basic folklife documentation techniques. Following this training, field school participants and other folklife researchers continued researching folk traditions, some of which were first presented at the 1994 Louisiana Folklife Festival and subsequent years”
Roach, Susan, H.F. Gregory, and Maida Owens. 1999. “Louisiana Folklife Program: The Delta Folklife Project: An Overview.” Folklife in Louisiana. http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LFP/main_prog_deltafolkli_proj.html.
Materials may be found in the following series within the Louisiana Folklife Program Project Files:
Collection is available for review at LSU Libraries Special Collections, Hill Memorial Library, Baton Rouge, La.
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