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Past and
Current Folklife Projects
 New Populations: Immigrant and Refugee Communities in Louisiana - a project to document the traditions and art forms of Louisiana's newest communities who have arrived since 1975 and include foreign born community members. They come from Vietnam, Honduras, Mexico, Cuba, India, China, Taiwan, Palestine and the Middle East, the Philippines, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Korea, El Salvador, Japan, Columbia, Pakistan, Laos, and Thailand.
Louisiana Folklife Survey, an ongoing project to document
traditional artists and communities with special focus on regions
not previously documented, such as the Florida parishes or the
northeast Louisiana Delta parishes. A survey form is available
for anyone who would like to document an individual or conduct
a project.
Louisiana Regional Folklife Program
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Provides professional folklorists in five regions to document folk traditions and artists
and assist community groups present their folk traditions to the public.
Louisiana
Folk Regions -
Maps showing the major subregions and ethnic groups in Louisiana.
The data was compiled by Maida Owens based on Spitzer, Kniffen,
Knipmeyer, Newton, Gregory, and Roach. Cartography by Greg Wirth.
Louisiana Folklife Recording
Series (LFRS)
documents traditional musicians and storytellers otherwise unlikely
to be recorded by commercial labels such as African-American
work songs, old time Cajun and country music.
The Louisiana Storytelling
Project has resulted
in a book, video,
and website, all entitled Swapping Stories: Folktales from
Louisiana.
Delta Folklife Project included a survey and field
school. The Masur Museum has a traveling photo exhibit based on the
findings of the project.
Keeping It Alive: Cultural Conservation Through Apprenticeship,
A Review of the Louisiana Folklife Apprenticeship Program, a publication now online.
Louisiana Folklife: A
Guide to the State.
Although published in 1985 and now out of print, this publication
is an important resource for anyone researching Louisiana folklife.
It is available in most Louisiana public libraries.
At times, the Folklife Program
collaborates with other organizations to produce projects. When
the Folklife Program initiates projects in partnership with another
organization, the program is considered the co-producer or co-publisher
and shares copyright as appropriate. These have included:
Louisiana
Folklife Database.
The Folklife Program collaborated with the Louisiana
Folklife Center at Northwestern State University to make
information collected about Louisiana folk artists and traditions
available. The database provides a means for organizations doing
public folklife programming to use the findings of the Louisiana
Folklife Survey. The Louisiana Folklife Center has produced the
website, Louisiana
Folk Artist Biographies with the information gathered
with the database. The Louisiana Folklife Center also produces
the Natchitoches/NSU
Folk Festival.
Louisiana Folklife
Festival. Since
1984, the Louisiana Folklife Festival has worked closely with
the Folklife Program to present Louisiana's folk traditions and
artists. After being held in New Orleans (1984), Baton Rouge
(1985-87), Eunice (1988-9, 1991) and Kenner (1990), the festival
was hosted by the City of Monroe until 2005.
Florida Parishes Folklife
Project, 1983-1989.
This collaboration with the Center for Regional Studies at Southeastern
Louisiana University consisted of a conference, survey, festival,
exhibit at the Hammond Cultural Foundation, and finally the publication,
Folklife in the Florida
Parishes .
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