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VIRTUAL BOOKS
Louisiana Folklife: A Guide to the State
Folklife in the Florida Parishes
Keeping It Alive: Cultural Conservation Through Apprenticeship
Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana
Learning From Your Community
Gifts From The Hills
He's the Prettiest: A Tribute to Big Chief "Tootie" Montana's 50 years of Mardi Gras Indian Suiting
Splittin on the Grain
More Than Just a Trade: Master Craftsmen of the Building Arts
Delta Pieces: Northeast Louisiana Folklife
by Nicholas R. Spitzer, ed.
This book was originally edited by Nicholas R. Spitzer and published by the Office of Cultural Development in 1985. The book is now out of print, and a selection of essays are provided online courtesy of the editor. It provides an overview of Louisiana folklife, including foodways, crafts, family and occupational traditions,music, boats and houses, as well as an overview of cultural groups and their languages.
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Received the 1989 Notable Government Documents Award from the American Library Association's Government Documents Round Table (GODORT).
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Received the 1993 Notable Government Documents
Award from the American Library Association's Government Documents Round Table (GODORT).
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The Swapping Stories
book, video, and website are products of the ten-year Louisiana Storytelling
Project that documented Louisiana storytellers. The project began
as a collaboration with the Louisiana Office of Tourism’s Open
House 1990 Storytelling Program with stories being recorded a Louisiana
festivals. Stories were then edited into the book, videorecorded for
the documentary, and finally posted online. Swapping Stories: Received the
1999 Humanities Book Award from the
Louisiana Endowment
for the Humanities.
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A Classroom Curriculum For Grades 4-8 by
Gail Matthews, Ph.D. and Don Patterson, M.S.-- South Carolina Arts Commission, South Carolina Folk Arts Program.
NOTE: This is a PDF document which requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. Slower connections may experience longer download times.
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Edited by Susan Roach. The North Central Louisiana Folklife Project
was begun in November, 1983 for the purpose of surveying and documenting
the existing folk traditions located in the five parishes of Bienville,
Claiborne, Jackson, Lincoln, and Union. The original
exhibition took place at Louisiana Tech University, in Ruston, LA,
September 30-October 21, 1984. White Oak Basketry, grave decorating,
soap-making, cane carving, and storytelling are just a few of the
folk traditions explored in this informative exhibition book.
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This essay was originally published as an exhibit catalogue by the New Orleans Museum of Art for the 1997 exhibit, "He's the Prettiest:" A Tribute to Big Chief Allison "Tootie" Montana's 50 Years of Mardi Gras Indian Suiting. Kalamu ya Salaam is a writer/editor/filmmaker and founder of NOMMO Literary Society, a New Orleans-based creative writing workshop. Salaam is the leader of the WordBand, a poetry performance ensemble that combines poetry with blues, jazz and other forms of music. Salaam can be reached at kalamu@aol.com. Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun are photographers based in New Orleans.
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Edited by H.F. Gregory and Donald W. Hatley. This book contains articles written by Claude Medford, H.F. Gregory, Shari Miller, and Miriam Rich. Explore the eclectic folk arts of Clifton, Louisiana in this charming book. Learn about the traditions and the people who carry on these traditions. This publication was made possible through a grant from The Louisiana Division of the Arts. It was originally published in Louisiana Folklife, Volume VIII Number 1, March 1983.
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by Laura Westbrook. Based on the New Orleans Building Arts Project, this virtual book features an introduction by Laura Westbrook, an article by C. Ray Brassieur, and interviews with masons, painters, ironworkers, roofers, lathers, tile masons, wood crafters, plasterers, blacksmiths, shorers, and more. This site complements the exhibition book, Raised to the Trade: Creole Building Arts of New Orleans, published by the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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by Susan Roach and Maida Owens.
This virtual book is the compilation of research conducted over 20 years by a team of researchers and community scholars that offer a glimpse at this fascinating region of 12 northeast Louisiana parishes running south down the Mississippi River from the Arkansas state line though Concordia Parish, Louisiana.
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Keeping
It Alive: Cultural Conservation Through Apprenticeship - A Review
of the Louisiana Folklife Apprenticeship Program
He's The Prettiest: A Tribute to Big Chief "Tootie" Montana's 50 Years of Mardi Gras Indian Suiting
