http://folkbistro.usu.edu/index.php en-us ℗ & © 2008 Utah State University and the Fife Folklore Archives Serving up a fresh slice of folklore Fife Folklore Archives FolkBistro explores folklore topics, genres, groups, and themes. Featuring interviews with visiting scholars as well as student fieldwork and selections from the Fife Folklore Archives. FolkBistro explores folklore topics, genres, groups, and themes. Featuring interviews with visiting scholars as well as student fieldwork and selections from the Fife Folklore Archives. Randy Williams randy.williams@usu.edu folklore, fife folklore archives, archive, fife, oral history, legend, folksong, traditions, utah state university Fife Folklore Archives Introduction to the Fife Folklore Archives This first episode is an introduction to the Fife Folklore Archives, one of the largest folklore repositories in the United States. The episode includes information on the history of the Archives, including an example of Austin and Alta Fife, for whom the Archives is named, fieldwork on Mormon folksongs. L.M. Hilton of Ogden, Utah sings “The Gospel News.” The song was collected from Mr. Hilton by the Fifes in 1946 and it is part of the Fife’s Mormon Collection, part of the Fife’s original fieldwork collection that the Fife’s donated to Utah State University to begin the folklore repository. As well, the episode includes an example of a more recent fieldwork project: the Latino/a Voices Project, with an interview conducted by USU graduate student Karl Germeck with Alicia Espinosa regarding her childhood in Santiago, Chile under military dictator Augusto Pinochet. http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/FolkBistro&CISOPTR=0&filename=1.mp3 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:00:00 MST 11:48 oral history, migration, mormon, folksongs, latino, Fife Fife Folklore Archives First episode of a three-part interview with Peggy Seeger Our second episode is the start of a three-part interview with Peggy Seeger. Peggy Seeger was on the campus of Utah State University 10 April to deliver the 2008 Fife Folklore Honor Lecture. Peggy is a collector and performer of traditional music. She grew up in a home where music was central: her mother Ruth Porter Crawford was a renowned composer, collector and teacher; her father was the famous ethnomusicologist Charles Seeger. Ms. Seeger’s older brother’s Mike and Pete are both musicians and collectors. Mike performs old-time music and was a member of the New Lost City Ramblers. Pete is a folk singer, activists and a member of the folk revival group the Weavers. In this first installment, Peggy talks about her family life, childhood and meeting her husband Ewan McColl. http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/FolkBistro&CISOPTR=1&filename=2.mp3 Wed, 20 Nov 2008 08:30:00 MST 14:21 Folk songs; Seeger, Peggy; Crawford, Ruth Porter; Seeger, Charles; Seeger, Pete; Seeger, Mike Genre Seeger Family; Follk songs Fife Folklore Archives **A special slice of Thanksgiving folklore served up in time for the holidays** The All American Meal: Thanksgiving as Folklore Our 2008 Thanksgiving special is a riveting lecture by Professor Jay Anderson on the foodways of Thanksgiving. Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:30:00 MST 56:32 Food, Foodways, folklore, folk, Thanksgiving, Jay Anderson, Fife, Fife folklore, Fife Folklore Lecture, tradition Fife Folklore Archives Second episode of a three-part interview with Peggy Seeger This is our second part of a three-part interview with Peggy Seeger. Ms. Seeger talks about her adult life with husband and musical partner Ewan McColl. In 1957, Peggy collaborated with Ewan McColl (her husband and partner) and Charles Parker on “Radio-Ballads, a series of musical documentaries for BBC, including examples of their work. http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/FolkBistro&CISOPTR=2&filename=3.mp3 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:30:00 MST 30:15 Folk songs; Seeger, Peggy; Crawford, Ruth Porter; Seeger, Charles; Seeger, Pete; Seeger, Mike Genre Seeger Family; Follk songs, BBC Radio Ballads Fife Folklore Archives Third and final episode of a three-part interview with Peggy Seeger This episode in the final installment of a three-part interview with Peggy Seeger. In this fascinating episode, Peggy talks about her family's involvement in collecting and performing folk music. http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/FolkBistro&CISOPTR=3&filename=4.mp3 Wed, 20 Jan 2009 08:30:00 MST 20:15 Folk songs; Seeger, Peggy; Crawford, Ruth Porter; Seeger, Charles; Seeger, Pete; Seeger, Mike Genre Seeger Family; Follk songs, BBC Radio Ballads Fife Folklore Archives Folk Documentation: A Conversation with Guha Shankar Dr. Guha Shankar is a folklorist at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. He was in Logan to deliver the keynote lecture at the Fife Folklore Workshop, 5 June 2008. Guha is an expert at folk documentation, including fieldwork, preservation and education. He is an ethnographic filmmaker and develops community- and place-based education programs for the American Folklife Center. He conducts workshops in ethnographic research methods and skills-based training in field documentation in institutions across the US. Prior to graduate studies, Guha was Media Production Specialist and documentary film producer at the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Folklife Programs. http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/FolkBistro&CISOPTR=4&filename=5.mp3 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:30:00 MST 32:45 Guha Shankar, Documentation, Talking with visiting scholars, Fieldwork, Folklore Fieldwork Fife Folklore Archives Folksong & Music This segment in on folksong and music and includes an example of "Blue Mountain," sung by Loyal Bailey and "Rolling Home," sung by Barre Toelken. The Fife Folklore Archives is home to a smorgasbord of folksong and music, in fact the original collection was folk music. Today, the archives houses other luminary folk music collecting, including the G. Malcolm Laws folk song and ballad collection, The John I. White cowboy music collection and the Skaggs Cowboy Poetry and song collection. http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/FolkBistro&CISOPTR=5&filename=6.mp3 Thur, 02 April 2009 16:00:00 MST 22:30 Folk Song, Folk Music, Documentation