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Visit Alabama Center for Traditional Culture for abundant materials on Alabama folklife |
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For information about folklife grants and apprenticeships visit Folklife Program of the Alabama State Council on the Arts |
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For a handbook on finding traditional
artists and presenting them at schools and other programs visit
Presenting Traditional Artists |
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To watch Sweet is the Day: A Sacred Harp Family Portrait and obtain abundant information about Sacred Harp Singing, go to Folkstreams.Net |
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The most comprehensive list of folklife information on the web is published by The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution |
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You may browse some of the collections at the Library of Congress's American Folklife Center without leaving home. Of particular interest to Alabamians is the following collection, which contains recordings John Lomax made in Sumter County under the guidance of Ruby Pickens Tartt: Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip |
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While not devoted specifically to folklore, the Alabama Music Hall of Fame website is a source for information on the music of Alabamians. |
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Alabama Ghostlore is a site hosted by Dr. Alan Brown at the University of West Alabama in Livingston. |
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The Chattahoochee Folklife Project is sponsored by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission. |
| The Colored Sacred Harp web site contains information about the Jackson family of Ozark, Alabama, and their role in African-American Sacred Harp singing. | |
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Report
on a visit to several cemeteries in North Alabama by Alan Jabbour with
photos by Karen Singer Jabbour. This is part of a study that the
Jabbours are doing of southern burial traditions. |
| Other Web Pages of Interest: Tapnet.org gives links to national folklife programs and organizations. University of Indiana's Folklore Department Folklife
in Louisiana
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