tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27675036973715984172024-03-05T04:38:27.250-08:00Great FolksExpanding the community of tradition bearers and those who want to learn more about the music, stories, dance, foodways, art, and cultural heritage of Michigan and beyond.About Great Folkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05444615924225405799noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2767503697371598417.post-31494584943411660782017-05-30T11:05:00.003-07:002017-05-30T11:10:55.442-07:00Save the NEA and NEHBelow is a letter from the <a href="http://www.ethnomusicology.org/" target="_blank">Society for Ethnomusicology</a>'s President Anne K. Rasmussen and Executive Director Stephen Stuempfle. Funding from the <a href="https://www.arts.gov/">National Endowment for the Arts</a> and the <a href="https://www.neh.gov/">National Endowment for the Humanities</a> is absolutely essential to the existence and success of MTAP and MSU Museum programs. Please consider contacting your government representatives to tell them why you think the NEA and NEH are important.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Dear SEM Member,<br /><br />SEM, like many other scholarly societies, is currently mobilizing its members in support of continued funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Though the Trump administration, on May 23, reiterated its call for the elimination of the NEA and NEH, there is potential for significant bipartisan support for both agencies in Congress.<br /><br />Now is the time to contact your representative and senators and emphasize the importance of full funding for the NEA and NEH for FY 2018 and beyond. Though an email message is very helpful, a phone call, posted letter, or personal visit is even better.<br /><br />You can find information on advocacy for the NEA on the Americans for the Arts’ </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.ethnomusicology.org/link.asp?e%3Dmollymcbride23@gmail.com%26job%3D2951088%26ymlink%3D126634255%26finalurl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Eamericansforthearts%252Eorg%252Fnews%252Droom%252Farts%252Dmobilization%252Dcenter&source=gmail&ust=1496252637202000&usg=AFQjCNG059KqGyTMnW9smyOdrro9ns-sAw" href="http://www.americansforthearts.org/news-room/arts-mobilization-center" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Arts Mobilization</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> page; and information on advocacy for the NEH on the National Humanities Alliance’s </span><a href="http://www.nhalliance.org/advocacy_resources?utm_campaign=memofy17final&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nhalliance" target="_blank">Resources</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="http://www.nhalliance.org/advocacy_resources?utm_campaign=memofy17final&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nhalliance" target="_blank"> page</a>. In addition, the National Humanities Alliance provides advocacy information on </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.ethnomusicology.org/link.asp?e%3Dmollymcbride23@gmail.com%26job%3D2951088%26ymlink%3D126634255%26finalurl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fp2a%252Eco%252FkVFEeav&source=gmail&ust=1496252637202000&usg=AFQjCNHe8WptQkvuBiPOd-bOrQqzSBDeOg" href="http://p2a.co/kVFEeav" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">other cultural agencies</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, such as IMLS, Title VI, and Fulbright-Hays. See also a </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.ethnomusicology.org/link.asp?e%3Dmollymcbride23@gmail.com%26job%3D2951088%26ymlink%3D126634255%26finalurl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Eacls%252Eorg%252Fnews%252F05%252D26%252D2017%252F&source=gmail&ust=1496252637202000&usg=AFQjCNGRykKNt10AzPSdSsc6giyR9yqKCg" href="http://www.acls.org/news/05-26-2017/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">recent letter from Pauline Yu</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, President of the American Council of Learned Societies.<br /><br />Appeals for support for the NEA, NEH, and other agencies can be combined in a single communication. To contact your representative and senators, please visit the following websites:</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.ethnomusicology.org/link.asp?e%3Dmollymcbride23@gmail.com%26job%3D2951088%26ymlink%3D126634255%26finalurl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Ehouse%252Egov%252Frepresentatives%252Ffind%252F&source=gmail&ust=1496252637202000&usg=AFQjCNHQP1tPR91A-hbHwKvPcc4r190OmA" href="http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">U.S. House Contact Information</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.ethnomusicology.org/link.asp?e%3Dmollymcbride23@gmail.com%26job%3D2951088%26ymlink%3D126634255%26finalurl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww%252Esenate%252Egov%252Fsenators%252Fcontact%252F&source=gmail&ust=1496252637202000&usg=AFQjCNGwO4aJWwmaBpUg2iaj76lg5_MMVw" href="https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">US. Senate Contact Information</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /><br />Over the past several decades, ethnomusicologists have worked with many organizations that have received grants from the NEA, NEH, and other cultural agencies. Thank you for supporting continued federal funding for ethnomusicology and the arts and humanities as a whole!<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Anne K. Rasmussen<br />SEM President<br /><br />Stephen Stuempfle<br />SEM Executive Director</span></i></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2767503697371598417.post-37480837384136646532017-05-24T08:20:00.000-07:002017-05-24T08:20:47.851-07:00"Fancy double, double-back brush up double-up ball slide and a basic..."<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I hear them before I see them as I hustle out of the cold into the lobby of Collins Elementary School in Sterling Heights, Michigan: the calm, steady cueing of Shane Gruber's baritone accompanied by music and the shimmering sound of sixteen pairs of feet shod with jingling clogging shoes. I step into the bright cafetorium and am greeted by smiles and a hello from Shane as he continues to dance and cue the class. It's Thursday night and these dancers have gathered, as they always do September through May, to clog with Shane Gruber. <br />
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They call themselves the Shane Gang, a group of cloggers led by Shane Gruber who meet weekly on Wednesday and Thursday nights to dance, socialize, and share in movement and sound-making together. In 1998, Shane Gruber began leading the group, then called the Country Club Cloggers. Since then, the 'Gang has grown to a loose collective of over 50 dancers who participate in weekly class as well as performances and demonstrations in southeast Michigan. The night I visit the class, I count sixteen women and two men wearing a mix of black tap shoes with single taps, white shoes with double taps, and even tennis shoes with taps affixed to them. Gruber himself wears a two-tone pair of black and metallic sapphire oxford shoes with double taps (two plates of aluminum attached to enhance the percussive sound of his dancing). He also wears a wireless headset to cue the dances, which he selects from and iPad connected to a portable sound system. <br />
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To watch Shane dance is mesmeric. He moves with feet parallel, upper body relaxed, shifting weight with unobtrusive deftness as he articulates one and two sound rudiments in combination to form longer phrases of rhythm, punctuated by the sparkling timbre of his double-tapped shoes. Gruber's style uses gestural swings and kicks of his lower legs, his ankles never rising above his shins, to rhythmically inscribe lines of rhythm by contacting his shoes against the linoleum. He seems to float along the floor, looking so very, very at home while dancing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shane Gruber teaches clogging weekly in Sterling Heights, Michigan</td></tr>
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In addition to his ease of movement and articulations, Gruber is also incredibly charming as he works. He seems to have a point of connection with every dancer in his class, calling each one by their first name and checking up on them playfully. It's lighthearted but there's an ethic of care in the way he facilitates this kind of community. Observing his warmth and generosity as a teacher, it's easy to understand why many dancers return to his Thursday night class every week, some for fifteen years. During my visit, I met dancers in their twenties who had been clogging with Shane weekly since they were twelve years old. These dancers execute steps like the "double-toe", "triple," and "scotty" next to other cloggers in their 80s. As I watched the class move through routine after routine, I was struck by the pervasive sense of enjoyment in the room. Several dancers never stopped smiling the entire evening, despite sweating through nearly ten 3-5 minute routines in the hour-long class I observed. They clogged to an eclectic variety of music including Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk," DNCE's "Cake By the Ocean," and a bluegrass version of the gospel number "I'll Fly Away". Gruber shares with me that because this style of clogging is considered a social dance form, it is often executed to contemporary music that exists in popular consciousness. The dance form’s adaptability to many styles of music belies its flexibility and resilience. "It's the kind of dance where you can dance to MC Hammer one routine and then Bill Monroe the next," Gruber says.<br />
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Shane Gruber describes his dancing as influenced by line dancing. For him, clogging is a social dance that does not require a partner, springing from roots in Appalachia where West-African, Western European, and Native American dance traditions met and mixed. While other styles of clogging exist in competitive contexts or festival stages as part of the folk revival, Gruber's dancing is recreational, done to recorded music, and ergonomic. It's done to be shared, finding its meaning in the act of people dancing together, making rhythm recreationally. He identifies this style as especially prevalent in Southeast Michigan.<br />
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From West Bloomfield, Shane Gruber began clogging at age 16 in 1989 with Mo's Clogging Fever in Walled Lake, Michigan run by Maureen "Mo" Perko. He later danced with the Main Street Cloggers in Northville with Paula Trask-Heskett, the Toll Gate Cloggers and Six Gate Cloggers in Novi. As a student at Central Michigan University, Gruber studied choreography with former dance program coordinator, Yvette Crandall, and considers her one of his main influences. Today Gruber is in great demand as a teacher at national and international workshops. He participates in at least twelve of these events annually, usually over the course of a long weekend. Despite teaching at clogging workshops and conventions in Germany, Australia and all over the United States, Shane continues his Wednesday and Thursday night classes. Shane has taught in commercial dance studio settings but encountered resistance from the "tap, jazz, ballet" triad of strip mall dance studio culture. Gruber eventually began creating his own community outside of commercial dance studios in school gyms and community centers. For these weekly classes Gruber creates his own choreography as well as teaches the choreography of other dancers. During the class I observed, Gruber shared his own dances and also taught the choreography of Winfield, West Virginian Jeff Driggs and Atlanta dancer Andy Howard.<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A license plate from one of the Shane Gang cloggers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gruber uses a cue sheet to cue the cloggers through a routine</td></tr>
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The abstract idea of “tradition” finds its footing when we think about the people who do it. When I ask Shane Gruber to tell me about his tradition, he marks his narrative by sharing stories of his clogging teachers and influences, and creating a family tree of Michigan clogging by tracing his hands through the air. "I'm from cloggers Duane and Berdella Root," he tells me, recounting his dance lineage from the groups that emerged from the Roots who taught in Hartland, Michigan. From this group came his first teacher Maureen "Mo" Perko in Walled Lake, as well as Mac and Louise McCreery's Corn Cobb Cloggers in Grand Ledge, Bob Warner's Thunder Floor Cloggers in Lake Odessa, Morton and Judy Rand's, Rainbow Cloggers, Loretta Ward's Flag City Cloggers from Davison, Ruth McClelland's Li'l Mac Cloggers from Ferndale, and the Country Note Cloggers, led by Roger & Linda Dzogola.<br />
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Teaching seems to be at the very heart of Gruber's role as a tradition-bearer. He especially loves working with new dancers to share the basic rudiments of his tradition. Gruber shares his enthusiasm for meeting a new class with me by exhorting fellow dance teachers: "Be happy to teach beginners, you don't know much excitement it is to look out into the group and think, 'in about 45 minutes I'm going to have these people doing basics and triples and doubles and they don't know it yet!!'" <!--EndFragment--><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An excerpted cue sheet from Shane Gruber's choreography to Cotton Eyed Joe</td></tr>
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Integral to Gruber's teaching method, as well as the teaching of many clogging instructors, are cue sheets, a system of dance notation developed in clogging communities to share choreography. Shane tells me that this system allows for dancers from many geographies, both nationally and internationally, to dance together at clogging workshops without ever having met. At these events, cue sheets can be distributed in hard copy form or downloaded from the internet. At large clogging events, there are large evening social dances during which a caller will stand at the front of a large room and cue a series of dances. These events may last several hours.<br />
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Through sharing these cue sheets, participating in community demonstrations, national workshops, and weekly classes, Shane Gruber and the Shane Gang keep alive the unique Michigan style of social dance clogging.<br />
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For more information about Shane's teaching and workshop schedule, visit <a href="http://www.shanegangcloggers.com/">www.shanegangcloggers.com</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><i style="color: black; font-size: medium;">Nic Gareiss is a MTAP fieldworker, professional performer, and dance researcher living in Lansing, Michigan. He holds degrees in Music and Anthropology from Central Michigan University and a MA in Ethnochoreolgy from the University of Limerick. His 2017 fieldwork for MTAP focuses on dance, marginality, and the political salience of moving (and sounding) bodies.</i></span>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2767503697371598417.post-87432433683934895722017-04-20T09:34:00.000-07:002017-04-20T09:34:29.342-07:00 New Emergency Relief Guidelines for Folk and Traditional Artists from CERF+<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The Craft Emergency Relief Fund+ has announced new guidelines for folk and traditional artists. Read more below:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">For over 30 years, CERF+ has provided emergency relief to artists working in craft disciplines across the nation who have experienced a career-threatening emergency. In an effort to assist more artists working in craft disciplines whose work is rooted in and reflective of the cultural life of their community, CERF+ has developed <a href="https://cerfplus.org/craft-emergency-relief-fund/eligibility/?org=808&lvl=100&ite=457&lea=0&ctr=0&par=1&trk=">guidelines that specifically address the needs of folk and traditional artists</a>.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">1. Folk and Traditional artists applying for CERF+ Emergency Relief under these <a href="https://cerfplus.org/craft-emergency-relief-fund/eligibility/?org=808&lvl=100&ite=457&lea=0&ctr=0&par=1&trk=">alternate guidelines</a> must have had a recent, serious emergency, but the eligibility guidelines don’t focus on a “career” or a “business.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">2. Applicants must document an ongoing history of handmade objects that embody the <a href="https://aws.predictiveresponse.net/fwd.htm?redirect=https://www.arts.gov/artistic-fields/folk-traditional-arts&org=808&lvl=100&ite=457&lea=0&ctr=0&par=1&trk=">National Endowment for the Arts</a>’ definition of folk and traditional arts by providing a statement about the artistic tradition they have practiced over the years. Photos of their artwork as well as completing our application are also required.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">Please help us spread the word to raise awareness of this grant by forwarding this announcement to folk and traditional artists, arts agencies, program staff, organizations, funders and others. The full guidelines and application are at </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://cerfplus.org/craft-emergency-relief-fund&source=gmail&ust=1492787337836000&usg=AFQjCNHzeSSxQtgHmJB-gfINs-sFDPzJ0w" href="https://cerfplus.org/craft-emergency-relief-fund" rel="noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12.8px;" target="_blank">https://cerfplus.org/craft-<wbr></wbr>emergency-relief-fund</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">CERF+ envisions a future where working artists thrive and have a safety net of resources and support to protect and sustain their livelihood, studio and art. CERF+ was started by artists for artists in the craft community as a grassroots mutual aid effort in 1985. CERF+ has since emerged as the leading nonprofit organization that uniquely focuses on safeguarding artists’ livelihoods nationwide.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">CERF+ is readiness, relief and resilience for studio artists, ensuring that they are as protected as the work they create. We provide resources + information, education + training, advocacy + research, emergency relief, emergency readiness + career protection tools.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">For more information, contact:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">Les Snow, Program Manager</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><a href="mailto:les@cerfplus.org" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12.8px;">les@cerfplus.org</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><a href="tel:802.229.2306" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12.8px;" value="+18022292306">802.229.2306</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.cerfplus.org&source=gmail&ust=1492787337836000&usg=AFQjCNF1liGVMCcv5oTTkC93RJLsGax2mw" href="http://www.cerfplus.org/" rel="noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12.8px;" target="_blank">www.cerfplus.org</a></span></blockquote>
If you are, or if someone you know is, a traditional artist in need of financial assist due to an emergent situation, consider applying for aid from CERF+.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02367525252574304966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2767503697371598417.post-27222752070012327432017-02-13T08:02:00.003-08:002017-02-13T08:08:07.432-08:00A Tribute to Alan Jabbour<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">Caption from the Library of Congress Blog: "Alan Jabbour, Head of the Archive of Folk Song (now Archive of Folk Culture) at the Library of Congress, reviewing sound recordings of folk music from the Archive’s collections, July 1972. Jabbour is pictured in the Library’s Recording Laboratory in the Library’s main building (now called the Thomas Jefferson Building). Photo by Carl Fleischhauer."</span></td></tr>
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From Dr. C. Kurt Dewhurst:<br />
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Last month we lost a very special friend of folklife. Alan Jabbour, musician, scholar, teacher, cultural administrator, and advocate for folk culture on the local, state, national, and international level. He was a seminal figure in the fields of ethnomusicology and folklore—and his legacy will live in the collections he developed, the national programs he founded, and the many students, colleagues, and friends who were enriched by their time with Alan.<br />
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Alan Jabbour’s contributions in Michigan are worth noting and celebrating. Back in 1975, Alan served as the first Director of the Folk Arts Program (now known as the Folk and Traditional Arts Program) at the National Endowment for the Arts. He was not only the chief administrator, he also was the inspired force for the preservation, documentation, and presentation of American folk culture. Marsha MacDowell and I learned about this new NEA grant program and we had the idea of doing a survey documentation project of the folk arts of Michigan. We contacted Alan and shared our vision of what we hoped to do. He encouraged and advised us with warmth of a long-time friend. We crafted our first grant application and submitted it to the NEA. A few months later, we were thrilled to learn that we were being awarded a grant to conduct a year-long survey of Michigan folk artistic traditions. We embarked on a year of traveling across the state visiting museums, cultural festivals, local historical societies, MSU Extension Offices, and meeting with traditional artsists. This survey led to the first exhibition of Michigan folk arts that traveled across our state for the Michigan the national bicentennial. We learned later that this NEA grant was one the first folk art state survey grants given by the NEA (the other was in Georgia). In the years to follow, other states conducted similar surveys that helped set the stage for the establishment of state folk arts programs in virtually all states and some territories of the US.
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Alan continued to support our work in Michigan while he was at the NEA and then when he took on the challenging role as the founding Director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. From this new seat, he continued to find ways to work together and he proved to become a close personal friend in the following years. He visited the MSU Museum a number of times and also became an important advocate for our Michigan Traditional Arts Program including the Michigan Heritage Awards Program, the Michigan Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, our exhibitions program, the development our Michigan Traditional Arts Archives, our growing folk art collection, and our annual festival programs.
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During this past year, I had the opportunity, in my role as the Chair of the Board of Trustees for the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, to introduce a special 40th anniversary program for the AFC in Washington, DC. The program was the first time that the Directors of the AFC were all together on a stage to discuss the remarkable contributions of the center to our nation. The conversation traced those early years of the center right up to the present day—and the future role of the center. While it was the tireless champion of such a center, Archie Green, who is properly credited with successfully lobbying for the creation of the center, it was Alan who with his wit, generosity, creativity, and leadership that enabled the center to thrive and eventually gain permanent federal authorization.
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The world has lost a legendary figure who dedicated his life to giving voice to the creative expressions of people from diverse communities. We in Michigan are grateful to Alan for his nurturing support and counsel for our own folk and traditional arts programming-- based at the Michigan State University Museum. Clearly though we all have been enriched by his work and a life truly well-lived.<br />
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To learn more about Alan Jabbour’s life go to:<br />
<a href="http://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2017/01/alan-jabbour-1942-2017/?loclr=eaftb">http://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2017/01/alan-jabbour-1942-2017/?loclr=eaftb</a><br />
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To learn more about the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress go to: <a href="https://www.loc.gov/folklife/">https://www.loc.gov/folklife/</a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02367525252574304966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2767503697371598417.post-15719183525429656312017-01-26T12:14:00.003-08:002017-01-26T12:37:49.882-08:00Science of Dance, Art of Rhythm: A lesson in tap•ol•o•gy with Alfred Bruce Bradley<i>The following is a guest post from fieldworker Nic Gareiss. Photos and video provided by Nic Gareiss.</i><br />
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"Repeat after me: when I listen, I learn." Standing in a room with Tapology Festival director Alfred Bruce Bradley, the sense of his mastery is palpable. In his weekly evening classes at <a href="http://www.cedsdance.com/">Creative Expressions Dance Studio</a> in Flint, Bradley demonstrates each step carefully, articulating rhythms expertly in a series of vocable sounds he scats to the room full of young dancers. "Ba-ba-boo, ba-da-da-ooh..." The students stand wide-eyed and attentive, and so do I. It's difficult not to in Bradley's presence.<br />
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"When I started there wasn't a scratch on this floor," he quips, "over the years I've worn them all down." Looking at the floor, it's as though one could see the ephemeral effect of the dance - an art form that usually finds its meaning in its disappearance - made visible in the flecked layers of finish, varnish, and bare wood excavated by steel taps attached to sounding feet. During his class we see a vestige of the bodily labor and artistry of Bradley and his legacy. If these floors are a testament to his love for American tap dance, it's clear that love runs deep indeed.</div>
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Bradley, a Flint native, came to tap dancing at age 32, later in life than most dancers, originally inspired to learn through his career in theater. Working first with Flint's McCree theater, he began learning to tap dance during a run of the hit Off Broadway musical “One Mo Time” at The Village Gate in Toronto, Ontario. Bradley later studied with <a href="http://www.tapology.org/festival/faculty/living-legends/108-about/staff/living-legends/455-2015-kevin-ramsey">Kevin Ramsey</a> (a protege of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs8TQtIHgsI&feature=youtu.be">Chuck Green</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/may/09/guardianobituaries.usa">Henry LeTang</a>) as well as the co-founder of the the Detroit-based tap legends The Sultans, <a href="http://www.historicbostonedison.org/history/people_ent.shtml">Lloyd Storey</a>, who danced with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NusZgfCQ634&feature=youtu.be&t=8s">Bill "Bojangles" Robinson</a>. He performed widely, from New Orleans to Zürich, always bringing his new repertoire back to his students in Flint and eventually founding the Tapology Festival, which is now in its fifteenth year. <br />
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Bradley's own choreography echoes the dance steps from the great African-American tradition of tap dancers: Henry LeTang, Chuck Green, John Bubbles, Bill Robinson, yet is uniquely his own. Between time spent touring and working with his mentors, he continued to live in Flint and was thereby largely self-taught. "I learned things and then would create rhythms on my own," he shared. He has also developed his own pedagogy. During class Bradley invites his students to demonstrate newly-acquired material on their own upon a 3x3 foot square platform at the front of the classroom. Each student is given an opportunity. During their time on the board, their classmates and Bradley bestow undivided attention. He shared that the board's purpose is not only to check the retention of repertoire but also to demonstrate the benefits of hard work, build leadership, and confidence. "You can teach math and science through this form, you can teach language, and how to memorize and build self-esteem."</div>
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As founder and director of the Tapology Festival, Bradley has a chance to bring his mentors and luminaries of tap dance to his home city. During our conversation he stressed the importance of tap dance in Flint. "It does a lot to bring cultural identity. Tap dance has been embraced across the world by all kinds of people: black, white, it doesn't make a difference. When you can bring kids together - I have kids coming down from Bloomfield Hills, and they dance with kids on welfare - they develop friendships. They learn together. They perform together and have a great experience. Those friendships are going to travel with them the rest of their lives. They are going to bring a new awareness, a new brotherhood...You're developing community through this dance. Because you're teaching the history, they are learning appreciation for an African-American influenced dance form...Through this dance form there's a merging and a bringing-together of people from various social, economic, religious, cultural backgrounds."</div>
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For more information on Alfred Bruce Bradley and the 15th annual Tapology Festival held in Flint, visit <a href="http://www.tapology.org/">www.tapology.org</a>.<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.nicgareiss.com/Welcome.html">Nic Gareiss</a> is a MTAP fieldworker, professional performer, and dance researcher living in Lansing, Michigan. He holds degrees in Music and Anthropology from Central Michigan University and a MA in Ethnochoreolgy from the University of Limerick. His 2017 fieldwork for MTAP focuses on dance, marginality, and the political salience of moving (and sounding) bodies.</i></div>
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<i>Dave Langdon, a fiddler, fiddle music researcher, and Michigan Folklore Society president, wrote the following words to commemorate Karl Byarski, who sadly passed away on December 22, 2016.</i></div>
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Karl Byarski (August 5, 1916 – December 22, 2016) passed away at his home in Kinde, MI on Thursday, December 22, 2016. Karl had been honored by the Michigan Traditional Arts Program of the MSU Museum in 2014 with the Michigan Heritage Award for his collecting and documentation activities in Huron County, MI and the rest of the Thumb area. Here is a link to his <a href="http://www.macalpinefuneralhome.com/home/index.cfm/obituaries/view/fh_id/14320/id/4046786">obituary</a>.<br />
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Karl purchased a reel to reel tape recorder from Montgomery Ward in about 1952. This recorder was a one speed 1 7/8 inches per second recorder. He liked fiddle music, so he recorded people playing the fiddle. He liked Polish music, so he recorded people playing Polish music. He liked the sounds of nature, so he would wake up at 4 or 5 o’clock in the morning and set up his tape recorder to record nature sounds. He was a religious man, having been raised Roman Catholic and attending St. Mary of Czestochowa church in nearby Dwight Township for most of his life, so he recorded special services and the choir of the church (and other churches) and parties at the church hall. He loved his family, so he recorded many family activities both at home and other locations. He liked to record things so he borrowed records from friends and recorded them on tape. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Phil Miller (Karl's uncle from Kinde, MI), Karl Byarski, William Reehl (fiddler from Bad Axe, MI), Ernie Patterson with fiddle (Filion, MI) at former State Senator Sam Pangborn's home in Bad Axe, MI circa 1958. From L to R.</td></tr>
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Karl exchanged tapes with several other people who did recording, both in the U.S. and in other countries. Someone would send Karl a tape and he was supposed to listen to it and then record his message and his recordings over the original message and send it back to the person who sent the tape. But Karl would keep these tapes as he kept almost all of the recordings he made. <br />
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Karl converted most of the basement of the family home into an amateur recording studio. At the time he started recording, the idea that a person could hear music they had just created was something of a novelty in Huron County, Michigan. People would come over to his house either by invitation or having heard about his recording and be recorded. Many weekend parties took place in that basement and many recordings were made there. Karl also often took his recorder with him to the homes of people who played music and recorded them at their home. He went to other churches in the area and recorded church services and parties at church halls. He recorded some fiddlers’ jamborees. He recorded an outdoor fiddling contest in nearby Ubly, MI in 1965. For a time he had a radio program called the Hometowners on local Bad Axe radio station WLEW where he played recordings he had collected and sometimes had musicians play live at the studio. He recorded the Barney Schubring Show on radio station WLEW and other radio programs as well. He would call friends and record the telephone conversation. He took his recorder with him on vacation and made recordings at some of the places the family visited.<style>
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I first met Karl on Friday, July 13, 2012, just before he turned 96 years old. I had borrowed a cassette from a man from Deckerville that turned out to have been made by Karl and I had spent about the two weeks prior trying to find out who had made the borrowed tape and whether there were other tapes. After doing several internet searches and contacting people via email and depending on the help of total strangers, I had been told that Karl had “quite a few tapes” and lived in Kinde and I was given a contact phone number. I called the number and a woman (who turned out to be Karl’s daughter) answered the phone. After giving me the third degree about why I wanted to talk with her father, she put Karl on the phone with me. We talked for a few minutes about his collection of recordings and then Karl gave me his email address and asked me to send him an email, “then I’ll have your email address. I’ll send you some stuff” he said. So I gave him my email address and the next morning as I was sitting at my computer, working, I received an email from Karl with an attached .mp3 file of Ford and Florence Stein playing music. Ford on the violin, Florence on the piano, about 45 minutes worth of music. About 15 minutes later, I received another email with more music from someone else and then 15 minutes later, a third email with more music again from Ford and Florence Stein. I decided that I needed to get up to see Karl as soon as possible, that evening I drove to Huron County and stayed with some friends from Lansing at their cottage near Oak Beach. The next day I went to see Karl at his home for the first time. I met his daughter, Linda and his wife, Margaret as well. We sat at the kitchen table and I talked with them about the collecting work that I was doing and Karl told me a little bit about the recordings he had made and how he got started recording. After a while, Karl asked me if I wanted to see his recordings. I said that I did and his daughter and I helped him go down to the basement where the recordings were kept. As I neared the bottom of the stairs, I saw a handmade wooden cassette storage unit that was full of cassettes. There were 6 rows and 10 columns of cubbyholes. Later I learned that each cubbyhole held about 15 cassettes (900 cassettes). When I turned around, I saw several shelves against the wall full of reel to reel tapes. As I looked around the basement, I saw several other cabinets with cardboard boxes holding cassettes and another smaller cassette storage unit on the wall in another room. I could not believe the number of tapes that Karl had.<br />
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I spent more than 100 hours interviewing Karl Byarski at his home in Kinde during the time we were documenting and indexing his recordings. One of the biggest problems I had was getting Karl to talk about himself. I never heard him say an unkind word about anyone. He was always willing to talk with me about his recordings. We would sit at his kitchen table with the recorder going and I would bring several tapes up from the basement and number them and then I would give the tapes to Karl and he would talk about them. Especially with the reel to reel tapes when he took the tape in his hands and looked at the notes he had written on the back cover, it seemed like he would be transported in time back to when he had recorded that tape. Through the interviews I had with Karl, I became much more familiar with Huron County, a place I had hardly visited prior to meeting Karl. And in working to contact families of the people Karl recorded, I met many people from this part of Michigan. Almost without exception, they have been willing to share their time and recordings, pictures and information with me. I have discovered what a fine place Karl had lived in for so many years. One of the first times I visited Karl, he asked me to play some tunes for him and virtually every time I went to his house, I had to play a few tunes for him before I left. He and his family were always very generous with their time and hospitality. I came to feel like a member of the Byarski family. During these last several months as Karl’s health has declined and he was in hospice care at his home, I tried to visit him at his home and play some tunes on my fiddle for him. He always seemed to appreciate hearing and talking about these tunes. It will seem very strange to me now to go to the Thumb and not stop at his house and talk and play tunes for him. But as Karl himself had done over the years, I have preserved the memory of many of our conversations and visits by recording them. These will be a reminder of Karl's love and devotion for music, nature, friends, and family.<br />
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I’m excited to welcome to some new members of our fieldwork team for 2016-2017. MTAP has contracted two fieldworkers, Nic Gareiss and Dave Langdon, who have some excellent areas of research planned. Both Nic and Dave are performers, practitioners, and scholars of traditional dance and music. They are deeply committed to their communities of practice and research, and care about reciprocity when undertaking fieldwork. <br />
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I wanted to introduce Nic and Dave to Great Folks blog readers because they will be writing blog posts on their fieldwork. Without further ado…</div>
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<a href="http://www.nicgareiss.com/Welcome.html">Nic Gareiss</a> is a professional performer, teacher, and dance researcher living in Lansing, Michigan. His interests include vernacular dance traditions from many locations, especially Appalachia, Quebec, and the Irish diaspora. Nic holds a degree in Anthropology from Central Michigan University and a MA in Ethnochoreology from the University of Limerick. He has written on the intersections of dancing bodies, gender, sexuality and nationhood. Gareiss' MA thesis based upon his ethnographic work with LGTBQ competitive Irish step dancers was the first piece of scholarship to query the experience of sexual minorities within traditional Irish dance. Other publications include “An Buachaillín Bán: Reflections on One Queer’s Performance within Traditional Irish Music & Dance” in The Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance edited by Clare Croft on Oxford University Press (June 2017) and “The Lion, The Witch, and the Closet: Heteronormative institutional research and the queering of ‘Traditions’” co-written with Aileen Dillane in Queering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicology, edited by William Cheng and Gregory Barz on Oxford University Press (forthcoming). Gareiss’ present research seeks to illuminate issues of national identity, gender, and sexual orientation via ethnography and embodied practice. As a performer, Gareiss has concertized in fourteen countries and continues to tour and teach internationally, working with dance communities and presenting solo percussive dance choreography. <br />
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Michigan sustains many remarkably rich traditional dance communities throughout our state. Within these diverse communities bodies become sites of cultural practice as dancers create, transmit, theorize, and engage their heritage through their physical selves. Because of dance's corporeality, moving bodies often become politicized when the communities in which they exist are marginalized. However, dance remain a powerful and transcendent means by which tradition-bearers maintain their cultures, subvert subjugation, and both imagine and enact brighter futures. Nic's research focus lies at the intersections of traditional dance and marginality; in the ways that intangible cultural dance heritage is sustained in communities that are subject to systematic oppression due to race, indignity, national origin, disability, gender, and sexuality. Through the Michigan Traditional Arts Program, Nic hopes to bring both attention and resources to dancers in our state that may be experiencing this kind of marginalization. Whether it takes the form of African-American vogueing in Detroit, Yemeni dance in Dearborn, Appalachia clogging in Bellaire, or Indian Kathak in Midland, Nic is looking forward to helping connect Michigan State Museum to Michigan's vibrant jiving, bouncing, shuffling, gesturing tradition-bearers.</div>
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Dave Langdon is a left-handed fiddler and collector of traditional Michigan music and dance materials and recordings. He is originally from Owosso, MI, and has played the fiddle since 1977 and has been collecting since 2011. He is a long time member of East Lansing’s <a href="http://www.prettyshakystringband.org/">Pretty Shaky String Band</a> (an old time jam open to the public) and has played upright bass with the Lansing based <a href="http://www.scarletrunnerstringband.com/">Scarlet Runner String Band</a> for over 25 years. Dave worked with Karl Byarski of Kinde, MI for many months to index and organize Karl’s extensive collection of recordings of Thumb area musicians and fiddlers. He also nominated Karl for a Michigan Heritage Award, which was <a href="http://museum.msu.edu/s-program/mh_awards/awards/2014KB.html">awarded to Karl in 2014</a>. In recent years, Dave reinvigorated the Michigan Folklore Society (MFS) as its president. One of the goals of the MFS is to make traditional music and dance (especially fiddle music) more accessible to the public via the internet. Now retired, Dave worked as an information systems professional and manager after graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science and later earning a M.S. in Computer Science both from Michigan State University.<br />
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Dave will be looking into hammer dulcimer music in Michigan. Michigan is one of the major states for hammer dulcimer playing and is also the home of the Original Dulcimer Players Club (ODPC) Funfest held at the Osceola County Fairgrounds in Evart, MI, each year. There are several dulcimer clubs and also music jams attended by hammer dulcimer players and others. Dave will be attending several of these jams and documenting the music and musicians at these club meetings and jams. This might include making audio recordings, doing interviews, taking photos, making video, etc. The end result will be a written report of activities and findings.<br />
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I look forward to hearing about the work Nic and Dave produce and I know you will too! Got any tips for traditional artists we should interview or topics we should document? You can send them to msum.mtap@gmail.com.<br />
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Thanks to Nic and Dave for providing biographies and summaries of their research plans.<br />
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<i>Molly McBride coordinates contract fieldworkers and undertakes her own fieldwork on traditional music and other various topics for MTAP. She is currently learning to knit. </i><br />
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As we are all gearing up for another school year, we here at
MTAP wanted to share a new resource available on Michigan’s musical heritage. Folklorist
and Ethnomusicologist Dr. Laurie Sommers created <a href="http://www.culturalequity.org/rc/ce_rc_teaching.php" target="_blank">10 lesson plans</a> through the Association for Cultural Equity that follow
<a href="https://www.loc.gov/collections/alan-lomax-in-michigan/about-this-collection/" target="_blank">Alan Lomax’s 1938 fieldwork trip through Michigan</a>. Each lesson uses field recordings from a specific area to
explore the history and culture of that area, the music tradition heard, and
music theory. The lesson plans are designed so students have a hands-on
approach to learning history through music. Though the lessons were made with students in grades first through seventh in mind, students of all ages will enjoy these. </div>
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Continuing our series on 2016 MHA Awardees, here is a little bit more about David Dutcher, awarded for his skill and knowledge in Native american arts, including copper jewelry beadwork, and moccasin making.<br />
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From the <a href="http://museum.msu.edu/s-program/mh_awards/awards/2016DD.html">Michigan Traditional Arts Program</a> bio:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">David Dutcher (b.1956) is a member of the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians and an artist who works in multiple genres. He began making traditional Anishnabeg black ash baskets at age 9 with his father, Jon Roy Dutcher. David is skilled in a variety of different Eastern Woodland bead styles beyond those commonly employed by traditional Anishnabeg beadwork artists. Today, David maintains traditional Anishnabeg designs as well as developing contemporary Anishnabeg aesthetic patterns with materials traditionally used in Anishnabeg art. He incorporates custom appliqué beadwork into a variety of traditional and contemporary textile products from moccasins and breeches to laptop bags and purses. His custom stitched garments invoke colonial period aesthetics that draw viewers into sophisticated conversations on hegemonic aesthetic forms and counter-appropriation. David is at home in both these types of theoretical discussions of material culture history and in the specialized and challenging work of re-creating the materials. Many regional pow wow dancers perform regularly in moccasins, jewelry, and clothing created and or decorated by David. With hand tools, including some of his own design, he handcrafts copper jewelry.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">In addition to his thriving dress and adornment art practice, David also provides a variety of arts and culture-related services for both his tribe and the community at-large. These include direct collections care for many of the most delicate items in the collections of the Tower of History Museum’s (Sault Ste. Marie) most delicate items as well as providing information on appropriate and respectful storage practices and interpretive information for items ranging from snowshoes to ceremonial rattles. He has also been a professional hairstylist and has been enlisted by community art and theater organizations to help with hair and makeup for stage productions.</span></span></blockquote>
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David will be present at this year's <a href="http://greatlakesfolkfest.net/2016/programs/traditional-arts/david-dutcher/">Great Lakes Folk Festival</a> on Saturday, August 13th and Sunday, August 14th, both to receive his 2016 Michigan Heritage Award, and to demonstrate his artistry in our Traditional Arts Marketplace.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02367525252574304966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2767503697371598417.post-16010361251770168172016-07-21T10:17:00.002-07:002016-07-21T10:37:22.919-07:00#FolkloreThursday 2016 Heritage Award Spotlight: Thomas Kelly<br />
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In the weeks leading up to the <a href="http://greatlakesfolkfest.net/2016/">Great Lakes Folk Festival</a> (Aug 12-14), we will be focusing some #FolkloreThursday post on one of our seven <a href="http://museum.msu.edu/s-program/mh_awards/awardees.html">2016 Michigan Heritage Awardees</a>. This week, we're focusing on Thomas Kelly (in the light blue shirt in the above video), the 104-year-old a cappella Gospel singer from Detroit.<br />
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From the Michigan Traditional Arts Program Bio:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas Kelly is an institution in the Detroit gospel scene. He was born in East Irondale, Alabama, in 1913. His family moved to Detroit in 1922, and he began singing gospel music five years later. No stranger to hard work and dedication, he is a World War II veteran and worked as a hi-lo driver at the Chrysler Detroit Axle Plant for thirty years. Beginning in the 1930s, as there was high demand for religious programming on the radio, he made time to sing live on Sundays on Detroit station WJLB-AM.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At age 104, Thomas has a literal lifetime of experience, singing a cappella gospel for the last eighty-nine years. The music as he learned it was not written down, but passed on through repetition and practice. He specifically says that he “got [his] education in the singing from the chording,” or the harmonies present in this genre of music. He remembers a time when he and others would sing on the street corners until the wee hours of the morning, or until the police told them it was time to go home. Thomas has formed many groups throughout the years, including the Marine Harmony Four in 1926, The Famous Wandering Four in 1930 and most recently with the Masters of Harmony (with members David Grear, Neal Lewis, and O’Bryant Walker).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Detroit gospel scene has gone through many transitions and evolutions through the years, such as the move from a cappella singing to the addition of instruments like the Hammond organ and the electric guitar, but Thomas has remained stalwart in the a cappella tradition, bearing this music forward and keeping it alive. He even composes new music in this style. He has taught countless individuals with his “ministry through music,” including his four-year-old great great-granddaughter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For his outstanding commitment to and skill in the tradition of a cappella gospel singing, and his lifetime of experience, Thomas Kelly is awarded the 2016 Michigan Heritage Award.</span></div>
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If you're interested in seeing Thomas perform, you can find him at the GLFF on Sunday, August 14th, at the City Hall Stage with <a href="http://greatlakesfolkfest.net/2016/music-dance/festival-performers/masters-of-harmony/">the Masters of Harmony</a> from 1:30-2:20, or the Campus and Community Stage from 3:00-3:30. He will also be receiving his Michigan Heritage Award at our special ceremony at 4:30pm on Sunday at the Campus and Community Stage.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02367525252574304966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2767503697371598417.post-77775829434932635262016-06-27T08:39:00.001-07:002016-06-27T08:39:14.358-07:00In Memoriam: NEA Heritage Fellow and GLFF Performer Dr. Ralph Stanley <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2xmRWj7gJEU" width="560"></iframe><br />
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From the National Endowment for the Arts's Cheryl Schiele:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Washington, DC- It is with great sadness that the National Endowment for the Arts acknowledges the passing <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1562414482" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Thursday</span></span> of legendary bluegrass musician Dr. Ralph Stanley, recipient of a 1984 NEA National Heritage Fellowship and a 2004 National Medal of Arts. Stanley was born February 25, 1927, near McClure, Virginia, in the Clinch Mountains. He and his older brother Carter learned ballad singing and claw-hammer-style banjo playing from their mother. Her repertoire ranged from traditional narrative songs to nineteenth-century hymns sung a cappella, which the Stanley Brothers incorporated into their sets when they began playing professionally.<br />The brothers began performing with Roy Sykes and the Blue Ridge Mountain Boys in 1946, but soon formed their own band, the Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys. They quickly gained a following due to their broadcasts on WCYB in Bristol, Virginia, which reached a five-state area: Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. From 1947 to 1958, the Stanley Brothers recorded with Rich-R-Tone, Columbia, and Mercury record labels, where they defined their signature sound, which revolved around Ralph's mournful vocals and three-finger banjo playing and Carter's masterful lead singing. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1966, Carter died, and after much consideration, Ralph continued his musical career and formed a new band. Many contemporary bluegrass artists have come up through the Clinch Mountain Boys band, including Ricky Skaggs, Keith Whitley, Larry Sparks and Charlie Sizemore. In 2000, his career skyrocketed after his music was used in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? (from which his chilling recording of "O Death" won a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance), and in 2002, his band the Clinch Mountain Boys received the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album for Lost In The Lonesome Pines. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Although Stanley has played primarily a traditional repertoire, he has also written his own songs. "It's something that comes to you. I might write one tonight and I might not write another one for three years. It just hits you, comes on your mind. I've got up at three or <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1562414483" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">four o'clock</span></span> in the morning, wrote a song or two, maybe wrote three before I went back to bed. If I didn't get up and write them down, I wouldn't have remembered them the next day. One of them was 'Prayer of a Truck Driver's Son.' They were gospel songs. One of them was 'I Want to Be Ready.' There's been so many in so many years. It's hard to remember." </span></blockquote>
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View Dr. Ralph Stanley's profile from his 2003 performance on our Great Lakes Folk Festival website <a href="http://www.greatlakesfolkfest.net/glff2003/Programs&Activities/Music&Dance/artists/stanley.html">here</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02367525252574304966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2767503697371598417.post-28289531598032727212016-05-02T11:58:00.002-07:002016-05-02T12:00:38.074-07:00Michigan Native Featured in Smithsonian Folkways Magazine<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MschzQkASmk" width="560"></iframe> <br />
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Michigan's own Daniel Kahn and his band, the Brother Nazaroff, are featured in the latest issue of Smithsonian Folkways Magazine. They released an album in the fall of 2015 honoring the work of Nathan "Prince" Nazaroff, based on his 1954 release from Smithsonian Folkways, <i>Jewish Freilach Songs. </i>As Dan puts it<i>...</i><br />
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Watch the animated video of their version of <i>Ich a Mazeldicker Yid</i> below:<br />
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<a href="http://www.folkways.si.edu/magazine-winter-2016-yiddish-song-smuggling/article/smithsonian" target="_blank">Read the full piece from Daniel Kahn here.</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02367525252574304966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2767503697371598417.post-67096919259142616212016-04-01T07:40:00.000-07:002016-04-01T07:42:33.540-07:00NEA Heritage Fellow Zakir Hussain Comes to East Lansing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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GRAMMY award-winning master tabla drummer Zakir Hussain and his collaborators <a href="http://www.whartoncenter.com/events/detail/zakir-hussain" target="_blank">will perform</a> Tuesday, April 5th, at 7:30 in the Cobb Great Hall of the Wharton Center. Tickets are $20-$40 for adults, and $15 for children ages 5-18. Dr. Michael Largey, MSU Professor of Musicology, will give a brief talk at 6:45 as part of the Wharton Center's Insight Preview series, which will contextualize the performance to follow.<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); line-height: 25.6px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">International phenomenon, child prodigy, legendary artist, and acclaimed musician Zakir Hussain can move an audience to tears or get them on their feet and cheering, using just his hands and a tabla drum! His work with icons such as George Harrison, Yo-Yo Ma, and Van Morrison opened the beauty of Indian music to the world and inspired a cultural shift in pop music. Hussain has become internationally recognized as an architect of the contemporary world music movement, proving that he can find the commonality in music and translate it into something beautiful for the world to enjoy. Audiences will revel in the craft that Hussain has perfected and will feel the deepest joys and exciting thrills that Indian music can instill.</span></span></blockquote>
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This video shows a full two-hour performance by Hussain and the Masters of Percussion in 2013. His first appearance can be found at the 13:40 mark. This is not a show to be missed!<br />
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To read more about Hussain's fellowship with the National Endowment of the Arts, click <a href="https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/zakir-hussain" target="_blank">here</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02367525252574304966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2767503697371598417.post-6429322678493202892016-03-24T12:28:00.000-07:002016-03-24T12:28:44.648-07:00#FolkloreThursday: Playlist for Women’s History Month<div class="MsoNormal">
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people <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/how-the-folklorethursday-hashtag-on-twitter-has-become-a-global-event-a6919731.html">post
all sorts of folklore tidbits every Thursday</a>. MTAP participates in this
digital community by using the hashtag #FolkloreThursday to amalgamate relevant
folkloric content. You, too, can participate by tagging posts with #FolkloreThursday
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We here at MTAP have put together a playlist for Women’s
History Month of awesome Michigan-based women making music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Women musicians’ contributions to the
development of musical styles, genres, techniques and their vast bodies of work
are innumerable and to this day often overlooked. Most of the artists included
here are affiliated in some way with the Michigan Traditional Arts Program, but
some were too influential to leave out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b>Alberta Adams</b></div>
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#FolkloreThursday is a growing community on Twitter where
people <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/how-the-folklorethursday-hashtag-on-twitter-has-become-a-global-event-a6919731.html" target="_blank">post all sorts of folklore tidbits every Thursday</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We here at the Michigan Traditional Arts
Program are joining this community today with an inaugural St. Patrick’s Day
#FolkloreThursday post!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Below is a short video of Irish social dancing taken at an
Irish Ceili at the Gaelic League in Detroit, Michigan, January 23, 2016. The
music is provided by Mick, Michael, and Sean Gavin and the calling by Anne
McCallum. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In 2014 James Madison Professor Steve Rohs undertook MTAP
fieldwork on Irish music sessions in Detroit and Ann Arbor. He interviewed Mick
Gavin who is a fiddler and melodeon player and has been a key
tradition bearer of Irish culture, particularly music, in Southeast Michigan
since settling in Detroit in the 1970s (Gavin is the melodeon player in the video above).</div>
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From Dr. Rohs’ fieldwork report:</div>
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Mick Gavin was born in Meelick, Ireland in 1945. He learned
to play melodeon and fiddle from family members and from local fiddlers from
Limerick, and in 1960, at age 15, his group The Delcassian Ceili Band won the
Kerry Fleadh ceili competition. In 1974, Mick traveled to the United States as
part of a touring Irish band. He played as a professional musician in Chicago,
but soon settled in Detroit and began a flooring business which survives to
this day. In the 1980s and 1990s, Mick, a seasoned session player, began to
mentor and formally teach young fiddlers in the Detroit area. Like Terence McKinney [a Detroit-area uilleann piper who studied under Al Purcell], he
became involved in the Detroit branch of Comhaltas Ceotiori Eireann, and many
of his students won regional and All-Ireland awards on their instruments. He
also promotes Irish music in Southeast Michigan, bringing international artists
to local venues, participating in an annual “Crossroads Ceili” at the Ark in
Ann Arbor with current and former students, and hosts the St. Patrick’s Day
events at the Hellenic Cultural Center in Detroit. He was inducted into the
Midwest Region Comhaltas Ceotiori Eireann Irish Music Hall of Fame in 2003.
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Dr. Rohs also compiled a list of Irish music sessions in
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Cleary’s Pub in Chelsea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.folkjam.org/recurring-jam/us/mi/traverse-city/celtic-session-north">http://www.folkjam.org/recurring-jam/us/mi/traverse-city/celtic-session-north</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Tuesday nights 7-10 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://midlandceltic.org/2013/04/02/bay-city-irish-session-now-weekly/">http://midlandceltic.org/2013/04/02/bay-city-irish-session-now-weekly/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Loutit District Library in Grand Haven<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.folkjam.org/recurring-jam/us/mi/grand-haven/traditional-irish-music-session-loutit-district-library">http://www.folkjam.org/recurring-jam/us/mi/grand-haven/traditional-irish-music-session-loutit-district-library</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Midland Brewing Company in Midland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Second and fourth Wednesday nights<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://thesession.org/sessions/3128">http://thesession.org/sessions/3128</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Stucchi’s Ice Cream in Alma<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dr. Rohs' fieldwork on Irish music sessions is in the Michigan Traditional Arts Program Research Collections, MSU Museum, Accession no. 2014:58. </div>
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The Masters of Harmony performed recently at the 2015 <a href="http://www.greatlakesfolkfest.net/" target="_blank">GreatLakes Folk Festival</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After their GLFF
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2767503697371598417.post-70565465166981521832015-12-18T11:40:00.003-08:002015-12-18T11:46:35.269-08:00Michigander Frank Ettawageshik Delivers Paris Climate Convention Address<br />
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Frank Ettawageshik (Odawa) spoke recently at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Ettawageshik gave his address on behalf of the <a href="http://www.ncai.org/" target="_blank">National Congress of American Indians</a>, as well as indigenous peoples worldwide. In addition to serving as the former Chairman of the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa and as a research associate of the Michigan State University Museum, he was recognized by the Michigan Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program as a master artist in Woodland Indian pottery in 1993 and 2001.<br />
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Due to recently events in Paris and around the world, this convention has been highly publicized. It is incredible to have one of our own speaking out about climate change and Native Rights on such an impressive platform.<br />
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Here is the transcript of his full remarks:<br />
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change</strong><br />
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Statement at Closing Plenary of UNFCCC COP21</strong><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Paris, France December 12, 2015</strong><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Presented by Frank Ettawageshik, supported by Chief Bill Erasmus, Hindou Ourmou Ibrahim, and Saoudata Aboubacrine</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></blockquote>
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<i>Aanii, Nakwegeshik N’diznikas. Pipigwa Ododem. Waganakising n’doonjibaa. </i><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span>(Hello. Noonday is my name. The Sparrow Hawk is the mark of my family. I am from the Land of the Crooked Tree.)</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr President, I greeted you in my Native language. My name is Frank Ettawageshik and I represent the National Congress of American Indians. Thank you for this opportunity to address you on behalf of the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change. Indigenous Peoples are those who least contribute to climate change, having safeguarded our traditional lands, territories and resources for millenia. Because our lives are inextricably and intimately related to the natural world, every adverse effect on that world acutely affects our lives.</strong></div>
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The members of our caucus come from all the regions of the world. Indigenous peoples came here with three key messages. We are pleased that during these negotiations all of our points were addressed to some degree.</div>
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We must remember we are here as nations to uphold the future for our children! We recognize the hope in all children’s eyes and we work so that this hope will remain through the future generations.<br />
Miigwetch (Thank You), Merci Beaucoup</blockquote>
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View the full, original posting <a href="http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/frank-ettawageshik-odawa-delivers-closing-plenary-of-nfccc-cop21-in-paris-on-behalf-of-indigenous-peoples/" target="_blank">here</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02367525252574304966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2767503697371598417.post-51116923940044900722015-12-15T13:56:00.001-08:002015-12-15T13:56:34.284-08:00What is Folklore?
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<a href="http://www.folkstreams.net/" target="_blank">Folkstreams</a> is a wonderful online archive of documentary
films made about American folklore. They recently made this short video featuring
folklorist <a href="http://www.folkstreams.net/filmmaker,42" target="_blank">Daniel W. Patterson </a>describing folklore. Patterson, a Kenan Professor
Emeritus of English at UNC-Chapel Hill, Fellow of the <a href="http://www.afsnet.org/" target="_blank">American Folklore Society</a>, and author of ten books, relates in the video that:</div>
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“People think of folklore as… a quilt on the wall, it’s a
pot on the mantelpiece…it’s an old song…but actually, folklore makes you very
uncomfortable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s powerful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it’s anything at all it’s powerful because
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In Michigan, folklore is a fiddle tune passed down through
generations, a pasty recipe, a style of duck decoys or pottery, a gospel shout.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it’s also a ritual at the Michigan
Womyn’s Festival, a quilt made in response to the AIDS epidemic, the refinement
of a recipe at a microbrewery, the making of a <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Quinceañera<b> </b></span>dress, it’s improvisation in tap dancing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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As Patterson describes in the video, folklore arises from
every-day lived experiences; in the back woods of the Upper Peninsula, on the
waterways winding through our state, in the auto factories speckled throughout
the mitten, the convivial din of a house party, and even the careful knot in a
web of lace, folklore affects and comprises our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re always interested to hear how folklore
is a part of our readers lives, so please leave a comment with a personal story
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Folkstreams is a great resource to learn about traditions
and folklife through videos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They even
have a few films based in Michigan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
<a href="http://museum.msu.edu/s-program/mtap/" target="_blank">Michigan Traditional Arts Program</a> is also a great resource to learn about
Michigan-specific folklife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPA02BPR6XEju2pLJvNKrzw" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a> is a great place to find short videos on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NETcrLJqjx8" target="_blank">contemporary traditions</a> from
recent fieldwork and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kwa3AxdRto" target="_blank">archival footage</a> from our research collections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quillworker Yvonne Walker Keshick with her grandchildren at the 2015 GLFF</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">"For an individual family [however "family" may be defined], folklore is its creative expression of a common past. As
raw experiences are transformed into family stories, expressions, and
photos, they are codified in forms which can be easily recalled, retold,
and enjoyed. Their drama and beauty are heightened, and the family’s
past becomes accessible as it is reshaped according to its needs and
desires,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"</span> (Zeitlin 1982).</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lacemaking has been passed down for generations in Ron Ahren's family.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An easy way for anyone to document family folklore is to interview a relative through the <a href="https://storycorps.me/" target="_blank">StoryCorps</a> app. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"The StoryCorps
app—a free mobile application—seamlessly walks users through an interview by
providing all the necessary tools for a wonderful experience. You will receive
help preparing questions, finding the right environment for your conversation,
recording a high-quality interview on your mobile device, sharing the finished
product with friends and family, and uploading your conversation to the
StoryCorps.me website. This site is a home for the recordings and also provides
interviewing and editing resources. In addition, all interviews uploaded to the
platform during the first year of the program will be archived at the American
Folklife Center at the Library of Congress," (<a href="https://storycorps.me/about/">https://storycorps.me/about/</a>).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Though the app has built-in questions to ask your interviewee,
we suggest you make your own questions centering on family traditions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What kinds of traditions does your family have for
Thanksgiving?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ask about <b>Foodways</b>…</span></div>
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what?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What kind
of cookware is used?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Are there
special serving dishes?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When do you
eat?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ask about <b>Music</b>…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What kinds
of music do you listen to during the holidays?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When do you
listen to music during the holidays?<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Does anyone in your family play
music?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Where
did they learn?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ask about <b>Stories</b>…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What are
the stories, tales, and myths told?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Where
do they come from?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>What
kinds of stories are they? Humorous, cautionary, or romance? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Who tells
stories at a gathering?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In what
setting are stories told?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Use the Story Corps app to record and archive
your interview.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tag your interview with
“MSU Museum” and your interview may be featured on the Great Folks blog! We
want to hear about your folklife. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Steve Zeitlin. <i>A Celebration of American Family Folklore.</i> Cambridge, MA: Yellow Moon Press, 1982, p. 2 </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Michigan State University Museum Curator of Folk Arts <a href="http://museum.msu.edu/?q=node/149" target="_blank">Dr. Marsha MacDowell</a> has been named a fellow of the <a href="http://www.afsnet.org/?" target="_blank">American Folklore Society (AFS)</a>, demonstrating outstanding accomplishments and making important contributions to the field of folklore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Established in 1960, the <a href="http://www.afsnet.org/?page=Fellows" target="_blank">Fellows of the American Folklore Society</a> are folklorists who have produced a significant number of important articles, books, and other scholarly productions or exhibitions on folklore, and have provided meritorious service to the Society and the discipline of folklore studies. In addition to her substantial record of publications and exhibitions, <span data-scayt_word="MacDowell" data-scaytid="3">MacDowell</span> has served in a number of capacities within <span data-scayt_word="AFS" data-scaytid="4">AFS</span>, including as elected member of the <span data-scayt_word="AFS" data-scaytid="5">AFS </span>executive board.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-scayt_word="MacDowell" data-scaytid="9">MacDowell is </span>also a professor in <span data-scayt_word="MSU's" data-scaytid="11">MSU's</span> Art, Art History, and Design Department as well as a core faculty member in the College of Arts and Letters Museum Studies Program, where she serves as the program's internship coordinator and teaches future museum professionals curatorial, research, field work, exhibition and civic engagement work. Her research interests include South African quilt history; traditions of patchwork covers in China; quilts and health; the history and meaning of <span data-scayt_word="lau" data-scaytid="13">lau</span> <span data-scayt_word="hala" data-scaytid="14">hala</span> in Hawaiian culture; and the intersection of ethnography and museums in a digital age. She is the director of the <a href="http://www.quiltindex.org/" target="_blank">Quilt Index</a>, an international digital repository of stories, images, and other data related to quilts and their makers.</span></div>
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MacDowell has curated over 50 research-based interpretive exhibitions and festival programs as Michigan State University and is founding director of the MSU Museum's <a href="http://www.greatlakesfolkfest.net/glff2015/" target="_blank">Great Lakes Folk Festival</a>, a university-community partnership. As the Coordinator of the <a href="http://museum.msu.edu/s-program/mtap/" target="_blank">Michigan Traditional Arts Program</a> since 1984, she has led many projects focused on Michigan traditional and cultural heritage. </div>
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Source: <a href="http://museum.msu.edu/index.php?q=node/1449">http://museum.msu.edu/index.php?q=node/1449</a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02367525252574304966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2767503697371598417.post-63386662560310764892015-11-05T07:23:00.001-08:002015-12-04T09:11:02.986-08:00MSU Museum's Quilts of Southwest China Featured on WKAR<div class="tr_bq">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The new exhibit at the MSU Museum, "<a href="http://museum.msu.edu/?q=node/1312">Quilts of Southwest China</a>," opened September 28th, and runs until April 30th, 2015. Folk Arts Curator Marsha MacDowell sat down with WKAR's Peter Whorf to discuss the exhibit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Marsha MacDowell was surrounded by quilts from the start. She says she was born with an instant quilt collection assembled by her quilting grandmothers. The quilts from MacDowell’s childhood bed made their way to her residence hall during student days at MSU.<br />Her love and knowledge of art and textiles ultimately led to a professorship in Art and Art History at Michigan State, and her role as Folk Art Curator at the MSU Museum.<br />Dr. MacDowell is the author of numerous books about the art of quilts in Michigan and beyond. Her most recent work with MSU’s ongoing China Experience project now connects her passion for the art to people half a world away.<br /><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Current State's</em> Peter Whorf talks with MacDowell about the exhibition.</span></blockquote>
<a href="http://wkar.org/post/msu-s-china-experience-also-covers-art-quilts#stream/0">Listen to the full interview here</a>!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02367525252574304966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2767503697371598417.post-19606645039812245612015-11-02T11:02:00.000-08:002015-12-04T09:11:34.505-08:002014 Nation Heritage Fellow Yvonne Walker Keshick Visits the MSU Museum<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Yvonne Walker Keshick stopped by the MSU Museum on Friday, October 23, to see the new exhibition on Michiganders who received the very prestigious National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Yvonne was the most recent Michigander to receive a fellowship. She was recently honored, along with 2002 National Heritage Fellow Nadim Dlaikan, as a featured speaker at a 50th Anniversary Celebration for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Photograph by Kim Worthington, Yvonne’s daughter and a good quillworker herself.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02367525252574304966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2767503697371598417.post-45742723793508541292015-10-29T08:19:00.004-07:002015-10-29T08:19:51.736-07:00Events Around the State Highlight 40th Anniversary of The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald<span style="font-family: inherit;">For the 40th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Nov. 10th, 1975), museums and communities around the state are putting together events and exhibitions to remember and honor those lost and discuss the culture surrounding shipping on the Great Lakes. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="" style="font-weight: 700;">“Iron Hulls and Turbulent Waters: Ore Boats, Workers, and Great Lakes Shipping”</span> is on display through Jan. 24 at the MSU Museum, 409 W. Circle Drive. Events include a reception with James Brozek from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday; and a talk by Brozek at 12:15 Friday talk in the Museum auditorium. A panel discussion is scheduled for 7 p.m. Nov. 10 at the MSU Library featuring State Archaeologist Dean Anderson and MSU professors Peter Kakela and Michael Velbel. They’ll discuss the nature and shipping of iron ore and Great Lakes shipwrecks. In addition, Robert Campbell, author of “Classic Ships of the Great Lakes,” will sign books and speak at 7 p.m. Nov. 17 at Schuler Books in Meridian Mall. Find out more about the exhibit <a href="http://museum.msu.edu/?q=node/1313">here</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-- <span class="" style="font-weight: 700;">The annual Lost Mariners Remembrance</span> takes place from 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 10 at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, on Belle Isle in Detroit. It feature marine artist Robert McGreevy, who will tell the story of lifesaving crews that patrolled the Great Lakes. There also is a lantern vigil at the Fitzgerald anchor and a performance by singer Lee Murdock. Admission is $10; advance registration is strongly recommended. Call (313) 833-1801 for information.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">--<span class="" style="font-weight: 700;"> “Gales of November: The 40th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,”</span> takes place at 7 p.m. Nov. 10 at the Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven. Speaker Jim Spurr will discuss the perils of Lake Superior travel in November, from 1816 through the Fitzgerald sinking in 1975. Admission is $8. Learn more at <a href="http://www.michiganmaritimemuseum.org/">www.michiganmaritimemuseum.org</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-- <span class="" style="font-weight: 700;">The 40th Anniversary Memorial Ceremony</span> takes place at 7 p.m. Nov. 10 in the main gallery at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Gallery in Whitefish Point. The museum displays the bell of the wrecked ship as well as its life boats and other artifacts. The bell will toll 29 times, once for each member of the crew, and a 30th time for all lost on the Great Lakes. The Museum also will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 10. Learn more about the museum and the event at <a href="http://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/">www.shipwreckmuseum.com</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-- <span class="" style="font-weight: 700;">The documentary movie “A Good Ship and Crew Well-Seasoned”</span> will premiere at 6 p.m. Nov. 10 at the Seagate Center in Toledo as part of the National Great Lakes’ Fitzgerald memorial activities. Learn more at <a href="http://www.inlandseas.org/">www.inlandseas.org</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Michigan Traditional Arts Program of the MSU Museum has two initiatives that are currently accepting applications and nominations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first is <a href="http://museum.msu.edu/s-program/mtap/mtaap/mtaap.html">The Michigan Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program</a>. This program awards $2000 grants to qualified master artist and apprentice pairs who apply to work together from February through August. Traditional art forms can include, but are not limited to, music, dance, foodways, storytelling, fiber arts, carving, ceramics, calligraphy, and more. The master artist and apprentice must be residents of Michigan. (Follow <a href="http://museum.msu.edu/s-program/mtap/mtaap/awardees.html">this link</a> for a list of past participants)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The application for can be found <a href="http://museum.msu.edu/s-program/mtap/mtaap/MTAAP%20App%20Form.pdf">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The second is the <a href="http://museum.msu.edu/s-program/mh_awards/mha.html">Michigan Heritage Awards</a>. These awards are given to individuals or organizations that are nominated by members of their own community as tradition bearers deserving of recognition. The actual Awards Ceremony is held each year in early August at the Great Lakes Folk Festival in East Lansing, Michigan. (Follow <a href="http://museum.msu.edu/s-program/mh_awards/awardees.html">this link</a> for a list of past awardees)</span></div>
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The nomination form for artists can be found <a href="http://museum.msu.edu/s-program/mh_awards/MHA%20Form%20A-%20Sept%202009%20fillable.pdf">here</a>.</div>
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The nomination form for community leaders can be found <a href="http://museum.msu.edu/s-program/mh_awards/MHA%20Form%20B-%20Sept%202009%20fillable.pdf">here</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All applications are due by December 1, 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">View our current press release <a href="http://museum.msu.edu/index.php?q=node/1423">here</a>!</span></div>
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