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Hawaii
The American Folklife Center was created in 1976 by the U.S. Congress through Public Law 94-201 and charged to "preserve and present American folklife." The Center incorporates the Archive
of Folk Culture, which was established at the Library of Congress in 1928, and is now one of the largest collections of ethnographic material from the United States and around the world.
Collections
Among its diverse holdings of traditional American music and folklore,
the American Folklife Center's collections include recordings of Native
Hawaiian music collected on wax cylinders by Kenneth Emory and Helen Roberts;
a series of radio broadcasts on Hawaiian music by KCCN; and recordings
of cowboys (na paniolo) and immigrant ethnic cultural groups.
- Hawaii
Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture [full text]
Hawaii participated in the Library's Bicentennial Local Legacies project,
which includes documentation of local traditions and celebrations for the
American Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture.
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