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The Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project collection

LC Control No.:	2004695008
Type of Material:	Archival Manuscript Material (Collection)
Main Title:	The Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project collection, 1977-1981 / collected by the American Folklife Center in cooperation with the National Park Service.
Variant Title:	Report title: Process of field research : final report on the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project
Related Names:	Eiler, Lyntha Scott. » More like this Eiler, Terry. » More like this Fleischhauer, Carl. » More like this Wolfe, Charles K. Children of the heav'nly king. » More like this United States. National Park Service. » More like this American Folklife Center. » More like this Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) » More like this Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project. » More like this
Related Titles:	Blue Ridge harvest: a region's folklife in photographs. Children of the heavenly king.
Description:	13 linear ft. manuscripts:: 161 folders. sound recordings:: 428 sound tape reels : analog, various speeds ; 5 and 7 in. sound recordings:: 39 sound cassettes (60 and 90 min.) : analog. sound recordings:: 2 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in. graphic materials:: ca. 25,000 photographs : b&w, col. graphic materials:: 114 photoprints : b&w. moving images: 14 videocassettes : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Organized/Arranged:	Organized by format into the following series: I. Manuscripts; II. Sound Recordings; III. Graphic Images; IV. Moving Images.
Access Advisory:	Duplication of the recorded materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.
Biographical/Historical Data:	The project was organized in cooperation with the National Park Service. Ten folklorists from the American Folklife Center conducted fieldwork from 1977 to 1981. The materials were used in designing and improving National Park Service interpretive programs.
Summary:	The collection consists of sound recordings, video recordings, photographs, manuscripts, sheet music, printed ephemera, artifacts, administrative records, and ethnographers' field notes related to the 1978 Blue Ridge Parkway Project field survey, which examined folklife in and around an area of the Blue Ridge Parkway at the Virginia and North Carolina border. The project documented folk music, vernacular architecture, quilting, foodways, religious music and beliefs, as well as dance events featuring square dancing and flatfoot dancing, and interviews with dancers. The collection includes two publications based on these materials and a final report presented to the National Park Service: "The Process of Field Research, Final Report on the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project" by Carl Fleischhauer and Charles Wolfe.
Notes:	Eiler, Lyntha Scott; Terry Eiler; and Carl Fleischhauer, eds. Blue Ridge harvest : a region's folklife in photographs. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1981. Wolfe, Charles K., ed. Children of the Heav'nly King (LP) Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Recording Laboratory, 1981.
Finding Aids:	Collection guide available in the Folklife Reading Room and online via the American Folklife Center web pages.
Cite as:	The Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project Collection (AFC 1982/009), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Additional Formats:	Reference copies are available in the Folklife Reading Room, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, and the Appalachian Resource Center, Blue Ridge Parkway. A portion of the collection on Blue Ridge quilters and quiltmaking is presented in "Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996," an American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
Subjects:	Music--Blue Ridge Mountains. » More like this Folk music--Blue Ridge Mountains. » More like this Folklore--Blue Ridge Mountains. » More like this Folk dancing--Blue Ridge Mountains. » More like this Material culture--Blue Ridge Mountains. » More like this Food habits--Blue Ridge Mountains. » More like this Community life--Blue Ridge Mountains. » More like this Fox hunting--Blue Ridge Mountains. » More like this Gospel music--Blue Ridge Mountains. » More like this Hymns, English--Blue Ridge Mountains. » More like this Protestant churches--Blue Ridge Mountains. » More like this Rites and ceremonies--Blue Ridge Mountains. » More like this Quilts--Blue Ridge Mountains. » More like this Square dancing--Blue Ridge Mountains. » More like this Tobacco farmers--Blue Ridge Mountains. » More like this Vernacular architecture--Blue Ridge Mountains. » More like this Blue Ridge Mountains--Religious life and customs. » More like this Blue Ridge Mountains--Social life and customs. » More like this Appalachian Region--Social life and customs. » More like this Appalachian Region--Religious life and customs. » More like this Virginia--Social life and customs. » More like this North Carolina--Social life and customs. » More like this
Form/Genre:	Field recordings--Blue Ridge Mountains. » More like this Interviews. » More like this Ethnography. » More like this Sound recordings. » More like this Manuscripts. » More like this Manuscripts for publication. » More like this Oral history. » More like this Videocassettes. » More like this Photographs. » More like this Slides. » More like this
Local Shelving No.:	AFS 21363-21829 RYA 1336-1374; RXA 2049-2476 AFC L69-70 AFC 1981/004:V1-V14 AFC 1982/009
Other System No.:	afc95000016
Geographic Area Code:	n-us-va n-us-nc
Repository:	DLC-AFC Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610
Links:	http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/blueridge.html THE BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOLKLIFE PROJECT COLLECTION : Finding Aid (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress) Online collection: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/collafc.af000018 Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978 - 1996