Our department maintains a multimedia collection consisting of folklore on video, department events, the Sound and Video Analysis Instructional Lab (SAVAIL) collection, and additional videos.
Please contact us for access to the Folklore and Ethnomusicology Multimedia Collection or for more information.
Consists of folklore on video produced and accumulated since the mid-seventies by students and faculty of the department - this collection is designed primarily as a teaching resource.
These items depict end-of-semester and end-of-year celebrations, retirment parties, and so forth, events that figure prominently in the history of the department. Highlights include student skits and roasts, a roundtable on “The Public Presentation of Art,” footage from the Ghost Walk organized by Ruth Aten in the early 2000s, and a video recording of Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett’s chat with students in 2011.
A mix of accumulated departmental media once housed by SAVAIL. These materials were added in 2011.
The SAVAIL Collection features lectures by our own professors and students as well as by visiting scholars; conference and symposia proceedings; field recordings of our students and faculty; recordings of faculty meetings, workshops, and colloquia; class exercises; and some departmental social events.
Items without any label whatsoever to identify the contents and/or undated items that cannot be listed chronologically. Curious users are invited to contribute their own descriptive information pertaining to any of this media so that this Guide’s coverage can be extended. These materials, though they date back to previous periods, were also added in 2011.
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