1984 Festival of American Folklife
By: Smithsonian Institution, National Park Service, June 27-July 1, July 4-8.
Contributors: Smithsonian Institution.; United States. National Park Service.
Publisher: Smithsonian
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Urban African Americans -- Social life and customs -- Exhibitions.; Folk festivals -- United States.; Folklore -- United States.; United States -- Social life and customs -- Exhibitions.; Alaska -- Social life and customs -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: Festival of American Folklife, 1984
Table of contents: title: Alaska's rich load of occupational folklife; title: Adaptation and innovation in Tlingit and Haida salmon fisheries; title: Smoking and curing fish in Alaska, Norwegian style; title: Grandmotherly knowledge, grandfatherly knowledge: Alaska's traditional native arts; title: Yupik dancing; title: Alaska native oral tradition; title: Folk arts and the elderly; title: All of life's a stage: the aesthetics of life review; title: Life not death in Venice: the Israel Levin Center project; title: Black American urban culture; title: Street dancing, "rapping" and DJ mixing: tradtional African-American performance and contemporary urban culture; title: Black Philadelphia; title: Foodways in a festival setting; title: Continuity and tradition in foodways; title: Evolution of the Southern potting tradition.