 Projects and programs Urban folklore  The City Lore office on First Avenue   [   on the Lower East Side houses archives containing over 100,000 images , hundreds of oral histories, and traditional music and poetry performance tapes.
<coherence>  Projects and programs Urban folklore  The City Lore office on First Avenue   [   on the Lower East Side houses archives containing over 100,000 images , hundreds of oral histories, and traditional music and poetry performance tapes.
 Projects and programs Urban folklore The City Lore office on First Avenue The difference between City Lore and other arts programs is not simply that the arts presented are folk and traditional arts, but that City Lore’s arts are traditional and modern, and a great deal of the artmaking takes place in the collaborations of different cultural organizations and artists, and in the ties between the traditional and the way that contemporary New Yorkers use and adapt their traditions in their current work, whether they are professionals or schoolchildren. In this way, musical and poetic forms that build on traditional genres – including hip-hop, mambo,and spoken word – are part of a continuum of artistic practice that recognizes and builds upon deep genealogical connections to the past without being bound by them. It is in this way that City Lore’s work gets far beyond nostalgia, because the thrust is always forward-looking, not referring to what once was and could never be again, but building creatively with respect for the cultural foundations that exist.[ on the Lower East Side houses archives containing over 100,000 images , hundreds of oral histories, and traditional music and poetry performance tapes.