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Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United
States
Serial Publications
Serial publications listed below include newsletters, journals, and magazines
issued with varying degress of regularity. Many of these publications are associated
with organizations and societies representing public and professional memberships.
As with societies, addresses often
change with elections and new membership.
Acoustic Musician
Address:
P.O. Box 1349
New Market, VA 22844 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals journals magazines music
American Folklore Society Section Serial Publications
(select links below for more information about each section):
American Folk Music
and Folklore Recordings: A Selected List
American Folklife Center
Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20540 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments: Discontinued in 1992, back issues available on the Web
Keywords: serials periodicals music
American Morris Newsletter
Address:
c/o Andrew Bullen
619 E. 111th Street
Chicago, IL 60628 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals newsletters magazines music dance english
Asian Ethnology (formerly Asian Folklore Studies)
Address:
Nanzan University, Japan
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals journals japanese chinese korean southeast asia vietnamese cambodian lao folklore folklife anthropology
Asian Music
Address:
Society for Asian Music
Department Music
Lincoln Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals journals japanese chinese korean southeast asia vietnamese cambodian lao
Association for Chinese Music Research Newsletter and Reports
Address:
Phone:
Email:
Comments: Newsletter (1987-1994, 2008 - ) and Reports (1995 - ) available online in PDF.
Select on title for further information.
Keywords: serials periodicals journals newsletters chinese
Autoharp Quarterly
Address:
Stonehill Productions
PO Box 336
New Manchester, WV 26056-0336 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals magazines music autoharp
Balungan
Address:
American Gamelan Institute
Box 1052
Lebanon, NH 03766 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals newsletters music gamelan indonesian
Banjo Newsletter
Address:
P. O. Box 3418
Annapolis, MD 21403-0418 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals newsletters magazines music banjo
The Bard Chord
Address:
Songmakers, Inc.
26955 Rainbow Glen Dr. #748
Canyon Country, CA 91351 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals magazines music
Blue Mountain Shadows
Address:
24 S. 300 W. (55-2)
Blanding, Utah 84511 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals magazines music
Blue Ridge Institute and
Museum Newsletter
Address:
Ferrum College
P.O. Box 1000
Ferrum, VA 24088-9000 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals newsletters music appalachian
Bluegrass Now
P.O. Box 2020
Rolla, MO 64501 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals magazines music bluegrass
Bluegrass Unlimited
Address:
Box 111
Broad Run, VA 22014 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals magazines music bluegrass
Blues Foundation
Address:
Box 161272
Memphis, TN 38186-1272 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals magazines music blues
Blues Revue
Address:
Rt. 1 Box 75
Salem, WV 26426-9604 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals magazine music blues
Boletín de Artes Populares
Address:
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
Apartado 9024184
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00902-4184
Phone: 787-724-0700
Email:
Comments: Current issue online.
Keywords: serials periodicals newsletter music dance folklore folklife spanish language puerto rican usa
The Bulletin: The Association for Living Historical Farms and Agricultural
Museums
Address:
8774 Route 45 NW
North Bloomfield, Ohio 44450 USA
Phone: 440-685-4410
Email:
Comments: See web site for contact information for the journal editor.
Keywords: serials periodicals newsletter magazine living history museum
Bulletin of the International
Council for Traditional Music
Address:
International Council for Traditional Music
School of Music
Australian National University
Building 100
Canberra, ACT. 0200 Australia
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals journals newsletters music ethnomusicology international world music
Central Pennsylvania Traditions
Address:
Susquehanna Folk Music Society
Editor: Lauri Brandenburg, Redwing DesignWorks
2 Abingdon Way
Durham, NC 27713 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments: See web site for additional contact information
Keywords: serials periodicals journals magazines pennsylvania german dutch
Chinese Music
Address:
Chinese Music Society of North America
P.O. Box 5275
Woodridge, IL 60517 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals journals asian chinese ethnomusicology
City Lore Magazine
Address:
City Lore
72 East 1st Street
New York, NY 10003
P.O. Box 56394 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments: subscription with membership
Keywords: serials periodicals magazines folklore folklife
Continuum
Address:
Northeast Ohio Folk & Traditional Music & Dance
Society
Folknet
PO Box 470512
Broadview Hts., OH 44147 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals
Corvallis Folklore Society Newsletter
Address:
P.O. Box 1690
Corvallis, OR 97339 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments: subscription with membership
Keywords: serials periodicals newsletters folklore folklife oregon
Craft Connection
Address:
P.O. Box 264
Acme, PA 15610 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals magazines folk art crafts
Crossroads
Address:
Mercer University Press
1400 Coleman Avenue
Macon GA 31207 USA
Phone: 800-637-2378, ext. 2880
Email: mupressorders@mercer.edu
Comments: annual
Keywords: serials periodicals journals southern culture us regional southeast
Dandemutande
Address:
P.O. Box 94
Winlaw BC V0G 2J0 Canada
Phone:
Email: email@dandemutande.com
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals magazine Zimbabwean Music african world music audio sound recordings instruments publications
The Digest: Interdisciplinary Study of Food
Address:
C/O Lucy Long
Department of Popular Culture
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403 USA
Phone: 419-372-7862
Email: lucyl@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals journals foodways folklore folklife
Dirty Linen
Address:
P.O. Box 66600
Baltimore, MD 21239-6600 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals magazines folksong folk music
Double Toe Times (Clogging
Magazine)
Address:
P. O. Box 1352
St. Albans, WV 25177 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals magazine clogging dance folk music
Dulcimer Players' News
Address:
Box 2164
Winchester, VA 22604 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals newsletter dulcimer folk music
Ethnomusicology
Address:
Editor: Timothy Cooley
Department of Music
University of California, Santa Barbara,
CA 93106-6070 USA
Phone:
Email: sem@indiana.edu
Comments: Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology. See web site for contact information for specific editors.
Keywords: serials periodicals journals ethnomusicology folk music folksong international
Flatpicking Guitar Magazine
Address:
High View Publications
P.O. Box 2160
Pulaski, VA. 24301
Phone:
Email: info@flatpickingmercantile.com
Comments: subscription with membership
Keywords: serials periodicals newsletters
Folk Art
Address:
American Folk Art Museum
45 West 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019 USA
Phone: 901-522-1170
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals journals magazines folk art
Folk Dance Problem Solver (book series)
Address:
The Society of Folk Dance Historians
2100 Rio Grande
Austin, TX 78705
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals book series
Folk Harp Journal
Address:
C/0 Musicmaker's Kits, Inc.
P.O. Box 2117
Stillwater, MN 55082 USA
Phone: 651-439-9120
Email: treehouse@musikit.com
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals journals folk harp music
Folk Project Newsletter
Address:
Box 41
Mendham, NJ 07945 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals newsletters
Folklife Center News
American Folklife Center
Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave., SE
Washington, DC 20540-4610 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments: Free publication. Past issues available online
Keywords: serials periodicals newsletters folklore folklife ethnomusicology
Folklore Forum (online journal)
Address:
Trickster Press
506 North Fess Street
Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments: online journal
Keywords: serials periodicals journal
Folknews
Address:
Folk Arts Center of New England
42 West Foster St.
Melrose, MA 02176 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals newsletter
Folkstuff
Address:
P.O. Box 6886
Ithaca, NY 14581-6886 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals newsletter
Foxfire Magazine
Address:
Foxfire Fund, Inc.
PO Box 541
Mountain City, GA 30562-0541 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals newsletter
Goldenseal
Address:
The Cultural Center
1900 Kanawha Blvd East
Charleston, West Virginia 25305-0300 USA
Phone:
Email:
Comments:
Keywords: serials periodicals magazine west virginia appalachian
Hudson Valley Folk Guild Newsletter
Hudson Valley Folk Guild
P.O. Box F
Poughkeepsie, NY 12602
Email: HVFOLKSataol.com
(Past issues available online)
Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities
1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20506
Phone: 1-800-NEH-1121
Email: info@neh.gov
in the Wind
Seattle Storytellers' Guild
P.O. Box 45532
Seattle, WA 98145-0532
Phone: (206) 621-8646
InterMountain Acoustic Musician
Intermountain Acoustic Music Association
P.O. Box 520521
Salt Lake City, Utah 84152
International Bluegrass
International Bluegrass Music Association
2 Music Circle South, Suite 100
Nashville, TN 37203 USA
Phone: 615-256-3222
Irish Music and Dance Association Newsletter
Irish Music and Dance Association
236 Norfolk Ave NW
Elk River, MN 55330
Phone: (612) 990-3122
Email: info@irishmusicanddanceassociation.org
Itawamba Settlers
The Itawamba Historical Society
P.O. Box 7
Mantachie, MS 38855
The Jazz Archivist
William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive
Jones Hall
Tulane University Libraries
New Orleans LA 70118
Phone: 504-865-5688
Journal of American Folklore
American Folklore Society
Department of Performance Studies
Mail Stop 4240
Texas A&M University
College Station TX 77843-4240 USA
Journal of Country Music
Publication of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
222 Fifth Avenue South
Nashville, Tennessee 37203
Journal of Cultural Geography
Oklahoma State University
Department of Geography
225 Scott Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078-4073
Journal of Folklore Research
Indiana University Press
601 North Morton Street
Bloomington, IN 47404-3797
Journal of Latin American Lore
UCLA Latin American Institute
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Keepin' Tabs
Paint Creek Folklore
Society
Rochester Hills, MI
pcfs@paintcreek.rochester.mi.us
(Past issues available online)
KEF Times
East European Folklife Center
P.O. Box 12488
Berkeley, CA 94712-3488
Phone: 510-547-1118
Email: office@eefc.org
Keystone Folklore
The Journal of the Pennsylvania Folklore Society
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383
Library of Congress Folk Archive Reference and Finding Aids
American Folklife Center
Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave., SE
Washington, DC 20540-4610
Living Blues
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
P.O. Box 1848
1111 Jackson Avenue West
University, MS 38677
Long Island Traditions Newsletter
Long Island Traditions
382 Main Street
Port Washington, New York 11050
Louisiana Folklife Journal
Louisiana Folklife Center
NSU Box 3663
Natchitoches, Louisiana 71497
Maine Folklife Center (newsletter)
Maine Folklife Center
5773 South Stevens Hall, 112B
University of Maine
Orono, Maine 04469-5773
(Past issues available online)
Material Culture
Pioneer America Society
Department of Geography
University of North Carolina
Wilmington, NC 29403-5944
Midwestern Folklore
Hoosier Folklore Society
Department of English
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Mississippi Folklife
Center for the Study of Southern Culture (Publications)
P.O. Box 1848
1111 Jackson Avenue West
University, MS 38677
Missouri Folklore Society Journal
Missouri Folklore Society
P.O. Box 1757
Columbia Missouri 65205–1757
Missouri Folklore Society News
Missouri Folklore Society
P.O. Box 1757
Columbia Missouri 65205–1757
Morning Star
Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music
Box 3672
Greenville, DE 19807
National and International Square Dance Directory
N.S.D.
PO BOX 880
Brandon, MS 39043
(See the web site for more information)
NEA ARTS
National Endowment for the Arts
1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20506
Phone: 202-682-5400
(Past issues available online)
New Directions in Folklore
Newfolk
(See web site for contact information.)
The New Harp of Columbia Newsletter
Jubilee Community Arts
1538 Laurel Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37916
(Current issue available online)
New Jersey Folklife
New
Jersey Folklore Society
P.O. Box 9
Camden, NJ 08101
New Mexico FOLKMADS
New Mexico Folk Music and Dance Society
P.O. Box 40421
Albuquerque, NM 87196
New York Folklore: See Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore
New York State Old Tyme Fiddlers Association Newsletter
New York State Old Tyme Fiddlers Association
RD 1
Redfield, NY 13437
Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society
The Gypsy Lore Society
5607 Greenleaf Rd
Cheverly, MD 20785
(See web site for contact information. Past issues available online.)
The Newsletter of The Swannanoa Gathering
The Swannanoa Gathering
Warren Wilson College
PO Box 9000
Asheville, NC 28815-9000
Email:
gathering@warren-wilson.edu
Nhac Viet Journal of Vietnamese Music
Institute for Vietnamese Music
2005 Willow Ridge Circle
Kent, Ohio 44240
North Carolina Folklore Journal
North Carolina Folklore Society
P.O. Box 62271
Durham, NC 27715
(See web site for contact information)
Northeast Folklore
Maine Folklife Center
5773 South Stevens Hall, 112B
University of Maine
Orono, Maine 04469-5773
Northwest Folkdancer
Northwest Folkdancers, Inc.
P.O. Box 1944
Woodinville, WA 98072-1944
Notes from the Edge of the Mainstream
Craft and Folk Art Museum
5814 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Phone: 323-937-4230
Email:
info@cafam.org
Now and Then
Center for Appalachian Studies and Services
East Tennessee State University
Box 70556
Johnson City, TN 37614-1707
Phone:(423) 439-7865
NW Hoot
Pacific North West Folklore Society
11720 1st Ave NW
Seattle, WA 98177
(Past issues available online beginning Oct-Nov 2008)
An Nuaidheacht
Conradh na Gaeilge Washington
(Gaelic League of Washington)
Cisteoir
6008 Waynesboro Court
Springfield, VA 22150
Occasional
Real People's Music
520 S. Clinton
Oak Park, IL 60304
Oklahoma City Traditional Music Association, Inc.
Oklahoma City Traditional Music Association
P.O. Box 60087
Oklahoma City, OK 73146
The Old-Time Herald
P.0. Box 51812
Durham, NC 27717-1812
Oral Tradition
Center for Studies in Oral Tradition
243 Walter Williams Hall
Columbia, MO 65211-2370
Phone: 573-882-9720
Email:
csot@missouri.edu
Pioneer Valley Folklore Society Happenings
Pioneer Valley Folklore Society
Amherst, MA
Email: pvfolk@yahoo.com
(See web site for contact information. Past issues available online.)
Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Ethnomusicology
2539 Schoenberg Music Building
Box 951657
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1657
Pennywhistle
Augusta Heritage Center
Davis & Elkins College
Elkins, WV 26241
Phone: 1-800-624-3157
(Current issue available online.)
The Petronella Paper
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society - Atlanta Branch
(See web site for contact information. Newsletters available online.)
Pick'n' and Sing'n' Gather'n' Newsletter
c/o Bruce Pomeroy
2137 Pangburn Road
Duanesburg, NY 12056
Pine Cone Traditional Review
Piedmont Council of Traditional Music
P.O. Box 28534
Raleigh, NC 27611
Potash Kettle
Green Mountain Folklore Society
Phone: (802) 933-8912
Pow'r Pickin'
Colorado
Bluegrass Music Society
P.O. Box 68
Louisville CO 80027
Preservation Magazine
National Trust for Historic Preservation
1785 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Princeton Folk Music Society Newsletter
Princeton Folk Music
Society
Box 427
Princeton, NJ 08540
Promenader
Editor: Ann Herne
7380 Dryer Rd.
Victor, NY 14564
Email: mongolann@hotmail.com
Proverbium
De Proverbio
Editor: Wolfgang Mieder
Waterman Building
University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont 05405-0160
Publications of the Texas Folklore Society
The Texas Folklore Society
PO Box 13007 - SFASU
Nacogdoches, TX 75962-3007
Quarter Notes
Plank Road Folk Music Society
PO Box 176
Downers Grove, IL 60515
The Reel & Strathspeyer
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society - San Francisco Branch
(See web site for contact information. Past issues available online.)
Reel Times
Austin Friends of Traditional Music
(See web site for contact information.)
Resound
Archives of Traditional Music
Indiana University
Morrison 117
Bloomington, IN 47405
Rootz,
Newsletter of Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society
6300 Fifth Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Phone 412-361-1915
(Past issues available online)
SEBA Breakdown
Southeastern Bluegrass Association — SEBA
P.O. Box 20286
Atlanta, GA 30325
SEM Newsletter
Society for Ethnomusicology
Morrison Hall 005
Indiana University
1165 E 3rd St
Bloomington, IN 47405-3700
Phone: (812) 855-6672
E-mail: sem@indiana.edu
Salt
Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Post Office Box 7800
Portland, Maine 04112-7800
Telephone: (207) 761-0660
Email: info@salt.edu
Sing Out!
512 E. 4th St.
Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA
Skandia Newsletter
Skandia Folkdance Society
Box 17123
Seattle, WA 98107
Phone: (206) 784-7470
(Past issues available online.)
Talk Story
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Smithsonian Institution
P.O. Box 37012 MRC 520
Washington, DC 20013-7012
Society for Folk Arts Preservation Newsletter
Society for Folk Arts Preservation
New York, NY
Phone: 845-436-7314
Email: info@societyforfolkarts.com
Soundboard
Silver Strings Dulcimer Society
Garden City, MI
(See web site for contact information.)
Southern
Register
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677
Storytelling Magazine
National Storytelling Network
132 Boone St. #8
Jonesborough, TN 37659
StrathPotomac Fiddler
Potomac Valley Scottish Fiddle Club
Scottish Fiddle Music
2889 Evergreen Way
Ellicott City MD 21042-1052
Summer Solstice Festival Journal
California Traditional Music Society
4401 Trancas Place
Tarzana, CA 91356-5399
Swallow Hill Music Association Newsletter
Swallow Hill Music Association
1905 S. Pearl
Denver, CO 80210
TIFD News
Texas International Folk Dancers
P.O. Box 4516
Austin, Texas 78765
Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin
c/o Jubilee Community Arts
1538 Laurel Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37916-2016
Email:
tfseditor@jubileearts.org
The Texas Fiddler
Texas Old Time Fiddlers Association
P.O. Box 653
Hampstead, TX 77445
Tidewater Friends of Folk Music Newsletter
Tidewater Friends of Folk Music
P.O. Box 9606
Norfolk, Va 23505
Tradicion Revista
LPD Press, Los Ranchos de Albuquerque
(See web site for more information.)
Tradizioni
Italian Folk Art Foundation of America
P.O. Box 1192
Rockford, IL 61105 USA
Tri-State Bluegrass Association Newsletter
Tri-State Bluegrass Association
4176 Timber Ridge Road
Berkeley Springs, WV 25411
(Serves Maryland, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Past issues available on the web site.)
Tucson Friends of Traditional Music Newsletter
Tucson Friends of Traditional Music
PO Box 40654 Tucson
AZ 85717-0654
Tune Up
Philadelphia Folksong Society
7113 Emlen Street
Philadelphia, PA 19119
(215) 247-1300
info@pfs.org
Vernacular Architecture Newsletter
Vernacular Architecture Forum
Architectural Historian
MDAH-Historic Preservation Division
P.O. Box 571
Jackson, MS 39205-0571
Virginia Folklore Society Newsletter
Virginia Folklore Society
University of Virginia
Department of English
219 Bryan Hall
PO Box 400121
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4121
Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore
New York Folklore Society
P.O. Box 764
Schenectady, NY 12301
518/346-7008
Email: nyfs@nyfolklore.org
Voices in the Glen: A Journal of Storytelling
Voices in the Glen
c/o Michael fleming
8519 Spartan Rd.
Fairfax, VA 22031
Washington Evergreen Fiddler
Washington Old Time Fiddlers Association
108 Ironwood Place
East Wenatchee, WA 98802
Western Folklore
Western States Folklore Society (Formerly the California Folklore Society)
Elliott Oring
Business Manager, Western Folklore
P.O. Box 3557
Long Beach, CA 90803-0557
WFMA Newsletter
World Folk Music Association
P.O. Box 40553
Washington, DC 20016
Woods Hole Folk Music Society Newsletter
Woods Hole Folk Music Society
74 Lakeshore
East Falmouth, MA 02536
(Past issues available online.)
Works-In-Progress
Philadelphia Folklore Project
735 South 50th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19143
Yearbook of Traditional Music
International Council for Traditional Music
School of Music, Australian National University
Building 100
Canberra, ACT 0200
Australia
Zither Newsletter USA
6173 N. McClellan Ave.
Chicago IL 60646
Email janstessl@aol.com
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