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MEMBER Ü VENUES Ü PERFORMERS Ü SERVICES Ü WORKSHOPS Ü SOCIETIES Ü FOLKLIFE STUDIES p 37 Additional listings for non-Members - these appear online only Fs.5 FOLKLIFE STUDIES: LIBRARIES (in specialist folklife or general libraries) Fs.6 FOLKLIFE STUDIES: ACADEMIC COURSES & RESEARCH USA: DC v AMERICAN FOLKLIFE CENTER ...................... [phone] : www.loc.gov/folklife * Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Washington DC 20540-4610 USA ⊕ Created in 1976 by Congress to "preserve and present" the great heritage of American folklife through research, documentation, archival preservation, reference service, live performance, exhibition, publication, and training. Home of the Archive of Folk Culture, established in 1928. Oxford ˜ BODLEIAN LIBRARY ...................... ........... : www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm ⊕ University of Oxford. Unparalleled holdings of over 30,000 ballads in several major collections. The original printed materials range from 16th- to 20th-Century. The Broadside Ballads project makes the digitised copies of the sheets and ballads available to the research community. Manch’r ˜ CHETHAM’S LIBRARY ...................... ...................... : www.chethams.org.uk ⊕ More than 100,000 volumes of printed books, of which 60,000 were published before 1851,including particularly rich collections of 16th & 17th-century printed works, periodicals and journals, broadsides and other ephemera. COURSES / INSTITUTIONS AT UNDERGRADUATE OR HIGHER LEVEL. • Practical courses & workshops (eg instruments): see Member-only listings & news in Folk Directory, Folklife Quarterly, & Folklife Traditions magazine. EDITOR’S NOTE: it being the summer holidays when I emailed a few UK universities ..... no replies. I’ll investigate further sometime … term-time! For North America, see American Folklore Society list on: www.afsnet.org/?WhereToStudyFolklore Meanwhile, here’s the sort of courses we could list - none confirmed, but will give an idea of what we might list in future. Suggestions welcome! Sam. Edinburgh CELTIC & SCOTTISH STUDIES / CEILTIS AGUS EÒLAS NA H-ALBA ........ ˜ 0131 650 4167 : www.celtscot.ed.ac.uk / Dùn Èideann * School Of Literatures, Languages, And Cultures. 27 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD, Fax: [phone]. ⊕ Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh offer a wide range of subjects available for study to the highest level within one unique department. Aberdeen THE ELPHINSTONE INSTITUTE ˜ ...................... 01224 272996 : www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone * University of Aberdeen, MacRobert Building, King's College, ABERDEEN, AB24 5UA Fax: [phone] ⊕ Researching, Recording and Promoting the Culture and Traditions of North-East Scotland . Cardiff / ˜ The GEORGE EWART EVANS CENTRE FOR STORYTELLING / Caerdydd CANOLFAN ADRODD STORIAU GEORGE EWART EVANS ................. 01443 668547 : http://storytelling.research.glam.ac.uk * Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, ATRiuM, University of Glamorgan, Adam St, Cardiff CF24 2XF. [email protected] ⊕ Dedicated to promoting, teaching, developing and researching storytelling in all its forms. Newcastle ˜ NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY Folk & Traditional Music 0191 222 6730 : www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/music ⊕ School of Arts and Cultures: includes BMus (Hons) in Folk and Traditional Music. [email protected] Sheffield ˜ THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD: School of English : http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/pgc/macultbi ⊕ MA in Cultures of the British Isles Fs.7 FOLKLIFE STUDIES: MUSIC PUBLISHERS & RECORDING COMPANIES ˜ VETERAN John Howson * PO Box 193, STOWMARKET, Suffolk IP14 3WZ ⊕ Traditional music and song from England, Ireland and Scotland. Fs.8 01449 673695 : www.veteran.co.uk FOLKLIFE STUDIES: PRINT BOOK PUBLISHERS & BOOKSELLERS v BARRY McKAY RARE BOOKS Barry McKay 017683 52282 : www.barrymckayrarebooks.org * Kingstone House, Battlebarrow, Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria CA16 6XT barry