If you're wanting to play some country music on Halloween night, then add these three classics to your playlist.

Because of their lyrical content, many folk songs double as life lessons. Revisit three history-making folk hits that teach ...

In 1938 Jelly Roll Morton, a major New Orleans jazz pioneer, sat down for a series of extensive interviews and performances with a young folklorist named Alan Lomax. Sound recordings of these ...

Introduction: Definition, Concepts, , and Questions of Folklore and Folklife Studies in a Diverse, Mobile Nation / Simon J. Bronner -- American Jokes, Pranks, and Humor / Moira Marsh -- American ...

October 23, 2024 Many gameboards on view in the exhibition Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art and Culture offer a glimpse into the social and economic changes of the late nineteenth and early ...

NEW YORK — Growing up in Cambridge in the 1980s, Emelie Gevalt would make semi-regular excursions with her family to Longfellow House, the stately Georgian manor at 105 Brattle St. The National ...

The American Folk Art Museum in New York has received a new gift of works made by self-taught artists from the legendary collection of Audrey B. Heckler. The works will be exhibited at some point in ...