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Folklorist presents Wisconsin folksong, Thursday, Feb. 22
Posted 02/16/2007
MADISON, Wis.-- James Leary, professor of folklore and Scandinavian studies and cofounder of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures at UW-Madison, presents an overview of university folk music collections, including the Helene Stratman-Thomas and Robert F. Andresen collections and more at 4:30 p.m. in 126 Memorial Library. The Helene Stratman-Thomas Collection is held by Mills Music Library, B126 Memorial Library.
James Leary, director of the Folklore Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
In his lecture, titled "Treasure and Testament: Wisconsin Folksong Collections and America's Musical Pluralism," Leary will discuss their significance with regard to our cultural understanding of Wisconsin, the Upper Midwest, and beyond.
He will also provide a look at ongoing efforts to preserve digitally folk music collections and use online resources to expose a wider audience to the wealth of folksong documentation created in the region by field workers from the 1970s to the present.
"Iva Rindlisbacher, Helene Stratman-Thomas, and Lois Rindlisbacher at Swiss bells," 1941. From Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946, University of Wisconsin Digital Collections.
