Culture Work

Tim Frandy is an assistant professor of folk studies at Western Kentucky University and the editor and translator of Inari Sami Folklore: Stories from Aanaar. B. Marcus Cederstroem is the community curator of Nordic-American folklore in the department of German, Nordic, and Slavic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the coeditor and translator, with Thomas A. DuBois, of Songs of the Finnish Migration: A Bilingual Anthology.

Acknowledgments IntroductionTim Frandy and B. Marcus CederstrOEm Public Folklore, Cultural Equity, and the Wisconsin Idea of Folklore From a Potato Hole, Part 2: Collaboration, Repatriation, and Cultural Equity James P. Leary The National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowships: A Reflection on the Roots and Impact of a National Cultural Heritage Honorific Program Cheryl T. Schiele The Lion's Side: DiscoverME/RecoverME and the Utilization of Storytelling for Emotional Transformation David Olawuyi Fakunle Notes from the Field: Activism, Folklore Research, and Human Rights on the South Carolina Sea Islands in the 1960s Mary Arnold Twining Prison Landscapes and the Wisconsin Idea: Shaping the Study of a Public Occupational Culture Claire Schmidt Revitalizing Franco-American Song Carmen Bombardier, Kim Chase, Robert Desrosiers, Andy Kolovos, Lisa Ornstein Beyond Preservation and Conservation Securing a Future for the Nation's Folklore Documentation Heyday Nicole Saylor Collections: Opportunities and Responsibilities Terri Van Orman "We Have All Been Neighbors Here": Preservation, Access, and Engagement with the Arnold Munkel Collection Nathan D. Gibson and Anna Rue Running the Show: Documenting and Exhibiting Wisconsin Folk Art Robert T. Teske The Bobbing Boat: Lasting Impressions, Rejuvenated Memories, and Intriguing Prospects Janet C. Gilmore The Smithsonian Folklife Festival Model as Transferable Technology for Cultural Heritage Craft Tourism in Local Museums Diana Baird N'Diaye Amplifying Local Voices Songs of the Finnish Migration: Amplification and Revitalization Thomas A. DuBois and B. Marcus CederstrOEm The Down Home Dairyland Story Richard March Then and Now: Public Folklore and the Folklorist in Missouri Lisa L. Higgins Applying Ethnicity: The Case of Olga Edseth's Hot Pink Rosemaled Pumps in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin Jared L. Schmidt "Let the Blood Roses Grow": Workers' Worldviews in the Music of Oren Tikkanen Hilary-Joy Virtanen Creating Community Stacking Brooms: Curling Camaraderie and Folklore in a Time of Transition Anne Pryor "We Wanted to Save Something While There Was Still Something Left": Restoration and Cultural Maintenance at The Oulu Cultural and Heritage Center Mirva Johnson "A Growing Art": Traditional Arts and Heritage Rediscovery in Northern Minnesota Scandinavian Communities Sallie Anna Steiner The Art of Survival on the Iron Range: Economic Strategies after the Iron Is Gone Rhonda R. Dass A Fish Sandwich for All Yvonne R. Lockwood Grocery Stores as Sites for the Study of Material Communication: Ethnographic Guidelines Ayako Yoshimura Engaging with the Past "The Wisconsin Historical Society Gave Me Your Name": Doing Out-(and In-)reach on Campus, in Wisconsin, and Beyond Troy Reeves Shoemaker, Frey, and Yoder and the Pennsylvania Dutch Idea Mark L. Louden Finding Tradition in the Archives: Craft as Research and Research as Craft Rebecca J. Keyel Hoaxes, History, Legends, and the Circulation of Stories: The Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin's Petrified French Explorer Jennifer Gipson Re-animating the Past: Traveling through Michigan with Alan Lomax's 1938 Films Guha Shankar Translating Context with Digital Media in Medieval Icelandic Literature: Hrafnkels saga and the eSaga Project Colin Gioia Connors Creating the Future Out of the Past "I Need to Make a Dollar": On the Road with Working-Class Protest Songs Bucky Halker A Business Model for Folklore: Profitable, Wholehearted, and Cinematic Jamie Yuenger "Did Ole Really Say That?" Linguistics, Folklore, and Heritage Languages Joseph Salmons "Este Lugar Tiene Muchas Historias": Alternative Forms of Archiving and Community Engagement in Oaxaca, Mexico Hilary Morgan V. Leathem Haunting Acknowledgment: Archiving Women's March Folklore and the Political Potential of Care Ethics Christine Garlough Works Cited Contributors Index

"A seminal work of impressively informative scholarship."--Midwest Book Review "An admirable set of case studies of contemporary public folklore work in and outside the academy. . . . As time goes on and the field continues to develop, Culture Work will come to be a valuable portrait and assessment of the state of the field at this moment. . . . [It] makes an articulate contribution to the ongoing project of evidencing, in emphatic and broadly understandable terms, what the humanities and humanistic social sciences are (good) for."--Journal of Folklore Research Reviews "Filled with stories of individuals, communities, and cultural workers dedicated to sustaining the traditional songs, stories, material culture, and knowledge of the region, and insights into how those expressions cultivate and enhance community. . . . Culture Work will be an engaging read for anyone interested in the power that lies within the practices of sustaining, reimagining, or creating new cultural traditions."--Wisconsin People & Ideas "A timely and much-needed resource for those inside and outside academia, Culture Work provides a powerful overview of the value of public folklore and humanities across private and institutional sectors while raising issues associated with cultural work in a politically and socially stratified country."--Lisa Gilman, George Mason University