Louisiana Voices Educator's Guide  
Getting Started With This Guide  
Study Guide Summary  
Outline of the Study Guides  
Study Unit I Defining Terms  
Study Unit II Fieldwork Basics  
Study Unit III Discovering the Obvious: Our Lives as "The Folk"  
Study Unit IV The State of Our Lives: Being a Louisiana Neighbor  
Study Unit V Oral Traditions--Swapping Stories  
Study Unit VI Louisiana's Musical Landscape  
Study Unit VII Material Culture-The Stuff of Life  
Study Unit VIII The Worlds of Work and Play  
Study Unit IX The Seasonal Round and Life Cycles  
Educator's Links  
Milestones  
Educator's Guide Glossary  
Educator's Guide Credits  
Educator's Opportunities For Professional Development  
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Content Standards

GLEs

 

Louisiana Voices Links


**Websites used in Louisiana Voices workshops


 

 

Folklife in Louisiana

Louisiana Folklife Program

Fait à la Main: A Source of Louisiana Crafts

**Louisiana Folklife Photo Gallery

**Creole State Exhibit

Louisiana's Traditional Cultures

Articles on Louisiana Folklife

**NSU/Louisiana Folklife Center/Folklife Biographies

**LPB / Swapping Stories homepage

Resources Sorted By Genres

 

Other Louisiana Websites

The Acadians of Louisiana: A Story to Tell

Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism / Digital Folklore Archive, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (audio)

Encyclopedia of Cajun Culture

Louisiana Studies in Historic Preservation

Good for What Ails You video and website

Louisiana State Museum / Jazz Audio Glossary  (audio) Features jazz instruments.

Louisiana State Museum / New Orleans Jazz Club Vintage Radio Broadcasts  (audio) Features radio broadcasts from the 1960s. Use the Basic Keyword Search to search for "Vintage Radio Broadcasts."

 

National Websites

The AFU & Urban Legends Archive

Alabama Center for Traditional Arts (audio) (Traditional Musics of Alabama, Alabama Folkways Radio Series)

Alabama Arts Radio Series

In the Garden: Traditional Culture and Horticulture in Alabama

Water Ways: The Traditional Culture of Alabama's River Systems

American Routes  (audio) See past playlists and archived interviews.

Archive of American Folk Medicine, University of California Los Angeles

Broadside Ballad Collection of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University

CARTS: Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students, National Network for Folk Arts in Education

Crossroads of the Heart, Mississippi Folk Arts Program

Cultural Landscape Foundation

Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico

Edsitement, National Endowment for the Humanities

Field Working: Reading and Writing Research. Community bulletin board for teachers and opportunites to share class projects online.

Folklife in New Jersey - Resources / Gallery of Artists

folkstreams.net online videos with study guides. Louisiana videos featured includes:

Dry Wood about the Creole Mardi Gras

History of Jim Crow

Honky-Tonks, Hymns and the Blues (audio), NPR radio program

Jazz in the Schools, The Advent of Jazz

Kentucky Folklife Program

Library of Congress

American Folklife Center

Folklife & Fieldwork: A Layman's Introduction to Field Techniques

Documenting Maritime Folklife: An Introductory Guide

Teacher's Guide to Folklife Resources

American Folklife: A Commonwealth of Cultures

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library

Local Legacies

American Treasures of the Library of Congress

Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Recording Trip  (audio) (Scroll down to Special Presentation: The 1939 Recording Expedition, then select Louisiana.)

Masters of Ceremony: Traditional Artists and Life's Passages, Oregon Historical Society, Folklife Program

Media Resources Center / University of California, Berkeley (video)

Montana Heritage Project

Our School

Hallway of Memories

Music from the Sunshine State / Florida Folklife Program
(30-second audio bytes)

New Hampshire Folklife, Learning Center

People's Poetry Gathering, City Lore

Public Broadcasting System

American Roots Music

The Mississippi: River of Song

Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns (Select Classroom for lesson plans, then Biographies for audio.)

Résonance: Musical Heritage of La Francophonie , Canadian Museum of Civilization(video)

Red Hot Jazz Archive  (audio)

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (Select Education and Exhibits)

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Smithsonian Global Sound (audio)

Sound Traditions: Profiles of World Musicians in Southern California (audio), Alliance of California Traditional Arts

Things We Do For Fun: Recreational Folklife in Kentucky

Utah State Folk Art Collection

Voices of Youth 2000: A Portrait of Elko County (audio), Western Folklife Center

Voices on the Radio: Voices of New York Traditons (audio), New York Folklore Society's Radio Documentaries

Washington State Folk Arts Program (audio) (Select Folk Arts)

Balkan Dance in Washington State (audio)

Traditions of Change: Five Korean-American Traditions in Washington State (audio)

Washington Folk Arts / Northwest Heritage Tours  (audio)

What's Your Name?: Rhymes and Rhythms from Pennsylvania's Neighborhoods (audio)

Wiregrass Ways Radio Program / South Georgia Folklife Project (audio)

Wisconsin Folks (audio, video)

Wisconsin Weather Stories

Wolf Trap / Folk Masters  (audio)

Your Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Pow Wows

 

National Endowment for the Arts.

 
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