New York Folklore Society's Resources

Your primary resources for the stuff of folklore are in your family, your community, the people you work and play with, the buildings and landscapes you inhabit—and of course in the traditional life ways and cultural expressions of other groups you encounter.

Here, we offer gateways to secondary sources—information about folklore (definitions, bibliographies, links) and organizations involved in folklore and other fields with overlapping interests and common aspirations.

Explore and enjoy!

You can help make this Resources section more complete and useful. If you know of resources we should list here (including your own web site or organization), please contact us. We can’t promise to include every idea we receive, but we will consider every suggestion seriously.

New York Folklore Society
P.O. Box 764
Schenectady, NY 12301
518/346-7008
Fax 518/346-6617
nyfs@nyfolklore.org

Resources

to a growing reservoir of information and pathways that can lead you to more information, people, and organizations in the field of folklore and allied fields.

What is Folklore?—This is our big FAQ – and here we provide many answers to this one question.
Bibliography—Read more about folklore: find materials here of regional interest, materials concerned with fieldwork and documentation, and books, journals and reference materials of general interest.
Folklore Fieldwork Data Sheets— Print out these sheets for use in organizing your folklore materials and information as you collect them. You will need Acrobat Reader to open this file. You can download a free copy of Acrobat Reader from the Adobe website.
Folklore Organizations in New York State—Connect to other folklore organizations in New York.
Folklore Programs—Find out about other organizations in New York State with folklore programming.
The Folk Arts Program of the New York State Council on the Arts provides support for activities designed to improve technical, programmatic, and managerial practices in the folk arts.
Folk Arts Around the Nation—Check out folklore activities and organizations in other parts of the nation and the world.
Archives—Link to organizations of professional archivists and sites concerned with historical records and archival collections, in New York and throughout the nation.
Arts—Find links to organizations that advocate for, support, and showcase the arts.
Education—Connect to organizations involved with folklore and traditional culture in education.
Ethnography and Anthropology—Find organizations that are involved in the preservation and study of various ethnic cultures and anthropology.
Ethnomusicology and Music—Discover links to organizations that document, support, and study traditional and ethnic music.
Heritage Tourism—Find the websites of organizations and centers involved in interpreting, preserving and promoting heritage and cultural tourism.
Historic Preservation—Link to organizations involved in protecting and preserving historic buildings, neighborhoods, and landscapes.
History—Discover many links to affiliated libraries, museums, historical societies, professional organizations and others associated with oral history, local and regional, and cultural history.
Index to Links contains all the web sites we have included in this site.
Search our site using keywords. You can use this feature, for example, to look for specific subjects we’ve explored in past issues of New York Folklore or in recent issues of Voices, our membership magazine.