Folklore
A professor and an alumnus of Indiana University's Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology have been selected to share one of the most venerated awards in their field, the Chicago Folklore Prize.
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Indiana University Bloomington holds more than 560,000 audio and video recordings and film reels, many of which are historically significant, all of which are actively deteriorating. And the window of time to save these materials is closing fast.
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Pravina Shukla, an associate professor of folklore and ethnomusicology at Indiana University, has been awarded the 2009 Millia Davenport Publication Award given by the Costume Society of America for her book The Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India (2008, Indiana University Press).
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For the past decade, IU's Traditional Arts Indiana (TAI) has been an active participant at the Indiana State Fair. This year, TAI has expanded its presence with a major exhibition in the Home and Family Arts Building at the fair that opens today (Aug. 7) and runs through Aug. 23, as well as hosting the Indiana State Fair Fiddle Contest Saturday (Aug. 15). The Home and Family Arts Building exhibit features the works of more than 30 Hoosier folk artists, craftspeople and musicians.
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The Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music has been awarded a third grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, valued at $347,682, to continue its collaborative research and development project that will digitally preserve critically endangered sound recordings.
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An IU professor's new book documents the important clothing decisions made by ordinary people in India and how they contribute to a high level of non-verbal communication in that vibrant society.
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