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Program

Public Programs: Younger Scholars, 2/76 - 2/85

Period of Performance

10/1/1979 - 8/31/1980

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)

A Study of the Role of Folk-Music in a Norwegian-American Community

FAIN: GY-*1325-79

Philip Martin
Unaffiliated independent scholar

Supports a study of the role of folk music in the Norwegian-American Community of Westby, Wisconsin.

To document, through research and oral history interviews, the past and present role of folk-music in a Norwegian-American community and to show its role in a rural/ethnic society and its cultural significance in folklore.