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- Aug 17, 2021
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Steve Zeitlin, executive director of New York's City Lore; John Cole, director of the Library's Center for the Book; and Peggy Bulger, director of the Library's American Folklife Center. Benjamin A. Botkin (1901-1975) was a pioneering folklorist who focused attention on newly emerging aspects of folklore in modern life. At a time when other scholars viewed modernity as something that contaminates and destroys tradition, Botkin moved away from the concept of folklore as a collection of relics on the brink of extinction and embraced the idea that people are always creating folklore around their collective experiences. Today folklorists widely accept the idea that folklore is creative expression used to communicate and instill social values, traditions, and goals. This two-day celebration pays tribute to Botkin's pivotal role as the "father of public folklore" as it exists and thrives today. The American Folklife Center was created by Congress in 1976 and placed at the Library of Congress to "preserve and present American Folklife" through programs of research, documentation, archival presentation, reference service, live performance, exhibition, public programs, and training.

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