Meetings and Conferences

2011 TFS Annual Meeting
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Woodbury, Tennessee

Preliminary schedule

This year’s Tennessee Folklore Society Annual Meeting will be hosted by the Arts Center of Cannon County in Woodbury.   The meeting will begin with sign-in at 9:30 A.M. CDT.  The Arts Center is located just west of Woodbury at 1424 John Bragg Hwy.

 9:30     Sign in

10:00   Annual Business Meeting

11:00   Report on the NCTA National Folk Festival, Evan Hatch, Woodbury, TN

11:30   Dinner

1:00     Tennessee Arts Commission Folk Arts Program, Robert Cogswell, Nashville, TN

1:45     Edison Cylinder Recording, Martin Fisher, Murfreesboro, TN

2:30     Break

2:45     Blood on Fire: Prostitution, Music, and Dance in Victorian America,

            Dale Cockrell, Murfreesboro, TN

3:15     Handmade: White Oak Basketry in Cannon County Tennessee – video screening, Evan Hatch and Jacob Smithson

3:45     Adjourn

Folk Arts Presenters

Arts Center of Cannon County, Woodbury 
Center for Southern Folklore, Memphis
Jubilee Community Arts, Knoxville

Archival Resources

Archives of Appalachia, ETSU, Johnson City 
Center for Popular Music, MTSU, Murfreesboro
Country Music Foundation, Nashville  

Academic Programs

East Tennessee State University
      M.A. in Storytelling
Middle Tennessee State University
     Public History Program  
     English Department 
University of Memphis
   Ph.D. in Historical Musicology, Southern Regional Studies
Western Kentucky University
     Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology

Funding and Technical Assistance