Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection

Hosts John Fenn and Stephen Winick, and their guests Ann Hoog, Carl Fleischhauer, and Michelle Stefano, discuss the Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection, created as part of the American Folklife Center's first fieldwork project in 1977. The collection, featuring sound recordings, manuscripts, and photographs from 25 ethnic communities in Chicago, is online at loc.gov They discuss the challenges of getting the collection online and of making connections between the collection and the current Chicago community. They play excerpts of interviews with artists from the Greek American, Puerto Rican, African American, and Icelandic American communities, and music from the Greek American, African American, and Irish American communities.