2012 TFS Annual Meeting
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Selmer, Tennessee

Schedule

This year’s Tennessee Folklore Society Annual Meeting will be held at The Latta Visitor’s and Cultural Arts Center in downtown Selmer, Tennessee.  The meeting will begin with sign-in at 10:30 A.M. CDT.  The Cultural Arts Center is located in “The Latta Building” at 205 West Court Avenue, Selmer, TN, 38375.

 

 

10:30    Sign in

 

11:00    Welcome, Tour of the Cultural Arts Center and exhibits
                                                
Paul McCoy, Nashville / Shawn Pitts, Selmer

 

11:30    Annual Business Meeting

 

12:30    Lunch on your own in Downtown Selmer

 

1:30    Tennessee Arts Commission Folk Arts Program     
                                                    
Robert Cogswell, Nashville

 

2:00    Tennessee Rivers and Country Music: Teaching Strategies and Materials

                                        James Akenson, Cookeville

 

2:30       Break

 

2:45      A Fate Worse than Death: Body Snatching in America        
                                                   
Jennifer Weedman, Gallatin

 

3:15       Fords and Fiddles:  Earl Latta, Stanton Littlejohn and the Preservation of Southwest Tennessee's Music Heritage                        
                                                    
Shawn Pitts, Selmer

 

3:45  Adjourn for Field Trip to Hockaday Handmade Brooms with Jack Martin

 


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Folk Arts Presenters

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

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Archival Resources

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

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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

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Funding and Technical Assistance

Tennessee Arts Commission Folklife Program
Humanities Tennessee

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