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Report and Comments The American Folklife Preservation Act

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2014

Sharon Leigh Clark
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Dance Research Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , Spring/Summer 1976 , pp. 45 - 50
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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 1976

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NOTES

1. Public Law 94-201, January 2, 1976, 89 Statute (STAT.) 1129, p. 1.

2. Ibid.

3. Green, Archie, “The Folklife Act in the Ninety-Third Congress, ”Report to the American Folklore Society, December 31, 1974, p. 8.Google Scholar

4. Ibid.

5. Green, Archie, “A View From the Lobby,” Report to the American Folklore Society, January 18, 1976, p. 7.Google Scholar

6. Ibid. p. 1.

7. P.L. 94-201, pp. 3-4.

8. Fact Sheet, American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress, February 23, 1976, np.

9. Memo, American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress, March 11, 1976.

10. Telephone conversation, Personnel Office, The White House, Washington, D.C., June 1, 1976.

11. Guide to Programs, National Endowment for the Arts, 1975–1976, p. 39Google Scholar.

12. Response to applicants for Folk Arts information from Alan Jabbour, National Endowment for the Arts (pamphlet, p. 1).

13. Green, , “A View from the Lobby,” p. 10Google Scholar.

14. Statement by Alan Jabbour, personal interview, March 23, 1976.

15. Response, Ibid.

16. Guide to Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1975–1976, p. 2Google Scholar.

17. Statement by Simone Reagnor, Director, Division of Research Grants, National Endowment for the Humanities, April 23, 1976.

18. Statement by Jane M. Kay, Program Assistant, Division of Research Grants, National Endowment for the Humanities, March 17, 1976.

19. Statement by Sanda Horowitz, Program Specialist, Youthgrants, National Endowment for the Humanities, May 17, 1976.

20. Statement by Deborah Miles, Program Specialist, Division of Fellowships, National Endowment for the Humanities, May 25, 1976.

21. Senate Report No. 94-467, p. 47, quoted in Green, “A View from the Lobby,” p. 8.

22. Statement by Ralph Rinzler, telephone conversation, May 24, 1976.

23. Statement by Bess Lomax Hawes, telephone conversation, April 6, 1976.

24. My involvement with this legislation began in 1969 when Madeleine Gutman, then President of the American Dance Guild, wrote to ask me what I knew about a proposed folklife bill which my Representative, Frank Thompson (D.New Jersey), had introduced in the Congress. Thompson's office was contacted and forthwith responded with a copy of the first bill. Over the years, my miniscule efforts — letters to Congresspeople, some personal lobbying, the privilege of testifying at hearings before the House Subcommittee on Library and Memorials — joined those of many others who shared common interest in forwarding broad scale recognition for the value of American folklife.

Supporters have included a number of key legislators and their aides who were early and tireless proponents of the bill, expert witnesses who paid their own expenses to speak on behalf of the folklorists, thousands of folk who wrote to Senators and Representatives, and many others who donated everything from office space to energy. But above all, Green has been one of the most important supporters. I am personally indebted for his allowing me to note, quote and paraphrase the majority of the section on legislation. We are all indebted to him for his wise and tenacious husbandry and hustling on behalf of the American Folklife Preservation Act. In one of his reports, Green noted that he had come to consider his informal lobbying as an extension of his teaching; his campus was Capitol Hill. He has been one fine teacher, not only to Congresspeople, but to most of us as well.