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Full-Text Articles in American Popular Culture
Ua1c6/8 Exhibit Photos, Wku Archives
Ua1c6/8 Exhibit Photos, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Images of exhibits at Western Kentucky University.
Browning, Jimmy D. (Fa 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Browning, Jimmy D. (Fa 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 157. This collection includes cassette tapes of interviews with eight women used as research for Jimmy D. Browning’s paper “A Tie That Binds: Contemporary Funeral Foodways In A Rural, Central Kentucky Community.” Two copies of the paper are also included in the collection.
Helm, Carrie (Fa 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Carrie (Fa 66), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 66. “Woodburn: A Memory Just Beneath the Surface”, an interpretive paper and interviews executed by Carrie Helm for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University in 1989.
Ladies Literary Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ladies Literary Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 393. Minutes, correspondence, programs, historical sketches, and miscellaneous material of the Ladies Literary Club of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Threlkeld, Matthew Kohl, B. 1985 (Fa 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Threlkeld, Matthew Kohl, B. 1985 (Fa 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text paper (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 552. Ethnography project focused on Prince’s Hookah Lounge in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The cultural and social aspects of a hookah lounge are explored, with particular focus on its importance to Saudi Arabian students at Western Kentucky University. Project was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Kinchlow, Gina Lloyce (Fa 12), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kinchlow, Gina Lloyce (Fa 12), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 12. Interviews conducted by Gina Lloyce Kinchlow with three Kinchlow family members concerning African American, middle class family life and Easter customs in New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana during the 1960s and 1970s.
Morgan, John, B. 1944 (Fa 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morgan, John, B. 1944 (Fa 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 476. Fieldwork--including oral interviews, videotapes, and secondary information--compiled by John Morgan primarily pertaining to dark-fire tobacco barns in Calloway County, Kentucky and North Carolina. Also includes interviews relating to tugboats, basket making, and ghost stories and supernatural tales from western Kentucky.
Wessel, Rachel (Fa 262), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wessel, Rachel (Fa 262), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 262. Paper: "My High School Years" written by Rachel Wessel for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Whites, Pierce Butler (Fa 260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whites, Pierce Butler (Fa 260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 260. Paper: "Reflections on Attitudes Towards Drugs in East Kentucky" written by Pierce Butler Whites for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Sneed, Gordon Kent (Fa 234), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sneed, Gordon Kent (Fa 234), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text of paper (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 234. Paper: "'Cruising': An American Tradition" written by Gordon Kent Sneed for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Smith, Stephen Michael (Fa 233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Stephen Michael (Fa 233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 233. Paper: "The Cruising Tradition" written by Stephen Michael Smith for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Neagle, Sue (Fa 242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Neagle, Sue (Fa 242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 242. Paper: "Then and Now" written by Sue Neagle for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Grant, Erin M. (Fa 235), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Grant, Erin M. (Fa 235), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 235. Paper: "Goal Posts and Parking Lots" written by Erin M. Grant for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Ua37/21/2 Research Interview, William Jenkins, Suzanne Hansen
Ua37/21/2 Research Interview, William Jenkins, Suzanne Hansen
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Research interview with Suzanne Hansen owner-operator of Recycled Revolution. The tape has quite a lot of background noise which occasionally make it difficult to hear what is being said.
For more information regarding Recycled Revolution see:
- Apodaca, Rose. New-Age Junkies, Los Angeles Times, 4/23/1993.
The Altered Mobile Home: A Stationary Image Of Work And Value, Gregory Kendall Jenkins
The Altered Mobile Home: A Stationary Image Of Work And Value, Gregory Kendall Jenkins
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
As the medium cost of conventional housing rises, many people unable to incur such an expense look for alternative forms of adequate housing. In rural areas surrounding Bowling Green, Kentucky, several families have utilized the mobile home as a base to expand, embellish, and personalize, creating a larger more conventional-looking home. Many of these altered homes possess gabled roofs, rock exterior walls, and expansive interior space. Of primary concern is: why have these families undertaken a project of this nature?
As material culture scholars and folklorists examine our built environment, they find relationship between construction and the builders. What can …
Interview With Randall Grider And Ginnie Mae Grider About The Float Building Tradition In Tompkinsville, Kentucky (Fa 401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Randall Grider And Ginnie Mae Grider About The Float Building Tradition In Tompkinsville, Kentucky (Fa 401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcript of an interview of Randall and Ginnie Mae Grider conducted by Nancy Clay Hundley about the float building tradition at Tompkinsville High School in Tompkinsville, Kentucky. The Griders describe the whole float making process and the activities created through the building of a float. The emotions of the people involved in the process were also discussed. This project was completed as part of a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Ua12/11/1 John Carpenter Film Festival, Wku University Center Board
Ua12/11/1 John Carpenter Film Festival, Wku University Center Board
WKU Archives Records
Program for the John Carpenter Film Festival held at the Downing University Center, December 2 - 4, 1976.