{"id":1606,"date":"2008-05-05T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2008\/05\/05\/cool-website-of-streaming-documentaries-folkstreams-net\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T13:57:00","slug":"cool-website-of-streaming-documentaries-folkstreams-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2008\/05\/05\/cool-website-of-streaming-documentaries-folkstreams-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool website of streaming documentaries: Folkstreams.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis wonderful site currently has just over 100 documentaries on American roots cultures. It&#8217;s a site loaded with classics including films by Les Blank, Tom Davenport, and Alan Lomax. It&#8217;s indexed by film, filmmaker, region, subject, and featured individual. If you&#8217;re interested in Dewey Balfa, for instance, you can quickly discover he&#8217;s included in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.folkstreams.net\/pub\/FilmPage.php?title=152\">Les Blues de Balfa<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.folkstreams.net\/pub\/FilmPage.php?title=125\">Cajun Country<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.folkstreams.net\/pub\/FilmPage.php?title=154\">Cajun Visits: Visites Cajun<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.folkstreams.net\/pub\/FilmPage.php?title=153\">Homemade American Music<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a site especially rich in blues and Appalachian music though there&#8217;s much more. In addition to the films\/videos, there are essays about the folk traditions and making of the films. There are also study and teaching guides, suggested readings, and links to related websites. <\/p>\n<p>The creation of the site was spearheaded by Tom and Mimi Davenport in a coordinated effort with filmmakers, folklorists, web developers, and The University of North Carolina to preserve these works and provide greater exposure to them. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.folkstreams.net\/\">link<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This wonderful site currently has just over 100 documentaries on American roots cultures. It&#8217;s a site loaded with classics including films by Les Blank, Tom Davenport, and Alan Lomax. It&#8217;s indexed by film, filmmaker, region, subject, and featured individual. If you&#8217;re interested in Dewey Balfa, for instance, you can quickly discover he&#8217;s included in Les [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,333],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archival-film","tag-streaming-documentaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}