Folklife Today

Library of Congress

Tells stories about the cultural traditions and folklore of diverse communities, combining brand-new interviews and narration with songs, stories, music, and oral history from the collections of the Library of Congress's American Folklife Center.

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Folklife Today

Episodes (25)

Dec 16, 2025 Mumming and the American Folklife Center
Sep 29, 2025 CCG Year of Engagement: Community on the Line
Sep 10, 2025 Exploring 1950s Gullah Geechee Sonic Life with Dr. Eric Crawford

Folklife Today

Dec 16, 2025
36 minutes
49 MB

Rheagan Martin of the Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled interviews Folklife Specialists Stephen Winick and Jennifer Cutting about the connections of the mumming tradition to the American Folklife Center. Mumming is a folk drama tradition in which groups of performers go house to house singing and performing a play. Jennifer describes the James Madison Carpenter Collection, which contains play scripts, recordings, photos, and drawings related to mumming. Stephen explains how the mumming tradition was brought the Library of Congress. Both talk about the connections of mumming to the solstice and to other...

Folklife Today

Mumming and the American Folklife Center

Library of Congress

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