• Foreword
  by Peggy A. Bulger, Director, American Folklife Center
• Preface
  by James Hardin, Editor, American Folklife Center
• A National Project with Many Workers
• Folk Music and Song
• Story and Other Narrative Forms
• Dance
• Material Culture
• Community Life and Celebration
• For Further Reading
• Music and Spoken Word from the Archive of Folk Culture:
  Audio Recordings Selected by the Staff of the American Folklife Center

This publication was made possible by generous support from the James Madison Council, a national, private-sector advisory council dedicated to helping the Library of Congress share its unique resources with the nation and the world.

The text for this guide was written by James Hardin.
Photographs of collection items were taken by David A. Taylor.
The guide was designed by Robert L. Wiser, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Library of Congress, 2004.