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Welcome to the VFH Online Store
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH), in cooperation with the UVA Bookstores, are pleased to offer a unique way for you to support the humanities in Virginia. By shopping in the VFH store you will be helping to fund media productions, publications, and exhibits that reach a large public audience.
In the store you will find music CDs, documentary film productions, books and more. These items make great gifts and you will have the satisfaction of knowing your gift helped support the humanities in Virginia.
About VFH
VFH develops and supports education, research, and public programs that apply the various perspectives of history, literature, philosophy, cultural and religious studies, and other fields of the humanities to contemporary and abiding human questions. |
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ANDERSON-STRICKLAND - BEEN ALL AROUND THIS WORLD
Gerald Anderson and Spencer Strickland, master instrument-makers and players from Southwest Virginia, team up on guitar and mandolin to deliver some searing licks and soulful vocal harmonies. Apprentice to guitar wizard Wayne Henderson, Gerald won the prestigious Guitar Contest at the 2003 Galax Fiddler’s Convention, and Spencer took home the “Best All-Around Performer” title the following year.
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IN GOOD KEEPING: VIRGINIA'S FOLKLIFE APPRENTICESHIPS
Pairing experienced master artists with eager learners, folklife apprenticeships in Virginia help ensure that a particular art form is passed on in ways that are conscious of history and faithful to tradition. With In Good Keeping: Virginia's Folklife Apprenticeships, author Jon Lohman and photographer Morgan Miller chronicle the first five years of the program, capturing the masters and apprentices at work. The participating master artists comprise some of Virginia's most celebrated practitioners of folk traditions both old and new to Virginia—from canning to snake cane carving, from bluegrass fiddling to broom making, from flatfooting to kathak dancing. The apprentices learn their chosen craft not in classrooms or lecture halls, but in their traditional contexts—such as local dance halls, churches, woodshops, stables, and garages. Helping to ensure that Virginia's treasured folkways remain in good keeping for years to come, the Folklife Apprenticeship Program offers new life and vibrancy by engaging new learners and reinvigorating the lifelong masters.
Richly illustrated with photographs and featuring the voices of participants in apprenticeships from a diverse range of traditions across the commonwealth, the book provides a window into not only the traditional artistic processes and tricks of the trade, but also the practitioners’ reflections on the significance of their craft, their motivations for maintaining and teaching it, and the very concept of the tradition itself.
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RE-IMAGINING IRELAND
How a storied island is transforming its politics, economics, religious life, and culture for the twenty-first century
This book is the outgrowth (though not the proceedings) of an unprecedented conference featuring more than one hundred renowned Irish writers, scholars, artists, musicians, and political and religious figures, who converged in Charlottesville in May of 2003 under the auspices of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Over four days, participants engaged in a broad and lively consideration of the present realities and future trajectory of Irish culture: Re-Imagining Ireland, the book, comprises a generous and varied sampling of their voices and views.
This volume also includes a DVD of the companion documentary film Re-Imagining Ireland, which has aired on several PBS stations as well as on RTÉ (Irish public television).
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VIRGINIA INDIAN HERITAGE TRAIL
The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail is a landmark publication, created by members of the Virginia tribes and reflecting Virginia Indian perspectives on their own history and how that history is interpreted.
The purpose of The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail is to encourage visitation to sites which have accurate, culturally sensitive interpretative content on Virginia Indians, and to provide an interpretive framework or context in which to understand the sites. The guide is the result of an unprecedented partnership between the Virginia Council on Indians, Virginia’s tribes, and the VFH. The 80-page volume contains information on more than two dozen tribal and interpretive sites; the history of Virginia Indians and each of the eight state-recognized tribes; historic and contemporary photographs; lists of Virginia Indian resources and suggested readings; a guide to “Writing and Thinking about Virginia Indians” developed by the Virginia Council on Indians; a calendar of powwows, heritage festivals, and other events taking place throughout 2007, and a Foreword by Chief Kenneth Adams of the Upper Mattaponi Tribe.
This book is free and available to the public. The charges above are only to cover shipping and handling. You will not be charged any additional shipping and handling during checkout. Copies are also available by stopping by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
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