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Greek Music in America Archives Project

National Endowment for the Arts/Folk & Ethnic Arts grant funds supported the creation of a comprehensive, contextualized, and publicly accessible collection of commercially released Greek music recorded in America or recorded by American companies in Greece from 1896 to 1985. Housed at the Archives of Traditional Music/Indiana University (ATM), the collection encompasses ca. 2000 items in multiple formats, including analog discs, audiotapes, piano rolls, cylinders, and associated ephemera such as record catalogs, sheet music, or images. There is no other comprehensive collection of Greek recordings in the US. The project took place from July 2019 to July 2020.

The core FCR team was composed of director/folklorist Tina Bucuvalas and music historian Meletios Pouliopoulos. Consultants and advisors included archivist/folklorist Andy Kolovos, music archivist Dick Spottswood, anthropologist Steve Frangos, ethnomusicologist Michael G. Kaloyanides, and ethnomusicologist Panayotis League.  ATM staff Alan R. Burdette/Director, Allison McClanahan/Librarian, Lindsay Weaver/Library Assistant were an integral part of the team in terms of logistics and archival management.

Folklife Survey – Elements: Fire

From February to May 2022, Tina Bucuvalas conducted a fieldwork survey for the Florida Folklife Program/Division of Arts & Culture on the role of fire in traditional arts, industries, and communities. Specifically, she investigated fire-related traditional culture in coastal west central Florida, southeast Florida, and the Orlando area, including a coffee roaster, cigar makers, circus performers, glass blowers, potters, musical instrument makers, beekeepers, chefs from various groups, experts in religious traditions that includes symbolism or rituals around fire or smoke, and more. Archivist Alexandra Curran indexed audio interviews in April and May.

Stories from the Gulf Coast Commercial Fishing Industry in Cortez: Environmental Changes

In April and May 2022, Tina Bucuvalas worked on “Stories from the Gulf Coast Commercial Fishing Industry in Cortez: Environmental Changes,” for Friends of the Florida Maritime Museum. With the assistance of project director Kristin Sweeting and a professional videography team, she interviewed ten commercial fisherman and fish house workers in the Cortez fishing village. The interviews focused on the background and work of the individuals, as well as their perception of environmental change and its impact on the commercial fishing industry. Afterwards she wrote short biographies of the interviewees and participated with interviewees in a public round table in Cortez. The audio-visual materials will be archived at the Florida Maritime Museum and made available via an online exhibit in January 2023.