South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection, 1977-1982

Administrative History

The South-Central Georgia Folklife Project was a joint undertaking of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress and the Arts Experiment Station of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia conducted during six weeks in the summer of 1977. The eight-county area chosen for the study is in the center of the "Wiregrass" region of Georgia. The research team based in Tifton included six fieldworkers from the American Folklife Center, and the director, Alan Jabbour; as well as Syd Blackmarr, director of the Arts Experiment Station, and Dennis Coelho who later served as folklorist-in-residence at the Arts Experiment Station.