FOLK ARTS & CULTURE Collection summaries and some of the results
of documentation of communities’ expressive cultures are
presented here. Hip Hop Archive In 2001, the New York Folklore
Society and the Brooklyn-based Urban Think Tank embarked on a
collaborative project documenting Hip Hop. The Community
Scholars at Urban Think Tank (UTT)—“a nonpartisan, community-
based home for a body of thinkers in the Hip Hop
generation...the first organization that analyzes and frames
political, economic and cultural issues, particularly those of
concern to people of color, from the perspective of the Hip Hop
generation” —identified collections important to the development
of Hip Hop culture. Vee Bravo, Yvonne Bynoe, and Chic Smith of
the UTT recognized the need to document this material, provide
access to it, and preserve it for the future. A Survey of
Finnish and Hungarian Archival Resources in the Finger Lakes
Region of New York State In nearly every community there are
individuals who care passionately about and work ha