Joyce Cauthen, executive director of the Alabama Folklife Association

Joyce Cauthen is the executive director of the Alabama Folklife Association, a statewide organization that sponsors research, promotion and preservation of Alabama's folk culture. She is the author of With Fiddle and Well-Rosined Bow: Old-Time Fiddling in Alabama, published in 1989 by the University of Alabama Press, and has served as the producer of numerous recordings of traditional music of Alabama, including “Possum Up a Gum Stump: Home, Commercial and Field Recordings of Alabama Fiddlers.” She served as editor of Benjamin Lloyd's Hymnbook: A Primitive Baptist Song Tradition and produced the accompanying CD. Her last project was a CD and booklet entitled Bullfrog Jumped, which features recordings made across Alabama of children's folksongs and games in 1947. She is a graduate of Texas Christian University and has a master's degree in English from Purdue University.

Presentations by Joyce Cauthen
Fiddlers, Banjo Players and Strawbeaters—Alabama's First Pop Musicians

Please Pass the Folklore: Family and Community Traditions in the Kitchen and Around the Dinner Table