Following is a selected gallery of works by and about Jane Sapp. To view additional honors and awards, research, program consultant experiences, international experiences, board affiliations, choral directings and employment, see Sapp's curriculum vitae (pdf).
Some publications are available for viewing and download on these pages. PDFs of other issues listed here may be requested by completing the online publication request form.
"Autobiography," Jane Sapp
"Folk Traditions of Greene County," Life magazine
"Cultural Work — A Powerful Resource for Change," Jane Sapp, in "Global Partnerships for Education" (pdf), 2002, pp. 6-9. Institute report, International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, Brandeis University, Waltham Massachusetts
"Creative Approaches to Coexistence, Reconciliation and Development" (pdf) Cynthia Cohen. Analysis and recommendations from the online project "Recasting Reconciliation Through Culture and the Arts: A Virtual Collection," Brandeis University, 2005
"Carry It On: Songs of America's Working People," with Pete Seeger and Si Kahn, 1985
"We've All Got Stories: Songs From the Dream Project," project director, music coordinator and co-producer, 1996. Recording of 21 kids from multicultural backgrounds and communities performing songs written in workshops with Jane Sapp
"Take a Look at My People," solo album, 1983
"The Children of Selma: Who Will Speak for the Children?" co-producer, 1998. Featuring original, contemporary civil rights from the Children of Selma
"Movin' On" (2005)
"Origins and Development of Black Gospel Music in Black People and Their Culture," published by the African Diaspora Program of the Smithsonian Institution, 1977
"Culture: The Roots of Community Spirit and Power," printed by the Highlander Research and Education Center, New Market, Tennessee, 1989
Interview with Jane Sapp and concert review, Ms. magazine, May/June 1992
"FoIklife Along the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway'' (an article on Jane Sapp's research and folklife study in Alabama and Mississippi), Life magazine, August 1982
"The Center for Cultural and Community Development" (a major scholarly study of Jane Sapp as cultural worker), in "A Tradition That Has No Name," written by Mary Belenky, Lynne A. Bond and Jacqueline S. Weinstock, Basic Books, New York, 1997
"Music and Emancipatory Learning in Three Community Education Programs" (Jane Sapp's work is featured in this book), Gwendolyn Kaltoft, Teacher's College Press, New York
"Educating Leaders for Social Transformation" (includes Jane Sapp's work), Dean G. Elias, Teachers College Press, New York, 1993
"The Promised Land," a five-part BBC Documentary series broadcast on the Discovery Channel in the U.S., used "Movin' On" by Jane Sapp as theme song for the series
Featured on "A Prairie Home Companion," National Public Radio, 1994
Carnegie Hall (with Pete Seeger), New York City, 1983
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with Pete Seeger), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000
Chapman University, Orange, California, 1999
Chitauqua Institute, Chitauqua, New York, 1993
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1996
Popular Educators Conference, Tucson, Arizona, 1999
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1999
Iron Horse, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1989, 92, 94
Village Vanguard, New York City, 1984
Harvard University ("Harvaid" concert for divestment), Cambridge, Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992
Seattle Community College, Seattle, Washington, 1988, 1991
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, 1984
York University, Toronto, 1992
World’s Fair, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1986
National Black Arts Festival, Atlanta, 1994, 1996
American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts, Falmouth, Massachusetts, 1993
Peace Church, Portland, Maine, 1993, 1994, 1996
Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998
Chicago Folk Festival, Chicago, 1985
University of New England, Biddeford, Maine, 1988, 1996
Teamsters for a Democratic Union, Detroit, 1989
National Women's Music Festival, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982
Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1997
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1998
Goddard College, Montpelier, Vermont, 1998
Communiversity, Bath, Maine, 1998
St. Paul's Academy, New Hampshire, 1990, 1991
United Farmers and Ranchers Congress, Denver, 1985
Concert, Boulder, Colorado, 1985
Brearley School, New York City, 1984
Campaign for Human Development (75th anniversary), Chicago, 1995
Boise University, Boise, Idaho
Clearwater Festival, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1982, 1985, 1990, 1992
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1995
Washington University, St. Louis, 1978
American Friends Service, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1990, 1998
Gospel Requiem in Memory of the Middle Passage, First Church, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1997
Interfaith Reconciliation Service, DeKalb County, Georgia, 2019
Workshop facilitator, student and staff retreat on cultural diversity, Goddard College, Montpelier, Vermont, 1989-present
Workshop presenter, "Songwriting and African-American Culture," 21st Century Leadership Camp, Selma, Alabama, 1985-present
Coordinator and lead facilitator, International Institute on Culture and Community-Based Education, International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 2001
Panelist, Culture and Youth Organizing annual meeting, National Network for Grantmakers, Montreal, 1993, 2000
Workshop facilitator, "The Power of a Dream: Music in the Civil Rights Movement," North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Western Carolina University, Cullowee, North Carolina, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1995, 1999
Presenter: "Re-Imagining Self and Other: Creativity and Ethical Action in the Aftermath of Violence" symposium, Brandeis University, Oct. 13-14, 2004
Field researcher, Festival of American Folk Life, African Diaspora Program, Smithsonian Institution, 1974-1976
Penn Community Center, 1971-1972:
Director, folklife study and oral history of Black communities, South Carolina Sea Islands
Founder, Festival of Low Country, South Carolina
Founder, York W. Bailey Museum at Penn Center, St. Helena’s Island, South Carolina
Director, major folklife study of Black communities along the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway area, Miles College-Eutaw, 1979-1982. Study included nine counties in northeast Mississippi and seven counties in west Alabama. A festival was organized in 1977, which continues today. Research resulted in a collection of 250 cassette tape interviews and recordings and several hundred photographs, along with video tapes and transcripts
Founder and developer, Black Folk Roots Festival, Greene County, Alabama, 1975
Founder, Youth Creative and Leadership Development Group, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1994-2005