National Foundation for Popular Culture

National Foundation for Popular Culture
Founded August 1996 (1996-08)
Focus Puerto Rican folklore
Location
Key people
Javier Santiago, President
Website prpop.org

The National Foundation for Popular CultureSpanish: Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular (FNCP)— is a non-profit organization focused on the popular culture of Puerto Rico.[1]

The foundation seeks to advance the development of the Puerto Rican popular culture through the study, promotion and sponsorship of cultural events and the artists that expose it. Its goal is to organize, research, study, archive, publish, catalogue, disseminate, foment competition, conserve, foment the production of, promote, exhibit, and exchange subjects of popular culture, classical, and folk of Puerto Rico. The foundation's extensive archive includes store records in all formats, radio recordings, interviews, photos, negatives, videos in various formats, propaganda advertising, magazines, artwork, paintings, and other collectibles.

References

  1. "Busca aportar por medio de la unión de generaciones". El Vocero (in Spanish). September 1, 2013. Retrieved September 11, 2013.
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