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National Foundation for Popular Culture

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Focus
  
Puerto Rican folklore

Website
  
prpop.org

Location
  
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Founded
  
August 1996 (20 years ago) (1996-08)

Key people
  
Javier Santiago, President

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

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

National Foundation for Popular Culture Wikipedia