Collection Items

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    Film, Video
    Blind Boys of Alabama I "Amazing Grace" The Blind Boys of Alabama perform "Amazing Grace" at the Library of Congress, June 5, 2002. Forms part of the The Blind Boys of Alabama Concert Collection. videorecording | videorecording ; 4 min | Homegrown Concert Series. (Source). June 5, 2002. (Date). Forms part of the The Blind Boys of Alabama Concert Collection. (Source Note). Videorecording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Carter, Jimmy Lee - Blind Boys of Alabama - Fountain, Clarence
    • Date: 2002
  • Film, Video
    Blind Boys of Alabama II "Keep the Devil in the Hole" Blind Boys of Alabama perform "Keep the Devil in the Hole" at the Library of Congress, June 5, 2002. Forms part of the The Blind Boys of Alabama Concert Collection. videorecording | videorecording ; 4 min | Homegrown Concert Series (Source). Forms part of The Blind Boys of Alabama Concert Collection. (Source Note). June 5, 2002. (Date). Videorecording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Carter, Jimmy Lee - Blind Boys of Alabama - Fountain, Clarence
    • Date: 2002
  • Audio Recording
    Yup'ik song about a vision of a sailing ship in 1777 sound recording | 1 audio file. | Chuna McIntyre explains the song in English, then sings it in Central Yup'ik. (Content). The song concerns a vision of the arrival of Europeans in Alaska by a Yup'ik medicine man a year before the exploration of the Alaska coastline by Captain James Cook between April and September, 1778. The Yup'ik had little further contact with Europeans...
    • Contributor: Nunamta Yup'ik Eskimo Dancers - Library of Congress - McIntyre, Chuna
    • Date: 2003
  • Film, Video
    Benton Flippen and the Smokey Valley Boys videorecording | 1 videorecording: 59 min | Homegrown Concert Series. (Source). August 17, 2005. (Date). Videorecording (Form).
    • Contributor: Smokey Valley Boys - Flippen, Benton - Bode, Frank - Clifton, Verlen - Library of Congress - Brown, Paul
    • Date: 2005
  • Film, Video
    Dale Jett and the Carter Singers perform a Carter Family Tribute Dale Jett and the Carter Singers perform a Carter Family Tribute at the Library of Congress, September 20, 2005. videorecording | videorecording ; 63 min | Homegrown Concert Series. (Source). September 20, 2005. (Date). Videorecording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Wilson, Joe - Dale Jett and the Carter Singers
    • Date: 2005
  • Film, Video
    Sing Along with Pete Seeger videorecording | videorecording ; 29 min | Forms part of the Seeger Family Tribute Collection (Source). Recorded at the Library of Congress (Venue). 4:3 Videorecording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Seeger, Pete
    • Date: 2007
  • Notated Music
    O God, my heart is ready : motet for mixed voices a cappella, op. 17 For mixed chorus (SSATBB), unaccompanied. Photocopy. [S.l. : s.n., 2010]
    • Contributor: Whiting, Arthur
    • Date: 2010

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  • Audio Recording
    Fanfare for the common man sound recording | 1 sound cartridge : digital, stereo ; 5 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. | From Library of Congress concert, "Aaron Copland Centennial" recorded on November 14, 2000 in the Coolidge Auditorium. (c) Copyright 1944 by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc. Copyright Renewed. Used by permission of Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., Sole Publisher & Licensee. (Copyright Notice). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Unpublished - United States Marine Band - Copland, Aaron
    • Date: 2000
  • Audio Recording
    Amazing grace (Untitled) / (Unissued) compact disc | 2 sound discs : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in. | Courtesy of Sony BMG Music Entertainment, www.sonybmg.com. (Copyright). Catalog number Columbia/Legacy C2K 65847 (Source Note). Compact Disc (Form). Compact Disc (Form). Compact Disc (Form).
    • Contributor: The Byrds - Sony Music Entertainment
    • Date: 2000

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  • Audio Recording
    Library of Congress march sound recording | 1 compact disc recording | First Lieutenant Jason K. Fettig, conductor. Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Sousa, John Philip - United States Marine Band - Bulla, Stephen
    • Date: 2003
  • Collection
    Los Texmaniacs, traditional conjunto dance music from Texas,
    Los Texmaniacs concert and interview collection, 2013 September 11 | Homegrown 2013, the music of America | American Folklife Center concert, 2013-09-11     Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress on September 11, 2013 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Los Texmaniacs founder Max Baca is a renowned innovator on the bajo sexto, a twelve-string Mexican guitar, which customarily provides rhythm accompaniment for the button accordion, creating the core of the...
    • Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Texmaniacs (Musical Group) - Texas Folklife (Organization) - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2013-01-01
  • Film, Video
    The southern journey of Alan Lomax : words, photographs, and music,
    American Folklife Center lecture, 2013-02-20     Tom Piazza discussed his new book, The Southern Journey of Alan Lomax: Words, Photographs, and Music, on February 20, 2013, in a lecture sponsored by Library of Congress Center for the Book and the American Folklife Center. The book was published by the Library of Congress in association with W.W. Norton & Company in 2013, with an introduction by folklorist William R. Ferris, and...
    • Contributor: Piazza, Tom - Library of Congress. Center for the Book - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2013-01-01
  • Film, Video
    Harmonia, an oral history interview with group members conducted by Theadocia Austen,
    Oral history with Harmonia band     Oral history interview with three members of the musical group Harmonia: Walt Mikhailovich, Alexander Fedoriouk, and Andrei Pidkivka, regarding learning folk and classical music and playing music as part of community life among Slavic Americans in Cleveland, Ohio and other cities and towns in the central and northeastern United States. They discuss their varied repertoire of older music and music of diverse ethnic groups...
    • Contributor: Harmonia (Musical Group) - American Folklife Center - Austen, Theadocia Millich
    • Date: 2013-01-01
  • Film, Video
    Flory Jagoda oral history interview conducted by Howard Bass,
    Oral history with traditional artist Flory Jagoda     Flory Jagoda tells her life story. Born in Sarajevo, she discusses her upbringing in Bosnia, keeping her family's Jewish traditions in Ladino while speaking Serbo-Croatian in school, remembering the culture of the Sephardim in the Balkans, her family, her grandmother; Jews escaping Bosnia and the Germans during World War II; her life as a refugee on the island of KorcÌŒula and in Bari, Italy;...
    • Contributor: Jagoda, Flory - Bass, Howard - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2013-01-01
  • Collection
    Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line concert and symposium,
    Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line | American Folklife Center concert, 2015-09-09 | American Folklife Center symposium, 2015-09-10 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     In celebration of the legacy of the pioneering old-time musician Ola Belle Reed (1916-2002), Reed's son Dave Reed, her nephew Hugh J. Campbell, and members of the acclaimed bluegrass band Danny Paisley and Southern Grass performed bluegrass and gospel songs in the Coolidge Auditorium on September 9, 2015. A symposium program, chaired by Betsy Peterson, Director, American Folklife Center on Sept. 10 included Clifford...
    • Contributor: Peach, Douglas Dowling - Paisley, Ryan - McCoury, Ronnie - McCoury, Rob - Glassie, Henry - Southern Grass (Musical Group) - Murphy, Clifford R. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - McCoury, Del - Paisley, Michael ... Peach, Douglas Dowling - Paisley, Ryan - McCoury, Ronnie - McCoury, Rob - Glassie, Henry - Southern Grass (Musical Group) - Murphy, Clifford R. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - McCoury, Del - Paisley, Michael - Riale, Frances Mann - Ledbetter, Steven Lance - Reed, David Arthur - Lundy, T. J. - Paisley, Danny - Peterson, Betsy - Turner, Jessica Anderson - Campbell, Hugh Jones - National Council for the Traditional Arts
    • Date: 2015
  • Audio Recording
    Armed forces medley sound recording | 1 DAT audiotape | The army goes rolling along--Anchors aweigh--Marines Hymn--Semper paratus--Off we go into the wild blue yonder. (Content). Taken from a recording of a concert held at the Library of Congress in 2002. "The U.S. Air Force" Words & Music by Robert Crawford Copyright © 1939, 1942, 1951 by Carl Fischer, Inc. Copyrights renewed. All Rights assigned to Carl...
    • Contributor: Schissel, Loras J. - Virginia Grand Military Band
    • Date: 2002
  • Audio Recording
    Eternal Father, strong to save sound recording | 1 DAT audiotape | Taken from a recording of a concert held at the Library of Congress in 2002. Recording of "Eternal Father, Strong to Save" from the Loras John Schissel collection. (Copyright Notice). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Virginia Grand Military Band - Dykes, John B. - Schissel, Loras J. - Whiting, William
    • Date: 2002
  • Audio Recording
    God bless America sound recording | 1 DAT audiotape | Taken from a recording of a concert held at the Library of Congress. "God Bless America" by Irving Berlin (c) Copyright 1938, 1939 by Irving Berlin (c) Copyright Renewed 1965, 1966 by Irving Berlin (c) Copyright Assigned the Trustees of the God Bless America Fund International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted by Permission. Recording of "God...
    • Contributor: Virginia Grand Military Band - Berlin, Irving - Schissel, Loras J.
    • Date: 2002
  • Audio Recording
    Stars and stripes forever sound recording | 1 DAT audiotape | Taken from recording of concert held at the Library of Congress in 2002. Recording of "Stars and Stripes Forever" from the Loras John Schissel Collection. (Copyright Notice). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Sousa, John Philip - Virginia Grand Military Band
    • Date: 2002
  • Audio Recording
    Guadalcanal march [from Victory at sea] sound recording | Recorded at a concert held at the Library of Congress in 2002. "The Guadalcanal March" by Richard Rodgers Copyright (c) 1952 by Williamson Music Copyright Renewed. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted by Permission. (Copyright Notice). 30 second (Extent). Due to copyright restrictions, only excerpts from this item are available. (Standard Restriction). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Rogers, Richard - Virginia Grand Concert Band
    • Date: 2002
  • Notated Music
    Library of Congress march Instrumental parts | 1 score (12 p.) + 23 parts ; 8 1/2" x 11" | Copyright 2003 by John Philip Sousa, Inc. (Copyright). Printed score and band parts. The march was begun by John Philip Sousa in 1931, but never completed. Stephen Bulla was able to finish and orchestrate the score by using Sousa's fragmentary sketches, a piano draft, and one page of...
    • Contributor: Sousa, John Philip - Bulla, Stephen
    • Date: 2003
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    America the Beautiful Article. O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain . . .
    • Contributor: Library of Congress
    • Date: 2002
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Anchors Aweigh Article. Anchors Aweigh, my boys, Anchors Aweigh. Farewell to college joys, we sail at break of day-ay-ay-ay.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress
    • Date: 2002
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Battle hymn of the republic Article. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the LordHe is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored . . .
    • Contributor: Library of Congress
    • Date: 2002
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Columbia the Gem of the Ocean Article. O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress
    • Date: 2002