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    Built with faith : place making and the religious imagination in Italian New York,
    Built with faith | Place making and the religious imagination in Italian New York | Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2009-09-23 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording and photographs of a lecture delivered by Joseph Sciorra in the Mary Pickford Theater, Library of Congress, on September 23, 2009, as part of the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Sciorra describes how Italian Americans create and use vernacular architecture, material culture, and ceremonial display, such as yard shrines, sidewalk altars, Christmas displays, and other creative...
    • Contributor: Sciorra, Joseph - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2009
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    Hear, O Israel : Yiddish-American broadcasting 1925-1965,
    Yiddish-American radio | Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2009-10-14 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording and photographs of a lecture delivered by Henry Sapoznik in the Mary Pickford Theater, Library of Congress, on October 14, 2009, as part of the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Sapoznik discusses the wide range of Yiddish radio shows in the United States, particularly in New York city -- from rabbinical advice programs to live Yiddish...
    • Contributor: Sapoznik, Henry - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2009
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    If it wasn't for the Irish and the Jews' : Irish and Jewish influences on the music of vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley,
    Irish and Jewish influences on the music of vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley | Title from program flyer: Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2009-12-01 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording of a lecture delivered by Mick Moloney in the Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, on December 1, 2009, as part of the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. In vaudeville's heyday between 1880 and 1920, Irish and Jewish collaborations on stage were commonplace. They were attended by all sorts of interesting identity ambiguities, illustrated...
    • Contributor: Moloney, Mick - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2009
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    Major League Tassa concert collection,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2008-01-31 | Major League Tassa : Indo-Caribbean drumming and accompanying dancers from Queens, New York | Major League Tassa | Indo-Caribbean drumming and accompanying dancers from Queens, New York | Homegrown 2008, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Collection of digital video, sound recordings, and photographs documenting a concert by Major League Tassa on January 31, 2008 in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Major League Tassa, and accompanying dancers, from Queens, New York present rhythms used for processions, the Diwali holiday, and weddings, along with contemporary tunes performed...
    • Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Major League Tassa (Performing Group) - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2008
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    Merita Halili and Raif Hyseni Orchestra concert collection,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2008-06-19 | Merita Halili & the Raif Hyseni Orchestra : | Merita Halili and the Raif Hyseni Orchestra | Albanian music from New York, celebrating 40 years of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance | Homegrown 2008, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Collection of digital video, sound recordings, and photographs documenting a concert by Merita Halili and Raif Hyseni on June 19, 2008 in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. The vocal repertoire for which Merita is best known is that of the towns of central Albania (Shqipëria e Mesme), particularly Tiranë, Elbasan,...
    • Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Halili, Merita - Hyseni, Raif - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2008
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    Old cultures, new contexts : presenting the traditional music and dance of urban immigrant communities,
    Old cultures, new contexts | Presenting the traditional music and dance of urban immigrant communities | Music, dance of urban communities | Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2008-06-20 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording and photographs of a presentation delivered by Ethel Raim in the Whittall Pavilion, Library of Congress, on June 20, 2008, as part of the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Ethnographer and performer Ethel Raim, co-founder and artistic director of New York's celebrated Center for Traditional Music and Dance (CTMD), discusses her five decades of work with...
    • Contributor: Raim, Ethel - Groce, Nancy - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2008
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    An-sky Yiddish Heritage Ensemble concert collection,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2013-06-25 | An-sky Yiddish Heritage Ensemble : Klezmer and other Yiddish music from New York | Homegrown 2013, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress on June 25, 2013 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. The An-sky Yiddish Heritage Ensemble -- renowned Yiddish folk singers Michael Alpert and Ethel Raim, tsimblist (hammered dulcimer player) Pete Rushefsky and violinist Jake Shulman-Ment -- celebrates the hundredth anniversary of the historic...
    • Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Raim, Ethel - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - An-Sky Yiddish Heritage Ensemble
    • Date: 2013
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    I'd still be Puerto Rican, even if born on the moon : documenting Puerto Rican migration and community through the arts,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2013-08-08 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Elena Martínez, anthropologist and folklorist for City Lore and the Bronx Music Heritage Center discusses the signficance of traditional Puerto Rican music and arts, "Nuyorican" poetry and culture, celebrations including Three Kings' Day and the Puerto Rican Day parade in New York, and the leadership of women migrants in the arts, business, and politics as a featured presenter in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture...
    • Contributor: Martínez, Elena - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2013
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    Jewish folk song, Ben Stonehill, and the Hotel Marseilles : collecting cultural treasures in a post-WWII New York lobby
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2013-11-13 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    As a featured presenter in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series on November 13, 2013, Miriam Isaacs describes the role of the Library of Congress in preserving a unique musical collection. During the summer of 1948, only three years after the end of World War II, Ben Stonehill, a man devoted to Jewish culture, recorded recently-arrived Jewish survivors of the war who were temporarily...
    • Contributor: Isaacs, Miriam - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2013
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    Sounds of Korea concert collection,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2014-07-23 | Sounds of Korea : traditional Korean music and dance from NYC | Homegrown 2014, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a concert of Korean music and dance featuring 12 performers in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress on July 23, 2014 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center.
    • Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Park, Sue Yeon - Ha, Ju-Yong - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2014
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    The stations that spoke your language : radio and the Yiddish American cultural renaissance symposium,
    Radio and the Yiddish American cultural renaissance | American Folklife Center symposium, 2012-09-06 to 2012-09-07 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Collection of digital video recordings, digital photographs, and print materials documenting a symposium held at the Library of Congress on September 6-7, 2012, titled The Stations that Spoke your Language: Radio and the Yiddish American Cultural Renaissance. The symposium explored Yiddish radio's history and cultural impact in the United States and its continuing influence on American media. The event also celebrated the American Folklife...
    • Contributor: Barton, Matthew - Isaacs, Miriam - Sokolow, Pete - Apelbaum, Laura Cohen - American Folklife Center - University of Wisconsin. Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture - Gottesman, Itzik Nakhmen - Gevinson, Alan - Mayrent, Sherry L. - Taub, Yermiyahu Ahron ... Barton, Matthew - Isaacs, Miriam - Sokolow, Pete - Apelbaum, Laura Cohen - American Folklife Center - University of Wisconsin. Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture - Gottesman, Itzik Nakhmen - Gevinson, Alan - Mayrent, Sherry L. - Taub, Yermiyahu Ahron - Sapoznik, Henry - Rein, David M. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Russo, Alexander - Ticktin, Max D. - Newman, Roberta - Yiddish of Greater Washington Inc - Seigel, Amanda - Jochnowitz, Eve - Goldsmith, Emanuel S. - Hoog, Ann - Pearlstein, Peggy K. - Joselit, Jenna Weissman
    • Date: 2012
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    Ara Dinkjian and Zulal perform traditional Armenian music and song,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2015-05-28 | Traditional Armenian music and song | Homegrown 2015, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a concert in the Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on May 28, 2015 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Ara Dinkjian is an American born composer, oud player, organist, and multi-instrumentalist, who grew up with traditional Armenian music. His earliest professional musical experience was accompanying his father...
    • Contributor: Zulal (Musical Group) - Library of Congress. Music Division - Dinkjian, Ara - American Folklife Center - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2015
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    The poetry of everyday life
    American Folklife Center lecture, 2015-08-20 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    In his talk in the Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture series "The Poetry of Everyday Life," Steve Zeitlin, Director, City Lore, New York City, presented approaches to folklore, creative writing, and an appreciation of everyday life and speech, followed by screening and discussion of two films he made with Academy Award winning filmmaker Paul Wagner, who helped lead the discussion following the films. The first...
    • Contributor: Wagner, Paul - Zeitlin, Steven J. - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2015
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    "We're Not Leaving": responders' oral histories redefine 9/11
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2011-09-10 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Documentation of a presentation in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Dr. Benjamin Luft, Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and founder of the Long Island World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Center, which follows approximately 6,000 responders to the 9/11 disaster, discussed the oral histories he has collected as...
    • Contributor: Luft, Benjamin J. - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2011
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    Onnik Dinkjian: The Soul of Dikranagerd concert,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2018-07-03 | Homegrown 2018, the music of America | Ara & Onnik Dinkjian Sextet Concert Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on July 3, 2018 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Onnik Dinkjian is one of America's most renowned Armenian folk and liturgical singer. He has preserved Armenian folk songs from the villages of Anatolia in Eastern Turkey, especially...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Dinkjian, Ara - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2018
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    Since 1968 : Cultural Documentation, Production, and Place, Symposium,
    Since '68: Cultural Organizations, Programming & Documentation, and Community Enrichment in New York, Kentucky, and Washington, DC | American Folklife Center symposium, 2018-09-24 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    This symposium explored the themes of cultural production, geography, and community as manifest in the history of three organizations who trace their beginnings to the swell of social change that emerged in 1968. The first of two panels featured staff from the Center for Traditional Music and Dance (New York) and Appalshop (Kentucky). Celebrating its 50th anniversary, CTMD has long engaged in programming and...
    • Contributor: Drum and Spear Bookstore - Center for Traditional Music and Dance (New York, N.Y.) - Appalshop, Inc - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2018