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Film, VideoDancing Ireni: Reimaging & Reimagining Alan Lomax's Choreometrics Project The first part of a three-day symposium that explores Alan Lomax's contributions to dance research and theory. This event features pioneer choreometrics scholars Meriam Lobel and Forrestine Paulay interviewed by University of Maryland faculty member Miriam Phillips.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2015
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Film, VideoFlory 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
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Film, VideoBurt Feintuch Oral History Ethnomusicologist Burt Feintuch discussed his life and career with Nancy Groce.
- Contributor: Feintuch, Burt - American Folklife Center - Groce, Nancy - Library of Congress
- Date: 2017
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Film, VideoLatina Storyteller Oral History This oral history followed an event, not recorded, in which Carmen Agra Deedy and Karla Campillo-Soto shared their own stories of growing up Cuban and Mexican, respectively, in small-town U.S.A.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoDylan Goes Electric! Music, Myth & History Through recordings, images, and new research, Elijah Wald explores the world that shaped Bob Dylan and his music, as well as the varied worlds of the people who loved him, hated him, ignored him or felt he was betraying them, seeking to understand both the changes happening in that moment and the reasons some people found those changes so threatening.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2016