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    "A Bourgeois Town" : Lead Belly in Washington, D.C.
    Lead Belly in Washington, D.C. | American Folklife Center lecture, 2015-04-24 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    To celebrate the 125th birthday of the legendary folk singer Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter, American Folklife Center archivist Todd Harvey welcomes Lead Belly family members Terika Dean and Alvin Singh for a discussion about their famous relative, his contributions to American culture and world music, and an overview of the significant Lead Belly materials in the Center's archive. Terika Dean is Lead Belly's great-great...
    • Contributor: Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Harvey, Todd - American Folklife Center - Dean, Terika - Singh, Alvin
    • Date: 2015
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    Home canning : cultural narratives, technological change, and the status of traditional knowledge,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2016-07-19 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Documentation of a presentation by Danille Christensen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech, in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. She discusses the history of home canning and the contempory revival of canning, drawing on filmstrips, posters, cartoons, newspaper captions, canning manuals, mail-order catalogs, and other sources. She offers examples that complicate...
    • Contributor: Christensen, Danille - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2016
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    Folks of Bengal : Traditional Song, Music, and Visual Art from Bengal, India,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2018-06-29 | Title from program flyer: Homegrown 2018, the music of America Catalog Record Only
    Sound recording and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on June 29, 2018 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Mystic minstrels from the Indian state of Bengal, the Bauls are known for devotional songs that honor the divine within. There are about 2500 Bauls in Bengal. Their philosophy rejects...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2018
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    Conversation with Roy Hirabayashi and PJ Hirabayashi of San Jose Taiko,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2017-06-30 | American Folklife Center lecture, 2017-06-30 | Conversation with Roy & PJ Hirabayashi of San Jose Taiko | Conversation with Smithsonian Folklife Festival artists: Roy and PJ Hirabayashi, San Jose Taiko | Homegrown 2017, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of an interview, conversation, and musical demonstration in the Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on June 30, 2017 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2017 artists and NEA Heritage Award Fellows Roy Hirabayashi (co-founder) and PJ Hirabayashi (artistic director emeriti) of the ensemble, San Jose...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Smithsonian Folklife Festival - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Hirabayashi, Pj - Sheehy, Daniel - San Jose Taiko Group - American Folklife Center - Hirabayashi, Roy
    • Date: 2017
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    Sattriya Dance Company with the Dancing Monks of Assam,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2018-04-19 | Sattriya Dance Company with the Dancing Monks of Assam, 2018 April 19 | Homegrown 2018, the music of America 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 April 19, 2018 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. The Philadelphia-based Sattriya Dance Company was launched in 2009 with a mission to tell the story of Sattriya and raise awareness about Majuli and its sattras (monasteries) through...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2018
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    Georgian liturgical polyphony performed by The Anchiskhati Ensemble, with ethnomusicologist Dr. John A. Graham,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2016-03-10 | American Folklife Center lecture, 2016-03-10 | Orthodox Paschal Cycle: Georgian Liturgical Polyphony, Folksongs and Instrumentals | The Anchiskhati Ensemble, with ethnomusicologist Dr. John A. Graham | Homegrown 2016, 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 March 10, 2016 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. The Anchiskhati Ensemble (Tbilisi, Georgia) presented "The Orthodox Paschal Cycle: Georgian Liturgical Polyphony, Folksongs and Instrumentals," a program of Easter and Lenten music from the Orthodox paschal cycle...
    • Contributor: Graham, John A. - Library of Congress. Music Division - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Tʻbilisis Ančʻisxatis Tażari. Gundi - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2016
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    African American dollmaking and puppetry : renegotiating identity, restoring community lecture,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2020-02-18 Catalog Record Only
    Documentation of a presentation in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. African American artisans utilize ancient skills and innovative technologies to create dolls and puppets that are both whimsical and starkly serious. Their creations, incorporating clay, textiles, wood, glass, and found objects, embrace the somber reality of African American experiences and optimism for a boundless future. Working alone...
    • Contributor: American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2020
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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
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    Vishtèn : Acadian music from Prince Edward Island,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2019-03-21 | Homegrown 2019, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Documentation of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on March 21, 2019 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Vishtèn performs both traditional and original Acadian music with rock energy. Their original "neo-traditional" compositions blend updated versions of French and Celtic genres. The trio comprises multi-instrumentalists Emmanuelle and Pastelle LeBlanc from the...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Vishtèn (Musical Group) - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2019
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    National Press Club collection, 2009-2013. Catalog Record Only Collection of field recordings of oral history interviews conducted by Carol Elise Bennett and Hale Montgomery, members of the National Press Club History and Heritage Committee, from April 2009 through July 2013. The persons interviewed were award-winning journalists and public radio reporters plus one actor. The collection includes interview logs, some transcripts, and a number of photographs of the interviewees.
    • Contributor: Gotbaum, Rachel - National Press Club (U.S.). History and Heritage Committee - Occupational Folklife Project - Bennett, Carol Elise - Justis, Doris H. - Brownstein, Elizabeth Smith - Pippert, Wesley G. - Montgomery, Hale - Beasley, Maurine Hoffman - American Folklife Center - Marshall, Tyler - Rowe, Stephen
    • Date: 2009
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    The Fairfield Four : gospel music from Tennessee
    American Folklife Center concert, 2017-09-28 | Homegrown 2017, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording, sound recording, photographs, and manuscripts documenting a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on September 28, 2017 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. As traditional American folk musicians, the Fairfield Four have achieved the highest honors possible, including induction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, three GRAMMY Awards, and...
    • Contributor: Fairfield Four - Library of Congress. Music Division - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Smithsonian Folklife Festival - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2017
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    Musical soundscapes of Morocco : from Africa to America,
    American Folklife Center lecture, 2016-06-06 Catalog Record Only
    Documentation of a lecture by Samuel Torjman Thomas on the circulation of Moroccan music in America and the place of music in constructing modern Moroccan-American hybrid identities. Co-sponsored by the American Folklife Center and the Hebrew Language Table at the Library of Congress in cooperation with the Washington Jewish Music Festival.
    • Contributor: Thomas, Samuel Torjman - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2016
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    Cultural heritage archives : networks, innovation, & collaboration symposium,
    Cultural heritage archives symposium, 2013-09-26 to 2013-09-27 | American Folklife Center symposium, 2013-09-26 to 2013-09-27 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Two-day symposium sponsored by the American Folklife Center, held on September 26-27, 2013, featuring more than 60 speakers. The symposium focused on cultural heritage archives, including the issues of their users, archival description, preservation and digital stewardship, and the importance of forging archival collaborations and alliances. Keynote addresses were given by Danna Bell and Sita Reddy.
    • Contributor: Bell, Danna C. - Giarlo, Michael J. - American Folklore Society. Archives and Libraries Section - Meyers, Melanie J. - Boyd, Douglas A. - Reddy, Sita - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - O'Neal, Jennifer R. - Anderson, Jane E. (Jane Elizabeth) - Lloyd, Timothy Charles - United States. Embassy (Kyrgyzstan) - Weiss, Steve - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2013
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    Eddie Bond and the New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters: old-time Appalachian fiddling from Virginia,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2018-09-26 | https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-8519/ | Homegrown 2018, the music of America 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 September 26, 2018 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Eddie Bond and the New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters perform old-time Appalachian fiddle music from Virginia.
    • Contributor: New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters (Musical Group) - Library of Congress. Music Division - Bond, Eddie - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2018
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    Repatriating the Alan Lomax Haitian recordings in post-quake Haiti
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2017-03-15 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Documentation of a presentation in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Ethnomusicologist Gage Averill discussed the significance of Alan and Elizabeth Lomax's collection and documentation of a wide variety of Haitian classical music, dance music, and vodou music in 1936-1937, and related work by Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, and others. Averill edited and compiled the CD box...
    • Contributor: Averill, Gage - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2017
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    The "Hidden" carols : a Christmas singing tradition in the English Pennines,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2014-01-07 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Ian Russell, as a featured presenter in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series on January 7, 2014, sponsored by the American Folklife Center, discusses his research and plays examples illustrating the performance of distinctive carols sung during the Christmas season in villages in the West Country and in the region of South Yorkshire and Derbyshire around Sheffield, England. This is a vernacular carolling tradition,...
    • Contributor: Russell, Ian - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2014
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    My secret autobiography : The letters of Ballad Scholar Francis James Child to William Ellery Sedgwick,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2018-05-08 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Documentation of a presentation in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Beginning in 1846, soon after his graduation from Harvard College, Francis James Child, Harvard professor, eventual first president of the American Folklore Society, and the greatest ballad scholar of the nineteenth century, began what would become a twenty-year correspondence with his closest college friend and future brother-in-law,...
    • Contributor: American Folklife Center - Bell, Michael J. (Michael Joseph) - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2018
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    BeauSoleil Quartet : Cajun music from Louisiana,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2017-06-28 | Homegrown 2017, the music of America 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 June 28, 2017 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. For four decades the BeauSoleil Quartet has taken traditional ingredients -- waltzes, two-steps, soulful Cajun French lyrics, hot fiddle licks and irresistible accordion -- and spiced them up...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Smithsonian Folklife Festival - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Beausoleil (Musical Group) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2017
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    Eva Salina and Peter Stan: Serbian Roma Music,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2019-05-16 | Eva Salina & Peter Stan: Serbian Roma Music Concert | Homegrown 2018, the music of America 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 May 16, 2019 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. California-grown, Brooklyn-based Eva Salina is a groundbreaking interpreter of Balkan Romani songs. Raised in the US Balkan Diaspora, Eva's mentors are some of the greatest living Balkan musicians....
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Salina, Eva - Stan, Peter - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2019
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    Cora Harvey Armstrong : African American Gospel from Virginia,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2019-05-09 | Concert: Cora Harvey Armstrong Gospel Group | Homegrown 2018, the music of America 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 May 9, 2019 from 12-1pm as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Cora Harvey Armstrong is a gospel singer, piano player, songwriter, choir director, and bandleader born and raised in King and Queen County, Virginia. Armstrong began taking...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Armstrong, Cora Harvey - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2019
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    Street Folk: Hip Hop, Car Culture, and Black Life in Houston, Texas, lecture by Langston Collin Wilkins,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2019-04-24 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Documentation of a presentation in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Folklorist and ethnomusicologist Langston Wilkins discusses "screw," Houston's distinctly local form of hip-hop music that emerged within the city's African American community almost 30 years ago. It is inextricably tied to "slab," a vernacular car culture in which mostly young African American men spend countless hours and...
    • Contributor: Wilkins, Langston Collin - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2019
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    NOKA trio, Basque song and music from California,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2016-07-06 | Homegrown 2016, the music of America Catalog Record Only
    Sound recording and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on July 6, 2016 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. NOKA is a trio composed of Andréa Bidart, Begoña Echeverria, and Cathy Petrissans, the daughters and granddaughters of Basque immigrants who grew up together in Chino, California. They are members...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Noka (Musical Group) - American Folklife Center - Markez, Mikel
    • Date: 2016
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    Traditional Arts and Resilience in Later Life, lecture by Jon Kay,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2019-02-21 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Documentation of a presentation in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture, Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, February 21, 2019, 12:00-1:00 pm. Elders who practice folk and traditional arts are often celebrated for their work supporting community life and the continuation of important cultural traditions, but rarely do we explore how these practices support elders...
    • Contributor: American Folklife Center - Kay, Jon - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2019
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    Eva Ybarra, the "Queen of the Accordion," and her band concert,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2017-09-13 | Homegrown 2017, the music of America 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 September 13, 2017 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Conjunto originated in the late 19th century in working-class communities along Texas-Mexico border, and is distinct to that region. Using the accordion as the lead instrument, conjunto bands...
    • Contributor: Ybarra, Eva - Library of Congress. Music Division - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2017
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    Kay Shelemay Ethiopian music collection, Catalog Record Only One hundred three audio files of interviews conducted by Kay Shelemay with Ethiopian musicians in the United States and others involved in Ethiopian music. Most of the interviewees live in the Washington, D.C. area. Collection includes manuscript materials, digital photos, and published CDs and DVDs provided by the musicians.
    • Contributor: ʻālam Ṡaḥay Wadāǧo - Hanā Šanquté - Kaplan, Steven - Sutton, Charles - Birra, Ali - Yehuné Balāy - Kebede, Telela - Malāku Galāw - Tasfāyé Lamā - Mārtā Qaṡalā ... ʻālam Ṡaḥay Wadāǧo - Hanā Šanquté - Kaplan, Steven - Sutton, Charles - Birra, Ali - Yehuné Balāy - Kebede, Telela - Malāku Galāw - Tasfāyé Lamā - Mārtā Qaṡalā - ʾastér ʾawaqa - Sandstrom, Boden C. - Shelemay, Kay Kaufman - Moges Seyoum - Wayna - Ṡaḥay ʼamāra - Astatke, Mulatu
    • Date: 2006