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CollectionMemorialization and justice as an ancestral imperative : two American cases
American Folklife Center lecture, 2015-06-25 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Ken Bilby, Smithsonian Research Associate, discussed the role of orally transmitted ancestral memory in ongoing struggles to overcome past injustices, which is proving critical in the struggle for human rights, civil rights, and justice. In this context, he reflected on two pathbreaking cases of recent public memorialization: the Moiwana Massacre, which took place in the Republic of Suriname, South America in 1986 and the...- Contributor: Bilby, Kenneth M. - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
- Date: 2015
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CollectionCharles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin migrant workers collection, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available The collection includes field recordings made in July and August, 1940 and 1941 in Farm Security Administration migrant worker camps in California. These included the Arvin, Shafter, Visalia, Firebaugh, Westley, Thornton, and Yuba FSA camps. Recordings were made of dance music, popular songs, ballads and folk songs, original songs, conversations, camp council meetings, poems, and stories describing life in the camps, whose residents were...
- Contributor: Lange, Dorothea - Todd, Charles L. - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Rothstein, Arthur - Hemmig, Robert - Pike, Russ - Archive of American Folk Song - Lomax, Alan - Sonkin, Robert - American Folklife Center
- Date: 1939