Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Author: Richard Kurin
Publisher: Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies Smithsonian Institution
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13:
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Cultural Encounters in the New World
Author: Harald Zapf
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9783823360445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCuratorial Conversations
Author: Olivia Cadaval
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2016-05-05
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 1496805992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its origins in 1967, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival has gained worldwide recognition as a model for the research and public presentation of living cultural heritage and the advocacy of cultural democracy. Festival curators play a major role in interpreting the Festival's principles and shaping its practices. Curatorial Conversations brings together for the first time in one volume the combined expertise of the Festival's curatorial staff—past and present—in examining the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage’s representation practices and their critical implications for issues of intangible cultural heritage policy, competing globalisms, cultural tourism, sustainable development and environment, and cultural pluralism and identity. In the volume, edited by the staff curators Olivia Cadaval, Sojin Kim, and Diana Baird N’Diaye, contributors examine how Festival principles, philosophical underpinnings, and claims have evolved, and address broader debates on cultural representation from their own experience. This book represents the first concerted project by Smithsonian staff curators to examine systematically the Festival’s institutional values as they have evolved over time and to address broader debates on cultural representation based on their own experiences at the Festival.
Smithsonian Folklife Cookbook
Author: Katherine S. Kirlin
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKatherine S. Kirlin and Thomas M. Kirlin. With more than 275 recipes beginning with Native American cooking and moving from region to region across the country, this cookbook celebrates the diverse flavors that together make American cooking.
Festival of American Folklife ...
Author: Festival of American Folklife
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 528
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy We Serve
Author: NMAI
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 2020-09-15
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1588346978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRare stories from more than 250 years of Native Americans' service in the military Why We Serve commemorates the 2020 opening of the National Native American Veterans Memorial at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the first landmark in Washington, DC, to recognize the bravery and sacrifice of Native veterans. American Indians' history of military service dates to colonial times, and today, they serve at one of the highest rates of any ethnic group. Why We Serve explores the range of reasons why, from love of their home to an expression of their warrior traditions. The book brings fascinating history to life with historical photographs, sketches, paintings, and maps. Incredible contributions from important voices in the field offer a complex examination of the history of Native American service. Why We Serve celebrates the unsung legacy of Native military service and what it means to their community and country.
Libba
Author: Laura Veirs
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2018-01-16
Total Pages: 49
ISBN-13: 1452148589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElizabeth Cotten was only a little girl when she picked up a guitar for the first time. It wasn't hers (it was her big brother's), and it wasn't strung right for her (she was left-handed). But she flipped that guitar upside down and backwards and taught herself how to play it anyway. By age eleven, she'd written "Freight Train," one of the most famous folk songs of the twentieth century. And by the end of her life, people everywhere—from the sunny beaches of California to the rolling hills of England—knew her music. This lyrical, loving picture book from popular singer-songwriter Laura Veirs and debut illustrator Tatyana Fazlalizadeh tells the story of the determined, gifted, daring Elizabeth Cotten—one of the most celebrated American folk musicians of all time.
Worlds of Sound
Author: Richard Carlin
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-10-19
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0062043781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA man, a microphone, and a dream When he opened his tiny recording studio in New York in 1940, Moses Asch had a larger-than-life dream: To document and record all the sounds of his time. He created Folkways Records to achieve his goal, not just a record label but a statement that all sounds are equal and every voice deserves to be heard. The Folkways catalog grew to include a myriad of voices, from world- and roots-music to political speeches; the voices of contemporary poets and steam engines; folk singers Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie and jazz pianists Mary Lou Williams and James P. Johnson; Haitian vodoun singers and Javanese court musicians; deep-sea sounds and sounds from the outer ring of Earth's atmosphere. Until his death in 1986, Asch—with the help of collaborators ranging from the eccentric visionary Harry Smith to academic musicologists—created more than 2000 albums, a sound-scape of the contemporary world still unequalled in breadth and scope. Worlds of Sound documents this improbable journey. Along the way you'll meet: A young Pete Seeger, revolutionizing the world with his five-string banjo The amazing vocal ensembles of the Ituri Pygmies North American tree frogs Ella Jenkins's children's music Lead Belly singing "The Midnight Special" The nueva canción of Suni Paz. Folkways became a part of the Smithsonian Institution's collections shortly after Asch's death. Today Smithsonian Folkways continues to make the "worlds of sound" Moe Asch first dreamed of 60 years ago available to all. The Folkways vision is expansive and all-inclusive, and Worlds of Sound advances its rich and lively spirit.
Reflections of a Culture Broker
Author: Richard Kurin
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Published: 1997-11-17
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on his diverse experiences in producing exhibitions and public programs, the Smithsonian's Richard Kurin challenges culture brokers--museum professionals, filmmakers, journalists, festival producers, scholars, etc.--to reveal more clearly the nature of their interpretations. Kurin discusses the ethical and technical problems faced by anyone charged with representing culture in a public forum. 33 photos.
Ethnomimesis
Author: Robert S. Cantwell
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2000-11-09
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0807860697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWide-ranging and provocative, this book will fascinate all those intrigued by how we create and perpetuate our representations of folklife and culture. Ethnomimesis is Robert Cantwell's word for the process by which we take cultural influences, traditions, and practices to ourselves and then manifest them to others. Ethnomimesis is an element of ordinary social communication, but springing out of it, too, is that extraordinary summoning up that produces our literature, our art, and our music. In the broadest sense, ethnomimesis is the representation of culture. Using such diverse cultural artifacts as King Lear and an eighteenth-century English manor garden to deepen our understanding of ethnomimesis, Cantwell then explores at length the representation of culture in our national museum, the Smithsonian, focusing especially on the Festival of American Folklife. Like many other such exhibitions, the Festival enacts presentations of culture across the boundaries of rank and class, race and ethnicity, gender and the life cycle. Like the concept of 'folklife' itself, Cantwell argues, the Festival stands where ethnomimesis finds its creative source, at the cultural frontier between self and other. That boundary, and the energy that accumulates there, runs through the many, varied 'exhibits' of this book.
