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Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1988 Festival of American Folklife

Creator:: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Search this

Names:: Smithsonian Folklife Festival Search this

Extent:: 1 Cubic foot (approximate)

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Business records; Correspondence; Memorandums; Sound recordings; Audiocassettes; Contracts; Negatives; Video recordings; Slides (photographs); Plans (drawings); Videotapes; Audiotapes; Digital images; Notes; Photographic prints

Place:: Caribbean Area; Trinidad and Tobago; Puerto Rico

Date:: June 23-July 4, 1988

Summary:: The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.

Scope and Contents note:: This collection documents the planning, production, and execution of the 1988 Festival of American Folklife. Materials may include photographs, audio recordings, motion picture film and video recordings, notes, production drawings, contracts, memoranda, correspondence, informational materials, publications, and ephemera. Such materials were created during the Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., as well as in the featured communities, before or after the Festival itself.

Arrangement note:: Arranged in 6 series.

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Series 1: Program Books, Festival Publications, and Ephemera

Series 2: American Folklore Society Centennial

Series 3: Festival Music Stage

Series 4: Ingenuity and Tradition: The Common Wealth of Massachusetts

Series 5: Migration to Metropolitan Washington: Making a New Place Home

Series 6: Music from the Peoples of the Soviet Union

Historical note:: The Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998.

The 1988 Festival of American Folklife was produced by the Smithsonian Office of Folklife Programs and cosponsored by the National Park Service.

For more information, see Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.

Introduction:: The 1988 Festival celebrated the centennial of the American Folklore Society, founded one hundred years earlier because of the need to document and study cultures that were seen as disappearing. Much of the Society's attention today, however, is engaged in the documentation and interpretation of emerging traditions and cultural expressions. Folklorists work in inner cities, conduct research on occupational groups, analyze processes of traditionalization and cooperate with other professionals in devising natural conservation and historical preservation strategies, which also promote cultural continuity, equity and integrity. Visitors to the 1988 Festival could learn about what it is that folklorists do and what impacts they have on the communities with which they work.

The other living exhibitions that made up this year's Festival also provided ample illustrations of this same view of the traditional. The Massachusetts program told a paradigmatic American story. Gay Head Wampanoag, Yankee settlers, Afro American migrants, and immigrants from Italy, Greece, Poland, the Cape Verde Islands, Puerto Rico, and Southeast Asia have not only preserved their traditions; through ingenious acts of individual and community creativity they have adapted them and endowed them with new meanings, as circumstances have changed. The Metropolitan Washington program pointed to the heightened consciousness of cultural issues associated with the migration experience. The program asked how immigrants from El Salvador, Ethiopia, China, Trinidad and Tobago, as well as domestic Anglo and Afro American groups historically migrating from nearby states, discard, reinvent, and reconstitute their traditions as they actively make a new place home. A varied contingent of musicians and performers from several republics of the Soviet Union demonstrated how truly ancient traditions nurtured in various pastoral, tribal, and religious environments have not merely survived but actually flourished in contemporary Soviet life. Also at the Festival were American musicians who, as part of a groundbreaking cultural exchange with the Soviet Union, would later travel to Moscow to participate in the International Folklore Festival in August 1988 and be reunited with the Soviet musicians participating in the Smithsonian's Festival.

The 1988 Festival took place for two five-day weeks (June 23-27 and June 30-July 4) between Madison Drive and Jefferson Drive and between 10th Street and 14th Street, south of the National Museum of American History and the National Museum of Natural History (see site plan).

The 1988 Program Book included schedules and participant lists for each program; the Program Book essays provided a larger context for the Festival presentations, extending beyond the traditions actually presented at the 1988 Festival.

The Festival was co-presented by the Smithsonian Institution and National Park Service and organized by the Office of Folklife Programs.

Office of Folklife Programs

Richard Kurin, Acting Director; Diana Parker, Festival Director; Anthony Seeger, Curator, Folkways Records; Thomas Vennum, Jr., Senior Ethnomusicologist; Peter Seitel, Senior Folklorist; Marjorie Hunt, Phyllis M. May-Machunda, Heliana Portes de Roux, Frank Proschan, Nicholas R. Spitzer, Folklorists; Jeffrey Place, Assistant Archivist

National Park Service

William Penn Mott, Jr., Director; Manus J. Fish, Jr., Regional Director, National Capital Region

Shared Stewardship of Collections:: The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage acknowledges and respects the right of artists, performers, Folklife Festival participants, community-based scholars, and knowledge-keepers to collaboratively steward representations of themselves and their intangible cultural heritage in media produced, curated, and distributed by the Center. Making this collection accessible to the public is an ongoing process grounded in the Center's commitment to connecting living people and cultures to the materials this collection represents. To view the Center's full shared stewardship policy, which defines our protocols for addressing collections-related inquiries and concerns, please visit https://folklife.si.edu/archives#shared-stewardship.

Forms Part Of:: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1988 Festival of American Folklife forms part of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival records .

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Related Archival Materials note:: Within the Rinzler Archives, related materials may be found in various collections such as the Ralph Rinzler papers and recordings, the Lily Spandorf drawings, the Diana Davies photographs, the Robert Yellin photographs, and the Curatorial Research, Programs, and Projects collection. Additional relevant materials may also be found in the Smithsonian Institution Archives concerning the Division of Performing Arts (1966-1983), Folklife Program (1977-1980), Office of Folklife Programs (1980-1991), Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies (1991-1999), Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present), and collaborating Smithsonian units, as well as in the administrative papers of key figures such as the Secretary and respective deputies. Users are encouraged to consult relevant finding aids and to contact Archives staff for further information.

Restrictions:: Access to the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections is by appointment only. Visit our website for more information on scheduling a visit or making a digitization request. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies.

Rights:: Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.

Topic:: World music Search this; Food habits Search this; Folk art Search this; arts and crafts Search this; Folk festivals Search this; Folk music Search this; Folklore Search this

Genre/Form:: Business records; Correspondence; Memorandums; Sound recordings; Audiocassettes; Contracts; Negatives; Video recordings; Slides (photographs); Plans (drawings); Videotapes; Audiotapes; Digital images; Notes; Photographic prints

Citation:: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1988 Festival of American Folklife, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:: CFCH.SFF.1988

See more items in:: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1988 Festival of American Folklife

Archival Repository:: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

GUID:: https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/bk59e9f3773-cd55-493f-94e0-c53650d914c4

EDAN-URL:: ead_collection:sova-cfch-sff-1988

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Dale-Patterson Family collection

Creator:: Dale, Dianne Search this; Polk, P. H., 1898-1985 Search this

Names:: Barry, Marion, 1936-2014 Search this; Dale, Almore M., 1911-1984 Search this; Dale, Dianne Search this; Dale, John Henry, Jr., 1888-1973 Search this; Dale, Lucille Emma Patterson, 1889-1973 Search this; Dale, Marie Howard, 1914-2011 Search this; Dale, Norman Edward, 1908-1991 Search this; Garner, Araminta Dale, 1913-1987 Search this; Patterson, Frederick D. (Frederick Douglass), 1901-1988 Search this; Patterson, Wilhelmina Bessie, 1888-1962 Search this

Extent:: 6 Linear feet (9 boxes)

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Photographs; Programs; Clippings; Correspondence; Ephemera; Postcards

Place:: Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)

Date:: 1866 - 1990.

Summary:: The Dale-Patterson family papers, which date from 1866 to 2010 and measure 6 linear feet, document the personal and professional lives of the Dale-Patterson family who came to live in Hillsdale, Anacostia, area of Washington, D.C., in 1892.

Scope and Contents note:: The Dale-Patterson family papers, which date from 1866 to 1990 and measure 6 linear feet, document the personal and professional lives of the Dale-Patterson family who came to live in Hillsdale, Anacostia, area of Washington, D.C., in 1892. The collection is comprised of correspondence, photographs, clippings, and ephemera.

Arrangement note:: The collection is arranged in four series:

Series 1: Dale-Patterson Family papers Series 2: Charles Qualls papers Series 3: Community Organizations Series 4: Subject Files

Biographical/Historical note:: The Dale family came to Washington, DC in 1886 when John Henry Dale, Sr., a gifted self-taught man, obtained a position as clerk in the newly contracted Pension Bureau building at 5th and G Streets, NW. First they lived near 13th Street and Florida Avenue, NW, then moved to Howard Road in Anacostia. Dale built a house at 2619 Nichols Avenue, now Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, drawing the plans and supervising the construction. The Dales and only one other family lived in this solidly built house for 100 years before it was sold to a church group and demolished.

General Note:: Finding Aid Note: This finding aid is associated with a MARC collection-level record.361883

Provenance:: The Dale-Patterson Family collection was donated to the Anacostia Community Museum on April 07, 2013.

Restrictions:: Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.

Rights:: The Dale-Patterson Family collection is the physical property of the Anacostia Community Museum. Literary and copyright belong to the author/creator or their legal heirs and assigns. Rights to work produced during the normal course of Museum business resides with the Anacostia Community Museum. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archives.

Topic:: African Americans Search this; African American families Search this

Genre/Form:: Photographs; Programs; Clippings; Correspondence; Ephemera; Postcards

Citation:: Dale-Patterson Family collection, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Dianne Dale.

Identifier:: ACMA.06-074

See more items in:: Dale-Patterson Family collection

Archival Repository:: Anacostia Community Museum Archives

GUID:: https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/qa7c29572e9-2bd6-4b2a-8982-b527693b7885

EDAN-URL:: ead_collection:sova-acma-06-074

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John Michael Vlach

Author:: Deutsch, James I. Search this

Editor:: Prahlad, Anand Search this

Object Type:: Smithsonian staff publication

Year:: 2006

Citation:: Deutsch, James I. 2006. "John Michael Vlach." In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore. Prahlad, Anand, editor. 1352–1353. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.

Identifier:: 98985

Data source:: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:slasro_98985

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Maya Deren

Author:: Deutsch, James I. Search this

Editor:: Prahlad, Anand Search this

Object Type:: Smithsonian staff publication

Year:: 2006

Citation:: Deutsch, James I. 2006. "Maya Deren." In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore. Prahlad, Anand, editor. 317–318. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.

Identifier:: 98986

Data source:: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:slasro_98986

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Bad Man

Author:: Deutsch, James I. Search this

Editor:: Prahlad, Anand Search this

Object Type:: Smithsonian staff publication

Year:: 2006

Citation:: Deutsch, James I. 2006. "Bad Man." In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore. Prahlad, Anand, editor. 67–68. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.