MARGUERITE BERRY-JACKSON, ROSIE WILKINS; JIM WICKS, DAMIEN LUNNING, ELMAN "BUD" STEWART; FREDDIE AHEARN, SHIRLEY FOSTER, BURT CHRISTENSON, NELL SIMONS, BERDENE "BUD" SIMONS MIGRATION TO MICHIGAN, LORE OF THE LURE; SIT-DOWN STRIKE AND THE FLINT COMMUNITY 1 OF 4
Track Information:
101 Migration to Michigan / Marguerite L. Berry-Jackson, Rosie Wilkins.
102 Lore of the Lure / Damien Lunning, Elman Stewart, Jim Wicks.
103 Sit-Down Strike and the Flint Community / Burt Christensen, Fred Ahearn, Shirley Foster.
Local Numbers:
FP-1987-CT-0259
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, June 25, 1987.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
Collection 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.
FRED AHEARN, BURT CHRISTENSON, SHIRLEY FOSTER, BERDENE "BUD" SIMONS, NELLIE SIMONS; DAMIEN LUNNING, JIM WICKS, ELMAN "BUD" STEWART; REVEREND ANDRE WOODS; ALFRED CHARLESTON SIT-DOWN STRIKE; LORE OF THE LURE; COMPARATIVE GOSPEL STYLES 4 OF 4
Track Information:
101 Sit-Down Strike and the Community / Fred Ahearn, Berdene Simons, Shirley Foster, Nellie Simons.
102 Lore of the Lure / Damien Lunning, Elman Stewart, Jim Wicks.
103 Comparative Gospel Styles / Alfred Charleston, Andre Woods.
Local Numbers:
FP-1987-CT-0281
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, July 3, 1987.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
Collection 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.
ProductionCurators: Sojin Kim, Nichole Procopenko
Media/Documentation: Albert Tong, Dave Walker, Charlie Weber
SI Consultation and Support: Cristina Diaz-Carrera, Erin Dowdy, Julia Gutierrez, Diana N'Diaye, Shay Stevens
Interns: Ashley Avila, Rameshwar Bhatt, Gissel Bonilla (Real World History high school afterschool program), Xueying Chang, Mara Hoplamazian, Aidan Keys, B. Deva Macias, Melissa Queen, Lucy Sprague, Colin Stucki, Harry Zhu, Rameshwar Bhatt
External SI Contributors: Ben Ashworth, John Davis, Emily Hilliard, Natalie Hopkinson, Amy Horowitz, Richard Howard, Noel Lopez, Allison Martin, Mark Puryear, Cita Sadeli, Farrah Skeiky, Albert Tong, Antonia Tricarico, Alexandra Tyson, Seshat Walker, Allison Wolfe
External Advisors and Consultants: Natalie Avery, Olivia Cadaval, Michelle Casto, Barbara Dougherty, Ashley Emerson, Federico Frum, Maggie Gilmore, Derek Gray, Greyson Harris, Nico Hobson, Amanda Huron, Alec MacKaye, Ian MacKaye, Frankie and Sherry Meneses, Vance Levy, Kip Lornell, Ronald Moten, Jimmy Pelletier, Mo Shorter, Kimberly Springle, Luke Stewart, Jim Thompson, Carl Walker
Participants:D.C. Music Preservation Pop-Up DC Public Library Punk and Go-Go Archives
D.C. Public Library, Washingtoniana
Globe Collection and Press at MICA
Anacostia Community Museum
Mayor's Office on African American Affairs
D.C. Office of Cable Television, Film, Music, and Entertainment
National Park Service
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives with the DC Oral History Collaborative
Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives, University of the District of Columbia
Punk and Indie Fanzine collection at UMD
DontMuteDC—Don't Mute The Movement
Go-Go PA Tape Listening SessionNico Hobson, the GoGo-ologist
Off-site and in the City, Anacostia Community MuseumAlma Robinson, local artist
#DontMuteDC—Don't Mute The MovementNatalie Hopkinson, cultural scholar
Ronald "Mo" Moten, peace activist
Julien Broomfield, music producer Tone P
Donald Campbell. Metro PCS store owner
Jacqueline Jackson
Local Record Label Market Carpark Records
Crooked Beat Records
Dischord Records
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
This Could Go Boom!
Electric Cowbell Records
Free Dirt Records and Service Co.
Lovitt Records
Crown Vic and Area Woman's Weird World Record PartyJim Thomson
Eliza Childress
DC Bluegrass Union JamGo-Go Performance: The Royal Pocket TourRonald Moten
First Ladies to Anthology of Booty: Women DJ Collectives in D.C. Allison Wolfe
Ebony Dumas
Les Talusan
Maegan Wood
Kristy Chavez-Fernandez
Kristina Gray (DJ K La Rock)
Action. Reaction, Action: Visualizing Fugazi (exhibition) Make Me Wanna Holler: Exploring DC's Music LegacyChocolate City Rocks
Anacostia Community Museumʼs "A Right to the City"
National Postal Museum with the new Marvin Gaye stamp
"Poetry and Percussion"
Woodrow Wilson High School Poetry Club
The Sanctuaries
Head-Roc (Mayor of DC Hip-Hop/Chocolate City Rocks)
Elise Bryant, DC Labor Chorus (E.D., Labor Heritage Foundation)
Anthony Fields, DC Hip-Hop Legend/Pioneer bka Dimensions
Ras Lidj, creator of Regg'Go
Katy Otto, DC Punk Icon
HDavid
DJ RBI Music
Smooth and EZ Hand Dance Institute
Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center
There's a Story in Everything: Zinemaking and Comic WorkshopEvan Keeling
Frame of Mind: Punk Photos and Essays from Washington, DC Antonia Tricarico
Storymakers Festival featuring Music and Deaf CultureWAWA
SupaLee
Breaking the Sound Barrier: Deaf Perspectives from the Music IndustryWAWA
SupaLee
Downtown DC Live: Featuring TK EchoJosh Blair, drums
Fiona Griffin, keyboards and vocals
Aaron Leitko, bass
Chris Richards, guitar and vocals
Storymakers Festival featuring Christylez Bacon and Wytold Downtown DC Live: Featuring Cigarette Drew Hagelin, drums and percussion
Evan Napala, guitar and vocals
Richard Howard, bass and vocals
Jonathan Howard, guitar and vocals
Mt. Pleasant: The Social Power of MusicLost Origins Gallery
District Bridges
DC Public Library Punk Archives
Janel Leppin, cello
Anthony Pirog, guitarist
Siobhan Hagan, DC Public Library Memory Lab
The OSYX
Park Snakes
Bacchae
Michelle Casto, DC Public Library
Kristy la Rat, DJ
Cultivating Change: Music + Community in Mt. Pleasant Walking TourTim Wright, Attucks Adams Walking Tours
Natalie Avery, Javera Group, Radio CPR
Summer in the Park, Late Skate at Anacostia Be'la Dona
DC Public Library Go-Go Archives
Individual artist interviewsCherie Agurs, musician, Be'la Dona
Richard Howard, musician, Cigarette
Chris Richards, musician, TK Echo
Allison Wolfe, musician, riot grrrl
Brandi Thompson Summers, Virginia Commonwealth University
Delece Smith-Barrow, The Hechinger Report
Lauren Saxton Coleman, University of Southern Mississippi
Desciption:
At a time when dramatic changes in our city's demographics, built environment, and economy are impacting local communities, the Folklife Festival continues to highlight D.C.'s distinct heritage. In doing this, the Festival program 2019 had originally been designed to use DC's homegrown go-go and punk communities to anchor explorations about a constellation of music making in the region.
Activities before and during the Festival would trace the sources, musical conversations, and creative departures emerging from these scenes and resonating in sounds and communities associated with other genres, from folk to hip-hop, jazz to marching band. The intent was NOT to exhaustively survey music genres and communities, but rather to sample a creative ecology—exploring the intersection of social practice and music, revealing how both segregation and interaction—among neighborhoods, communities, and individual artists—is expressed through music.
In February 2019, the Festival plan shifted to a weekend format. The DC program was re-envisioned to occur in venues off the Mall over a period of five months, with one afternoon on the Mall, and to provide digital experiences and content that contribute to efforts to preserve and expand access to DC music history resources.
Within this framework, the months leading up to and during the 2019 Smithsonian Folklife Festival were scheduled with punk and go-go anchor presentations of a constellation of music making in the metro region, showcased as homegrown DIY, youth-driven music communities. Each of these presentations embodies stories of migration, displacement, segregation, and political activism in the city. Through performances, discussions, and new web features, the extended festival presentations explore diverse sources, creative conversations, and musical departures emerging from these scenes and resonating in the sounds and communities associated with other genres.
With this program, the festival affirms its commitment to collaborate with local knowledge keepers and artists, providing them with support in the preservation and promotion of their local histories and culture.
Collection 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.
Collection 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.
DICK GRABOWSKI, RAY DAVISON, JIM WICKS, ELMAN "BUD" STEWART; ELIAS LOPEZ, ESPERANZA ACALA; PEDRO RODRIGUEZ, STEVEN FOUCH; FRED AHEARN, BURT CHRISTENSON, SHIRLEY FOSTER, NELLIE SIMONS, BERDENE "BUD" SIMONS FISHING STORIES; MIGRATION TO MICHIGAN; SIT-DOWN STRIKE 3 OF 4
Track Information:
101 Fishing Stories / Elman Stewart, Jim Wicks, Ray Davison.
102 Migration to Michigan / Elias Lopez, Esperanza Alcala, Pedro Rodriguez.
103 Sit-Down Strike: The Role of Women / Fred Ahearn, Nellie Simons, Shirley Foster.
Local Numbers:
FP-1987-CT-0264
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, June 26, 1987.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
Collection 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.
Les Raber, Paul Gifford; Jim Wicks, Damien Lunning, Elman "Bud" Stewart; Helen Atwell, Amnah Baraka, Samiha Abusalah, Moshin Elgabri Michigan Fiddling; Lore Of The Lure; Migration To Michigan 1 Of 4
Track Information:
101 Michigan Fiddling / Les Raber, Paul Gifford. Fiddle,Dulcimer.
102 Lore of the Lure / Damien Lunning, Elman Stewart, Jim Wicks.
103 Migration to Michigan / Amnah Baraka, Helen Mohammed Atwell, Samiha Abusalah.
Local Numbers:
FP-1987-CT-0274
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, July 1, 1987.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
Collection 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.
In 1990, curators at the National Museum of American History began a project to develop a traveling exhibition about American music, and in the course of research, curators repeatedly returned to the Mississippi Delta area and Memphis, Tennessee to conduct interviews. A group in Memphis organized to raise the funds to complete the research, to acquire objects and artifacts, and the project ultimately became the Smithsonian-affiliated Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum, which opened in 2000 at 191 Beale Street.
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of oral and video history interviews conducted by curators at the National Museum of American History with musicians, recording executives, disc jockeys, and others involved with the development of rock'n'soul music. Complete transcripts of all of the interviews exist.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged in four series.
Series 1, Original Interviews
Series 2, Reference Copies
Subseries 1: Umatic Videos
Subseries 2: Reference DVDs
Series 3: Audio Cassettes
Series 4: Transcripts
Biographical / Historical:
In 1990, National Museum of American History curators Dr. Pete Daniel and Dr. Charles McGovern, began conducting research with the intention of creating a traveling exhibit about "American music." Their investigations led them to the Mississippi delta and ultimately to Memphis Tennessee, which had developed as a crossroads where people and musical traditions met beginning in the 1930s. Based on their discoveries they refined their scope in order to focus on the music that grew out of the traditions that met and mixed in Memphis. They weren't able to secure funding for the originally proposed exhibit, but instead partnered with the Memphis Rock'n'Soul Museum to develop the exhibit Rock'n'Soul: Social Crossroads. The museum and exhibit opened in 2000 and explores the influential musical form that has its roots in Memphis.
Much of the basic research for the exhibit as well as the production elements for the companion radio series, "Memphis: Cradle of Rock'n'Soul" came from oral and video history interviews conducted with musicians, record producers, radio disc jockeys and others involved with the development and popularization of rock'n'soul during 1992 and 1999. Daniel and McGovern partnered with John Meehan of Smithsonian Productions to create high-quality, informative interview tapes. The Rock'n'Soul Video History Collection is comprised of these unedited interviews.
Provenance:
Made at the National Museum of American History for the Smithsonian-affiliated Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum in 1992 and 1999.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Only refrence DVDs and digital reference copies in the Smithsonian Institution's Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) may be used. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Only refrence DVDs and digital reference copies in the Smithsonian Institution's Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) may be used. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Rock 'n' Soul Videohistory Collection, 1990-1999, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Freedmen's Bureau Digital Collection, 1865–1872, is a product of and owned by the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution. Copyright for digital images is retained by the donor, FamilySearch International; permission for commercial use of the digital images may be requested from FamilySearch International, Intellectual Property Office, at: cor-intellectualproperty@ldschurch.org.
Collection Citation:
Courtesy of the U. S. National Archives and Records Administration, FamilySearch International, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
