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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.

Missing Title

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 .

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: Papers

1967 Festival of American Folklife records - [Ongoing]

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

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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

Author:

King-O'Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko  Search this

Small, Stephen  Search this

Mahtani, Minelle  Search this

Song, Miri  Search this

Spickard, Paul  Search this

Physical description:

1 online resource (xxii, 335 pages)

Type:

Case studies

Electronic books

Date:

2014

Topic:

Racially mixed people  Search this

SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations  Search this

SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology--General  Search this

SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural  Search this

SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1156525

Collector:

F. A. Ober  Search this

Preparation:

Skin: Whole

Sex:

Female

Place:

Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago, South America

Collection Date:

-- -- 18--

Taxonomy:

Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Aves, Charadriiformes, Laridae

Published Name:

Sterna anaethetus

Other Numbers:

Field Number : 178

Other USNM Catalog Number : 75100

USNM Number:

84782

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Vertebrate Zoology

Birds

Data Source:

NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Birds Division

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/385128776-8f04-47c3-9f4e-12eda25a3600

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhvz_4010422

Collector:

F. A. Ober  Search this

Preparation:

Skin: Whole

Sex:

Male

Place:

Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago, South America

Taxonomy:

Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Aves, Passeriformes, Pipridae

Published Name:

Chiroxiphia pareola atlantica

Other Numbers:

Other USNM Catalog Number : 74858

USNM Number:

84067

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Vertebrate Zoology

Birds

Data Source:

NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Birds Division

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/334d00639-6017-48e9-9c11-87b7f369d647

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhvz_4311636

Collector:

F. A. Ober  Search this

Preparation:

Skin: Whole

Sex:

Male

Place:

Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago, South America

Taxonomy:

Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Aves, Passeriformes, Pipridae

Published Name:

Chiroxiphia pareola atlantica

Other Numbers:

Other USNM Catalog Number : 74870

USNM Number:

84068

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Vertebrate Zoology

Birds

Data Source:

NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Birds Division

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3138ec516-f65e-4bb4-b458-f0004983e965

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhvz_4311637

Collector:

F. A. Ober  Search this

Preparation:

Skin: Whole

Sex:

unknown

Stage:

Juvenile

Place:

Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago, South America

Taxonomy:

Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Aves, Passeriformes, Parulidae

Published Name:

Coereba flaveola luteola

Other Numbers:

Other USNM Catalog Number : 74786

USNM Number:

83264

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Vertebrate Zoology

Birds

Data Source:

NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Birds Division

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/36c86b000-7d9f-4243-b8f4-837d110ca8a4

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhvz_4297763

Collector:

F. A. Ober  Search this

Preparation:

Skin: Whole

Sex:

Male

Stage:

Adult

Place:

Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago, South America

Taxonomy:

Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Aves, Passeriformes, Emberizidae, Thraupinae

Published Name:

Cyanerpes cyaneus tobagensis

Other Numbers:

Other USNM Catalog Number : 74745

USNM Number:

83266

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Vertebrate Zoology

Birds

Data Source:

NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Birds Division

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3949369a4-4cb6-405f-b81d-28f22920aec8

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhvz_4298747

Collector:

F. A. Ober  Search this

Preparation:

Skin: Whole

Sex:

Male

Stage:

Adult

Type Citation:

Ridgway, R. 20 Oct 1908. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington. 21: 193.

Type Status:

Type

Place:

Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago, South America

Collection Date:

May 1878

Taxonomy:

Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Aves, Passeriformes, Formicariidae

Published Name:

Dysithamnus mentalis oberi Ridgway

Other Numbers:

Field Number : 253

Other USNM Catalog Number : 74896

USNM Number:

115046

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Vertebrate Zoology

Birds

Data Source:

NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Birds Division

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/336a1380e-4c9b-4af0-b777-4b2d1db2d074

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhvz_4189767

Collector:

F. W. Penny  Search this

Geologic Age:

Tertiary

Preparation:

Dry

Place:

Trinidad, 1400 feet down Mejias (sp?) Trace, off Rock-Penal Road, 15-1/2 miles, Trinidad and Tobago

Collection Date:

2 Jun 1921

USNM Number:

63030

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Invertebrate Zoology

Cnidaria

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3fe1cb65d-dfc9-41a8-96d1-1d99d0af1825

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_35028

Collector:

Alfred G. Mayer  Search this

Geologic Age:

Pleistocene

Preparation:

Dry

Place:

Tobago, fossil reef between Sandy Point and Crown Point, 25-30 feet above sea level, Trinidad and Tobago

Collection Date:

6 Apr 1916

USNM Number:

63529

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Invertebrate Zoology

Cnidaria

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3c7d41fdf-e397-4737-bc92-3bdfde94fed1

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_35531

Collector:

Alfred G. Mayer  Search this

Geologic Age:

Pleistocene

Preparation:

Dry

Place:

Tobago, between Milford Bay and Pigeon Point, fossil elevated reef 15-25 feet above sea level, Trinidad and Tobago

USNM Number:

63530

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Invertebrate Zoology

Cnidaria

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3d7892942-811a-425f-bc09-c1959eedd3b7

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_35532

Collector:

Alfred G. Mayer  Search this

Geologic Age:

Pleistocene

Preparation:

Dry

Place:

Tobago, South shore of Milford Bay, 15-22 feet above high tide, Trinidad and Tobago

Collection Date:

28 May 1916

USNM Number:

63532

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Invertebrate Zoology

Cnidaria

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3dde93e49-7c04-4bf3-9585-86c6ef54f225

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_35534

Collector:

John A. Bullbrook  Search this

Geologic Age:

Tertiary

Preparation:

Dry

Place:

Trinidad, Loc. 5, Machapoorie Quarry, Trinidad and Tobago

USNM Number:

64857

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Invertebrate Zoology

Cnidaria

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/32f94300e-e83a-4ef4-82c4-e1928b313c3c

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_36891

Collector:

F. W. Penny  Search this

Geologic Age:

Tertiary

Preparation:

Dry

Place:

Trinidad, Loc. 6, 1 mile South of railway station, Brasso, Brasso Formation, Trinidad and Tobago

USNM Number:

64860

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Invertebrate Zoology

Cnidaria

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3b7c38415-6184-4d8e-b908-4fadba96e083

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_36894

Geologic Age:

Tertiary

Preparation:

Dry

Place:

Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago

Other Numbers:

Original Number : N9

USNM Number:

71524

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Invertebrate Zoology

Cnidaria

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/397d2225a-f97f-4df9-8b64-c5932f4b157f

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_43378

Biogeographical Region:

81 - Caribbean  Search this

Collector:

Walter E. Broadway  Search this

Place:

Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies - Neotropics

Collection Date:

21 Jun 1920

Taxonomy:

Plantae Dicotyledonae Fabales Fabaceae Papilionoideae

Published Name:

Clathrotropis brachypetala (Tul.) Kleinh.

Barcode:

01003544

USNM Number:

1194635

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Botany

Flowering plants and ferns

West Indies Project

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/398fbbd2f-8371-4a50-b353-8933674c6aa4

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_10491814

Biogeographical Region:

81 - Caribbean  Search this

Collector:

Nathaniel L. Britton  Search this

Tracy E. Hazen  Search this

Walter Mendelson  Search this

Place:

Forest, four miles east of Arima. Tree 15m., Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies - Neotropics

Collection Date:

15 Mar 1920

Taxonomy:

Plantae Dicotyledonae Fabales Fabaceae Papilionoideae

Published Name:

Clathrotropis brachypetala (Tul.) Kleinh.

Barcode:

01003545

USNM Number:

1047041

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Botany

Flowering plants and ferns

West Indies Project

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3f65cd317-7f34-42c4-8552-a827a2bb3a55

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_10491816

Biogeographical Region:

81 - Caribbean  Search this

Collector:

H. Crüger  Search this

Place:

Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies - Neotropics

Taxonomy:

Plantae Monocotyledonae Poales Poaceae Panicoideae

Published Name:

Eriochrysis cayennensis P. Beauv.

Barcode:

01004428

USNM Number:

727464

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Botany

Flowering plants and ferns

West Indies Project

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/384895c41-2190-4fb2-a95f-9672c26cb4b0

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_10492592

Biogeographical Region:

81 - Caribbean  Search this

Collector:

Walter E. Broadway  Search this

Place:

Arima, O'Meara Savannah, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies - Neotropics

Collection Date:

16 Apr 1908

Taxonomy:

Plantae Monocotyledonae Poales Poaceae Panicoideae

Published Name:

Eriochrysis cayennensis P. Beauv.

Barcode:

01004429

USNM Number:

725199

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Botany

Flowering plants and ferns

West Indies Project

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3579a30c5-2cab-4265-a80b-20522a97c7c1

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_10492594

Biogeographical Region:

81 - Caribbean  Search this

Collector:

Walter E. Broadway  Search this

Place:

Arima, O'Meara Savannah, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies - Neotropics

Collection Date:

16 Apr 1908

Taxonomy:

Plantae Monocotyledonae Poales Poaceae Panicoideae

Published Name:

Eriochrysis cayennensis P. Beauv.

Barcode:

01004430

USNM Number:

655693

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Botany

Flowering plants and ferns

West Indies Project

Data Source:

NMNH - Botany Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/339c7e94c-6cad-4cd8-9eca-094bc434e245

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhbotany_10492596