Director's Records, 2016-2020

Summary

This accession consists of approximately 104,000 email messages of Huib Schippers, Director and Curator of Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings, 2016-2020. Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings, part of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, is a nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution dedicated to supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding among peoples through the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of sound. Major topics documented in this accession include oversight of album production, marketing, and sales; strategic planning; product development; budget and fund raising; personnel; licensing; and related topics. Materials are in electronic format.

Subject

• Schippers, Huib 1959-
• Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
• Smithsonian Institution

Notes

For a description of the record series of which these materials form a part, refer to the "Forms part of" above.

Organization

Unarranged

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

• 2016
• 2016-2020

Restrictions & Rights

Restricted for 15 years. Records may contain personally identifiable information (PII) that is permanently restricted, until Jan-01-2036; Transferring office; 4/29/2024 memorandum, Wright to File; Contact reference staff for details

Topic

• Folk music
• Production and direction
• License agreements
• Strategic planning
• Museums
• Record labels
• Cultural pluralism
• Music
• Personnel management
• Budget
• Fund raising
• Sound recording executives and producers
• Advertising
• Cultural property
• Museums--Administration
• Music--Production and direction
• Marketing

Form/Genre

• Electronic mail
• Collection descriptions
• Electronic records

Local number

SIA Acc. 24-095

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