1981 Folklife Festival Held in Summer

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Summary

After four years of being held in October, the Festival of American Folklife is held for two weeks during the summer, June 24-July 6, 1981. The festival featured South-Slavic Americans, the American tent show, adobe architecture, traditional American music, folklore of the deaf, and Native Americans of the Upper Midwest.

Subject

  • Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
  • Festival of American Folklife

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 3, "The Torch," February 1981, p. 2.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

June 24, 1981

Topic

  • Deafness
  • Slavic Americans
  • Slavs
  • Architecture
  • Historians
  • Folk festivals
  • Public programs
  • Entertainers
  • Dwellings
  • Performing arts
  • Indians of North America
  • Adobe houses

Place

  • United States
  • Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)

Form/Genre

Cultural expressionism

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