Results for "Music"
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Behind the Portrait: Frances Densmore and Mountain Chief
- Date: April 28, 2009
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Mountain Chief, Chief of Montana Blackfeet, in Native Dress With Bow, Arrows, and Lance, Listening to Song Being Played On Phonograph and Interpreting It in Sign Language to Frances Densmore, Ethnologist, March 1916, by Harris & Ewing, Smithsonian National Anthropological Archives"][/caption] I received an interesting
Hope for the Holidays: A Civil War Season in DC
- Date: December 22, 2011
- Description: First hand account of Mary Henry, daughter of Joseph Henry, about what Washington DC was like during the holidays in the time of the Civil War.
The World Is Yours: Stars in the Sky
- Date: July 15, 2021
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Take a listen to clips from a The World Is Yours episode, “Stars in the Sky.”
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Bernice Johnson Reagon
- Date: October 12, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Curator Emeritus, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, founded the Sweet Honey in the Rock music group, was a distinguished professor of history at American University, and was a MacArthur Fellow. #Groundbreaker
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Marvette Pérez
- Date: July 20, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Anthropologist Marvette Pérez, National Museum of American History, was the Smithsonian's first Latino history curator, an accomplished percussionist and vocalist, and collector who acquired works representing Latino popular culture & music. #Groundbreaker
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Celebrating World Cultures—and Our Own
- Date: July 1, 2010
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley (1913-2001) riding a scooter at the 1974 Folklife Festival in the Mississippi delta section, with a cotton field behind him, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 613, Box 269, Folder: SDR Photos, Negative number:
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The Woman with the Gramophone
- Date: April 2, 2009
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: [caption id="attachment_396" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption="Save Our Sounds Postcard, Photo Courtesy of National Anthropological Archives"][/caption] For the last few years, I’ve had this postcard up in my office promoting Save Our Sounds, a program by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) and the Library of Congress dedicated to restoring,
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Link Love: 3/18/2011
- Date: March 18, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Deborra Richardson
- Date: December 16, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Link Love: 2/24/2012
- Date: February 24, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Link Love: 10/31/2014
- Date: October 31, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Celebrating National Radio Day
- Date: August 18, 2022
- Description: We’ve shared a lot about The World Is Yours, the Smithsonian’s first educational radio show, but this National Radio Day, we are highlighting some of the other radio programs in our collections.