Results for "Music"
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Music in the Castle 1854–1862
- Date: February 12, 2019
- Description: As part of the Smithsonian Year of Music 2019, the Smithsonian Castle Collection curator chronicles music in the Castle during its early years.
JAM: A Month of Musical Celebration
- Date: April 3, 2012
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: April is Jazz Appreciation Month. In addition to events across the globe, you can find jazz nuggets in various archives.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Dwandalyn R. Reece
- Date: November 1, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Curator of Music and Performing Arts, Dr. Dwandalyn R. Reece, National Museum of African American History and Culture, created their inaugural music exhibition, Musical Crossroads, and co-curated the grand opening music festival, Freedom Sounds: A Community Celebration. #Groundbreaker
Sneak Peek 12/31/2018
- Date: December 31, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Opening of "Music Machines - American Style" exhibition at National Museum of History and Technology, OPA-1737-06.
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Link Love: 7/23/2010
- Date: July 23, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Visitors: Share photos of your trip to the Smithsonian museums in this new Flickr set! Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes posts an interview with Secretary Clough that includes a mention of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative and Institution’s overall prioritization of digitizing and archiving photographs. Time sink! The BBC launched a World Music Archive this morning! There
Link Love: 3/8/2019
- Date: March 8, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Link Love: 12/7/2012
- Date: December 7, 2012
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon III
- Date: March 17, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Cue the music! We invite you to our third "She Blinded Me with Science" Women in Science Wikipdia Edit-a-thon III. An invitation to the Archive's 3rd Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Women in Science, March 27, 2015.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Luvenia A. George
- Date: February 24, 2021
- 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: 7/7/2017
- Date: July 7, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The Smithsonian's Folklife Festival is celebrating it's 50th year with 50 Years | 50 Objects. [via Hyperallergic]The collections of the 400 year-old Jewish Library, Ets Haim, are now freely available online. [via Info Docket]70,000 paybills, ephemera, and posters from the Brooklyn Academy of Music are now online. [via NY Times]The woman who signed the Declaration of
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We Welcome You!
- Date: June 4, 2013
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: It is the season of 90 degree days, the Folklife Festival, ice cream trucks, and the sound of the Smithsonian carousel playing its fun house music in the distance. As someone who has to commute to and from work by bicycle through the legions of tourist buses, crowds of umbrellas, and FBI paraphernalia, I try to replace my slight annoyance in being delayed by remembering that
Turn up the Volume - The Electric Guitar
- Date: March 5, 2019
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: In November of 1996, the electric guitar, its history and its makers, were the focus of attention at the National Museum of American History.