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California Gold

Sidney Robertson and the WPA California Folk Music Project

AvCatherine Hiebert Kerst,Library of Congress

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

306 kr

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California Gold offers a compelling cultural snapshot of a diverse California during the 1930s at the height of the New Deal, drawing on the career of folk music collector Sidney Robertson and the musical culture of often-unheard voices. Robertson—an intrepid young woman armed only with a map, her notebooks, and the recording equipment of the time—proposed and directed a New Deal initiative, the WPA California Folk Music Project, designed to survey musical traditions from a wide range of English-speaking and immigrant communities in Northern California. In California Gold, Catherine Hiebert Kerst explores Robertson's distinctive and modern approach to fieldwork and examines the numerous ethnographic documentary materials she generated with WPA project staff to capture a cross-section of the music that people were actively performing in their communities. Kerst highlights some of the most notable songs, images, and ephemera of the collection, capturing and contextualizing the diverse musical traditions that California immigrant communities performed during the New Deal era. Kerst also foregrounds the ethnographic insights and accomplishments of a significant woman folk music collector who has received less attention than she deserves.

Collecting Memories

Treasures from the Library of Congress

AvLibrary of Congress

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

516 kr

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Memory formation, memorialization, collective history, and knowledge of the known world are guided by individuals and their cultures. Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress explores the ways people have preserved their history, culture, and personal recollections in a variety of artifacts, including letters, diaries, photographs, maps, books, quilts, rugs, murals, scrolls, and monuments.The official companion to the Library of Congress exhibition, Collecting Memories uses vivid photographs and interpretive text to bring context to a wide variety of historic objects, from President Abraham Lincoln’s handwritten draft of the Gettysburg Address to Steve Ditko’s original drawings of the Spider-Man origin story. Other highlights include:* Maya Lin’s original competition drawings for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial* The first Italian cookbook, Libro de arte coquinaria, published in the late 1400s* An incredibly rare crystal flute given to President James Madison by French flute maker Claude Laurent* Illustrations from a thirty-nine-foot nineteenth-century Japanese scroll* Scenes from the fifteenth-century Washington Haggadah* Images of a colorful six-by-nine-foot canvas family tree documenting a Black family genealogy dating back to the eighteenth century* A hand-painted scroll, or thangka, given to the Library by the fourteenth Dalai Lama* A small pocket notebook carried by Sigmund Freud

Collecting Memories

Treasures from the Library of Congress

AvLibrary of Congress

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

247 kr

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Memory formation, memorialization, collective history, and knowledge of the known world are guided by individuals and their cultures. Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress explores the ways people have preserved their history, culture, and personal recollections in a variety of artifacts, including letters, diaries, photographs, maps, books, quilts, rugs, murals, scrolls, and monuments.The official companion to the Library of Congress exhibition, Collecting Memories uses vivid photographs and interpretive text to bring context to a wide variety of historic objects, from President Abraham Lincoln’s handwritten draft of the Gettysburg Address to Steve Ditko’s original drawings of the Spider-Man origin story. Other highlights include:* Maya Lin’s original competition drawings for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial* The first Italian cookbook, Libro de arte coquinaria, published in the late 1400s* An incredibly rare crystal flute given to President James Madison by French flute maker Claude Laurent* Illustrations from a thirty-nine-foot nineteenth-century Japanese scroll* Scenes from the fifteenth-century Washington Haggadah* Images of a colorful six-by-nine-foot canvas family tree documenting a Black family genealogy dating back to the eighteenth century* A hand-painted scroll, or thangka, given to the Library by the fourteenth Dalai Lama* A small pocket notebook carried by Sigmund Freud