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Peace Songs of the 1960s | Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
Peace songs have never had a popular following in the United States, except during particular times and for specific reasons. Despite this, they managed to...
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Ding Dong Dollar | Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
In 1962, Folkways Records, founded and run by Moses Asch, released a rather unlikely recording entitled Ding Dong Dollar: Anti-Polaris and Scottish Republican...
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Songs By and For Children: A Legacy of Children's Music | Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
Children's music has been a Folkways priority from the inception of the label. Founding father Moses Asch sought to build a library of children's records that...
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Throughout the 1960s, songs of peace registered civilian frustrations with armed conflict. In the early part of the decade, potential devastation from atomic...
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Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
As the curator of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, I am often asked why I choose certain recordings to be published. My shortest answer is that I look for a...
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Muslim Call to Prayer | Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
From the public to the intimate the Islamic call to prayer, adhan, literally meaning announcement, pervades Muslim culture. It can be heard up to five times a...
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https://folkways.si.edu/magazine-spring-2009-featuring-pete-seeger-standing-tall/smithsonian
Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
Pete Seeger has had a long and productive career as a folk song leader and social activist. He grew up in a musical family. His father was the musicologist...
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Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
Rainbow emerged from an ambitious process of collaborative creativity that reached across continents and cultures, and across musical categories and...
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A Midnight Serenade: Music from the Dominican Republic | Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
During my fieldwork in the Dominican Republic, ongoing battles against the local
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Music of Central Asia | Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
Central Asia is commonly understood to encompass the territory of six nations: Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan....
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https://folkways.si.edu/magazine-spring-summer-2013-peace-education-nobel-voices-disarmament/struggle-protest-spoken-word/article/smithsonian
Peace Education: Nobel Voices for Disarmament | Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
Disarmament, once a tall and powerful word in the popular mind that evoked grand visions of international peace and accord, now summons regrettably little...
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Further acquaintance with Afghanistan's music will serve to increase our understanding about the culture of a land that in these times is featured daily in our...
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Rainbow Artists | Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
For more than 30 years, the Kronos Quartet has pursued a singular artistic vision, combining a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to expanding...
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The New Lost City Ramblers: 50 Years of Folk | Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
The New Lost City Ramblers pioneered the renaissance of southern mountain music that grew out of the post-World War II folk music revival the late 1950s and...
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https://folkways.si.edu/magazine-fall-2009-featuring-childrens-music/smithsonian
Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
Children's music has been a Folkways priority from the inception of the label. Founding father Moses Asch sought to build a library of children's records that...
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https://folkways.si.edu/magazine-spring-2010-rainbow-chronicle-collaboration/central-asia-world/music/article/smithsonian
Rainbow: Chronicle of a Collaboration | Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
Rainbow emerged from an ambitious process of collaborative creativity that reached across continents and cultures, and across musical categories and...
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https://folkways.si.edu/magazine-summer-2009-tradiciones-traditions/latin-world/music/article/smithsonian
Tradiciones/Traditions | Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
Over 45 million people of Hispanic descent make the United States their home. One out of eight Americans uses such labels as hispano, Latino, tejano, Chicano,...
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Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
In New Mexico, the name Roberto Martinez is synonymous with royalty. Los Reyes de Alburquerque (The Kings of Albuquerque) is a Nuevo Mexicano styled mariachi...
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Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
Tony Schwartz was arguably the second greatest sound recordist in American history. The only person more important was Alan Lomax, and in some respects they...
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