Research Catalog

Title

Festival of American Folklife. Interviews [videorecording]

Publication

1993.

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Additional Authors

• Shelton, Luvenia.
• Buck, Sadie.
• Smith, Kirby, square dance caller.
• Jefferson, Cynthia.
• Green, Leroy.
• Vance, Barbara.
• Vance, James.
• Bradford, Lawrence.
• Jamieson, LuAnn.
• Quinteros, Lillian.
• Quinteros, Angel F.
• Sokhon, Soum.
• Sokhon, Sareth C.
• Sokhon, Nareine.
• Chen, Vivien.
• Lewett, Linda.
• Love, Sam.
• Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies.
• Festival of American Folklife (1993 : Smithsonian Institution)

Description

1 videocassette. 69 min. : sd. color NTSC.; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Brief interviews with festival participants representing the five cultural groups highlighted in the festival's social dance program: Native Americans (Iroquois); white Americans from Chilhowie, Virginia; African-Americans from Washington, D. C. and environs; Bolivian-Americans; and Cambodian-Americans. They discuss their own dance forms and compare them to the dances of other cultures, share their experiences during the festival, and note the festival's contributions to cross-cultural interchange. Topics include African-American hand dancing, hip-hop, askanye (Iroquois women's dances and music), Appalachian square dancing, and the social dances of the Iroquois, Bolivians, and Cambodians.

Donor/Sponsor

• nea
• nys

Subjects

• Square, round and contra dancing
• Dance > Cambodia
• Hand dancing, African-American
• Iroquois dance
• Dance > Bolivia
• Television > Festival of American Folklife
• Social dancing > 20th century
• Askanye
• Hip-hop

Note

• Videotaped in performance for the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image and the Smithsonian Institution by Sam Love of the Public Production Group, with the assistance of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts, at the 27th annual Festival of American Folklife on the National Mall in Washington, D. C., on July 1-5, 1993. [Video] producer: Linda Lewett. Festival presented by the Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies of the Smithsonian Institution. Director, Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies: Richard Kurin. Festival director: Diana Parker. Curator, American Social Dance program: Vivien Ta-Ying Chen.

Contents

CONTENTS: Interviewees in order of appearance: Luvenia Shelton (hand dancer), Sadie Buck (Iroquois dancer), Kirby Smith (square dance caller), Cynthia Jefferson and Leroy Green (hand dancers), Barbara and James Vance (square dancers), Lawrence Bradford (hand dancer), LuAnn Jamieson (Iroquois dancer), Lillian and Angel Quinteros (Bolivian-American dancers), and Soum, Sareth, and Nareine Sokhon (Cambodian-American dancers).

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1765

OCLC

NYPY946050034-F

Title

Festival of American Folklife. Interviews [videorecording]

Imprint

1993.

Local Subject

Television. Festival of American Folklife.

Social dancing -- 20th century.

Hand dancing, African-American.

Square, round and contra dancing.

Local Subject

Askanye.

Added Author

Shelton, Luvenia. Interviewee

Buck, Sadie. Interviewee

Smith, Kirby, square dance caller. Interviewee

Jefferson, Cynthia. Interviewee

Green, Leroy. Interviewee

Vance, Barbara. Interviewee

Vance, James. Interviewee

Bradford, Lawrence. Interviewee

Jamieson, LuAnn. Interviewee

Quinteros, Lillian. Interviewee

Quinteros, Angel F. Interviewee

Sokhon, Soum. Interviewee

Sokhon, Sareth C. Interviewee

Sokhon, Nareine. Interviewee

Chen, Vivien. Curator

Lewett, Linda. Producer

Love, Sam.

Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies.

Festival of American Folklife (1993 : Smithsonian Institution)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1765