1980 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection

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Documentation of the monthly 1980 Neptune Plaza Concert Series, which consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, videorecordings, and photographs of performances of Armenian music and dance, bluegrass and old-time music, zydeco music, Ghanaian music, Afro-Cuban music, and Southeast Asian music featuring Laotian, Vietnamese, and Hmong performers recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza, in front of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, at concerts from May through October 1980, sponsored by the American Folklife Center and the National Council for the Traditional Arts.

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English
Pages
249

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Table of Contents

May 8: Leo Sarkisian and group (Armenian music)
June 12: Don Stover (Bluegrass and old-time music)
July 10: Sam Brothers Five (Zydeco music)
August 14: Yacub Addy and Blema Bii "Children of the Ancient" (Ghanaian drumming and song)
September 11: Las Estrellas Del Son, Roberto Borrell and Kubatá (Afro-Cuban music)
October 9: Music from Southeast Asia (Instrumental music, songs, sung poetry, and stories)

Edition Notes

Photographs include negatives, black and white contact sheets, photographic prints, polaroid color prints, and color slides taken by John T. Gibbs and Carl Fleischhauer.

Two videocassettes, black and white (U-Matic) document the music and dance performance of Leo Sarkisian's Armenian group, with dancer Eleanor Carolglanian, in costume, who demonstrated three Armenian folk dances.

Collection is open for research; access restrictions for some materials may apply. Please contact the Folklife Reading Room before requesting materials: folklife@loc.gov ; 202-707-5510.

1980 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Duplication of the recorded materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.

in English.

in English, Armenian, French Creole, French, Ga, Lao, Mon-Khmer, Spanish, Twi, Vietnamese.

Finding aid is available in the Folklife Reading Room and online via the American Folklife Center web pages.

Series
Neptune Plaza concert series
Other Titles
Neptune Plaza Concert Series, 1980, American Folklife Center concert, 1980

The Physical Object

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7 11 sound tape reels : 249 photographs : graphic materials 97 slides : 2 videocassettes of 2 (U-Matic) :
Number of pages
249

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25183920M
LCCN
2004695013

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