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Individual Call Number: LWO 4872 reel 216A
This collection contains eight 10-inch tapes of musical performances by numerous artists from folk and ethnic music and dance events celebrating the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter. Events sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. The collection includes 1 3/4 linear inches of correspondence, logs, performance releases, programs, and schedules. Included are two tapes containing the Krakowiak Polish Dance Group, January 18, 1977.
The Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in America Project was conducted in 1982 by the American Folklife Center to survey selected religious and secular ethnic community-based schools conducted, at least in part, in a language other than English to document the continued ethnolinguistic and cultural diversity of the United States.
The collection consists of field notes, interviews, curriculum materials, sound recordings, photographs, and one videorecording resulting from a survey conducted by the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress in 1982 which documented 23 ethnic schools in the United States. Fieldwork was conducted at various locations including General Casimir Pulaski Polish School in Chicago, Illinois.
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