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Winter 2011
Jazz
  • Jazz
    Cover Story
    Jazz

    The challenge of talking about any music is compounded when the subject is jazz, a word of clouded origins whose meaning reflects an evolution of astounding rapidity and imposing diversity. The meaning of the word, like the music it represents...

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  • Ella Jenkins
    Artist Spotlight
    Ella Jenkins

    The legacy of Ella Jenkins is a musical one. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1924, she spent her childhood on the south side of Chicago...

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  • Ding Dong Dollar
    Archive Spotlight
    Ding Dong Dollar

    In 1962, Folkways Records, founded and run by Moses Asch, released a rather unlikely recording entitled “Ding Dong Dollar”...

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  • Smithsonian Lesson Plan: Singing for Justice
    Tools for Teaching
    Lesson Plan: Singing for Justice

    Following the musical journey of “This Little Light of Mine”...

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  • A Voice Ringing O'er the Gale! The Oratory of Frederick Douglass Read by Ossie Davis
    video spotlight
    Rufus Thomas performs and talks about his life with longtime friend Joe Mulherin

    Recorded at the 1997 Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C.

Albums

Credits

Published February 2011

  • Folkways Magazine is produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

Special Thanks

  • Stephanie Smith
    Patricia Campbell
    Elizabeth Mitchell
    Emilie Coakley

 

  • Kelly Bryan
    John Hasse
    Bob Blumenthal
    Jazz Photos by William Gottlieb

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