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Winter 2016
Music and Migration
  • Alza Tu Voz (Speak Out)
    Cover Story
    Alza Tu Voz (Speak Out)

    From picket line to radio, music and theater inspires farmworkers’ spirit for change. Experiencing the music in my labor camp and learning from the Delano farm worker movement...

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  • Yiddish Song Smuggling
    Artist Spotlight
    Yiddish Song Smuggling

    Interpreting Yiddish songs in a contemporary context breathes life into music of a Jewish world.

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  • Radio Jarochelo
    Community Spotlight
    Radio Jarochelo

    A Mexican maestro uses internet technology to weave a strong thread in the fabric of tradition.

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  • Rasta sounds
    Recording Spotlight
    Rasta Sounds

    The global African Diaspora has often searched through music for a “post-racist utopia.”

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  • The Brothers Nazaroff
    video spotlight
    The Brothers Nazaroff

    International klezmer supergroup The Brothers Nazaroff, composed of Daniel Kahn, Psoy Korolenko, Michael Alpert, Jake Shulman-Ment, Bob Cohen, and Hampus Melin, breathe new life into the discordant, obscure, jubilant legacy of their Happy Prince, who recorded the mysterious Folkways 10-inch record Jewish Freilach Songs in 1954. Animation by Ben Katchor.

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Credits

Published April 2016

  • Executive Editors

    Daniel Sheehy and D.A. Sonneborn

  • Managing Editor

    Meredith Holmgren

  • Guest Editor

    Joan Hua

  • Marketing

    David Horgan, Beshou Gedamu, and Meredith Holmgren

  • Marketing interns

    Chiara Anfossi and Victoria Gunawan

 

  • Web Producer

    Meredith Holmgren

  • Web Designer

    Sandy Wang

  • Technical Support

    Sandy Wang and Toby Dodds

  • Proofreading

    Dan Sheehy, Beshou Gedamu, Mary Monseur, and Jim Deutsch

  • Archive Support

    Cecilia Peterson

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  • The views expressed in Smithsonian Folkways Magazine are those of each individual contributor and do not necessarily reflect the views of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, the Smithsonian Institution, its staff or affiliates.

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