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Winter 2018
NEA National Heritage Fellows
  • Que Viva la Música Latina!
    Cover Story
    ¡Que Viva la Música Latina!

    The view of the NEA National Heritage Fellows program through the prism of American Latino music awardees is telling, and fortunately, much of the story can be heard through the recorded collections of Smithsonian Folkways.

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  • Blues Legacy of Phil Wiggins
    Artist Spotlight
    Blues Legacy of Phil Wiggins

    Phil Wiggins and John Cephas became the best guitar-harmonica duo on the Piedmont Blues scene, following in the footsteps of the great Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.

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  • Appalachian Women: Singing Beyond the Lengths of Cloth and Lettuce Beds
    Soundscape
    Appalachian Women Heritage Fellows

    The soundtrack of 20th century Appalachia may be heard in the music of eight female NEA Heritage artists honored in the years 1985-2013.

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  • Musics of Hawai’i
    Recording Spotlight
    Musics of Hawai’i

    The 1989 Smithsonian Folklife Festival’s Hawaii program prompted a stunning anthology of Hawaiian music that features some of the state’s most renown performers.

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Albums

Credits

Published March 2018

  • Executive Editor

    Huib Schippers and D.A. Sonneborn

  • Managing Editor

    Meredith Holmgren

  • Marketing

    Beshou Gedamu, Fred Knittel, and Meredith Holmgren

 

  • Web Producer

    Meredith Holmgren

  • Technical Support

    Sandy Wang and Toby Dodds

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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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