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Yemeni diwen
poems, from The Yemenite Jews in the UNESCO Collection of
Traditional Music. Photo by Avner Bahat, courtesy Rinzler Archives.
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Headline: Last Round of UNESCO Reissues: Vietnam, Korea, North India,
Azerbaijan, and More...
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Following a release schedule
spanning 64 weeks, 84 articles by over 60 guest writers,
and 127 albums encompassing 1,657 tracks of
music from over 70 countries, Smithsonian Folkways has completed the
release of the UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music.
This makes publicly available the highly acclaimed collection of field
recordings from around the world (including twelve albums of previously
unreleased material) via CD, digital download, streaming, and library
subscription.
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Smithsonian Folkways
Trivia!
Each month we'll ask a trivia
question; email your answer, name, and address with the subject
"July Trivia" to SmithsonianFolkways_at_si_dot_edu by Tuesday,
July 30, and a randomly selected entrant with the correct answer will win a
free CD of his or her choice!
July Question: Mariachi Los Camperos has toured with what GRAMMY-winning
American musician who recently celebrated her 69th birthday?
Congratulations to last
month's winner Eric Berge, from Lompoc, CA, who correctly answered "1964" to the question:
"Fannie Lou Hamer is perhaps best known for her testimony before the
Credentials Committee at the Democratic National Convention in what year?"
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