Preserving Language in Song
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 4: Sounds of California / Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2016 July 02
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0702_SOCA_Stage_and_Plaza_0003
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Mary Linn (presenter); Begona; Andrea; Cathy Petrissans; NOKA; Stan Rodriguez; Martha Rodriguez (participants) This Cross Program brings together California Basque and Native singers to demonstrate some of their song repertoire and to discuss the role of singing in sustaining their languages and cultural heritage. Stan Rodriguez (Santa Ysabel Band of the Iipay Nation) is an educator, language teacher, and tribal singer. He is an advocate for his community's culture and traditions and serves in a number of advising and teaching roles in the San Diego and Native Kumeyaay communities. Marta Rodriguez (San Jose de la Zorra Kumeyaay Community) is a potter, basket weaver, and tribal singer and dancer. She was born and raised in San Jose de la Zorra, one of the five Kumeyaay communities in Baja California, which is renowned for its traditional basket weavers. NOKA is a vocal trio composed of Begoña, Andrea, and Cathy Petrissans. Their music is rooted in Basque tradition, going back hundreds of years, their sound is also influenced by the Basque American culture of California.