DC Music Preservation
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content: At a time when dramatic changes in our city's demographics, built environment, and economy are impacting local communities, the Folklife Festival continues to highlight D.C.'s distinct heritage. In doing this, the Festival program 2019 had originally been designed to use DC's homegrown go-go and punk communities to anchor explorations about a constellation of music making in the region. 

Activities before and during the Festival would trace the sources, musical conversations, and creative departures emerging from these scenes and resonating in sounds and communities associated with other genres, from folk to hip-hop, jazz to marching band. The intent was NOT to exhaustively survey music genres and communities, but rather to sample a creative ecology—exploring the intersection of social practice and music, revealing how both segregation and interaction—among neighborhoods, communities, and individual artists—is expressed through music.

In February 2019, the Festival plan shifted to a weekend format. The DC program was re-envisioned to occur in venues off the Mall over a period of five months, with one afternoon on the Mall, and to provide digital experiences and content that contribute to efforts to preserve and expand access to DC music history resources. 

Within this framework, the months leading up to and during the 2019 Smithsonian Folklife Festival were scheduled with punk and go-go anchor presentations of a constellation of music making in the metro region, showcased as homegrown DIY, youth-driven music communities. Each of these presentations embodies stories of migration, displacement, segregation, and political activism in the city. Through performances, discussions, and new web features, the extended festival presentations explore diverse sources, creative conversations, and musical departures emerging from these scenes and resonating in the sounds and communities associated with other genres.

With this program, the festival affirms its commitment to collaborate with local knowledge keepers and artists, providing them with support in the preservation and promotion of their local histories and culture.
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2019 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.SFF.2019, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Production and Participants
content: ProductionCurators: Sojin Kim, Nichole Procopenko
               Media/Documentation: Albert Tong, Dave Walker, Charlie Weber
               SI Consultation and Support: Cristina Diaz-Carrera, Erin Dowdy, Julia Gutierrez, Diana N'Diaye, Shay Stevens
               Interns: Ashley Avila, Rameshwar Bhatt, Gissel Bonilla (Real World History high school afterschool program), Xueying Chang, Mara Hoplamazian, Aidan Keys, B. Deva Macias, Melissa Queen, Lucy Sprague, Colin Stucki, Harry Zhu, Rameshwar Bhatt
               External SI Contributors: Ben Ashworth, John Davis, Emily Hilliard, Natalie Hopkinson, Amy Horowitz, Richard Howard, Noel Lopez, Allison Martin, Mark Puryear, Cita Sadeli, Farrah Skeiky, Albert Tong, Antonia Tricarico, Alexandra Tyson, Seshat Walker, Allison Wolfe
               External Advisors and Consultants: Natalie Avery, Olivia Cadaval, Michelle Casto, Barbara Dougherty, Ashley Emerson, Federico Frum, Maggie Gilmore, Derek Gray, Greyson Harris, Nico Hobson, Amanda Huron, Alec MacKaye, Ian MacKaye, Frankie and Sherry Meneses, Vance Levy, Kip Lornell, Ronald Moten, Jimmy Pelletier, Mo Shorter, Kimberly Springle, Luke Stewart, Jim Thompson, Carl Walker
               Participants:D.C. Music Preservation Pop-Up  DC Public Library Punk and Go-Go Archives

D.C. Public Library, Washingtoniana

Globe Collection and Press at MICA 

Anacostia Community Museum

Mayor's Office on African American Affairs 

D.C. Office of Cable Television, Film, Music, and Entertainment 

National Park Service 

Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives with the DC Oral History Collaborative 

Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives, University of the District of Columbia 

Punk and Indie Fanzine collection at UMD 

DontMuteDC—Don't Mute The Movement

Go-Go PA Tape Listening SessionNico Hobson, the GoGo-ologist 

Off-site and in the City, Anacostia Community MuseumAlma Robinson, local artist 

#DontMuteDC—Don't Mute The MovementNatalie Hopkinson, cultural scholar

Ronald "Mo" Moten, peace activist

Julien Broomfield, music producer Tone P 

Donald Campbell. Metro PCS store owner

Jacqueline Jackson

Local Record Label Market Carpark Records

Crooked Beat Records

Dischord Records

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

This Could Go Boom! 

Electric Cowbell Records

Free Dirt Records and Service Co. 

Lovitt Records

Crown Vic and Area Woman's Weird World Record PartyJim Thomson

Eliza Childress

DC Bluegrass Union JamGo-Go Performance: The Royal Pocket TourRonald Moten

Natalie Hopkinson 

Punk Rock Story TimePercussion Workshop with Malik DOPE DrummerBlack Girls Handgames ProjectOnRaé LaTeal

First Ladies to Anthology of Booty: Women DJ Collectives in D.C. Allison Wolfe 

Ebony Dumas 

Les Talusan

Maegan Wood 

Kristy Chavez-Fernandez 

Kristina Gray (DJ K La Rock) 

Action. Reaction, Action: Visualizing Fugazi (exhibition) Make Me Wanna Holler: Exploring DC's Music LegacyChocolate City Rocks

Anacostia Community Museumʼs "A Right to the City" 

National Postal Museum with the new Marvin Gaye stamp

"Poetry and Percussion" 

Woodrow Wilson High School Poetry Club 

The Sanctuaries

Head-Roc (Mayor of DC Hip-Hop/Chocolate City Rocks) 

Elise Bryant, DC Labor Chorus (E.D., Labor Heritage Foundation)

Anthony Fields, DC Hip-Hop Legend/Pioneer bka Dimensions 

Ras Lidj, creator of Regg'Go

Katy Otto, DC Punk Icon 

HDavid 

DJ RBI Music 

Smooth and EZ Hand Dance Institute

Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center

There's a Story in Everything: Zinemaking and Comic WorkshopEvan Keeling

 Frame of Mind: Punk Photos and Essays from Washington, DC  Antonia Tricarico 

Storymakers Festival featuring Music and Deaf CultureWAWA

SupaLee

Breaking the Sound Barrier: Deaf Perspectives from the Music IndustryWAWA

SupaLee

Downtown DC Live: Featuring TK EchoJosh Blair, drums 

Fiona Griffin, keyboards and vocals 

Aaron Leitko, bass 

Chris Richards, guitar and vocals

Storymakers Festival featuring Christylez Bacon and Wytold  Downtown DC Live: Featuring Cigarette Drew Hagelin, drums and percussion

Evan Napala, guitar and vocals

Richard Howard, bass and vocals

Jonathan Howard, guitar and vocals 

Mt. Pleasant: The Social Power of MusicLost Origins Gallery

District Bridges

DC Public Library Punk Archives

Janel Leppin, cello 

Anthony Pirog, guitarist

Siobhan Hagan, DC Public Library Memory Lab

The OSYX

Park Snakes

Bacchae

Michelle Casto, DC Public Library

Kristy la Rat, DJ

Cultivating Change: Music + Community in Mt. Pleasant Walking TourTim Wright, Attucks Adams Walking Tours

Natalie Avery, Javera Group, Radio CPR

Summer in the Park, Late Skate at Anacostia  Be'la Dona

DC Public Library Go-Go Archives

 Individual artist interviewsCherie Agurs, musician, Be'la Dona

Richard Howard, musician, Cigarette

Chris Richards, musician, TK Echo

Allison Wolfe, musician, riot grrrl

Brandi Thompson Summers, Virginia Commonwealth University

Delece Smith-Barrow, The Hechinger Report

Lauren Saxton Coleman, University of Southern Mississippi