Japanese Buddhist Festival Traditions
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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 June 29
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0629_SOCA_Stage_and_Plaza_0004
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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: George Abe; Mariko Elaine Fukumoto; Nancy Miiko Sekizawa; Mark H. Rooney; [Performers] The artists of FandangObon present a workshop that shares contemporary Japanese American Festival traditions, including dancing and drumming. Come hear about how Japanese Americans commemorate their ancestors and deceased loved ones through the summer ritual of obon. Join the circle and learn the dances, old and new, from this tradition. FandangObon is a collaborative performing arts project led by California-born Japanese and Mexican American artists that explores connections between the participatory music and dance traditions of fandango son jarocho of Veracruz, Mexico, and the Japanese Buddhist ritual of obon.