Publishing and Production
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Rinzler, Ralph
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content: Ralph Rinzler papers and audio recordings
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1931-1993
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.RINZ, Series 8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists of textual records, including correspondence and lyrics sheets, deriving from Ralph Rinzler's various media projects, contributions to scholarship, and maintenance of Folkways Records. The files are arranged in three subseries groups as follows:

1.	General Publishing and Production

2.	Folkways

3.	JVC Anthology of World Music and Dance

General Publishing and Production includes cassette tapes, clippings, collected texts, correspondence, draft materials, ephemera, log sheets, notes, photos, and project proposals from the numerous media projects which Ralph Rinzler helped to produce. A significant area of interest is the production of the Grammy Award-winning album Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly.

Folkways includes correspondence, financial records, liner notes, lyrics, meeting minutes, notes, and production materials relating to the administration of the record label. Notable figures in this subseries include members of the Seeger Family and Doc Watson. A significant area of interest is the acquisition of Folkways by the Smithsonian.

JVC Anthology of World Music and Dance includes collected texts, correspondence, draft materials, notes, and production materials from the creation of the video series.