Dixieland Jubilee By the Sea Button
date: label: date made
content: 1978
name: label: user
content: Levin, Floyd
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This button is from the “Dixieland Jubilee by the Sea” festival, in 1978. It is made of yellow paper with black ink covered with a clear film, on a two-piece metal button with a pin back. The button is printed:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>1978<br>DIXIELAND<br>JUBILEE<br>BY THE SEA<br>[image of stylized trumpet]<br>PISMO BEACH, CALIF.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Founded in 1976, ”Dixieland Jubilee by the Sea” is an annual three-day festival held in Pismo Beach and Grover Beach, California. It is sponsored by the Basin Street Regulars, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of traditional jazz. The organization holds monthly meetings and concerts at Pismo Beach Memorial Veterans’ Hall. The organization also provides opportunities for young musicians to play alongside experienced musicians, as well as scholarships to jazz music camps for young jazz musicians.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Floyd Levin (1922-2007) was a Los Angeles textile manufacturer who turned his passion for jazz into a second career as an influential jazz journalist and historian. His numerous reviews, profiles, and articles were published in magazines such as <i>Down Beat</i>, <i>Jazz Journal International</i>, <i>Metronome</i>, and <i>American Rag</i>. He also authored <i>Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians</i>. Items in this collection (2011.3086) were acquired from Levin’s attendance at Jazz Festivals, conferences, and other music events.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Pismo Beach
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Jazz
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lucille Levin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.3086.014
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.014
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 3 1/8 in; x .635 cm x 7.9375 cm