Bull Moose Party Band Button
date: label: date made
content: early 1980s
name: label: user
content: Levin, Floyd
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This button is from the Bull Moose Party Band (BMPB). It is made of yellow paper with black and red 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>I<br>[red heart]<br>BMPB<br>[caricature of a moose]<br>BULL MOOSE PARTY BAND</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The [New] Bull Moose Party Band was formed in the Log Angeles area, in 1979. The band performed Dixieland and traditional Jazz releasing two records in the 1980s. BMPS continued to perform at traditional Jazz festivals until the mid-1980s.</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
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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: 2011.3086.142
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.142
objectType: label: Object Name
content: badge
label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 6.35 cm x 6.35 cm