The Great American Dixieland Jazz Festival Button
date: label: date made
content: 1988
name: label: user
content: Levin, Floyd
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This button is from The Great American Dixieland Jazz Festival in San Diego, in 1988. It is a made of light blue paper with dark blue and orange ink covered with a clear film, on a round two-piece metal button with a pin back. There is an image of clarinet and trumpet players on the front. The button is printed:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>THE GREAT AMERICAN<br>DIXIELAND JAZZ FESTIVAL<br>SAN DIEGO<br>1988</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The non-profit organization, America’s Finest City Dixieland Jazz Society (AFCDJS) in San Diego, California, held its first Great American Dixieland Jazz Festival, in 1979. The festival now known as The San Diego Jazz Fest & Swing Extravaganza is held every Thanksgiving weekend. The organization supports the San Diego traditional jazz community with monthly concerts, education programs, publication of a newsletter, an adult traditional Jazz camp, and a lending library of small band music.</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, San Diego
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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: 2011.3086.043
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.043
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