Festa New Orleans Music Ascona Badge
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content: Levin, Floyd
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content: <p>This badge is from the JazzAscona festival in Ascona, Switzerland. It is made of blue paper with black ink, laminated in plastic, with a straight-style pin back. The badge is printed:</p>
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content: <p>FESTA<br>NEW ORLEANS<br>MUSIC ASCONA<br>FLOYD LEVIN<br>PRESS</p>
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content: <p>JazzAscona was founded by Hannes Anrig in Lugano, Switzerland, in 1975. The festival moved to Ascona, Switzerland in 1985 and has become one of the highly esteemed international events dedicated to classic jazz and New Orleans’ music, food and culture.</p>
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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: Switzerland
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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
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content: Gift of Lucille Levin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.3086.126
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content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.126
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content: badge
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 4.1275 cm x 6.0325 cm