The Total Jazz Experience Badge
date: label: date made
content: 1994
name: label: user
content: Levin, Floyd
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This badge is from The Total Jazz Experience Conference sponsored by The American Federation of Jazz Societies (AFJS) in Studio City, California, in 1994. It is a rectangular card with a purple background and black ink, encapsulated in a plastic sleeve, with a straight-style pin back. The card is printed:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>KANSAS CITY<br>THE TOTAL JAZZ EXPERIENCE<br>AMBASSADORS<br>LUCILLE LEVIN<br>STUDIO CITY, CA<br>AMERICAN FEDERATION OF JAZZ SOCIETIES 1994.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The American Federation of Jazz Societies (AFJS) was formed in 1985 to enable communication among international and national jazz societies, festivals, and presenters. The organization publishes a quarterly newsletter <i>Federation Jazz</i>, as well as other publications on jazz production, promotion, and education for the jazz community. Its central office is in Sacramento, California.</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, Los Angeles, Studio City
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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: 2011.3086.062
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.062
objectType: label: Object Name
content: badge
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 3 1/2 in; 6.0325 cm x 8.89 cm