Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival Button
date: label: date made
content: 1995
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Beiderbecke, Bix
label: user
content: Levin, Floyd
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This button is from the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival in Davenport, Iowa, in 1995. It is made of black paper with black, red, blue, and yellow 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>BIX BEIDERBECKE<br>Bix:<br>The Chicago Years<br>19 [image of stamp with Beiderbecke] 95<br>MEMORIAL JAZZ FESTIVAL</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival is a three-day music festival held on the first weekend of August in Davenport, Iowa, to commemorate home-town jazz musician and composer Leon Bismark “Bix” Beiderbecke (1903-1931) .</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: Iowa, Davenport
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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: 2011.3086.074
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.075
objectType: 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: 3 in; x 7.62 cm