Hi-Fi '98 Badge
date: label: date made
content: 1998
name: label: user
content: Levin, Floyd
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This badge is from the Home Theater and Specialty Audio Show [Hi-Fi ’98] in Los Angeles, California, in 1998. It is made of white paper with black ink, laminated in plastic, with a metal spring clip on the back. The badge is printed:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>HI-FI '98<br>The Home Theater & Specialty Audio Show<br>Floyd Levin<br>Jazz Journal International<br>PRESS</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Hi-Fi is an annual event, sponsored mostly by <i>Stereophile</i> magazine, with exhibits featuring the latest in audiophile gear as well as panel discussions and seminars relating to electronic audio recording and reproductions. Hi-Fi ’98 was held in the Westin Hotel and Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California, June 9-14, 1998.</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
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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: 2011.3086.127
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.127
objectType: label: Object Name
content: badge
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in x 4 1/4 in; 8.5725 cm x 10.795 cm