cEOL 3: Mediterranean musicians in American (Signell)

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Notes

1. Music in a New World: America's ethnic traditions audio documentary series was funded by The National Endowment for the Arts, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting through National Public Radio's Satellite Program Development Fund, and L.J. and Mary C. Scaggs Foundation. The Folksong Archive of the Library of Congress kindly loaned a Nagra recorder and donated recording tape for the first series. I used my own Sony PCM-F1 digital recorder for the field recordings and mastering for the second series. Back

2. The Indochinese Community Center (Washington, DC), staff members of various broadcast services of the Voice of America, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival staff, and especially Dan Sheehy of the Folk Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts gave invaluable names, telephone numbers, addresses and advice. The weekend I visited the Albanian Bektashi monastery in Detroit, a full-scale Albanian wedding took place in the Detroit area, a good example of serendipity. Back

3. "South Slavs" is a English translation of "Yugoslavia," the latter term apparently carrying too much political freight for the performers.

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