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Posted by: Danna Bell
These collections, which include extensive audiovisual documentation of traditional arts, cultural expressions, and oral histories, offer researchers access to the songs, stories, and other creative expressions of people from diverse communities.
Posted in: Culture and Folklife, Interviews with Experts
Posted by: Danna Bell
I am in charge of recommending collections from Colombia, Venezuela, as well as material on Latin American art for the Library; and I work on the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape, a collection of audio recordings of prominent poets and prose writers, which the Hispanic Division began curating in the early 1940s. I have been working on an effort to digitize and bring online access to some of these literary audio archives.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, World History
Posted by: Danna Bell
One of the biggest reasons I love working at the Library of Congress is that my curiosity is sparked on a daily basis. Most recently, I have been fascinated by the music manuscripts of the early American composer Anthony Philip Heinrich (1781-1861). He was one of the first professional composers in the United States and was known as the “Beethoven of America.”
Posted in: Fine and Performing Arts, Interviews with Experts
Posted by: Danna Bell
This Spring I gave a tour of our current Jacob Riis: Revealing How the Other Half Lives exhibit to a group of history honor students from Fairfax. They were so engaged. Afterward, they wrote me a note to let me know they’d gone back to their school “and voted this the best field trip ever!”
Posted in: Interviews with Experts