Lithographic print by Currier & Ives
Between 200,000 and 300,000 Americans gathered in D.C. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This march protested the economic and legal racism experienced by black Americans.
In between 1939-1946 famed writer Juan Liscano traveled his native country of Venezuela to record the various musical folklore of the state's inhabitants. Selections were contextualized by Liscano and Charles Seeger, an ethnomusicologist and father of folk revivalist Pete Seeger. Las quitiplás are…