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This is the first original sound installation created for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
This short, annotated playlist—or “spiritual soundtrack”—are songs that connect to religious identity.
DJs Ebony Dumas, Kristy Chavez-Fernandez, and Darby Hickey discuss the experiences that shaped their lives and brought them together.
“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.” —June Jordan
“It is the grandfather of the guitar, and the father of the lute. As you move further west, you get the lute, and further west is the guitar.”
This sound collage includes a banjo rendition of the National Anthem, an origin country role call, and remarks from a Citizenship Ceremony conducted at the Festival.
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