Center for Traditional Music and Dance collection

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Collection Summary

Title	Center for Traditional Music and Dance collection
Span Dates	1968-2015
Bulk Dates	(bulk 1974-2011)
Call No.	AFC 2014/044
Creator	Center for Traditional Music and Dance (New York, N.Y.)
Extent	13,551 items.
Extent (manuscripts)	manuscripts 4,000 items.
Extent (graphic materials)	525 photographic prints.
Extent (graphic materials)	604 image files : digital ; jpg, tif.
Extent (sound recordings)	340 sound tape reels (7 in., 10 in.) : analog.
Extent (sound recordings)	277 sound discs (CD) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Extent (sound recordings)	212 sound cassettes (DAT) : digital.
Extent (sound recordings)	6 sound cassettes (U-matic audio) : digital.
Extent (sound recordings)	4,171 audio files : digital ; wav, mp3.
Extent (moving images)	114 videotape reels (5 in., 7 in.) : analog.
Extent (moving images)	272 videocassettes (U-matic video) : analog.
Extent (moving images)	195 videocassettes (Betacam) : analog.
Extent (moving images)	24 videocassettes (Betacam SP) : analog.
Extent (moving images)	172 videocassettes (Betamax) : analog.
Extent (moving images)	43 videocassettes (VHS) : analog.
Extent (moving images)	373 videocassettes (MiniDV) : digital.
Extent (moving images)	97 videocassettes (DVCAM) : digital.
Extent (moving images)	10 video discs (DVD) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Extent (moving images)	2,116 video files : digital ; mts, m4v, mp4, mov, avi.
Language	Collection materials in English.
Location	American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af021006
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2015655312
Summary	Audio and video recordings, photographs, posters, and handouts related to programming by the Center for Traditional Music and Dance (CTMD) from 1968 to 2015. The CTMD archive is among the largest collections of video, sound recordings, photographs, and ephemera documenting the diversity of New York's immigrant performing arts traditions over the past fifty years. The collection includes hundreds of hours of audio and video recordings, newsletters, fliers, and photographs documenting music and dance of Balkan, Greek, Jewish, Irish American, Puerto Rican, Central Asian, South Asian, Haitian, Chinese, Korean, and other immigrant and ethnic communities including interviews and performances of more than 15 NEA National Heritage Award recipients.