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The History Channel premieres Save Our Sounds. (Items of Interest).


The History Channel presents its final installment of its Emmy Award-winning series Save Our History, entitled Save Our Sounds, to be aired beginning December 26.

Save Our Sounds chronicles the history of America History of America may refer to either:
  • The History of the Americas
  • The History of the United States
 through music using items from the Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution, research and education center, at Washington, D.C.; founded 1846 under terms of the will of James Smithson of London, who in 1829 bequeathed his fortune to the United States to create an establishment for the "increase and diffusion of  and the Library of Congress. This program will feature interviews with B.B. King, David Crosby, Pete Seeger and Mickey Hart. It also will include music recorded by legendary artists of the past--rare songs that have remained on the shelves unheard for decades. In addition, Save Our Sounds will feature speeches of presidents and other historical figures, news reports, slave narratives, cowboy songs and man-on-the-street interviews.

This program is a collaborative project of the Center for Folklife Folklife is an extension of, and often an alternate term for the subject of, folklore. The term gained usage in the United States in the 1960s from its use by such folklore scholars as Don Yoder and Warren Roberts, who wished to recognize that the study of folklore goes beyond oral  and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian Institution and the American Folklife Center The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress was created by Congress in 1976 "to preserve and present American Folklife" (see Public Law 94-201 [1]). The Center incorporates the Archive of Folk Culture, which was established at the Library in 1928 as a  at the Library of Congress. It is supported by Save America's Treasures, a public-private partnership of the National Park Service and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Additional funding is provided by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Grammy Foundation, EMTEC EMTEC European Multimedia Technologies (formerly BASF Magnetics; as of 2002)  and the History Channel.

For more information contact Save Our Sounds at www.saveoursounds.org or The History Channel at www.HistoryChannel.com.
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Date:Dec 1, 2002
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