Smithsonian Folkways Magazine

During my tenure as content producer and education coordinator for Smithsonian Folkways, I experienced firsthand the Smithsonian’s vast music-related assets and the challenges of communicating them to its constituency. As the founder and inaugural managing editor of Smithsonian Folkways Magazine, I strove to produce and solicit content that would fall in the sweet spot between academic rigor and accessibility for a general audience. The Ralph Rinzler archives proved a goldmine of intensely relevant yet underutilized assets to showcase CFCH resources. As founder and managing editor, I produced ten issues of Folkways Magazine in two and a half years featuring music from all over the world, solicited articles from ethnomusicologists and world music educators, edited and integrated video, and managed credits and permissions of copyrighted materials.  

2011b “Winter Issue: Dispatches from Latin America.” (Managing Editor) Smithsonian Folkways Magazine.

2011c “Spring Issue: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America.” (Managing Editor) Smithsonian Folkways Magazine.

2011d “Summer Issue: Afghanistan’s Music in the Smithsonian Collection.” (Managing Editor) Smithsonian Folkways Magazine.

2010a “Fall Issue: Mary Lou Williams: Jazz for the Soul.” (Managing Editor) Smithsonian Folkways Magazine.

2010b “Summer Issue: Grassroots Music from the United States.” (Managing Editor) Smithsonian Folkways Magazine.

2010c “Spring Issue: Music of Central Asia.” (Managing Editor) Smithsonian Folkways Magazine.

2010d “Winter Issue: Roberto Martínez and His New Mexican Mariachi.” (Managing Editor) Smithsonian Folkways Magazine.

2009a “Fall Issue: Songs By and For Children.” (Managing Editor) Smithsonian Folkways Magazine.

2009b “Summer Issue: Folklife Festival Traditions.” (Managing Editor) Smithsonian Folkways Magazine. 

2009c “Spring Issue: Pete Seeger, Standing Tall.” (Managing Editor) Smithsonian Folkways Magazine.