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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Michael Sedano Festival de Flor y Canto photographs
Creator:
Sedano, Michael
Identifier/Call Number: 0559
Physical Description:
3.104 Linear Feet
2 boxes
Date: 1973
Abstract: Collection consists of 17 black and white photographs from Daily Trojan coverage of the first Festival de Flor y Canto hosted
at USC in 1973.
Language of Material:
English.
Container: 1
Container: 2
Organized by El Centro Chicano, the first Festival de Flor y Canto (Festival of flower and song), a three day literary festival
that brought together dozens of Chicano novelists, poets, and short story writers on November 16-18, 1973 (Town and Gown at
the University of Southern California), inspired subsequent events including the 2nd festival in Austin, Texas (Festival Floricanto
II), the 3rd in San Antonio, Texas, the 4th in Albuquerque, New Mexico (Flor y Canto IV, 1977), and the 5th in Tempe, Arizona
(Flor y Canto V, 1978). Three additional events under the name "Canto al Pueblo" took place later in Wisconsin, south Texas
and Colorado.
Most of the 1973 readings were captured on video, and Michael Sedano digitized and donated the 39 DVDs to the Boeckmann Center
for Iberian and Latin American Studies in Doheny Library, University of Southern California. Michael Sedano is a USC alumnus
and, in 1973, he was a student photographer for the Daily Trojan who photographed the event.
The writers and artists who performed at the Festival Flor y Canto in 1973: Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Alurista,
Jorge Alvarez, Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin, Estevan Arellano, Ronald Arias, Tomás Atencio, Jerónimo Blanco, Olivia Castellano,
Juan A. Contreras, Veronica Cunningham, David Gómez, Juan Gómez Quiñones, Jorge González, Barbara Hernández, Juan Felipe Herrera,
R.R. Hinojosa Smith, Elias Hruska-Cortez, Enrique Lamadrid, Benjamín Rochín Luna, E.A. "Tony" Mares, José Montoya, Alejandro
Murguía, Antonio G. Ortiz, Pedro Ortiz Vásquez, Javier Pacheco, Tomás Rivera, Lynne Romero, Ponce Javier Ruiz, Omar Salinas,
raúlrsalinas, Ricardo Sánchez, Frank Sifuentes, Mario Suárez, Marcela Trujillo, Avelardo Valdez, Roberto Vargas, El Teatro
de los niños, El Teatro pequeño, El Teatro mestizo
Collection consists of 17 black and white photographs from Daily Trojan coverage of the first Festival de Flor y Canto hosted
at USC in 1973.
Additional photographs and videos provided by Sedano are available through the USC Digital Library.
Advance notice required for access.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special
Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Photographs were purchased in 2009.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Michael Sedano Festival de Flor y Canto photographs, Collection no. 0559, Boeckmann Center
for Iberian and Latin American Studies, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
This collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
American poetry -- Mexican American authors
Chicano movement -- Archival resources
Mexican American poetry (Spanish)
Photographs
Poetry -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Flor y Canto -- Archives