Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Michael Sedano Festival de Flor y Canto photographs
- Dates:
- 1973
- Creators:
- Sedano, Michael
- 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.
- Containers:
- Box: 1
Box: 2 - Extent:
- 3.104 Linear Feet 2 boxes
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[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.
Background
- Scope and content:
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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.
- Biographical / historical:
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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, BenjamÃn RochÃn Luna, E.A. "Tony" Mares, José Montoya, Alejandro MurguÃa, 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
- Acquisition information:
- Photographs were purchased in 2009.
- Processing information:
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This collection is unprocessed.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-01-31 11:11:19 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Advance notice required for access.
- Terms of access:
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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.
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
- Preferred citation:
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[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.
- Location of this collection:
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Special CollectionsDoheny Memorial Library, Room 209Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189, US
- Contact:
- (213) 740-5900