Sacramento Dixieland Jubilee Button: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This button is from the Sacramento Dixieland Jubilee Jazz Festival, in 1988. The button is a made of light blue paper with black and red ink covered with a clear film, on a round two-piece metal button with a pin back. The button is printed:

The Sacramento Music Festival (formerly the Old Sacramento Dixieland Jazz Jubilee) was an annual event held every Memorial Day weekend in Sacramento, California. Organized by the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society, the festival was launched in 1974 and presented its final festival in 2017.

Floyd Levin (1922-2007) was a Los Angeles textile manufacturer who turned his passion for jazz into a second career as an influential jazz journalist and historian. His numerous reviews, profiles, and articles were published in magazines such as Down Beat, Jazz Journal International, Metronome, and American Rag. He also authored Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians. Items in this collection (2011.3086) were acquired from Levin’s attendance at Jazz Festivals, conferences, and other music events.

Materials, dates and provenance

• date made: 1988
• user: Levin, Floyd
• Object Name: button
• Physical Description: plastic (overall material)
• Physical Description: metal (overall material)
• Physical Description: paper (overall material)
• Physical Description: ink (overall material)
• Measurements: overall: 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in; x .635 cm x 8.89 cm
• place made: United States: California, Sacramento
• ID Number: 2011.3086.017
• nonaccession number: 2011.3086
• catalog number: 2011.3086.017
• Credit Line: Gift of Lucille Levin
• Data Source: National Museum of American History

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