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of photographs, music, books, film, and live discussion to give new perspective to this crucial period of American life.  By the end of 1982, the exhibition will have appeared in more than a dozen cities and it will be scheduled for several more years based on present interest. 

The most lasting and effective form of communication about its work that the Division shares with the public is recordings.  More than 58 recordings are now available.  As a reviewer in the New York Times remarked with respect of the Smithsonian Collection of Classic Country Music, "no library of American music should be without" it.  Classic Country Music and such other recordings as the seminal Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz, Handel's messiah on original instruments and following the original composition, Naughty Marietta, and the upcoming, recording of American Popular Song are widely enjoyed by individuals, relied upon by scholars as definitive and comprehensive works, used as texts in conservatories and schools, accompanied by scholarly writings which uniquely contribute to the understanding of such fields and works of music, and permit personal listening and reading year after year.  The recordings are all characterized by quality--of sound, durability, and above all of scholarship.

Throughout the planning period, performance and recording efforts will continue, and will be devoted to such areas as jazz songs, gospel music, popular entertainment and the characteristics of historical musical instruments.

[[underlined]]Smithsonian Institution Press[[/underlined]].  The Press, in its official function, serves the Institution's requirements for quality publication of the growing number of research studies and monographs, art and exhibit catalogues, brochures, information guides, records, etc., which are produced by Smithsonian staff in fulfillment of the Institution's federally funded activities.  In addition, the Press has set as its long-range goal careful but steady expansion of the trust-funded university press activities to annual publication and distribution levels of up to 50 (from the current level of about 20-30) significant scholarly and general trade books on subjects relevant to Smithsonian collections or research interests.  In addition, the Press will continue to improve its steadily expanding capability in marketing, and warehousing and order fulfillment, with the basic objective of enabling the Smithsonian Institution to publish broadly at a minimum of expense, or preferably none at all.  In FY 1982, unrestricted trust funded operations produced an approximate $425,000 in net proceeds utilized for various activities and programs of the Institution.  Some surplus is projected to continue for these operations.

Examples of manuscripts to be published in the federally funded series in FY 1983 are: [[underlined]]The Hammered Dulcimer, Geology and Paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina, I, U.S. Women in Aviation: 1919-1929,[[/underlined]]and [[underlined]]Pacific Plate Biogeography with Special Reference to Shorefishes[[/underlined]].