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American Sabor
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Latino musicians have influenced traditional genres of music in the United States, while creating their own new musical styles, such as mambo and salsa. “American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music,” is a content-rich, multimedia website from the Smithsonian that presents the musical contributions of U.S. Latinos from the 1930s to the present.

“American Sabor” is the fifth collaboration between Interactive Knowledge and The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), a partnership that has produced such award-winning websites as Corridos Sin Fronteras and Earth From Space.

The site has 84 biographies of Latino musicians, 24 musical styles, 175 photographs and 35 audio/video commentaries. IK not only organized and designed the site, but also assisted in the content research and writing. The site was developed in Drupal.

We are getting rave reviews about the website! Many thanks.
— Laurie M. Trippett, Assistant Director of Exhibits/Intern Coordinator

Features

  • Venue events & exhibition postings
  • Spanish/English translations
  • A fully functional online mixer. Drag the sliders up and down to control the volume of each instrument. Turn down the volume on everything but the percussion in each of the eight styles if you want a real lesson in Latino music.
  • Working 44 song jukebox. Build a customized playlist then listen to the songs whenever you like.
  • Story section. Musician biographies, musical styles (play music on the page) and interviews & commentary (audio & video).

Technologies Used

A modular content management system, particularly popular for building online communities.

 Drupal,

A lightweight cross-browser JavaScript library that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript and HTML.

 jQuery,

ActionScript 3.0 is a powerful, object-oriented programming language that signifies an important step in the evolution of the capabilities of the Flash Player runtime. The motivation driving ActionScript 3.0 is to create a language ideally suited for rapidly building rich Internet applications, which have become an essential part of the web experience.

 ActionScript 3.0,

A multimedia platform that is popular for adding animation and interactivity to web pages.

 Flash,

Creating connectivity and interaction between web users.

 Social Networking,

Broadcasting media live over the Internet. The process involves a camera for the media, an encoder to digitize the content, a media publisher where the streams are made available to potential end-users and a content delivery network to distribute and deliver the content. The media can then be viewed in realtime by end-users.

 Streaming Video,

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