This report, aired on NPR in 2002, discusses the influence of choreographer Pearl Primus on contemporary choreographers. Excerpts from an interview with the now deceased Primus, as well as a focus on (retro)spective choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar make this an extremely valuable recording. RealPlayer is required to listen.
This amazingly comprehensive Web site from the Library of Congress is a multi-format ethnographic field collection of traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Along with extensive historical background and field notes, the site houses 184 songs and audio clips recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-7, when Reed was over 80 years old.
This feature from NPRâs Weekend Edition includes an interview with Sones de MĂ©xicoâs Juan Dies, who discusses the bandâs take on protest songs. You can read the print article or listen to the original radio broadcast in streaming audio. Also available for listening are selected corridos, or tragic ballads, recorded in the field by the articleâs author.
This short NPR feature about Sones de MĂ©xico Ensemble has two of their cover songs available in streaming audio: J.S. Bachâs Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major and a beautiful and lively version of Led Zeppelinâs Four Sticks.
At this Web site of Boston-based NPR affiliate WBUR, you can listen to an episode of the nationally syndicated radio show The Connection entitled âForgetting Yourself: Memory and Identity.â Guest Jill Robinson, a writer struck with sudden amnesia, explores the answers to questions such as, Can you love without memory? Or hate? Does personality remember who to be on its own?
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In 2005 the American Museum of the Moving Image interviewed Sidney Lumet as part of its Pinewood Dialogue series. The director reflects on his career, including his engagement with social issues and his interest in justice in a flawed society. The site also includes a transcript of the recorded interview. Some language may be objectionable to young audiences.
This site, which is still under construction, features many captioned images from the movie, the original theatrical trailer, and audio and video clips from the movie. In addition, there are lists of the cast, crew, awards won, song lyrics, a bibliography, Web links, and more.
Once in a while, all of us face a need to get some text synthesized into speech. Maybe we want to know how someone would pronounce a complicated word, or sometimes we just want an entire passage to be read out to us.
These online tools are a great help when you face such a requirement. Some of them will allow you only to synthesize a small passage; others would read out entire PDF or DOC files to you!
Grace Poli is the Media Specialist at the José Martà Middle School in Union City, New Jersey. Grace holds a B.A. in History with K-8 Certification, an M.A. in Urban Education and certificates in K-8, ESL, and Media Specialist. She is currently pursuing her Supervisors & Administrators certificates. She has worked in Union City School District as a humanities teacher, administrative intern, and media specialist since 2000.
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This report, aired on NPR in 2002, discusses the influence of choreographer Pearl Primus on contemporary choreographers. Excerpts from an interview with the now deceased Primus, as well as a focus on (retro)spective choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar make this an extremely valuable recording. RealPlayer is required to listen.
podcasting introductory video
Grace Poli is the Media Specialist at the José Martà Middle School in Union City, New Jersey. Grace holds a B.A. in History with K-8 Certification, an M.A. in Urban Education and certificates in K-8, ESL, and Media Specialist. She is currently pursuing her Supervisors & Administrators certificates. She has worked in Union City School District as a humanities teacher, administrative intern, and media specialist since 2000.
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