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November 19, 2007
Highlander Film Series
The University Libraries invites the university and local communities to learn more about the Highlander Research and Education Center as it celebrates its 75th anniversary. All programs in the Documentaries in Library series will be on Tuesday evenings at the Hodges Library's Lindsay Young Auditorium from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM and are free and open to the public. The programs feature a documentary film showing and discussion lead by filmmakers, Highlander activists, and UT faculty.
Upcoming film on Tuesday, Nov. 27: The Telling Takes Me Home. Discussion Leaders: Guy and Candie Carawan with their son, Evan Carawan
The Telling Takes Me Home tells the story of activists and folk singers Guy and Candie Carawan, as seen through the eyes of their daughter, Heather Carawan. The documentary offers the filmmaker's own reflections on growing up in the rich musical and political landscape her parents provided and includes footage from the Highlander Research and Education Center.
Posted by Matt Jordan at 10:27 PM
November 14, 2007
Tupac VS
Peters, Ken. Tupac VS.
Santa Monica, CA: Distributed by Xenon Pictures, c2002.
DVD: ML420 .S529 T87 2002
Documentary focusing on Tupac Shakur's early life, education, influences, radical roots and his personal philosophies. Features an exclusive 1995 videotaped interview. Tupac remains a controversial and misunderstood figure long after the shooting that ended his life in Spetember of 1996. Color, 70 minutes.
Posted by Connie Steigenga at 08:00 AM
November 11, 2007
The American Folklore Society's Ethnographic Thesaurus
| The American Folklore Society's Ethnographic Thesaurus The American Folklore Society is pleased to announce that the Ethnographic Thesaurus is now available in a dynamically-searchable draft version on the Society's website at: http://et.afsnet.org. The Ethnographic Thesaurus is a hierarchical listing of subject terms from folklore, ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, and related fields. The Thesaurus will improve access to cultural materials and scholarship by affording researchers, archivists, indexers, librarians, and others a common language for description.. The link can also be found on the Music Library's WebLinks page. |
Posted by Matt Jordan at 08:00 AM
November 09, 2007
Encyclopedia of American opera.
 | Wlaschin, Ken.Encyclopedia of American opera. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2006. Ref. ML102.O6 W53 2006 With entries on approximately 750 operas and 1000 individuals, the Encyclopedia of American Opera provides a reference for plot, cast, recordings, videos, and history of American Opera. Recordings are listed from 1893 and list performers, format and brief information about the recording. Includes some cross references. |
Posted by Connie Steigenga at 03:20 PM
November 05, 2007
Highlander Film Series
The University Libraries invites the university and local communities to learn more about the Highlander Research and Education Center as it celebrates its 75th anniversary. All programs in the Documentaries in Library series will be on Tuesday evenings at the Hodges Library's Lindsay Young Auditorium from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM and are free and open to the public. The programs feature a documentary film showing and discussion lead by filmmakers, Highlander activists, and UT faculty.
Upcoming film on Tuesday, Nov. 13: Up the Ridge. Discussion Leader: Pam McMichael, Highlander Director
Up the Ridge is a one-hour television documentary produced by Nick Szuberla and Amelia Kirby. In 1999 Szuberla and Kirby were volunteer DJ's for the Appalachian region's only hip-hop radio program in Whitesburg, KY when they received hundreds of letters from inmates transferred into nearby Wallens Ridge, the region's newest prison built to prop up the shrinking coal economy. The letters described human rights violations and racial tension between staff and inmates. Filming began that year and, though the lens of Wallens Ridge State Prison, the program offers viewers an in-depth look at the United States prison industry and the social impact of moving hundreds of thousands of inner-city minority offenders to distant rural outposts.
Posted by Matt Jordan at 10:16 PM
Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog
| Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog The Library of Congress's American Folklife Center (AFC) announces the release of its online card catalog.. This tool will enhance access to the most heavily used recordings in the American Folklife Center*s collections -- field recordings made primarily in the 1930s and 40s. It contains fully searchable bibliographic data representing approximately 34,000 ethnographic sound recordings in the AFC Archive. It provides the public with access to the thousands of individual songs, tunes, folk tales, sermons, monologues, and life stories in the Archive's collections. The link can also be found on the Music Library's WebLinks page. |
Posted by Matt Jordan at 03:52 PM
November 01, 2007
Halloween in the Music Library
 "May I help you?," Connie Steigenga, Daytime Supervisor | Halloween was celebrated in the Music Library with rousing success. Library staff and patrons alike came dressed in costume. |
Johnathan Clayton as a Vampirate
Amanda Stephens as Miss Diva
Two library patrons as Missus Potts and the Queen of Hearts
Shelley Binder as the Wicked Witch
Connie Steigenga as the Living Dead
Posted by Connie Steigenga at 09:15 AM