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Country Dances Two audio tapes, 1985 Traditional tunes and dances produced by the Arkansas Country Dance Society.
Arkansas Country Tunes for Children Audio tape, 1985, accompanying song booklet A collection of folk songs to reflect music typically sung by Arkansas children from the mid 1800’s to the present.
Three audio CD's, 8-10 min. segments, 2004 This is a series of radio programs broadcast on KUAR-FM89. Each 8-10 minute segment introduces an Arkansas musician, traces their historical significance, and includes a complete version of one of his or her songs.
Child of the Sun: The Expedition of Hernando de Soto Audio tapes, 30 min. each, 1993 Five-part public radio series dramatizes the clash between the Spanish army led by Hernando de Soto and the native people of the Southeast in the years 1539-1543.
Four audio tapes, study guide available Well-known scholars, religious leaders, and public officials speak on the history and interpretation of the religion clauses of the first Amendment.
Keep It To Yourself: Arkansas Blues Record Arkansas was fertile blues territory in the 40’s and 50’s, with famous masters playing in Helena or Texarkana. Included are Sonny Boy Williamson, Robert Nighthawk, and T-Bone Walker, who influenced young Arkansas musicians. CeDell Davis is featured on four songs - including "Lonely Nights."
William Grant Still Conducts William Grant Still Record Revered as "The Dean of American Negro Composers," William Grant Still’s music transcended mere labels. He developed a primal understanding of blues, rhythms, and spirituals, and raised them to classical heights.
Not Far From Here - Traditional Tales and Songs From the Arkansas Ozarks Two-record set, accompanying booklet with tales and songs A collection of folk narratives and folksongs, performed by Arkansas musicians and storytellers, provides an extensive sampling of Ozark myth and music. Performers include Almeda Riddle of Heber Springs, Glenn Ohrlin of Mountain View, and Dr. Williams Hudson of Jasper.
Audio tapes, 1992, listeners guide available A series of seven audiocassette tapes, featuring first person accounts and readings by thirteen contemporary American poets. The series traces poetry’s complex history since World War II through the lives and works of the writers who shaped that history. Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich, W.S. Merwin, John Ashbery, Gary Soto, A.R. Ammons, James Merrill, Gwendolyn Brooks, Karl Shapiro, Maxine Kumin. Charles Wright. Rita Dove, and Sharon Olds are featured in this informative series, hosted by Joseph Parisi. "Poets in Person" is a production of the Modern Poetry Association.
Audio CD In the 1920's and 30's, scholars, particularly from African American colleges and the Federal Writers' Project, began interviewing former slaves. Another group of scholars began voice recording their interviews. Remembering Slavery includes interviews with former slaves, as well as dramatic readings based on those interviews that were transcribed on paper. This CD enables us to hear how former slaves describe, in their own words, what it was like to be a slave, and to be free.
Record Folksinger Noble Cowden of Cushman, Arkansas sings late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century songs handed down orally from generation to generation. Unlike the traditional ballads, her songs are more popular and contemporary - "Come Take a Trip in My Airship," inspired by the Wright Brothers flight in 1902.
Tall Tales From the Hunters Camp Audio tapes, 1993 Two short stories by renowned Southern antebellum author, Williams Gilmore Simms are presented: Bald Head Bill Bauldy and How He Went Through the Flurriday Campaign and How Sharp Snaffles Got His Capital and Wife.
Wireless: Arkansas’ Radio Magazine Audio tapes, 30 min. each Particular topics of interest specifically for
Arkansas listeners. This series was underwritten in part by the Arkansas Humanities
Council in conjunction with KLRE-FM.
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