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HV077- AIDS Diaries
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Jack Chance · Barrett Golding · Outer Voices · Radio Diaries
Hearing Voices from NPR®
077 AIDS Diaries: For AIDS Awareness Day
Host: Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airs week of: 2009-11-25
“AIDS Diaries” (52:00 mp3):
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Portraits of people fighting a plague:
South Africa has been hit hardest with H-I-V/AIDS. Five million people are infected (Avert: SA). One of them, Thembi Ngubane, at nineteen years old, carried a recorder in 2005 to document her life (NPR | PRX). Produced by Joe Richman, edited by Debra George and Ben Shapiro; more of Thembi’s story, with an audio-visual gallery, is at AIDSdiary.org.
December 1st is World AIDS Day. In the arts community it also had this other name, DWA.
Poet Kwame Dawes travels his native Jamaica talking about HIV/AIDS. This is part of the hour-program “Live Hope Love: HIV/AIDS in Jamaica” (PRX) Support came from the MAC AIDS Fund, of MAC Cosmetics, and from and PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. Produced by Stephanie Guyer-Stevens and Jack Chance of Outer Voices, for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Their emmy-winning muchomedia website for the project Live Lope Love.
Barbara Bryon of Seattle unknowingly passed the virus to her daughter, Dori, in the womb. Dori considers her mother “her number one hero.” She suffers from numerous disabilities, a result of oppportunistic infections that she’s faced in the past 19 years. Dori passed away September 2004. Produced for The Vernacular Project.
African AIDS orphans keep their parents’ memories alive within “memory books” and “memory boxes,” keepsakes that help children orphaned by the AIDS virus to remember their parents. Abiola Tilley-Gyado of Plan International and AIDS workers Jonathan Morgan and Kylie Thomas describe what’s kept inside. The interviews came courtesy of Plan InternationalBush Radio of South Africa, produced for the Africa Learning Channel.
Thembi Ngubane (AIDS Diary.) died June 2009. Radio Diaires’ Joe Richman prepared a memorial (NPR). The memorial service was held a small church in Thembi’s township, Khayelitsha. Mourners sang “Asoze Saphela Amandla,” the song she sings at the end of her diary, “Never Give Up,” which has become an AIDS anthem in South Africa.
DWA Broadside by Barbara Kruger
Mtn Music Film
The new movie “The Mountain Music Project” (by HV producer Jack Chance) is “A Musical Odyssey from Appalachia to Himalaya.” The film screens Sunday December 6th at 7PM at the Emerson Center, Bozeman MT. Families and Fiddles welcome.
The flick looks/sounds superb: just played to a packed house at National Geographic’s Grosvenor Auditorium, DC. Now it makes it’s Montana debut.
The Mountain Music Project- Trailer
Emerson Ctr for Arts & Culture | Mountain Music Project
Fiddler Danny Knicely with a traditional Nepalese musician; © Jack Chance:
Burma Blues for Karen
The stories of Burmese refugees, the Karen people, recorded in the camps on the Thailand-Burma border, and in their new American homes. Thru it all their music preserves their culture.
Aired on NPR Day to Day; with help from KGLT, by producer Jack Chance, “Burma Blues for Karen” (5:30 mp3):
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More Chance music and pix at Guerilla Ethnomusicology.
Burma Cyclone
Interviews gathered from Mae Sot, Thailand (same town from which all land-transported aid is entering Burma) with medical workers and Burmese migrant laborers who work in Thailand but sleep in Burma. From Jack Chance, aired this week on The World, “Burma Aid Efforts” (3:30 mp3):
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And for the real story, see the previous post…
Burma Cyclone- Election
Here’s Chance’s more accurate Cyclone report w/ the other story, not being told: the Burmese elections. No one would run this, so we’ll post it, “Irawaddy Delta Blues” (5:10 mp3):
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Nepali Bob Dylan
I love it while traveling when an HV story comes on the radio. That happened a slew of times this past week (Mtn Gorrillas of Rwanda, Passover poem, Peace Rabbi). The first one I caught crossing the NV desert on NPR Day to Day. It’s another from Jack Chance, international man of trad music mystery…
The Kingdom of Nepal became a democracy this week, holding it’s first elections for representatives who will write the new constitution and are likely to abolish the monarchy. Chance speaks with a young musician in Kathmandu, Rubin Gandharba, whose songs (played on the Nepali sarangi) became a rallying cry for the Nepali Democracy Movement. The call Ruben the “Nepali Bob Dylan” (2:57 mp3):
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