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Buddha sand drawing

Tibetan Nuns 2:35 Jack Chance

Tibetan nuns at prayer. Recorded February 2002, Ani Sangkhung Nunnery, Lhasa, Tibet, PRC. From the CD Greetings From Elsewhere: An Asian Music Sampler.

Broadcast: Mar 21 2003 on PRI/MPR Savvy Traveler Subjects: International, Music, Religious


Buddhist monks

Khan’s Song {format} Jack Chance

URL linkKHAN’S SONG, Mongol Music– In 2001 Jack Chance set out for a year of recording music, traveling from North Africa to the Himalayas by bus, boat, train, horse, camel, bicycle, and two sore feet. These are the sights, sounds, and stories he found in Mongolia.

Broadcast: Oct 10 2002 on HV Webwork Subjects: Travel, International, Religious, Music, World


Guitarist in Eatonville, Florida

1930s Florida Folklife {format} 22:20 Barrett Golding

1930s WPA recordists (among them, author Zora Neale Hurston) hauled a portable disc-recorder across Florida, from the Cross City turpentine camps near to the Clara White Mission soup kitchen in Jacksonville, gathering the musics of the region. A document of the depression era African-American life and culture. The Library of Congress archival recordings, from the American Folklife Center’s Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, are narrated by recording-expedition leader Stetson Kennedy. [transcript]

Broadcast: Feb 1 2002 on NPR All Things Considered Subjects: Music, Business, Cultural, Labor


1930s Florida Folklife {format} Barrett Golding

URL linkFLORIDA FOLKLIFE- Web accompaniment to the radio program: ‘Proposed Recording Expedition into the Floridas’ by Zora Neale Hurston &ndash a 1940 proposal to the Library of Congrees that instigated their Florida Folklife collection.

Broadcast: Jan 31 2002 on HV Webwork Subjects: Music, Labor, African American, Historical





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