Soundings
Soundings is the sandbox for all student work from the Stanford Storytelling Project (SSP). SSP is an arts program at Stanford University that explores how we live in and through stories and how we can use them to change our lives. Our mission is to promote the transformative nature of traditional and modern oral storytelling, from Lakota tales to Radiolab, and empower students to create and perform their own stories. The project sponsors courses, workshops, live events, and grants, along with its radio show State of the Human.
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Episodes
Tuesday Nov 28, 2017
Tuesday Nov 28, 2017
How does one build a new home after losing all of one’s family? A son interviews his mother, a Cambodian refugee and genocide survivor, about her experience resettling in the U.S. He learns how her past has shaped his life.
Producer: Bunnard Phan
Featuring: Nickie Phan, Bunnard Phan,
Music:
Khnom Min Sok Chet Te by Pan Ron
Chnam oun Dop-Pram Muy by Ros Sereysothea
Orchestral version of “Unchained Melody” by the Righteous Brothers performed at The (Military) Music Show of Nations 2002 Bremen, Germany (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejm3Q5ZKr28)
Tuesday Nov 28, 2017
Tuesday Nov 28, 2017
Producer: Nya Hughes
From the rhyming styles of breakbeat poets and Bronx backyard jams of the 1980s, hip-hop sprang forth from the heart of urban black culture to give voice to the silenced narratives of black communities. The rhythm of resistance. Uncontainable, the sound waves traveled much farther than the national border. In the 1990s, young Cubans living in the barrio of Alamar resonated with the rhythms and attitude in the music and adopted the art form as their own. Moving through this rich oral history and into the present, we will hear the way hip-hop brought these two cultures together in a perfect storm.
Thank you to Luna Gallegos, Laura Cantana, Rolando Almirante, Dr. Cecil Brown, Jeff Chang, “The Wizard”/ “El Brujo,” Yulier, La Rafa El Individuo, and Alejandra Zamora for your honesty and warmth throughout the interview process.
Music:
The Message – Grandmaster Flash
Get By – Talib Kweli
Latino & Proud – DJ Raff
Tengo – Hermanos De Causa
Mi Raza - El Individuo
1981 SPECIAL REPORT: “SOUTH BRONX”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLSDY8jPRds)
The Bronx in The 1980's PART 1 (Original)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgUsEVwXch0)
CHUPI CHUPI – Osmani Garcia
Photo by Nya Hughes
Monday Nov 27, 2017
Monday Nov 27, 2017
In Abra, a province of the northern Philippines, members of several indigenous communities - collectively called the Tinggian - are fighting to protect their histories. Listen to the stories of an elder charged with upholding a centuries-old peace pact; a pastor whose ancestors fought as revolutionaries; a mayor who evaded assassination to build a school in his hometown; and a weaver who’s made it her mission to revive a tradition of ritual and weaving.
Producer: Ethan Chua
Featuring:
Elder Bansilan Sawadan
Elder Johnny Guinaban
Pastor Ruben
Elder Norma Mina
With thanks to:
Ate Minda Guinaban
Raffy Tejero
The Center for Community Transformation (CCT)
My parents, Ronald and Anabelle Chua
Music
Podington Bear
Monday Nov 27, 2017
Monday Nov 27, 2017
Explore the ties between language and identity in South Africa with two women who see Afrikaans as the language of reconciliation.
Two women in South Africa are currently challenging the assumption that Afrikaans is solely the language of the oppressor. One is a poet. The other runs a community radio station. Through a retelling of the true history of the language and the people who created the language, words arise that begin to break down the ties between language and identity over 20 years post-apartheid: “you can’t blame a language for what a group of people did with it.”
Producer: Isaac Goldstein
Music: The last offering, Sunhiilow
No sudden movements, Rui
Magic Torquoise, Sunhiilow
Butterfly Lullaby, Possimiste