Sunday, February 27, 2011

Alabama Arts Radio Podcast, Marc Smirnoff, editor of the Oxford American

This week Joey Brackner, director of the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture interviews Marc Smirnoff, editor of the Oxford American. They discuss the current issue of the Oxford American dedicated to the music of Alabama and upcoming music events for the year of Alabama Music.
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Alabama Arts Radio Podcast, Alabama Folklife Association director Mary Allison Haynie

This week Anne Kimzey, folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, talks with Mary Allison Haynie, director of the Alabama Folklife Association.  They discuss the AFA's mission to document, preserve and present the traditional arts and culture of the state, the organization's upcoming music events for the year of Alabama Music, and plans for the future.
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Alabama Arts Radio Podcast, Playwright Cheryl Davis

Literature Program Manager Anne Kimzey interviews Cheryl Davis, an award winning writer and playwright. Her work has been read and performed nationally and internationally. She is in Alabama for the premier of her play at the Birmingham Children's Theatre (BCT), "Tuxedo Junction," a story of Erskine Hawkins. It’s Davis’ second time premiering a work in Birmingham, the first being last season’s Red Mountain Theatre Company production of “Barnstormer,” Davis’ musical look at black aviatrix Bessie Coleman. In the interview Davis tells of her education and background that led her to become a playwright of historic American characters as well as a talented lyricist.
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Alabama Arts Radio Podcast, Wiliam Ferris

This program is a 2006 rebroadcast of Joey Brackner interviewing folklorist William Ferris of the University of North Carolina about southern culture and his experiences as director of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at Ole Miss.
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