15751. Interview with Willi Carlisle, Izard County, Arkansas (05:42)

Date:
2020-09-04
Main contributors:
Willi Carlisle
Summary:
Willi Carlisle (Izard County, Arkansas) Willi Carlisle is a folksinger and writer from the Ozark hills. He performs internationally at places like the Kennedy Center and the Ozark Folk Center and has spent many years living in an intentional community near Fox, Arkansas. With years of collecting folklore and playing/calling square dances, Willi is a multi-faceted writer, performer and instrumentalist. He plays banjo, accordion, fiddle and guitar, and has toured extensively and performed with Dom Flemons, Mary Gauthier, Los Texmaniacs, Cory Branan, Carson McHone, and more. Willi prefers to perform songs for the oldest reasons: love, heartache, and joy. His albums, Too Nice to Mean Much and To Tell You the Truth have garnered critical success. Interviewed by Holly Hobbs, 09/04/2020.

15752. The Galilean imperative: A physicist's search for understanding 1- What have we learned, and how ... (1:33:26)

Date:
2013-10-28
Main contributors:
William Bialek
Summary:
To a remarkable extent, our understanding of the natural world is built from a small set of very deep ideas. I’ll try to give some sense for the nature of these ideas, for their power and scope. I will also try to explain what we mean by “understanding” in several different contexts, and why these successes give us (measured) confidence that more complex problems may yet yield to our search for understanding. Finally, I’ll say a few words about the cultural gaps that separate scientists who have mastery of these theoretical ideas from other scientists, from the generally educated public, and from the polity as a whole. It is not too much to claim that our future quality of life will depend, crucially, on our ability to bridge these gaps by teaching.

15753. The Galilean imperative: A physicist's search for understanding 2 - Toward the physics of life it... (1:52:01)

Date:
2013-10-30
Main contributors:
William Bialek
Summary:
Experiments have uncovered many of the mechanisms at work in the machinery of life, but there still is no theoretical framework that ties these discoveries together. A hint about how to construct such a theory comes from the fact that many biological systems operate very near the limits of what the laws of physics allow: from bacteria navigating toward a source of food to the optics of an insect’s eye, from decision-making by cells in a developing embryo to aspects of human perception, important aspects of life’s mechanisms are nearly as good they can be, in a sense that physics makes precise. This proximity to perfection provides us with the ingredients for a theoretical physics of life, and I will explore this idea, hopefully providing an appreciation for some of life’s most striking and surprising phenomena.

15754. Welcome, Introductory Remarks, and Inspirations (52:25)

Date:
2013-01-25
Main contributors:
William Blomquist, Modupe Labode, Fred Wilson
Summary:
Opening sessions of the Art, Race, Space Symposium, January 25, 2013, School of Liberal Arts, IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana. Recorded lectures include: "Welcome" by William Blomquist, "Introductory Remarks" by Modupe Labode, and "Inspirations: Musing on What Monuments, Memorials, Public Art, and Public Space, Inspire Me" by Fred Wilson. Symposium program sheet available from: https://hdl.handle.net/1805/31106.

15755. Kinsey at 50, Tape 3 (1:01:55)

Date:
1998
Main contributors:
William Bonds
Summary:
1998 NSRC/SFSU Conference "Kinsey at 50" -- A gathering of contemporary luminaries in the field of sex research, discussing Kinsey's work 50 years on in society.

15756. Virtual Realities: Making the Humanities in a Digital World (1:21:49)

Date:
2018-02-20
Main contributors:
William D. Adams
Summary:
Digital technology is changing everything in our lives, including the ways in which we study, learn, teach, and create knowledge in the university. While these changes have been slower to come in the humanities, they are now well established and accelerating, with significant implications for teaching and research. What are the new opportunities afforded by the development of digital tools and platforms for humanists? What new fields of inquiry have opened for humanists as a result of the explosion of digital technology? And how should humanists understand and respond to the growing power and influence of the technical disciplines in shaping the priorities of the contemporary university? Presented by Dr. William D. Adams, former head of the National Endowment for the Humanities, as part of the IU Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities 2017-18 Speaker Series, which had the theme "Making the Arts & Humanities."

15757. Mexico : the land and the people (second edition, people of Mexico) (20:51)

Date:
1961
Main contributors:
William Deneen, Preston E. James, Ph.D, Syracuse University, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Summary:
See description for color version GC0944. Surveys life in Mexico in 1961 with its overshadowing influences of the past. Depicts Mexico as an old country with new ideas as the basis for cultural and economic extremes. Illustrates the rise of a middle class society as Mexico attempts development through educational and industrial means. Shows the vast extremes of native Indian villages with primitive open-air markets and methods of farming in contrast with modern manufacturing cities with beautiful parks, fine theaters, office buildings, and luxurious seaside resorts.

15758. Effectively Using Graphs to Learn from and Present Your Data (2:07:34)

Date:
2010-10-22
Main contributors:
William G. Jacoby
Summary:
These lectures cover methods for obtaining visual displays of quantitative information. They discuss ways to, quite literally, look at data. This is important because graphical representations avoid some of the restrictive assumptions and simplistic models that are often encountered in empirical analyses. These methods are very useful in the social sciences, where the robustness characteristics of traditional statistical techniques often are pushed to their limits. The lectures focus primarily on introductory concepts and graphical displays for univariate data, then move on to graphs for bivariate, multivariate, and categorical data. The main objective is to help you learn to construct a pictorial abstraction that highlights the salient aspects of your data without distorting any features or imposing undue assumptions.

15759. Multi-Dimensional Scaling: An Introduction (2:51:18)

Date:
2012-12-07
Main contributors:
William G. Jacoby
Summary:
Would you like to draw pictures of your data in ways that reveal structures not obvious from inspection of the data values alone? Multidimensional scaling (MDS) can accomplish that objective. MDS produces a “map” of stimuli based on information about the “proximities” among them. The stimuli are any objects of interest to the researcher (e.g., presidential candidates for a political scientist, consumer products for a market researcher, occupations for a sociologist), and many types of information can be interpreted as proximities (e.g., correlations, similarity judgments, profile dissimilarities, etc.). MDS methods have many potential applications in empirical research. They can be used to simplify the contents of large complex datasets, model similarities among sets of objects, estimate the cognitive structures underlying survey responses, and optimize the measurement characteristics of qualitative observations. MDS can be generalized to show individual differences across distinct data sources (e.g., subsets of survey respondents or data collected at different time points), and can be adapted to represent respondent preferences among a set of stimuli (i.e., “ideal points” models). This workshop provides an introduction to MDS. It is intended for a general audience and does not assume prior experience with MDS or familiarity with advanced statistical methods beyond basic regression analysis. Specific topics to be covered include: The basic idea of MDS; the general estimation procedure; interpretation of results; different varieties of MDS; and software options for performing MDS analyses.

15760. The ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research (49:55)

Date:
2012-12-07
Main contributors:
William G. Jacoby
Summary:
Interested in refreshing your quantitative skills or learning a new method that will aid in your research? Whether you are a faculty member or a graduate student, a great place to accomplish both tasks is the Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). ICPSR offers both month-long and 3-5 day short courses. All month-long courses and many of the short courses are offered at the University of Michigan, though several short courses are offered at different institutions throughout the country, including right here at Indiana University (and hosted by WIM!). Who better to provide you information about ICPSR than the Director of the Summer Program himself? Dr. Jacoby will provide a brief description of the ICPSR Summer Program and answer your questions in this hour-long informational session following his WIM presentation on multidimensional scaling. You are welcome to attend both, or only this informational session. Come have all your questions answered by the person who knows more about the Summer Program than anyone else!

15761. William Harris Interview (2:03:58)

Date:
2023-05-04
Main contributors:
William Harris, Vivianne Crowley, Michigan City Public Library
Summary:
"Getting There: Oral Histories about transportation in Michigan City" is a series of oral histories, focusing on the railroads and aviation in Michigan City. This project was initiated and administered by the Michigan City Public Library, co-sponsored by the LaPorte County Historical Society, and funded through an Indiana Heritage Research Grant from 1993-1994. Interview of William Harris, conducted by Vivianne Crowley. Harris touches on his experience as a Pullman rail car engineer.

15762. Duel at the OK corral : western legend (1:04:02)

Date:
1954
Main contributors:
William J. Thiele, William Bruckner, Jack Chertok, Lee Van Cleef, Kenneth Tobey, Henry Morgan, Keith Richards, Lyle Talbot, Peter Hanson, Teaching Film Custodians
Summary:
Teaching Film Custodians abridged classroom version of an episode of the Cavalcade of America television series, "Duel at the OK Corral" (season 2, episode 20), which originally aired March 9th, 1954 on ABC-TV. This film highlights the efforts of Marshall Wyatt Earp to free the West of dangerous armed gunmen. Earp's activities in Dodge City, Kansas, in Deadwood, South Dakota, and in Tombstone, Arizona are featured.

15763. Two talks on Statistical graphics for visualizing data (3:49:48)

Date:
2010-01-29
Main contributors:
William Jacoby
Summary:
These lectures cover methods for obtaining visual displays of quantitative information. They discuss ways to, quite literally, look at data. This is important because graphical representations avoid some of the restrictive assumptions and simplistic models that are often encountered in empirical analyses. These methods are very useful in the social sciences, where the robustness characteristics of traditional statistical techniques often are pushed to their limits. The lectures focus primarily on introductory concepts and graphical displays for univariate data, then move on to graphs for bivariate, multivariate, and categorical data. The main objective is to help you learn to construct a pictorial abstraction that highlights the salient aspects of your data without distorting any features or imposing undue assumptions.

15764. Mahatma Gandhi (19:02)

Date:
1955
Main contributors:
William Morrison, John Clayton, American Academy of Asian Studies
Summary:
Portrays the highlights of Mahatma Gandhi's life. Indicates some of the factors that shaped his philosophy of non-violence and shows some of the instances in which his philosophy was put into action. Shows also how Gandhi's pronouncements and activities became an influence in the life of India as a nation. Produced by the American Academy of Asian Studies of the College of the Pacific. A documentary of the life of Gandhi based on newsreel footage and still photographs.

15766. Patten Lecture "Moral Leadership for the New Century" (1:34:42)

Date:
2002
Main contributors:
William T. Patten Foundation
Summary:
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures. Lecture by Óscar Arias Sánchez, former president of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The discussion centers around the ideal qualities of leaders in the 21st century, examining the values which underpin successful and transformative leadership for a society.

15767. Patten Lecture "Peace with Justice for Latin America and the World" (1:34:12)

Date:
2002
Main contributors:
William T. Patten Foundation
Summary:
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures. Lecture by former president of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Óscar Arias Sánchez. Sánchez illustrates his vision and values for a future world, and discusses some criticisms he has with the current state of world affairs.

15768. Patten Lecture I Donna J. Haraway Q&A (47:13)

Date:
1991
Main contributors:
William T. Patten Foundation
Summary:
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures. Continuation of a Q&A session with Donna J. Haraway, from one of her two lectures in 1991. The Q&A focuses around questions of mortality and the AIDS crisis, and the way in which the biological self is understood.

15769. Patten Lecture Series: Alexander W. Astin, "What kind of student 'success' do we want to promote?" (2:08:52)

Date:
1999
Main contributors:
William T. Patten Foundation
Summary:
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures. Video Recording of a lecture by Alexander W. Astin on novel ways of evaluating student success in higher education.

15770. Patten Lecture Series: Amartya Sen, "Identity: Enrichment, Violence and Terror", Q&A Session (15:21)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
William T. Patten Foundation
Summary:
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures. Q&A Session with Amartya Sen after his lecture. Questions are on aspects of his arguments around identity and conflict, and how they relate to current American policy both at home and abroad.

15771. Patten Lecture Series: Amartya Sen, "Identity: Enrichment, Violence and Terror". (1:17:00)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
William T. Patten Foundation
Summary:
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures. Lecture by Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Prize of Economics. Sen discusses the negative effects of fatalism as a mindset and how it leads to government passivity, as well as distancing of identity which is caused by class and economic means, and the negative effects which rigid class structures have upon a society and the preventable suffering they cause. Sen analyzes the constructive forces of social divisions alongside their alienating forces as well.

15772. Patten Lecture Series: Amartya Sen, "India: Bits and Pieces and Beyond" (1:19:56)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
William T. Patten Foundation
Summary:
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures. Amartya Sen discusses the sources and consequences of ethnic strife in India, and the ways in which social divisions can be overcome.

15773. Patten Lecture Series: Amartya Sen, "India: Bits and Pieces and Beyond", conclusion of the lecture (02:58)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
William T. Patten Foundation
Summary:
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures. Conclusion of the lecture "India: Bits and Pieces and Beyond" by Amartya Sen. The rest of the lecture can be found at the following link: https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_objects/qn59qm03z

15774. Patten Lecture Series: Benjamin Bagby, Beowulf (voice and lyre) (2:09:23)

Date:
2001
Main contributors:
William T. Patten Foundation
Summary:
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures. Performance of Beowulf in original Old English, with Lyre accompaniment.

15775. Patten Lecture Series: Charles Rosen Lecture 2 of 2 [title not given] (1:15:40)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
William T. Patten Foundation
Summary:
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures. Prominent musical scholar and concert pianist Charles Rosen speaks in this lecture, giving an analysis of the history of western music, focusing on the 19th century, its influences, movements, and styles. He prefaces this discussion with a recap of 18th century music to give some more context.

15776. Patten Lecture Series: Charles Rosen Lecture 2 of 2, Q&A session (19:18)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
William T. Patten Foundation
Summary:
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures. Q&A session with Charles Rosen after he finishes his lecture. Includes analysis of the use of trills and repetition in the establishment of tone in 19th century pieces.

15777. Patten Lecture Series: Charles Rosen, Lecture 1 of 2 (1:04:51)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
William T. Patten Foundation
Summary:
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures. Charles Rosen discusses the relationship of emotion to music throughout history. Rosen challenges the understanding of music as having personal sentiment, and the evolution of attitudes towards sentiment in music over history.

15778. Patten Lecture Series: Charles Rosen, Lecture 1 of 2 Q&A Session (27:51)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
William T. Patten Foundation
Summary:
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures. Charles Rosen discusses analytical and thematic questions around the pieces that Rosen examines in his lecture.

15779. Patten Lecture Series: Charles Schultze (1:35:27)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
William T. Patten Foundation
Summary:
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures. Lecture by economist Charles Schultze, who led the office of management and budget for the United States. His lecture discusses the major economic problems facing the U.S. in the 1980s, including difficulties around anti-inflation policy.

15780. Patten Lecture Series: Darlene Clark Hine, "Black Before Brown: Health, Education, and Social Wel... (1:18:05)

Date:
2004
Main contributors:
William T. Patten Foundation
Summary:
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures. Presentation and lecture by Darlene Clark Hine discusses some of her research into the history of how Black communities in the south organized health and support systems for themselves in the era of Jim Crow segregation.

15781. Patten Lecture Series: Darlene Clark Hine, Lecture 1 of 2 [title not given] (1:19:53)

Date:
2004
Main contributors:
William T. Patten Foundation
Summary:
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures. In this lecture, Darlene Clark Hine uses the experience of three Black professionals in Clarendon County, South Carolina in their 1950s campaign for rights to illustrate broader issues of race and discrimination.

15782. Patten Lecture Series: Dr. Adam Phillips, "First Impressions and Second Thoughts". (1:04:39)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
William T. Patten Foundation
Summary:
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures. Literary analysis and discussion of the book "Pride and Prejudice". Dr. Phillips' central argument is that people can uncover their pride & prejudice through their first impressions of an object of desire. Dr. Phillips uses Austen's book as a focus for his arguments around the topic throughout the lecture.

15783. Patten Lecture Series: Dr. Adam Phillips, "Great Expectations and First Impressions" (1:06:24)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
William T. Patten Foundation
Summary:
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures. In this lecture, Dr. Adam Phillips discusses first impressions as a concept and psychological mechanic through the analysis of Charles Dickens' work 'Great Expectations'.

15784. Patten Lecture Series: Linda K. Kerber, "Can a Woman be an Individual? Woman, Women, and individu... (1:35:23)

Date:
1985
Main contributors:
William T. Patten Foundation
Summary:
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures. Kerber examines the role of women in shaping individualism in American society, and how Women have worked to develop and embrace individualism over the course of American history.

15785. Patten Lecture: Donna J. Haraway, "Science, the very idea! Feminist diffractions", Q&A (31:55)

Date:
1991
Main contributors:
William T. Patten Foundation
Summary:
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures. Q&A session with Donna J. Haraway after her lecture "Science, the very idea! Feminist diffractions". The session touches on aspects of the lecture including language around the addressing of the AIDS crisis and clarifications on some of the positions she explains in the lecture.

15789. Williams, David C., and Samantha von Ende, IU Center for Constitutional Democracy (43:05)

Date:
2016-06-26
Main contributors:
Williams, David, von Ende, Samantha, Shanahan, James
Summary:
This week on Through the Gates, host Jim Shanahan is joined by David C. Williams, the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Democracy and the John S. Hastings Professor of Law in the Maurer School of Law. Williams has written widely on constitutional law and consults with constitutional reform movements around the world. Presently, he advises elements of the Burma democracy movement on the constitutional future of the country. In today's interview, he will share some of how that process works. Later in the episode, student Samantha von Ende will share some of her own work with the Center for Constitutional Democracy. As a Ph.D. student, von Ende has worked extensively on gender-related issues of democracy in the United States and around the world.

15791. Presidential Address: After the Revolution: Folklore, History, and the Future of Our Discipline (45:37)

Date:
2015-10-17
Main contributors:
Williams, Michael Ann, Turner, Kay
Summary:
More than four decades have passed since the advent of the new folkloristics. Assessments of this revolution tend to narrowly focus on performance theory and not on whether the broader promises of this era have been realized, especially in areas of cross-disciplinary research. This address will look specifically at how attitudes toward historical scholarship have changed within the discipline of folklore and how we have constructed our own disciplinary histories during this postrevolutionary phase. Finally, the address will look to the future and whether we are reconstructing our past in our current graduate training in the discipline.

15793. Vernon A. Williams, BA’73 (03:25)

Date:
2022
Main contributors:
Williams, Vernon A.
Summary:
From the beginning, Vernon A. Williams, BA’73, wanted to be a writer. Growing up in Gary, Indiana, he wrote his first play in the fourth grade, which was performed in class. In middle school, he started a weekly hand-printed newsletter on notebook paper. He pitched an unsolicited radio program as a high school freshman to a local station that put him on the air. Two years later, he wrote and hosted the first student broadcast over the school corporation radio station. As a junior, he started a teen news column for Gary Info Newspaper – where his biggest “scoop” was being first to report the Jackson Five signing with Motown Records. Those youthful experiences inspired a career in broadcast and print media, as well as education, that spanned more than 55 years. Williams started at The (Gary) Post-Tribune as a reporter, columnist and editorial board member. He was morning drive personality for “The Breakfast Club” and hosted the call-in program “Sound Off” on WLTH, and was station manager for WGVE. Among his most notable career interviews were Lena Horne, Dick Gregory, Colin Powell, Jesse Jackson and Phylicia Rashad. In 2001, Williams moved to Indianapolis to become marketing supervisor for Indianapolis Public Schools Career-Technical Education. After IPS, he became vice president, communications, for Indiana Black Expo, where he developed marketing and communication strategies, prepared high-impact communication material, wrote speeches, developed leadership presentations and organized press conferences. Williams left Expo to become assistant to the chancellor for communication at IUPUI before taking his current position as communication and community engagement strategist for the premier urban research campus. He is a leader of IUPUI’s Africana Repertory Theatre and executive director of OnyxFest — the first and only annual Indiana theater festival featuring works of Black playwrights. Williams is a news analyst and commentator for the Chicago/Gary Crusader Newspaper. He is president of the Indianapolis Association of Black Journalists and is on the Board of Directors for Heartland Films. He is a former president of IU’s Neal-Marshall Alumni Club. He has written four books, the latest being, “God Said Tell You.” He has written and produced 11 plays — the most recent, “A Noise in the Attic,” will premiere in November. Williams earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from IU and a master’s in communication from Purdue University. His myriad honors include the IU Alumni Association President’s Award, IU Groups Program Covered Bridge Award, Center for Leadership Development Community Leaders Award, 100 Black Men of Indianapolis Silver Anniversary Service Award, The National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa – Beta Mu Chapter Community Service Award, Hoosier State Press Association First Place in Newswriting and the Indianapolis Recorder Champions of Diversity Award.

15794. Hot Buttered Soul: The Role of Foodways and Music-making in Building and Sustaining African Ameri... (1:30:23)

Date:
2014-11-10
Main contributors:
Williams-Forson, Psyche A., Cooper, Tyron, Jones, Alisha Lola, Burnim, Mellonee V. (Mellonee Victoria), 1950-
Summary:
A lecture and panel discussion exploring the intersections between sacred and secular African American music genres (funk, soul and gospel, in particular) and the ritual preparation and sharing of foods in promoting and sustaining African American communities, organized as part of Indiana University's Themester 2014 "Eat, Drink, Think: Food from Art to Science." After an introduction by Dr. Mellonee Burnim (Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology), featured guest speaker, Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson (Department of American Studies, University of Maryland College Park) provides a general introduction to the significance of food traditions as a signifier of African American life and culture (approximately 30 minutes). Following are shorter presentations by Dr. Alisha Lola Jones (Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology) and Dr. Tyron Cooper (Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies), who explore unifying linkages between sacred and secular music and traditional African American foodways, signifying the complementary roles these cultural practices play in demarcating various aspects of African American identity. At the conclusion is a brief question and answer session. The panel was held on October 27, 2014, from 4:30-6:00 p.m., in the Grand Hall, Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, at Indiana University, Bloomington. Presented by the Archives of African American Music and Culture; sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences—Themester; Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Department of Anthropology; Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology; Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center; Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs; and the Asian American Studies Program.

15795. Interview with Willie Wells, West Columbia, South Carolina (06:16)

Date:
2020-10-14
Main contributors:
Willie Wells
Summary:
Willie Wells (West Columbia, South Carolina) Willie Wells, the son of the late Bill Wells, has always been on the music scene. Since the early ‘70s, Willie has played drums and sung lead and harmony vocals. Willie and another musician friend organized a country music group called CHOYCE that ran for more than twenty years. With early country music and bluegrass influences from his father, Willie continued to develop and expand his musical direction toward recording studio production. In the past ten to twelve years, Willie has shifted more toward continuing the bluegrass legacy of his father. Being inspired by his father to play guitar and to be at the helm of the “Blue Ridge Mtn. Grass” band (BRMG) that his father started some forty years ago, Willie is keeping his father’s wishes to preserve bluegrass music in South Carolina. Today, the band is a mix of traditional and contemporary bluegrass with some new arrangements of old songs as well as a mix of original songs. Willie Wells & The Blue Ridge Mtn. Grass first album title, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, continues to promote bluegrass music throughout the area. Willie is also the owner of Bill’s Music Shop & Picking’ Parlor in West Columbia, South Carolina. Interviewed by Holly Hobbs, 10/14/2020.

15798. Interview with Ike Willis (36:24)

Date:
2009-11-12
Main contributors:
Willis, Ike, Hollinden, Andy
Summary:
Andy Hollinden interviews Ike Willis during the AAAMC conference, "Reclaiming the Right to Rock: Black Experiences in Rock Music."

15800. Disc Pong (10:04)

Date:
2020-04-24
Main contributors:
Wilson, Chad, Mayfield, Conner
Summary: