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A recording of Benjamin Bradford’s Post Mortem, a radio drama that won first place in the Golden Windmill Radio Drama Contest. The drama follows a mortician and the spirit of a young boy as they perform an autopsy. They discuss the boy’s short life, the mortician’s career aspirations, and the situation leading up to his death. The drama concludes with the mortician considering the life of his own son and the boy drifting away.
As part of the 2016 Themester Beauty, the Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) hosted a presentation and panel discussion event in the Grand Hall of the Neal Marshall Black Culture Center. Comprised of IUB faculty members from the departments of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and African American and African Diaspora Studies, as well as a distinguished scholar and guest speaker Deborah Smith Pollard from Michigan State University, the panel explored concepts of beauty in music from two distinct, though related perspectives. Representations of gendered body images, male and female, served as one area of focus, while the second topic explored the body of aesthetic values which distinguish African American performance in ways which not only contrast, but often contradict those preferred by the larger American public.
Campbell, Lamar, Dixson, Liz, Williamson, Tracy (Sound recording executive and producer), Wiggins, Raynetta, Johnson, Sylvester A., 1972-
Summary:
Panelists: Lamar Campbell (Recording Artist; Worship Leader, Emmaus Christian Church), Liz “Faith” Dixson (Radio Announcer, WTLC AM 1310),
Tracy Williamson (Founder TRE7, Inc., Artist Development, Marketing and Production Company); Moderator: Raynetta Wiggins (Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology); Respondent: Dr. Sylvester Johnson (Department of Religious Studies).
A discussion between unidentified host (William Spaulding?) and William Chaney, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana. Chaney describes the history and naming of the Klan, its current activities and political involvement, and its connections to Indiana. William also describes the racial ideology of the Klan and his opinion on Zionism.
Crazy Horse, Kandia, Stew, Willis, Ike, Hollinden, Andy
Summary:
This panel examines the following broad areas: (1) the ways in which African American rock musicians conceive of and define rock as a musical genre; (2) how rock is situated within the broader spectrums of African American music and American popular music; (3) the social and political context for the emergence of this music; and (4) the role of rock in African American community life. Video files consist of 14 sec. calibration pattern (not included here) and 117 minutes of footage from main camera and 117 minutes of simultaneously recorded footage from side camera.
This panel explores the status of rock in the 21st century—how rock is conceptualized/defined and how has it been transformed and reinterpreted; the role of African American musicians in this process; current trends in rock; the use of technology for creative, marketing and distribution approaches; the reception of Black rockers by the music industry, mainstream, underground, and international audiences; and African American communities, etc. Video files consist of 34 sec. calibration pattern (not included here) and 134 minutes of footage from main camera and 133 minutes of simultaneously recorded footage from side camera.
Gardner, Mynelle., Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
Summary:
Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling and Mynelle Gardner about the effects of television on Black children given the way current programs portray Black families. Topics include the ways TV violence and focus on ghetto environments shapes children’s self-perception and actions, importance of parental oversight, effects on White children and community through perpetuation of stereotypes, and the exclusion of coverage of Black contributions.
Garrison, Sherri, Hill, A. Thomas (Gospel musician), Bryant, Rodnie, Burnim, Mellonee V. (Mellonee Victoria), 1950-, Grim, Valerie
Summary:
Panelists: Sherri Garrison (Director of Worship, Eastern Star Church; Former Director, Gospel Music Workshop of America Women of Worship), Rev. A. Thomas Hill (Recording Artist; Pastor, Healing Streams Word & Worship Center), Rodnie Bryant (Founding Director, Christian Community Mass Choir; Tyscot Recording Artist); Convener/Moderator: Dr. Mellonee Burnim (Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology);
Respondent: Dr. Valerie Grim, Chair (Department of African and African American Diaspora Studies).
In session 35 of the Afro-American in Indiana, host Rev. Boniface Hardin and featured guest Sister Jane Schilling discuss Black Codes and laws in Indiana with the laws in the South. Topics covered in this program focus on the Alabama Code defining slaves and freemen, the 1808 Code in Indiana Territory, the creation of Northwest Ordinance that prohibits slavery but speaks in terms of freemen, systems of taxation in Indiana requires listing of slaves with other property, definition of mixed race people, effect of codes on both master and slave, fierce determination of Black people to survive and contribute to nation, “The Insurgent” poem by Mari Evans, dream of discrimination being past history.
In the first of the 4-part series, Reflections in Black, Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Anita Louise Hill (St. Louis University), Marie Michael (student at Cardinal Ritter High School), Sister Marguerite Wiley (Sisters of St. Joseph of Tipton, IN), and Marsha Hutchins (teacher at Indianapolis School 110) about the life and work of Frederick Douglass. Topics include the Douglass-Garrison debate and Douglass’s Fourth of July speech, selections from other speeches, the application of his work to current problems such as school segregation and women’s rights, his anti-slavery newspaper The North Star, and the poem “Frederick Douglass” by Robert Hayden.
