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Dario Robleto and Patrick Feaster on Hearing the Hearts of History [Video]

  Prior to Thomas Edison’s groundbreaking invention of sound recording and playback technology in 1877, the ephemerality of sound meant that it only existed in the moment of its creation. To “record” sound before this time meant it appeared as oral or written descriptions or musical scores. In 2008, Patrick Feaster, a researcher and educator […]

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Block Museum Storytelling Event Brings Together University & Public Libraries

My shoes your shoes and other people’s shoes. speaking shoes\ and shoe string budgets// With not one promise for certainty these simple choices: a meandering of mouths, spirits, souls, and well shoes that never shined so brightly. -Misty De Berry, For You, and Alison Knowles’ “Shoes of Your Choice” on the Night that was May […]

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