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Playlist: Music, Folk and Traditional

Compiled By: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife

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Stores about Texas Music, and Traditions

Music as Medicine

From Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife | Part of the Women in the Austin Music Scene series | 05:11

Andrea Cortez strikes a balance between music therapeutic practices and eastern spirituality.

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The finished radio pieces from the Texas Folklife Stories Summer Institute, a weeklong intensive audio production workshop for Austin-area teachers, nonprofit professionals, and community members. 

Texas Folklife's 2019 “Stories from Deep in the Heart" Summer Institute is a week-long intensive workshop in audio documentary production with professional producers, journalists and cultural workers. Participants create a short audio documentary on themes related to folklife; this year's theme was "Women in the Austin Music Scene." The “Stories from Deep in the Heart” summer institute is part of an on-going series of workshops for teachers, nonprofit professionals, and community members in the Austin area and Central Texas schools.

Folklorist Dr. Rachel González-Martin joined the Institute for the first time this year. Rachel is a Folklorist and an Assistant Professor of Latino Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a PhD in Folklore & Ethnomusicology from Indiana University. She is interested in the politics of storytelling from the vantage point of race, class, and gender identification—focusing primarily on women of color feminisms and youth culture. She is interested in how women and femme communities narrate personal experiences through the body, and through body modifications. She has recently completed her book, Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities due out in the fall of 2019 with UT press. She also co-edited the book Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture (Rutgers UP) with fellow folklorist, Domino R. Perez.

More information about the Stories Summer Institute: 
texasfolklife.org/ssi2019

“Stories from Deep in the Heart” is supported in part through grants from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), which believes that a great nation deserves great art; the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and Department of Telecommunications & Regulatory Affairs Grant for Technology Opportunities (GTOPS); and generous support from the Austin Independent School District, KUT News 90.5, and the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin.

The Song Says It All

From Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife | Part of the Immigration and Labor: Stories from the Texas Workforce (2018 Summer Institute) series | 04:40

Workers across Texas have to fight to receive their wages and fair treatment. The Workers Defense Project Band gives their fight a soundtrack.

This story was produced for Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife, for the 2018 Stories Summer Institute series "Immigration and Labor: Stories from the Texas Workforce."

Pdl_band_small Workers across Texas have to fight to receive their wages and fair treatment. The Workers Defense Project Band gives their fight a soundtrack. This story was produced for Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife, for the 2018 Stories Summer Institute series "Immigration and Labor: Stories from the Texas Workforce."

Feast for the Ancestors

From Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife | Part of the Folk Healing and Traditional Medicine series | 09:27

This story was produced by Amy Frishkey at the 2017 Stories Summer Institute

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The finished radio pieces from the Texas Folklife Stories Summer Institute, a weeklong intensive audio production workshop for Austin-area students and teachers.

Texas Folklife's 2017 “Stories from Deep in the Heart" Summer Institute was a week-long intensive workshop in audio documentary production with professional producers, journalists and cultural workers. High school students and middle or high school teachers/administrators participants were guided through production of short audio documentaries on themes related to folklife----family and community traditions. Fellows completed one audio story in groups during the program. The “Stories from Deep in the Heart” summer institute is part of an on-going series of workshops for teachers and students in the Austin area and Central Texas schools.

This year's theme was centered around folk healing and traditional medicine. Participants interviewed local folk healing practitioners to cover a wide range of healing practices in central Texas. They also explored the role of traditional medicine and its encounters or relation to Western medicinal practices, as told by folk healers. Traditional arts and culture are also considered therapeutic, and the Institute will explore the boundaries of healing practices.

More information about the Stories Summer Institute: 
www.texasfolklife.org/event/ssi2017

“Stories from Deep in the Heart” is supported in part through grants from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art; the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and Department of Telecommunications & Regulatory Affairs Grant for Technology Opportunties (GTOPS); and generous support from the Austin Independent School District, KUT News 90.5, and the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin.

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Steel Pedal Self-Made Man

From Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife | Part of the Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries series | 07:29

Mark Erlewine may be known as the Luthier of the Stars, but his Austin workshopshop couldn't be more down to Earth. Hear the story of the man who made the most famous guitars of some of the biggest names in music.

Img_3215_small Mark Erlewine may be known as the Luthier of the Stars, but his Austin workshopshop couldn't be more down to Earth. Hear the story of the man who made the most famous guitars of some of the biggest names in music.

Part of a series of documentaries on traditional crafts by Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife.

 

This summer high school students and middle school or high school teachers and administrators participated in Texas Folklife's 2016 “Stories from Deep in the Heart" Summer Institute, a 5-day intensive fellowship in audio documentary production with professional producers, journalists and cultural workers. Participants were guided through production of short audio documentaries on themes related to folklife----family and community traditions.

 

For the 2016 program, Texas Folklife worked with craftspeople, laborers, and workers in Austin to document the material arts and laborlore of the city. The material arts are often rooted in rich traditional practices, oral histories, and origin mythologies. Stories participants will document the processes and histories of these arts to celebrate the value of cultural labor. Fellows completed one audio story in groups during the program. The “Stories from Deep in the Heart” summer institute is part of an on-going series of workshops for teachers and students in the Austin area and Central Texas schools.

 

Special Guest Instructor: Folklorist and NPR & BBC radio producer Rachel Hopkin

Lead Instructor: Brian Griffith

Lead Producer: Sandra Olsen

Producers: Cory LaFevers, Michelle Mejia, Hannah Whisenant

 

See more at: texasfolklife.org/event/ssi2016

 

#StoriesSI2016

 

“Stories from Deep in the Heart” is supported in part through grants from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art; the Shield-Ayres Foundation; the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and Department of Telecommunications & Regulatory Affairs Grant for Technology Opportunities (GTOPS); and generous support from the Austin Independent School District and KUT News 90.5. Additional support from The University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs.