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Subject: Zora Neale Hurston From: BH Date: 11 Feb 03 - 05:56 PM Valerie Boyd has written a definitive biography of this leading figure in African/American History. This Sunday I have the pleasure of interviewing the author about her book and her research into this seminal figure in Black literature and arts. Just in time for Black History Month. You can listen to the interview on my program TABLETALK which airs on the 2d and 3d Sunday of each month on WFDU 89.1 FM Teaneck NJ www.wfdu.fm I hope you are early risers since the program airs from 8-8:30 AM ET. Bill Hahn Producer/Host TABLETALK As is always said on the program: Another Intersting Conversation With some Intersting People. |
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Subject: RE: Zora Neale Hurston From: Stilly River Sage Date: 11 Feb 03 - 09:29 PM Bill, Have you ever heard any of the ethnographic tapes that Hurston did? They're wonderful. She was an amazing woman. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Zora Neale Hurston From: BH Date: 11 Feb 03 - 09:46 PM Yes she was. I have not heard the tapes, but I know that she also did archeology, worked with Alan Lomax for a time collecting music from the Sea Islands. Also put together some concerts---not a good singer thugh. Her earlier life is truly a fascinating thing to read through. How she got her education---and her travels with a Gilbert & Sullivan troupe are integral to what she later became. Hey---when you are a staff of one you have to read all that is sent to you---as Valerie Boyd told me after the interview---you really read this--unlike other interviews I have done. It is quite a book---if you want to know ZNH. Hope you tune in. Bill Hahn |
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Subject: RE: Zora Neale Hurston From: Stilly River Sage Date: 11 Feb 03 - 11:15 PM There wasn't anything wrong with Hurston's voice. She was animated and fascinating to listen to, striking features that I remember as I think about the interview I heard. The tapes are now at the Smithsonian or someplace comparable. Columbia? If you do a search on Hurston at NPR I wouldn't be surprised if you find a clip of one. Go back about a year ago at the earliest. She spent time in the Caribbean, on Haiti in particular, doing ethnographic work, collecting songs and stories. May even have worked with Boas, one of the big names in the field. Of Mules and Men is a name that pops into my head as a book she wrote about it. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Zora Neale Hurston From: BH Date: 12 Feb 03 - 12:18 AM You are quite right---she worked with Boaz---as to her voice, there I merely quoted the author since I have not heard her concerts. Bill Hahn |
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Subject: RE: Zora Neale Hurston From: Stilly River Sage Date: 12 Feb 03 - 01:45 AM I think, Bill, if you hear her voice and the confidence with which she addresses her subjects, you'll get a wonderful feel for the confidence of the woman who could create Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God. It's so sad how her life turned out. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Zora Neale Hurston From: Stilly River Sage Date: 12 Feb 03 - 02:00 AM P.S. I knew I'd heard something on NPR. Visit here for a story and images from her work in Florida. There is a link in that story to a tiny clip of her singing and speaking. And here's an interview that was on the Tavis Smiley show. This is the search I did at NPR; if it translates here you might find some interesting information as background for your interview. You might want to be careful using the word "definitive" when discussing biographies about Hurston. There are others out there in contention for such an august title. For example, Carla Kaplan is the author of the new book Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters (see the Tavis Smiley article). SRS |
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Subject: RE: Zora Neale Hurston From: masato sakurai Date: 12 Feb 03 - 03:33 AM Songs Zora Neale Hurston sang are at Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections. There's an introductory page at Today in History: January 7 (American Memory). ~Masato |
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Subject: RE: Zora Neale Hurston From: masato sakurai Date: 12 Feb 03 - 08:03 AM The second link says "Temporary file open error. Display failed." I hope THIS will work. |
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Subject: RE: Zora Neale Hurston From: BH Date: 12 Feb 03 - 07:14 PM Thanks for the "heads up", Stilly River Sage. I listened to that clip---tought to really tell the quality of the voice from the clip, but was surely interesting. As an aside, I am always amazed an impressed at the technology that allows us this instant access to yesterday, today and tomorrow---no one is ever really gone on the internet. As to the word "definitive" in talking of the book by Boyd. It is the usual thing one says when puffing a piece---yet, in reading the review of both of the tomes (the one you mentioned in addition to Boyd) it seems that she really found her core. I think when you hear the author read from the book and talk of her research you will be impressed. You have to get up early---8 AM ET on Sunday. No sleeping late now!! Bill Hahn |
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Subject: RE: Zora Neale Hurston From: M.Ted Date: 12 Feb 03 - 10:31 PM Masato--that is a *very* interesting collection--and promises many hours of happy listening--BH, is the program going to be accessible after the broadcast by way of the website? |
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Subject: RE: Zora Neale Hurston From: BH Date: 13 Feb 03 - 05:47 PM I am afraid not. I will send an audio file over to Mudcat in the hopes that it will be archived there. Bill Hahn |
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Subject: RE: Zora Neale Hurston From: Frankham Date: 13 Feb 03 - 05:52 PM Valerie tells me that one of ZNH's favorite songs was "John Henry". Frank |
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