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Coursework from students in "Your American Life" Oralcomm 130 Winter18.

Storytelling.stanford.edu

Course work from students in "Your American Life" Oralcomm 130 Winter18.

Storytelling.stanford.edu

Coursework from students in "Your American Life" Oralcomm 130 Winter18.

Storytelling.stanford.edu

Coursework from students in "Your American Life" Oralcomm 130 Winter18.

Storytelling.stanford.edu

Coursework from students in "Your American Life" Oralcomm 130 Winter18.

Storytelling.stanford.edu

Claudia Heymach, Megan Calfas, Isaac Goldstein

Individual stories here:

https://soundcloud.com/stanfordsoundings/sets/braden-grant-stories-2017

Producer: Katie Lan

Some people pray to gods, but other people pray to ghosts. In this story, Katie Lan explores the temples and folk religion in Taiwan, where her parents and the rest of her family is from. Here, she explores ghost temples and even learns to pray to a dog?

Music:

晶晶 1969 鄧麗君

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI0lHGnKtSI

How does one build a new home after losing all of one’s family? A son interviews his mother, a Cambodian refugee and genocide survivor, about her experience resettling in the U.S. He learns how her past has shaped his life.

Producer: Bunnard Phan

Featuring: Nickie Phan, Bunnard Phan,

Music:

Khnom Min Sok Chet Te by Pan Ron

Chnam oun Dop-Pram Muy by Ros Sereysothea

Orchestral version of “Unchained Melody” by the Righteous Brothers performed at The (Military) Music Show of Nations 2002 Bremen, Germany (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejm3Q5ZKr28)

Producer: Nya Hughes

From the rhyming styles of breakbeat poets and Bronx backyard jams of the 1980s, hip-hop sprang forth from the heart of urban black culture to give voice to the silenced narratives of black communities. The rhythm of resistance. Uncontainable, the sound waves traveled much farther than the national border. In the 1990s, young Cubans living in the barrio of Alamar resonated with the rhythms and attitude in the music and adopted the art form as their own. Moving through this rich oral history and into the present, we will hear the way hip-hop brought these two cultures together in a perfect storm.

Thank you to Luna Gallegos, Laura Cantana, Rolando Almirante, Dr. Cecil Brown, Jeff Chang, “The Wizard”/ “El Brujo,” Yulier, La Rafa El Individuo, and Alejandra Zamora for your honesty and warmth throughout the interview process.

Music:

The Message – Grandmaster Flash

Get By – Talib Kweli

Latino & Proud – DJ Raff

Tengo – Hermanos De Causa

Mi Raza - El Individuo

1981 SPECIAL REPORT: “SOUTH BRONX”

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLSDY8jPRds)

The Bronx in The 1980's PART 1 (Original)

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgUsEVwXch0)

CHUPI CHUPI – Osmani Garcia

Photo by Nya Hughes

In Abra, a province of the northern Philippines, members of several indigenous communities - collectively called the Tinggian - are fighting to protect their histories. Listen to the stories of an elder charged with upholding a centuries-old peace pact; a pastor whose ancestors fought as revolutionaries; a mayor who evaded assassination to build a school in his hometown; and a weaver who’s made it her mission to revive a tradition of ritual and weaving.

Producer: Ethan Chua

Featuring:

Elder Bansilan Sawadan

Elder Johnny Guinaban

Pastor Ruben

Elder Norma Mina

With thanks to:

Ate Minda Guinaban

Raffy Tejero

The Center for Community Transformation (CCT)

My parents, Ronald and Anabelle Chua

Music

Podington Bear