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  1. Oyez Streaming

    Link
    https://www.oyez.org/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, Law
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Databases, Information Sources, Streaming/Download

    This unofficial multimedia online archive features over 10,000 hours of oral arguments (in audio format) from the US Supreme Court, dating back to 1955. The project was started in 1997 by Jerry Goldman, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. The site’s current incarnation features text, images, video and audio, all designed to clarify and explain the often convoluted and difficult to follow sessions of the court and is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the American legal system.

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  2. Bowery Boys Podcast Streaming

    Link
    http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/bowery-boys-podcast
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    American Studies, History
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Podcasting, Streaming/Download

    Two New Yorkers - Tom Meyers and Greg Young - present a series of podcasts about the history of their city, exploring hidden stories from the metropolis, often focusing on a particular person, place or event and discussing everything from sport and politics to crime and music.

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  3. Institute of Latin American Studies: Videos and Podcasts Streaming

    Link
    https://ilas.sas.ac.uk/events/videos-podcasts
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, Economics, Ethnology, History, Literature, Politics and Government, Religious Studies, Social Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Podcasting, Streaming/Download

    Series of podcasts from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Featuring speakers from Latin and South American universities as well as European institutions, the podcasts cover a wide range of subjects including decolonisation, Latin American fiction in UK libraries, mining in the Andes, the legacy of Hugo Chavez, religious practices in the Caribbean, to name but a few.

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  4. The History of American Slavery Streaming

    Link
    http://www.slate.com/articles/slate_plus/history_of_slavery.html
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, History
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    Nine episode podcast series about the history of American slavery presented by Slate Magazine. Each episode is told from the point of view of a particular enslaved person, and takes a chronological approach in order to show how the institution of slavery changed over time. Presented by journalists Rebecca Onion and Jamelle Bouie, the series also features contributions from historians. There is a range of interesting supplementary materials, including an interactive animation which gives a powerful sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time.

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  5. Radio Open Source Streaming

    Link
    http://radioopensource.org/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, Literature
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    A lively and wide-ranging American arts, literature and current affairs podcast hosted by journalist Christopher Lydon. Four broad categories - ‘Words’, ‘Ideas’, ‘Abroad’ and ‘Arts and Music’ - cover interviews and discussions on a variety of topics, from Hannah Arendt and the banality of evil to critic Helen Vendler discussing the poetry of W.B.Yeats.

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  6. SCDF Masters of the Stage Streaming

    Link
    https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sdcf-masters-of-the-stage/id855786884?mt=2
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    American Studies, Drama
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Podcasting, Streaming/Download

    A series of podcasts produced by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SCDF) co-presented by the SCDF and the Theatre Development Fund. The podcasts features over three decades of one-on-one conversations, panel discussions, and interviews with theatre’s most distinguished American practitioners.

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  7. Smithsonian Center for Folklore and Culture Streaming

    Link
    https://folkways.si.edu/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, Dance, Ethnology, Music
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download

    The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is a research and educational unit of the Smithsonian Institution promoting the understanding and continuity of diverse, contemporary grassroots cultures in the United States and around the world. The somewhat cluttered site, and so not the easiest to navigate, hosts four podcasts and over 200 streamed videos including the music of Lead Belly, Pete Seeger and many bluegrass and jazz musicians. Several hundred sound recordings are available on the Smithsonian Folkways pages with excellent contextual and biographical information.

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  8. American Variety Stage Streaming

    Link
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    American Studies, Dance, Drama, Music
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download

    The American Variety Stage is a multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. The collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, 146 theatre playbills and programmes, 61 motion pictures, 10 sound recordings and 143 photographs and 29 memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini. [Figures taken from site 5/2015]. Searches can be undertaken by subject, author and title. The 61 motion pictures in the Variety Stage collection include animal acts, burlesque, dance, comic sketches, dramatic excerpts, dramatic sketches, physical culture acts, and tableaux. The films represented date from copyrights of 1897 to 1920; the majority are drawn from the Library’s extensive Paper Print Collection. The remaining films were produced by Hans A. Spanuth in Chicago from 1919 to 1920 for the series "Spanuth’s Original Vod-A-Vil Movies.

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  9. Paley Center for Media Streaming

    Link
    http://www.paleycenter.org/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, Media Studies, Radio Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Blogs, Streaming/Download

    The Paley Center for Media is a not-for-profit cultural organisation based in New York and Los Angeles, which is dedicated to fostering an ongoing dialogue about the significance of television, radio and new broadcasting technologies on the lives of media professionals and the public. The centre’s media collection contains over 160,000 television and radio programmes and advertisements, searchable through an online database which offers synopses, along with production credits for the programmes. Although most of the collection is not online there is, nonetheless, a lot of freely available interesting audiovisual content, made accessible via a selection of curated online exhibitions on the site’s Perspectives on the Collection page. This page feature hand-picked clips and programmes chosen by the centre’s curatorial team, which are presented with contextual essays and notes. The range of subjects covers the whole spectrum of US media history - particularly the post-war period, with interesting items on everything from the media’s role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, to a history and appreciation of Rod Serling’s classic science fiction series The Twilight Zone.

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  10. Library of Congress Webcasts Streaming

    Link
    http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/index.php
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, Art, Drama, Film Studies, Information Studies, Languages, Literature, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download

    These webcasts consist of lectures and talks by experts, academics, researchers and archivist. The Library of Congress has many different sites, collections and projects, covering a wide range of subjects: all are well-represented here and have been divided into eight broad subject areas: Biography, History, Performing Arts, Education, Government, Poetry and Literature, Religion and Science & Technology. Users can narrow their searches further within these broad headings, according to project/site/collection eg. The American Folklife Center, the Music Division, the Digital Future and You project, to name but three. The webcasts come with a brief description, date when uploaded and fully searchable transcripts. There is also a section for recently added webcasts. Although the talking head format is slightly old-fashioned the content is good and its searchability makes it a useful and user-friendly resource.

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