My___on Mondays

Episode 108: My Delight At Acapella - MING Public Archives

Acapella music from the early twentieth century.

Episode 107: My Cross-Country Library Poems by Calvin Pineda

Calvin Pineda makes music, poetry, and theater with an eye towards the whimsical, pedestrian, and spiritual. They are from Boise, Idaho, and have studied at The College Of Western Idaho, The Eugene O’Neill National Theater Institute, and Bard College. They are a theological seminary graduate, and a three-time attendee of the American Numismatic Association’s Summer Seminar. Their most recent albums were released on September 8th-- 'And What Shall We Wear,' an undergraduate gender meditation; and 'Zines From The Duplex Nursing Home,' recorded into a discount eBay cassette deck. They perform with their band as Calvin Pineda and The Antacids, and are one-half of the musical-essay-podcast duo Sage Country Fragments. They enjoy cats, roadside attractions, and mint ice cream. 

Episode 106: My Conversation with Pius Akumbu - MING Disappearing Worlds Series

Pius Akumbu is a senior researcher at Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique (LLACAN), a research unit of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and INaLCO University that specializes in the study of the languages and cultures of Africa. Before joining LLACAN, Pius was a Visiting Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Previously, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Hamburg from 2019 to 2021. Before leaving Cameroon, Pius taught Linguistics courses at the universities of Buea and Bamenda. He received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Yaoundé 1 in Cameroon. His research focuses on the documentation and description of Grassfields Bantu languages of Cameroon, including his mother tongue, Babanki. Additionally, Pius researches multilingualism in Cameroon as well as language planning and policy in Africa. He is an ELDP grant recipient, and a depositor at the Endangered Languages Archive. Since November 2022, Pius has been one of the Endangered Languages Project’s (ELP) language revitalization mentors.

Episode 105: My Eastern Roma Soundscape - MING Public Archives

Eastern European Roma music recorded in 1917 by Columbia Records.

 

Episode 104: My Sympathy For The Creature - MING Public Archives

Excerpt from Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly, published in 1818. 

Episode 103: My Journey To A Borderland Heartbreak

Lasca, by Frank Desprez, read by Harry Humphreys and recorded in 1919 for Edison Records.

 

Episode 102: My Kipling Classic - MING Public Archives

Recitation of Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling recorded in 1919 for Victor Records.

 

Episode 101: My Guest Poet Revisit - MING Public Archives

Readings by poet Edgar A. Guest recorded for Victor Records in 1919.

Episode 100: My History of Falling by Heidi Kraay - Excerpt from A Century Cycle

Heidi Kraay is a playwright and writer across disciplines. Her work examines the connection between brain and body, seeking empathy with fractured characters. She pulls myth, metaphor and monsters together to attempt connections across difference. Her plays, including Unwind: Hindsight is 2020, see in the dark, How to Hide Your Monster, New Eden, Me and My Shadow, Kilgore, as well as co-devised plays, plays for young audiences, one-acts and short plays, have been presented nationally and internationally.  

Learn more about Heidi and her work at: http://www.heidikraay.com/ 

Wolf/Girl: https://www.morrisoncenter.com/events/detail/wolf-girl 

Episode 99: My Revisit To Aesop Part III - MING Public Archive

The Owl And The Grasshopper, from The Aesop For Children, Illustrated by Milo Winter, 1919.  

https://www.loc.gov/item/19014083/