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In Episode 1, we listened to firefighter Rob Weisberg recall 9/11 and his actions. In Part 2, we focus on Rob having to get HIMSELF to safety after a long day, and the physical and emotional toll that day- and the 9 months he spent volunteering at "the pit"- took on him. PTSD, survivor's guilt, health issues... and we find out what became of the "million dollar man" we lost track of in Part 1. Thanks for tuning in, and please take a moment to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts! I really appreciate it. For additional notes, photos and comments, be sure to follow the Everyday Odysseys Facebook page, of our Instagram account @everyday_odysseys_podcast. If you have a story you'd like to share on the show, please reach out via everydayodysseys@gmail.com This show is a labor of love, produced, scored and narrated by me- Frank Verderosa. If you want to be a part of the discussion, join Clubhouse on Monday evening 11/07/21. Just look for the club Everyday Odysseys, or check the Facebook page for a link. Thanks as always to our show announcer, Tiffany May!
NOTE: This episode was recorded on January 9th, 2020. Our guest for this special episode during Hispanic Heritage Month is José López – a prominent community leader and Executive Director of The Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago, which he co-founded in 1973. He has written extensively on the political and social reality of Puerto Ricans in the United States while serving as an adjunct instructor at Northeastern Illinois University, Columbia College and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Your host for this episode is Maggie Nava – a longtime community advocate from our Center for Health Equity Transformation - who currently serves as Site Director for the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative at Northwestern University. Featured Guest: - José López, more info and bio available here: https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/November-2014/Jose-Lopez-Humboldt-Park/ CONTACT US: – skinnytreespodcast@gmail.com – twitter.com/skinnytrees312 Outro music: - "Coco" performed Live at WFMU on Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg, 10/26/2015 by Radio Jarocho and Zenen Zeferino Huervo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.
The images that accompany this podcast may be found here: https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2019/03/musicians-and-dancers-in-the-india-office-records.html In 1818, the East India Company signed a treaty with the autonomous Rajput states of Jaipur and Jodhpur, offering British political and military protection in exchange for heavy cash tribute. By the early 1830s, these states were swimming in debt and increasingly resisting the Company's influence. So in 1835 the Company took direct control over the revenue of the salt lake at Sambhar, still one of India’s largest sources of that most precious of commodities, salt. Sambhar Lake was returned to Jaipur's and Jodhpur’s control in 1842 when, having been brought to the brink of ruin by the Company’s protection racket, their arrears were written off by the Government in Calcutta. Short-lived and little-studied, the Sambhar Lake affair left behind a set of financial accounts in the East India Company records that are alive with details of musicians and dancers, the cycle of Sambhar's festival year, and the economics of such cultural production. One musician in particular stands forth from Jaipur's accounts as exceptional, Mayalee “dancing girl”. As well as being paid a monthly cash stipend, she received 25 maunds of salt annually, and was clearly one of Sambhar’s chief courtesans. Little exculpatory notes in the margins of successive Company accounts reveal that Mayalee successfully resisted the Company’s attempt to force her to give up her salt stipend in exchange for cash. Was she merely protecting a nice little sideline selling salt? Or did the more lofty ideal of “faithfulness to the salt” (namak-halali) underpin her resistance? In this podcast I consider why Indian musicians and especially courtesans appear at all in the official records of the East India Company, and what this tells us about relations between the British colonial state and the Indian peoples whose worlds it was increasingly encroaching upon during the 1830s and 40s. This podcast is part of the project Histories of the Ephemeral: Writing on Music in Late Mughal India, sponsored by the British Academy in association with the British Library; additional research was funded by the European Research Council. Mayalee Dancing Girl vs the East india Company was written by me, Katherine Butler Schofield (King's College London), and is based on my original research. It was produced by Chris Elcombe. Additional voices were Michael Bywater, Chris Elcombe, and Kanav Gupta. It is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC–BY-NC–ND) license. The recording of Rag Jaunpuri by Jaipur gharana doyenne Kesarbai Kerkar is courtesy of the Archive of Indian Music and Vikram Sampath. https://soundcloud.com/archive-of-indian-music/kesarbai-kerkar The sarangi recording of Rag Bhairavi is by Nicolas Magriel and reproduced with thanks. Information on the Jaipur gunijan-khana is taken from the work of Joan Erdman, and material on Amber/Jaipur’s political life from the work of Giles Tillotson and Monika Horstmann. With thanks to: the British Academy, the British Library, the National Archives of India, the European Research Council, Norbert Peabody, Paul Schofield, and Mrinalini Venkateswaran. Flute and Drum, Rishikesh by Samuel Corwin CC BY 4.0 Prayer Temple Jaipur by Xserra CC BY 4.0 20160922_summers.end.marshes by dobroide CC BY 4.0 Waves on the Lake by Vlatko Blazek CC BY 4.0 Kirtana_in_Hindi by psubhashish CC BY 4.0 Water Music From the Handel Show by The United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps Public Domain Mark 1.0 Licence Ganga Aarti Ceremony V, Haridwar by Samuel Corwin CC BY 4.0 Shiva Worship Ceremony, Varanasi by Samuel Corwin CC BY 4.0 A Man Approaches with Bowed Sitar, Rishikesh by Samuel Corwin CC BY 4.0 Track 1 by Deep Singh and Ikhlaq Hussain Khan Originally broadcast live on Rob Weisberg's show, Transpacific Sound Paradise on WFMU. CC BY NC SA 3.0
The images that accompany this podcast may be found here: http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2018/06/sophia-plowden-khanum-jan-and-hindustani-airs.html Khanum Jan was a celebrity courtesan in the cantonment of Kanpur and the court of Asafuddaula of Lucknow in 1780s North India. Famed then for her virtuosic singing, dancing, and speaking eyes, Khanum became famous again in the twentieth century because of her close musical interactions with a remarkable Englishwoman, Sophia Plowden. Through Plowden’s papers and extraordinary collection of Khanum’s repertoire, it is possible to reconstruct songs from the Lucknow court as they may have been performed 200 years ago, in both Indian and European versions. In this podcast, Katherine Butler Schofield tells the story of these two women, and harpsichordist Jane Chapman joins her to perform some of Khanum’s “Hindustani Airs”. The intertwined stories of Khanum and Sophia show that using Indian sources of the time to read between the lines of European papers and collections gives us a much richer view of this sadly short-lived moment of intercultural accord in late Mughal India. This podcast is part of the project Histories of the Ephemeral: Writing on Music in Late Mughal India, sponsored by the British Academy in association with the British Library; additional research was funded by the European Research Council. The Courtesan and the Memsahib was written and performed by me, Katherine Butler Schofield (King's College London), based on my original research, with harpsichordist Jane Chapman http://www.janechapman.com. It was produced by Chris Elcombe. Additional voices were Georgie Pope, Kanav Gupta, Priyanka Basu, and Michael Bywater. It is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC–BY-NC–ND) license. Recordings of vocalists Kesarbai Kerkar and Gangubai Hangal, and sarangi player Hamid Hussain, are courtesy of the Archive of Indian Music and Vikram Sampath: http://archiveofindianmusic.org/artists/bai-kesarbai-kerkar/ ; http://archiveofindianmusic.org/artists/bai-gangubai-hangal/ ; http://archiveofindianmusic.org/artists/hamid-hussain-a-i-r/ . Selections from Jane Chapman’s studio recording "The Oriental Miscellany: Airs of Hindustan—William Bird" are found on Signum Classics: I. Ghat; II. Rekhtah: Sakia! Fusul beharust; III. Tuppah: Kia kam keea dil ne? By permission. Image of Khanum Jan illustrating the podcast: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Colonel_Antoine-Louis_Henri_Polier_watching_a_nautch_at_Faizabad.jpg Santoor and Tabla at Assi Ghat, Varanasi by Samuel Corwin. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence CC BY 4.0 Track 1 by Deep Singh and Ikhlaq Hussain Khan. Originally broadcast live on Rob Weisberg's show, Transpacific Sound Paradise on WFMU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike 3.0 Licence With thanks to: the British Academy, the British Library, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the European Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, Edinburgh University Library, the Norfolk Records Office, Yousuf Mahmoud, James Kippen, Margaret Walker, Allyn Miner, Richard David Williams, David Lunn, Ursula Sims-Williams, Nick Cook, and Katie de La Matter. For more episodes and information email katherine.schofield@kcl.ac.uk.
In this episode, we get past the velvet rope into the world of art auctions. As the software that’s taking auction houses online, Invaluable is white-labelling the biggest auction houses in the world. We speak with Invaluable CEO Rob Weisberg to find out how data is changing the game for new buyers, auctions growing exponentially, and being scared but doing it anyway.- About Invaluable-Recently called "one of the fastest growing e-commerce sites in the art world" by Blouin ArtInfo, Invaluable is the world's leading online marketplace for fine art, antiques and collectibles. Headquartered in Boston, Invaluable launched their online bidding platform in 2009 and has since gained over $10 billion in listed items, partnerships auction houses, and an international presence.- About Rob Weisberg- CEO Rob Weisberg has been at the helm of Invaluable since 2012. After revolutionizing the e-commerce of Domino’s pizza and Zipcar, award-winning entrepreneur Rob turned to Invaluable as a new challenge. With a focus on internet technology experience and consumer marketing, he has overseen the company’s rebranding and move toward increased online bidding.- About Vango Studio - Vango Studio makes the entrepreneurial side of being an artist easy and efficient, saving artists an average of 4 hours per week. In addition to powering artists with an award winning marketplace, we offer artists the ability to create their own website with little to no maintenance, distribute work across platforms, and access detailed insights about their collectors and what is selling across platforms.Follow Vango on Instagram @vango and @art, and visit www.vangoart.co .
Today I have Tammy Czapp on the show, owner of Stella Goods in Bozeman, MT. With the dream of someday opening a bed-and-breakfast, she taught herself how to make jam and started Stella Jams - a small jam operation that she sells in local farmers markets around the area. Tammy arrived at a career in food a rather roundabout way, and her jam business is only the start. Stella Goods Music: http://www.purple-planet.com www.polkamadre.com/ Recorded on Rob Weisberg's show 9/6/2008, Licensed under Creative Commons nc-sa-3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ 3.0 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Freak_Fandango_Orchestra/Love_death_and_a_drunken_monkey/06_-_La_Polka_Del_Amor_live_at_ScannerFm
Rob Weisberg, the host of the world music radio program Transpacific Sound Paradise, joins Vox Tablet host Sara Ivry to talk about a trio of new genre-bending projects: A-Wa, Sandaraa, and Schizophonia. A-Wa are Israeli sisters of Yemeni ancestry who invoke the music of legendary singer Ofra Haza. Sandaraa joins Pashtun songs from Pakistani singer Zeb Bangash with the Eastern European klezmer clarinet of Michael Winograd. And Schizophonia, a project of guitarist Yoshie Fruchter, reconceives cantorial songs by setting them in a rock and roll context. Weisberg shares a bit of background about each project and we listen in for ourselves to these energetic and riveting sounds. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Patricia Cohen of the New York Times discusses the reaction to her story about private museum tax exemptions; Rob Weisberg describes Invaluable's strategy, its alliances with eBay and Epai in China as well as the growth prospects for art collectibles.
The journalist and designer Georgina Keenan opens up something we all used a lot more back before email -- the envelope. Produced by Rob Weisberg.