Podcast appearances and mentions of Woody Guthrie Center

Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2022 55:55

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. On this episode we take the podcast on the road to the new Bob Dylan Center, 116 E. Reconciliation Way. See images from the grand opening event. Museum Director Steven Jenkins takes listeners on a tour of the two-story museum located in the Tulsa Arts District next door to the Woody Guthrie Center. He discusses the creation of the museum and shares insight into each of the exhibits that share the story of Bob Dylan and his career, to date. Following the tour hear the song "Love Revolution" from Tom Skinner's Science Project, which released their album "First Set" on Horton Records on July 15.

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Episode 19

Focus: Black Oklahoma

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2022 53:15

We start this episode with taxes! Tax code is complicated and the fiscal impact of the McGirt decision on the State tax collection is also complicated. Dawn Carter has the story on how tribal tax exemptions are impacting state funded programs. We continue discussing Native American Nations in our next story. Allison Herrera tells us about the traumatic experiences of Indian Boarding schools, painfully brought to light in a one of a kind event in Anadarko. The testimonies are putting former boarders firmly on the road to healing. Next we revisit local nurses and new data on the long-term effects of COVID, specifically on the health of Black people-- which is significant. A lack of mental health services and patient advocates are just some of the real concerns across North Tulsa and similar communities. Nick Alexandrov has the story. Juddie Williams has our next story: Freedom of speech is a constitutional right that still requires protection so that people can express their political views as fully as possible. Williams brings us a story about two organizations whose sole purpose is to protect our civil liberties. Listen in as queer farmers find community through an event called Queer Farmer Convergence. Catherine Wheeler shares just how important it is to be seen, heard, and challenged by your peers. It's hard not to recognize that Black people and their contributions have touched every part of Oklahoma and Claremore is no exception. From Olympians to sucessful business men, Claremore has a long history of Black excellence that is now being showcased in the Black History exhibit at the Claremore Museum of History. Carlos Moreno brings us the details. We end with an audio diary from musicians who recently performed at the Woody Guthrie Center. Crys Matthews and her wife Heather Mae graced the stage, singing songs from each of their prestigious careers, love songs they wrote for each other, and each debuting a new song for what the couple called a small but mighty audience. As the crew broke down the stage, Matthews took some time to speak about being on the road again playing music. She is a rising star in the folk music world, winning the Lincoln Center New Music competition in 2017, and recent awards at the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance, and the International Folk Music Awards. A preacher's kid from small town North Carolina, Matthews talked about the themes in her music of love, faith, civil rights, and social justice. Focus: Black Oklahoma is produced in partnership with KOSU Radio, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and Tri-City Collective. Additional support is provided by the George Kaiser Family Foundation and the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies. Our theme music is by Moffett Music. Focus: Black Oklahoma's executive producers are Quraysh Ali Lansana and Bracken Klar. Our producers are Nick Alexandrov and Vanessa Gaona. Our production interns Perla Mauricio, Torren Doss, and Smriti Iyengar.

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Episode 2221: 22-21: Songs and Remembrances of Woody Guthrie

Sing Out! Radio Magazine

Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2022 58:30

The exhibit detailing Woody Guthrie's life has just concluded its run at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City, with displays and items lent to the museum by the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We'll hear Woody's songs performed Elizabeth Mitchell, Joel Raphael, Joe Rollin Porter, Sara Grey and Woody himself. We'll also hear remembrances of Woody from Pete Seeger and a selection from a wire recording of a 1949 performance of Woody with his wife Marjorie. A tribute to Woody Guthrie in song and story … this week, on the Sing Out! Radio Magazine.Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian FolkwaysBrownie McGhee & Sonny Terry / “Blues for the Lowlands” / The Giants of the Blues / Legacy InternationalPete Seeger / “Pete Meets Woody” / Pete Remembers Woody / AppleseedWoody Guthrie / “California Blues” / 100th Anniversary Collection / Not NowPete Seeger / “Woody Writes 'This Land is Your Land'” / Pete Remembers Woody / AppleseedPete Seeger / “America Learns 'This Land is Your Land'” / Pete Remembers Woody / AppleseedWoody Guthrie / “This Land is Your Land” / Folkways:The Original Vision / Smithsonian FolkwaysWoody Guthrie / “Intro: How Much? How Long?” / The Live Wire / RounderWoody Guthrie / “Cowboy Waltz” / 100th Anniversary Collection / Not NowElizabeth Mitchell / “Little Seed” / Little Seed / Smithsonian FolkwaysArlo Guthrie / “Deportees” / Arlo Guthrie / Rising SonJoel Raphael / “I Ain't Got No Home” / The Songs of Woody Guthrie Vol. 1&2 / InsideJoe Rollin Porter / “Black Jack Davy” / Take This Hammer / JuropoSara Grey w/ Kieron Means / “Belle Starr” / Down in Old Delores / FellsidePete Seeger / “The Last Time I Heard Woody Sing” / Pete Remembers Woody / AppleseedPete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

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Eileen Chapman - Springsteen Live

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2022 33:43

Eileen Chapman Director of the Bruce Springsteen Archives Director & Center for American Music at Monmouth University joins Jesse to talk a little about her musical journey and the archives. She also shares details about the new Bruce Springsteen Live exhibit in Tulsa, OK. “Bruce Springsteen Live!” opens at the Woody Guthrie Center® on Saturday, April 16, running through Sunday, Sept. 25. More information can be found at Woodyguthriecenter.org.

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Episode 75: Sam Flowers

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2021 98:54

Sam Flowers is an operations assistant for Woody Guthrie Center with deep roots in the Tulsa hip-hop scene. Sam is a historian with a wealth of knowledge about music history, activism and social justice and a deep love for the Tulsa hip-hop community. He has been an ambassador for Fire in Little Africa throughout 2021, educating guests of the Woody Guthrie Center and sharing his passion for the project with hundreds of people. In this episode Doc and Ali catch up with Sam to discuss his work, his passion for music, history and community, and his experience with the Fire in Little Africa project. Subscribe and leave us a review on Apple to support the podcast! To learn more about Fire In Little Africa: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | Spotify FireInLittleAfrica.com

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This Episode Kills Fascists: Woody Guthrie's Life & Legacy w/ Deana McCloud

The Road to Now

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2021 47:42

Most Americans know Woody Guthrie's “This Land is Your Land”, but the song, much like the man who wrote it, is far more complex than many of us realize. Guthrie, who was born in Oklahoma in 1912, moved west during the Dust Bowl of the mid-1930s and witnessed the tragedy of the Great Depression first-hand. A self-proclaimed “common-ist,” Woody dedicated his life to documenting the experiences of his generation and using his platform to advocate for the common worker. In this episode, Bob & Ben speak with Woody Guthrie Center Executive Director Deana McCloud to learn more about Woody Guthrie, his music, and his legacy. This episode was recorded at the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, OK. If you're ever in the area, we highly recommend you take the time to visit. A video of Bob's visit is available on our episode page and on The Road to Now's YouTube channel. You can visit the Guthrie Center's website at woodyguthriecenter.org and follow on them at twitter at @WoodyGuthrieCtr. You can follow Deana McCloud on twitter at @DKMcCloud.

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Episode 53: Dr. View and Chris Davis

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2021 137:25

Dr. View and Chris Davis are co-executive producers for Fire in Little Africa, along with Steph Simon, Dialtone and St. Domonick. View is a producer, DJ, educator and community organizer originally from Longview, TX. He is the manager of Diversity and Education outreach at Woody Guthrie Center and received the 2019 Bobby Wright Dissertation of the Year Award for the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Chris Davis is an entrepreneur and artist manager who serves as FILA director of marketing and communications. A graduate of Carver Middle School, Booker T. Washington High School and the University of Oklahoma, Chris has been working with artists in the Tulsa hip-hop scene since 2016. Chris is the co-organizer of World Culture Music Festival which this year is part of Black Wall Street Legacy Festival centennial weekend in Greenwood. In this episode, Doc and Ali connect with two of the Fire In Little Africa executive producers to talk about the project and everything that led to the Motown deal. They discuss the Tulsa hip-hop community and what makes it special. And they discuss the movement behind the Fire in Little Africa music as View and CD share the vision for the project and what it means for Tulsa. Subscribe and leave us a review on Apple to support the podcast! To learn more about Fire In Little Africa: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | Spotify FireInLittleAfrica.com

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Episode 1 of Fireside with Dr. View: Victor Luckerson

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2021 61:17

Fireside with Dr. View is a podcast featuring Fire in Little Africa Executive Director Stevie ‘Dr. View' Johnson, PhD, in conversation with national leaders in activism, academia and culture centered on the movement behind the Fire in Little Africa music. Fire in Little Africa is a multimedia hip-hop project inspired by Black Wall Street in Tulsa, OK presented by The Woody Guthrie Center and Bob Dylan Center®. In this first episode, Dr. View sits down with renowned journalist Victor Luckerson to talk Justice for Greenwood, the search for mass graves and more. Victor's work about Tulsa has been featured on The Ringer, The New Yorker and numerous other national platforms. Early last year, Victor moved to Tulsa to cover the events leading up to the Tulsa Race Massacre centennial and has written extensively about current events in Tulsa and the history of Greenwood in his great newsletter, Run it Back. Future episodes of this podcast will appear on its own feed — Fireside with Dr. View. Episodes will be released every other Friday. Subscribe and leave us a review on Apple to support the podcast! To learn more about Fire In Little Africa: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | Spotify FireInLittleAfrica.com

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Dr. View

No Cover

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2020 85:01

Dr. View, aka Dr. Stevie Johnson, holds a doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Oklahoma. Currently based in Tulsa, he's also a hip-hop producer and the manager of education and diversity outreach at the Woody Guthrie Center and Bob Dylan Center. His latest album (In)visible Man takes its name from the novel 'Invisible Man' by acclaimed Black author and Oklahoman Ralph Ellison. Building off his research on race, hip-hop, and education, this album has only become more and more timely. Dr. View talks about the album's relation to Ellison's novel, his other works in Tulsa and how he feels like he was picked by the ancestors of Tulsa’s Black Wall Street. Support this podcast

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HBM140: The New Black Wall Street

Here Be Monsters

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2020

There used to be a neighborhood in Tulsa where Black people were wealthy. They owned businesses, built a giant church, a public library. Some Black Tulsans even owned airplanes. Booker T Washington called it “Black Wall Street.” Others called it “Little Africa” and today, most call it “Greenwood.” In the early 1900s, the neighborhood was prosperous and thriving, but Black Tulsans were still a racial minority in a young city that already had a reputation for vigilante justice. A local chapter of the KKK was starting to form. In the Spring of 1921, a Black shoe shiner named Dick Rowland was brought into custody for allegedly assaulting a white woman. Over the coming night and day, a huge mob of white Tulsans burned and looted and murdered in Greenwood and the surrounding areas. Dozens or possibly even hundreds of Black Tulsans died, thousands became homeless. But authorities never held anyone responsible. In fact, they detained many Black residents, some for up to a week. And insurance claims made in the aftermath were denied, as the insurance policies did not cover “riots.” Further reading on the Tulsa Race Massacre:Official Report from 2001 which describes the events of 1921 in detail and with context. Educational comic about the massacre published by the Atlantic and sponsored by HBO's Watchmen. Riot and Remembrance By James S. HirschIn the decades that followed. Records of the event went missing, some fear they were destroyed. The mass graves have yet to be found. And many Black Tulsans believed they could face retribution for speaking out about the event. It wasn't even taught in school until recently. As a result, a lot of Tulsans still don't know the history of Greenwood. Local rapper Steph Simon was one of them. He grew up near Greenwood, and he went to middle school there. But it wasn't until his 20's when he stumbled upon a documentary about the massacre on Youtube. From there, he became obsessed with learning more about the true story of Tulsa. And in 2019, he released an album called Born on Black Wall Street where he reintroduces himself as “Diamond Dicky Ro” in homage to the young shoeshiner whom white mobs tried and failed to lynch on that night in 1921. In 2011, an Oklahoman journalist named Lee Roy Chapman wrote an article for the publication This Land. Chapman's story, The Nightmare in Dreamland, was a devastating re-telling of the life's story of an Oklahoman legend--a “founder” of Tulsa named Tate Brady. Brady was well known as an oil tycoon and hotel owner who ran in the elite circles. However, buried by history was Brady's legacy of violence and racial animus. He was a defender of the Confederacy, he was credibly accused of tarring and feathering some IWW union members, and for part of his life, he was in the Ku Klux Klan. And on the night of the massacre, Brady was there, acting as a night watchman. He reported seeing several dead black people in the streets in or around Greenwood. With these revelations, a movement started to remove the Brady name from Tulsa. That movement succeeded partially, but the Brady name is still a part of the Tulsan landscape. When Steph Simon shot the cover image for Born On Black Wall Street, he wanted to incorporate the symbolism of Tate Brady. So he went to Brady's former mansion—a house modelled visually after the house of Robert E. Lee's, with murals of the Confederacy painted inside and big stone columns out front. It sits on a hill overlooking historic Greenwood. And he stood on the front steps of the mansion only to see a childhood friend driving by. It was Felix Jones, an ex-NFL running back. The two grew up together. To Simon's surprise, Jones revealed that he'd just bought the mansion. And he invited Simon inside. Together they thought up ideas on how to transform the legacy of the house from something hateful to something loving. So Simon invited about a hundred Black kids to come have a party on the lawn while he filmed the music video for his single “Upside”. After that, Simon and Jones started throwing concerts there, drawing huge crowds and starting the slowly re-contextualizing the house into something positive. They renamed the house “Skyline Mansion.”As this transformation took place, another local DJ and producer, Stevie Johnson woke up in a cold sweat one night. He'd had a dream about rebuilding Black Wall Street, figuratively and literally. He opened his laptop and wrote down his ideas frantically, trying to remember his vision. And soon after, he started to act on it. His first step was Fire in Little Africa: a commemorative rap album to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, featuring nearly sixty artists from Oklahoma. And over the course of a weekend in early 2020, rappers and community members and businesses filled Skyline Mansion to record dozens of tracks for the album. Fire in Little Africa will be available in February of 2021. Their podcast is out now. They're also curating spotify playlists of the featured artists, and they're accepting donations via the Tulsa Community Foundation. On this episode of Here Be Monsters, Taylor Hosking visits the former Brady Mansion to talk to the musicians who are looking to build a new Black Wall Street in Tulsa. Taylor also published an article in CityLab called Avenging the Tulsa Race Massacre With Hip Hop.A lot of people and organizations helped make this episode possible. We'd like to thank Steph Simon, Verse, Stevie Johnson, Keeng Cut, Written Quincy, Bobby Eaton, Felix Jones, Dan Hanh, Mechelle Brown, Chris Davis, Shruti Dhalwala, Brandon Oldham, Ben Lindsey, John DeLore, The George Kaiser Family Foundation, The Oklahoma Historical Society, and The Woody Guthrie Center. Producer: Taylor Hosking (Instagram) (Twitter)Editor: Jeff EmtmanMusic: Steph Simon, Verse, The Black SpotAlso heard on this episode: recordings from Black Lives Matter protests made by Neroli Price of Seattle, Washington; Bryanna Buie of Wilmington, North Carolina; and Bethany Donkin of Oxford, UK.

HBM140: The New Black Wall Street

Here Be Monsters

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2020

There used to be a neighborhood in Tulsa where Black people were wealthy. They owned businesses, built a giant church, a public library. Some Black Tulsans even owned airplanes. Booker T Washington called it “Black Wall Street.” Others called it “Little Africa” and today, most call it “Greenwood.” In the early 1900s, the neighborhood was prosperous and thriving, but Black Tulsans were still a racial minority in a young city that already had a reputation for vigilante justice. A local chapter of the KKK was starting to form. In the Spring of 1921, a Black shoe shiner named Dick Rowland was brought into custody for allegedly assaulting a white woman. Over the coming night and day, a huge mob of white Tulsans burned and looted and murdered in Greenwood and the surrounding areas. Dozens or possibly even hundreds of Black Tulsans died, thousands became homeless. But authorities never held anyone responsible. In fact, they detained many Black residents, some for up to a week. And insurance claims made in the aftermath were denied, as the insurance policies did not cover “riots.” Further reading on the Tulsa Race Massacre:Official Report from 2001 which describes the events of 1921 in detail and with context. Educational comic about the massacre published by the Atlantic and sponsored by HBO’s Watchmen. Riot and Remembrance By James S. HirschIn the decades that followed. Records of the event went missing, some fear they were destroyed. The mass graves have yet to be found. And many Black Tulsans believed they could face retribution for speaking out about the event. It wasn’t even taught in school until recently. As a result, a lot of Tulsans still don’t know the history of Greenwood. Local rapper Steph Simon was one of them. He grew up near Greenwood, and he went to middle school there. But it wasn’t until his 20’s when he stumbled upon a documentary about the massacre on Youtube. From there, he became obsessed with learning more about the true story of Tulsa. And in 2019, he released an album called Born on Black Wall Street where he reintroduces himself as “Diamond Dicky Ro” in homage to the young shoeshiner whom white mobs tried and failed to lynch on that night in 1921. In 2011, an Oklahoman journalist named Lee Roy Chapman wrote an article for the publication This Land. Chapman’s story, The Nightmare in Dreamland, was a devastating re-telling of the life’s story of an Oklahoman legend--a “founder” of Tulsa named Tate Brady. Brady was well known as an oil tycoon and hotel owner who ran in the elite circles. However, buried by history was Brady’s legacy of violence and racial animus. He was a defender of the Confederacy, he was credibly accused of tarring and feathering some IWW union members, and for part of his life, he was in the Ku Klux Klan. And on the night of the massacre, Brady was there, acting as a night watchman. He reported seeing several dead black people in the streets in or around Greenwood. With these revelations, a movement started to remove the Brady name from Tulsa. That movement succeeded partially, but the Brady name is still a part of the Tulsan landscape. When Steph Simon shot the cover image for Born On Black Wall Street, he wanted to incorporate the symbolism of Tate Brady. So he went to Brady’s former mansion—a house modelled visually after the house of Robert E. Lee’s, with murals of the Confederacy painted inside and big stone columns out front. It sits on a hill overlooking historic Greenwood. And he stood on the front steps of the mansion only to see a childhood friend driving by. It was Felix Jones, an ex-NFL running back. The two grew up together. To Simon’s surprise, Jones revealed that he’d just bought the mansion. And he invited Simon inside. Together they thought up ideas on how to transform the legacy of the house from something hateful to something loving. So Simon invited about a hundred Black kids to come have a party on the lawn while he filmed the music video for his single “Upside”. After that, Simon and Jones started throwing concerts there, drawing huge crowds and starting the slowly re-contextualizing the house into something positive. They renamed the house “Skyline Mansion.”As this transformation took place, another local DJ and producer, Stevie Johnson woke up in a cold sweat one night. He’d had a dream about rebuilding Black Wall Street, figuratively and literally. He opened his laptop and wrote down his ideas frantically, trying to remember his vision. And soon after, he started to act on it. His first step was Fire in Little Africa: a commemorative rap album to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, featuring nearly sixty artists from Oklahoma. And over the course of a weekend in early 2020, rappers and community members and businesses filled Skyline Mansion to record dozens of tracks for the album. Fire in Little Africa will be available in February of 2021. Their podcast is out now. They’re also curating spotify playlists of the featured artists, and they’re accepting donations via the Tulsa Community Foundation. On this episode of Here Be Monsters, Taylor Hosking visits the former Brady Mansion to talk to the musicians who are looking to build a new Black Wall Street in Tulsa. Taylor also published an article in CityLab called Avenging the Tulsa Race Massacre With Hip Hop.A lot of people and organizations helped make this episode possible. We’d like to thank Steph Simon, Verse, Stevie Johnson, Keeng Cut, Written Quincy, Bobby Eaton, Felix Jones, Dan Hanh, Mechelle Brown, Chris Davis, Shruti Dhalwala, Brandon Oldham, Ben Lindsey, John DeLore, The George Kaiser Family Foundation, The Oklahoma Historical Society, and The Woody Guthrie Center. Producer: Taylor Hosking (Instagram) (Twitter)Editor: Jeff EmtmanMusic: Steph Simon, Verse, The Black SpotAlso heard on this episode: recordings from Black Lives Matter protests made by Neroli Price of Seattle, Washington; Bryanna Buie of Wilmington, North Carolina; and Bethany Donkin of Oxford, UK.

Creating Safe Spaces for Youth Using Hip-Hop with Dr. View (Dr. Stevie Johnson)

Reimagining Youth Work

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2020 65:17

In this episode, we explore utilizing Hip-Hop music as a tool for creating safe spaces for young people, with the Manager of Education & Diversity Outreach for the Woody Guthrie Center & Bob Dylan Center, Dr. Stevie Johnson. Looking particularly at the transition from K-12 to Higher Education, we talk about what is needed to get young folks ready for college and through college, the need for bridge programs, and more. This episode also features a special discussion about utilizing Hip-Hop to teach Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man that is geared toward English Educators. Stevie “Dr. View” Johnson is a DJ, producer, educator and community organizer from Longview, TX. He currently serves as Manager of Education & Diversity Outreach for the Woody Guthrie Center & Bob Dylan Center. With close to ten years of college student development experience, Dr. View received his PhD in Higher Education Administration from the University of Oklahoma, in May of 2019. His https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oklahoma/articles/2019-05-27/oklahoma-city-man-receives-a-phd-by-using-hip-hop-research (written Hip-Hop & album dissertation), entitled Curriculum of the Mind: A BlackCrit, Narrative Inquiry Hip-Hop Album on Anti-Blackness & Freedom for Black Male Collegians at historically white institutions, received the 2019 https://www.ashe.ws/ashe_dotyaward (Bobby Wright Dissertation of the Year Award) for the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Dr. View is also the CEO of https://www.tspalbum.com/ (The Space Program (TSP)), an independent record label hub and hip hop collective, as well as CEO of (IN)VISIBLE records. Dr. View is also the Executive Director of https://fireinlittleafrica.com/ (Fire in Little Africa), which is a multimedia Hip-Hop project commemorating Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District known as Black Wall Street. Dr. View is married to his wife Ariel, and is a father to his three year old son, Amir Sky. His newest drop, (In) Visible Man is available at all streaming outlets: https://smarturl.it/drview1 (https://smarturl.it/drview1) Follow Dr. View on Social Media. FB: https://www.facebook.com/djvi3w (https://www.facebook.com/djvi3w) Twitter and Instagram: @drview1 Support this podcast

Episode 1: Dr. View

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2020 76:56

On this episode, Stevie “Dr. View” Johnson joins the show to discuss the origins of the Fire in Little Africa project, moving to Tulsa and a lot more. Dr. View is the Executive Producer of Fire in Little Africa, and the manager of education & diversity outreach for the American Song Archives, which encompasses the Woody Guthrie Center and Bob Dylan Center®. He earned his Ph.D from the University of Oklahoma in education administration in 2019. In the episode, he talks about everything from how he got involved in creating this project (22:30) to the importance of recording the album in Greenwood and at the Skyline Mansion in Tulsa (37:55). He also explains some details about his own creative process (51:15) and how he first learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre (1:05:15). Follow Dr. View on social media: Instagram | Twitter To learn more about Fire In Little Africa: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | Spotify FireInLittleAfrica.com

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Tulsa’s public art boom – Case Morton, co-founder Clean Hands Army

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2020 54:11

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. My guest is Case Morton, co-founder of Clean Hands Army. Nearly a decade ago, a group of artistic friends decided to launch a business. One of their early projects was painting a couple of murals in downtown, including the Woody Guthrie Center. Today they have more than 35 murals across Tulsa. Their work sparked a public art revolution in the city and now there are paintings on business walls all over the metro with more popping up every week.Clean Hands launched the Habit Mural Festival that will host its fifth annual event in April. There are Clean Hands stickers, shirts and hats. They’ve promoted musicians and are now partners in the long-running Easter Island Music Festival.Case grew up in Tulsa and graduated from East Central High School, where he says he was a “greaser.” He reflects on how those years shaped who he is today. He then went on to gradute from Northeastern State University and returned to Tulsa. He realized he wasn’t happy with the corporate lifestyle he found himself in, so he bolted to Hawaii where he lived for months without spending a dollar. As you’ll hear in this conversation, even though he boomeranged back to Tulsa, he’s rarely here for an extended period of time. He splits his time between here and his home in Vancouver, Canada, when he’s not traveling the globe. Wait till you hear how many countries around the world have a Clean Hands sticker displayed on a wall or light post.I’ve been a fan of Clean Hands since I learned about them in 2012, yet I knew very little about how they operate as a business. So I was excited to sit down and learn more from Case. As you’ll hear, they operate the business like it’s a hobby. Case says they are not driven by money or profit. Everyone involved in Clean Hands has other business ventures that allows them to have fun with this operation. They continue to do murals for companies and private commissions. They continue to experiment and have fun, and we all get to enjoy the fruits of their labor. Great stuff.Following that discussion, The Voice’s Kyra Bruce shares a conversation with Allison Ward of the band Tom Boil. They discuss the its formation and why every song on their album is named after a dinosaur, including the single “Pterodactyl” that closes out this episode. Let’s get this going. This is Tulsa Talks.

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Tulsa Little Jam - Season 2, Episode 18 - Jesse Joice

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2019 33:36

The latest episode of Tulsa Little Jam! This special edition episode features Jesse Joice!! - Tulsa Little Jam is a rich, entertaining "live-to-tape" music and talk show focused on emerging music. Shot on location at the culturally acclaimed Woody Guthrie Center in downtown Tulsa, there is no script: just music and organic, natural interviews between songs with the featured band and the show's host, Juan Reinoso. Proceeds from each taping of Tulsa Little Jam are donated to local music programs in the Tulsa area to help support the next generation of musicians. Sometimes introspective, sometimes goofy, the show is all about MUSIC of all types, helping support the strength behind the importance of Arts in all cultures.

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Tulsa Little Jam - Season 2, Episode 17 - Johnny Manchild & The Poor Bastards

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2019 29:45

The latest episode of Tulsa Little Jam! This special edition episode features Johnny Manchild & The Poor Bastards! - Tulsa Little Jam is a rich, entertaining "live-to-tape" music and talk show focused on emerging music. Shot on location at the culturally acclaimed Woody Guthrie Center in downtown Tulsa, there is no script: just music and organic, natural interviews between songs with the featured band and the show's host, Juan Reinoso. Proceeds from each taping of Tulsa Little Jam are donated to local music programs in the Tulsa area to help support the next generation of musicians. Sometimes introspective, sometimes goofy, the show is all about MUSIC of all types, helping support the strength behind the importance of Arts in all cultures.

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In the kitchen - Ben Alexander

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2019 66:04

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. The voice you just heard is Ben Alexander, Vice President of Culinary Operations for the McNellie’s Group. You know how crazy the kitchen gets at your family holiday gatherings? Just imagine that times 20 in nearly 20 kitchens serving different styles of food every single day. As you heard in the intro, it can get crazy. I love the description of it being like a chaotic ballet. Having worked in some restaurant kitchens, I can attest to that. There are times you actually find yourself doing a pirouette, but with a hot dish in your hand and a coworker flying past and just barely missing you. We discuss what it’s like to oversee so many different kitchens in many different locations and how they are continuing to look at ways to evolve. That includes their latest endeavor, Howdy Burger, which recently opened in Mother Road Market. Ben talks about the McNellies Group culture and how the company looks takes care of their hundreds of employees as they make a huge impact on the Tulsa food scene. Ben has lived all over the country, working in various restaurants, and he shares how that shaped him as a chef by the time he joined the McNellies Group in 2014. We also discuss Tulsa’s food culture, how working in a kitchen has changed over his 20 years in the business and what he’s looking forward to in the coming year. Outside of work, Ben and his wife, Natalie, dealt with a son nearly dying due to be being born with a congenital heart defect. Ben discusses what it was like to go through such a scary situation and how it resulted in he and his wife launching a non-profit to assist children and their families dealing with similar situations. We didn’t discuss it in this conversation, but Ben is also the head of McNellies Group’s philanthropy catering and hosts complimentary cooking classes for local children. He’s truly a special person, and we’re lucky to have him here in Tulsa. I really enjoyed our conversation even if we’re on opposite sides of the pineapple on pizza debate. There’s a lot to take away from this one.Following that conversation, Woody Guthrie Center’s Jerry Wofford stops by to share a fun story about Woody and the holidays, and we chat about the amazing new merchandise they have in stock that make a perfect holiday gifts for music lovers. I really need to go pick up one of those new hats.Closing out the episode is a song from one of my favorites in the local music scene. If you haven’t listened to Jake Flint yet, you’ll want to stick around to the end to hear a track from his release “Live and Not OK at Cain’s Ballroom” which was recorded in 2018 at the legendary concert hall. More on him later. Ok let’s do this. This is Tulsa Talks.

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Tulsa Little Jam - Season 2, Episode 16 - The Lonelys

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2019 34:17

The latest episode of Tulsa Little Jam! This special edition episode features The Lonelys! - Tulsa Little Jam is a rich, entertaining "live-to-tape" music and talk show focused on emerging music. Shot on location at the culturally acclaimed Woody Guthrie Center in downtown Tulsa, there is no script: just music and organic, natural interviews between songs with the featured band and the show's host, Juan Reinoso. Proceeds from each taping of Tulsa Little Jam are donated to local music programs in the Tulsa area to help support the next generation of musicians. Sometimes introspective, sometimes goofy, the show is all about MUSIC of all types, helping support the strength behind the importance of Arts in all cultures.

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Tulsa Little Jam - Season 2, Episode 15 - Carlton Hesston

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2019 26:16

The latest episode of Tulsa Little Jam! This special edition episode features Carlton Hesston! - Tulsa Little Jam is a rich, entertaining "live-to-tape" music and talk show focused on emerging music. Shot on location at the culturally acclaimed Woody Guthrie Center in downtown Tulsa, there is no script: just music and organic, natural interviews between songs with the featured band and the show's host, Juan Reinoso. Proceeds from each taping of Tulsa Little Jam are donated to local music programs in the Tulsa area to help support the next generation of musicians. Sometimes introspective, sometimes goofy, the show is all about MUSIC of all types, helping support the strength behind the importance of Arts in all cultures.

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3.02: Getting schooled - Dr. Deborah Gist

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2019 57:04

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber.On this episode, a conversation with Dr. Deborah Gist, superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools. We all heard about the teacher salary increases, but where are they on teacher hiring (11:20)? State funding for education remains among the lowest in the nation, so what needs to change (12:50)? Dr. Gist looks back at her 30-year career (18:00) that started, like many other Oklahoma teaching grads, in a Texas classroom. She discusses what's happening in the classroom (24:20) and how low funding hinders the students education. She also discusses why people with no kids or children who have grown up should be paying attention to what's happening with TPS (32:45).All that and much more.Following that conversation, I check in with friend of the podcast, Jerry Wofford, to talk music (42:30). Jerry is the education and public programs manager for the Woody Guthrie Center, so he discussed all the cool stuff happening there this fall, like the new Arlo Guthrie exhibit.Weston Horn and the Hush just released their new album “Vol. 2 Don’t Give Up” and they’re sharing with you the title track from that album (52:40)

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Music City Postcard: TULSA

The String

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2019 59:10

Tulsa, OK has an important musical past but also a dynamic present built on the legacies and impact of Bob Wills, Leon Russell, J.J. Cale, Woody Guthrie and more. This special field trip edition of The String tours the exciting music scene in Tulsa with visits to Cain's Ballroom, Russell's Church Studio, currently under renovation, the Woody Guthrie Center, the Bob Dylan Archive and iconic honky tonk The Colony. We meet locals who are championing the next wave of Tulsa music, including singer/songwriter and producer Jared Tyler. See WMOT.org for photos, a playlist and more resources.

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2.8: The Homecoming — Joy Harjo

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2019 37:07

Few people have created art across as many disciplines as Joy Harjo. Even fewer have achieved her level of success. The Tulsa native and member of the Muscogee Creek Nation is best known for her poetry, which she writes as "a voice of the indigenous people." Since the 1970s, she has published 12 books of poetry, which have won her myriad awards: the prestigious Ruth Lilly Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Josephine Miles Poetry Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, the American Indian Distinguished Achievement in the Arts Award, the American Library Association’s Notable Book of the Year, to name just a few. Her memoir, “Crazy Brave,” which details her troubling childhood and her journey to becoming a poet, won the PEN USA Literary Award for Creative Non-Fiction. She reflects on that memoir — and the personal history it forced her to confront — during our interview.Joy Harjo first studied visual art — and absolutely loved it. But there was a moment in college where her focus shifted, transforming her from an artist into a poet.This episode of Tulsa Talks is brought to you by the Tulsa Regional Chamber.Most recently, Joy was the Chair of Excellence in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Prior to that, she was a professor of English in the American Indian Studies department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has also taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Arizona State University, and the universities of Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.Harjo also is an accomplished vocalist and instrumental musician, playing a menagerie that includes the guitar, ukulele, bass, flute and saxophone. Her music often incorporates the spoken word. She has produced 5 award-winning albums and is a recipient of the Native American Music Award for Best Female Artist of the Year. She performs extensively nationally and internationally with her band, Arrow Dynamics.Jerry Wofford from the Woody Guthrie Center dropped by to talk about the musical line-up for the center’s Sixth Anniversary Celebration April 26-28.Be sure to check out these great musicians performing at Guthrie Green, for free, April 26-28. More information can be found at woodyguthriecenter.org. Joy Harjo’s poetry has diverse themes as complex as the artist herself: her ancestry, indigenous values, feminism, politics, individual struggle, what it means to be human. Now, at age 67, her work continues to evolve. In January she began a Tulsa Artist Fellowship to continue her exploration of poetry and music. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, @TulsaPeople, or head to our home on the web, TulsaPeople.com/podcast. There, you’ll find show notes and more info about our guests and topics. Every episode, we play you out with s

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