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Resources
As this page continues to develop, it will offer information
about a constantly expanding and diversifying range of resources
related to the study of world music world cultures in the schools.
World Wide Web
The World Music Links page on this
site provides access to a wealth of information to teachers. Many
of the links provide access to other links. Some of the most useful
categories are:
- Educational Materials
- Selected Sites for Recordings
- Indonesian Music and Culture (for summer program in Bali/Java)
- Many of the sites include recommendations for videotapes
Books, Videotapes, and Recordings
This site will be developed as the World Music in the Schools
project progresses. In the meantime, a search of some of the present
links will yield a long list of recommended items.
Center Materials for Sale or Loan
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Books
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The Ramayana. Published
by the Los Angeles Music Circle, with text by Jan Steward,
and illustrations by Jan Steward and Marilyn Phillips. Although
described as a coloring book, this richly illustrated 24-page
booklet has an excellent and intelligent text, just the right
length for both teachers and their pupils. $2.00 |
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The Pancatantra. Another Music Circle
publication. Four full page illustrations and four exemplary
animal tales from India ,with an introduction. Text and illustrations
by Jan Steward. $1.50 |
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Kathakali. A full treatment of the dramatic
dance form from Kerala state in southwest India by scholars
Clifford Jones and Betty True Jones. Profusely illustrated
with photographs by Jan Steward and published by the American
Society for Eastern Arts, forerunner of the Center for World
Music. 116 pp. $5.00 |
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Educational Kits
(currently only available on loan to local schools) |
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Sanganeer. A Traditional
Block Print Center in Rajasthan, India. Each kit contains
80 color slides with notes, 5 8x11 black and white photographs,
a map of India, a fabric sample, and a compact disc of Sounds
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Kathakali, the Dance Drama
of Kerala, India. Contains 82 color slides of artists from
the Kerala Kalamandalam with notes, 6 8x11 black and white
photographs, a map of India, the book Kathakali, referred
to above, and a compact disc of the music of Kathakali. Prepared
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Videotapes and Compact Discs
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Wayang Kulit: The
Shadow Theater of Java, a 22 minute film,with puppeteer
Ki Oemartopo and made for ASEA by filmmaker Baylis Glascock,
is now available on videotape through the American Gamelan
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God with a Green Face, a
25 minute film with Kathakali artists from the Kerala Kalamandalam,
and made for ASEA by professional filmmakers at California
Institute of the Arts, is no longer available, but the possibility
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 Balasaraswati,
the only presently available film record of the great dancer
of South India, whose art inspired the founding of this organization,
can be ordered from the World Music Archives at Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT 06459.
Ordering info: 1 video/ $30 + $2.25 shipping and
handling (within USA); 1 video/ $30 +$9.50 shipping and
handling (outside USA, except Canada and Mexico). Checks
(personal, money order, or certified) payable to Wesleyan
University. Send to Bala Video, World Music Archives, Olin
Library,Wesleyan University, Middletown CT 06459 USA.
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Also under investigation is the possibility of a compact disc
series from archival recordings featuring artists from India,
Indonesia, Japan, Africa and the United States who were in residence
at the Center for World Music in Berkeley in the 1970s, as well
as field recordings, mainly from India and Indonesia, made by
Robert Brown between 1957 and the late 1980s.
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