Two Events at Library of Congress

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INTEGRATE FOLKLORE, MUSIC, & TRADITIONAL CULTURE
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/folk.html>

Folk music - sung during the days before there was a music
industry when the role of music was about your life -
about the life and times that most of us don't experience
anymore and when the music was sung because it helped
people through it and sustained them.

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The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress presents:

BIRMINGHAM SUNLIGHTS
-- African American Gospel quartet from Alabama

Wednesday, December 7, 2005, at Noon
Coolidge Auditorium

The dynamic Birmingham Sunlights are dedicated to carrying on the art
of unaccompanied gospel harmony singing that has an especially
brilliant heritage in their home place Jefferson County, Alabama.
Formed in 1979 by music director James Alex Taylor, the quartet
originally included James' brothers Steve and Barry, and Ricky Speights
and Wayne Williams; Williams has since been replaced by Bill Graves.
Upon becoming aware of the rich Jefferson County gospel quartet
tradition they sought training from a senior quartet, the Sterling
Jubilees, to learn songs traditional to the area. For over twenty years
since then, the Sunlights have carried their joyful message all over
the United States and the world. They have appeared at numerous
festivals across the nation, performed in France as ambassadors of
Alabama traditional culture, toured five countries in Africa and
performed extensively in the Caribbean and Australia under the auspices
of the United States Department of Information and the United States
State Department.




AUTHOR SARA M. DAVIS DISCUSSES HER BOOK SONG & SILENCE,
in which she reveals how Tai Lües are reviving and reinventing their
culture in ways that contest the official state version.

Tuesday, December 13, at Noon
Pickford Theater, 3rd Floor Madison Building

Carefully avoiding government repression, Tai Lües have rebuilt
Buddhist temples and made them into vital centers for the Tai community
to gather, discuss their future, and express discontent. Davis also
describes the resurgence of the Tai language evident in a renewed
interest in epic storytelling and traditional songs as well as the
popularity of Tai pop music and computer publishing projects.
Throughout her work, Davis weaves together the voices of monks,
singers, and activists to examine issues of cultural authenticity, the
status of ethnic minorities in China, and the growing cross-border
contacts among Tai Lües in China, Thailand, Burma, and Laos.

Sara M. Davis is a New-York based writer and former researcher in the
Asia Division of Human Rights Watch.

For more information see:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023113/0231135262.HTM


For more information on both events please call 202-707-5510 or visit
www.loc.gov/folklife

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