abasha, Chatsworth, Clermont, community researchers, Durban sings, editors, Ethekwini, Folweni, imisebenzi yentsha, indegenous hip hop, innercity communitymedi desk, KZNRC, low power radio, malungisa, marrianridge, media collective, motho, Mzinyathi, Oral history, radio continental drift, rasa fm, return of kingkong, sounds of edutainment, south Africa Indymedia, soweto, Thekwini, township, Ubuntu babasha, ukzn, umlazi youth, we mike what we live, youth in action
http://www.archive.org/details/IntroductoryAudioClips
For some of the introductory recordings of local editorial collective members. The editors highlight key findings and how the project can assist their organisation building eforts.
From → audio archive June 09, on air
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A regional community media development project
Durban Sings is a community media project for Durban (initially with youth groups loosely linked to CCS), seeking to involve especially those groups and communities in the inner city, the townships and surrounding settlements who have yet to gain access to the use and enjoyment of information communication technologies (ICTs) in general and media production/participation in particular. The project links aspects of oral history and story-telling with a creative community-lead re-assessment of audio radio tools and methods of broadcasting in/for the 'information society' from an 'African' perspective: how do post-colonial histories and stories sediment into everyday language; how do they shape or mark communication desires, needs and traditions of various forms and types of communities? The project hopes to 'make a case' for media in development whereby communities produce and broadcast the media that speaks for themselves, that is to say, where citizens speak and can be heard as advocates of citizens' engagement through their own cultural productivity.
DURBAN SINGS
http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_174
Response: Durban Sings June 2009
Hey Bill! greetings. thank you for your letter; and for sharing a moment of belletristic chance encounter in such beautiful way with us accross continents.
a text which accompanies Bill’s audio sending to DURBAN SINGS at archive.org reads:
‘Alec, who is a man of many parts, never wants for an audience when at the season’s end he recites his own composition, the “Umpire’s Lament”, two stanzas from which run like this:’ – In Sun & Shadow by Dennis Compton
-Reading from a book found in a doorway in Surrey, England. On top of a reddish upholstered chair is a small library with a handwritten note attached; ‘Please Take’.