Michigan State University Libraries
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- A spoken-word performance by book artist Felicia Rice titled, "Collaboration and Metamorphosis," celebrating the national launch of her limited edition artist book, "Doc/Undoc: Documentado/Undocumented, Ars Shaminica Performatica." Rice delivers a series of short monologues tracing her metamorphosis from book artist-printer to artist-performer. She says that the title of her book refers to the dichotomy of being "documentado" or having access to cultural traditions and rituals that flourish in Mexico, but being "undocumented" in the U.S. which implies a lack of citizenship, power, rights, and knowledge. She challenges listeners and artists to use the shamanic objects, the contents of her bookcase, to inspire a recreation of themselves just as the immigrant has to create a new story and reinvent themselves. Rice answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by Michigan State University Librarian Diana Rivera. Rice is introduced by Dr. Shelia Contreras, Director of the MSU Chicano/Latino Studies Program. Rare Books Librarian Patrick Olson explains the significance of Rice's book. Part of the MSU Libraries' Colloquia Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-09-19T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- On President's Day, President Clinton speaks with Paula Zahn and Harry Smith about religion, his mother, the legislature, and the embattled nominee for Surgeon General, Dr. Henry Foster. On the "Morning Show."
- Date Issued:
- 1995-02-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Glenn speaks about his space flight on "Friendship 7" including humorous anecdotes and patriotic sentiments.
- Date Issued:
- 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Hmong immigrant Tong Vue describes her life sustenance-farming in Laos, saying that her connection to homegrown food makes her Hmong. She recounts her escape into Thailand without identity papers and eventually coming to the United States.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-09-25T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Barbara Jean Brown recalls her service in the United States Naval Women's Reserve (WAVES) program during World War Two. Brown describes enlisting in Lansing, Michigan in September 1943, attending boot camp in Bronx, New York City, receiving training in dictation and shorthand in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and being stationed in Washington, D.C. where she stayed in a barracks across from Arlington Cemetery. She also talks about drilling on the National Mall next to the Washington Monument, seeing President Roosevelt's limo, the Capital under blackout restrictions, the return of street lights after V-J Day, and President Roosevelt's funeral procession. Brown is interviewed by Sarah McLennan.
- Date Issued:
- 2002-05-14T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- John Revitte, professor of labor and industrial relations at Michigan State University, narrates a video on the operations at the Melling Forging Company in Lansing, MI. Revitte asks questions of the workers with the pounding of hammers in the background.
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Writer Jack Driscoll reads two selections from his novel "How like an angel." He also discusses what teaching at the Interlochen Arts Academy in northern Michigan has meant to him. The event is convened by Peter Berg, head of the Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-11-04T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Layton Aves, a production worker and UAW organizer at REO Motor Cars/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc., claims that in the 1940s only Ku Klux Klan members were allowed to join the union and work at the Lansing, MI plant. Aves says the UAW cooperated with the Klan in order to increase its strength and ability to organize workers and that union-management relations in the plant were often filled with animosity. Aves also talks about his duties at REO, where he worked from 1941 to 1975, life in the plant, his experiences with line speed-ups, piece counts, and time study, and the lives of his grandfather, father and mother, who all worked beside him the the REO factory. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1995-08-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection