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Each of the 8 audio-video recordings linked-to below are distributed as streams.  A high-speed Internet connection, and Realplayer software, are needed to receive them.

Items 1-5 are recordings of live webcasts of two-party non-Internet ISDN-line videoconferences.



1
"Demonstration and Discussion of Children's Tamil (and Other) Songs-chants-dances-games, and Methods of Teaching and Learning Spoken Tamil Language" 
A videoconference co-hosted by children and others in Chennai (Tamil Nadu, India), and at Penn (in Philadelphia).  Oct. 15, 2005.
Recording (105 min.).
Background Information (on webpage).  



2 
Same as above.
Oct. 16, 2004. 
Recording (97 min.).

Two highlights of this videoconference are:

a)  Children from the two sides of the videoconference performing Oru kudam thanni (a singing game) collaboratively.  The left side is from Chennai, the right side is from Philadelphia. 
Recording (35 sec.). 

b)  One child from each side of the videoconference engaging in a verbal exchange partly derived from Enna panni? (a question-and-answer chant).  The questions are coming from the Philadelphia side, the answers are coming from the Chennai side.  There is coaching from adults on both sides. 
Recording (53 sec.). 

For video recordings, and written words, of 3) Oru kudam thanni and 5) Enna panni? as performed in the village in Tamil Nadu -- please see the Children's songs-games webpage.


3
"Old and New Forms of Storytelling"
Graduate Student Videoconference Series 2001-2: Videoconferencing with Indigeous Peoples.
A videoconference co-hosted by Warlpiri people (in Yuendumu, Australia), and Penn graduate students (in Philadelphia).  March 1, 2002.
Background information (on webpage).
Recording (75 min.)
 
A highlight of this event occurs in the opening minute, when elders on the Yuendumu side of the videoconference kindly play and sing some traditional music to mark the beginning of the meeting.



4
"Domestic Violence in Indigenous Communities"
Graduate Student Videoconference Series 2001-2: Videoconferencing with Indigeous Peoples.
A videoconference co-hosted by members of the Women's Justice Network (in Brisbane, Australia), and Penn Sociology, Anthropology, and Folklore graduate students (in Philadelphia).  April 15, 2002. 
Background information (on webpage). 
Recording (115 min.).
 
 

5
"Demonstration and Discussion of Virtual Performance"
Graduate Student Videoconference Series 2000-1.
A videoconference co-hosted by NYU Performance Studies Dept. graduate students (in NYC), and Penn graduate students (in Philadelphia).  April 20, 2001.
Background information (on webpage).
Recording (62 min.).

Two highlights of this videoconference are:

a)  A demonstration of (the images of) two dancers -- one in NYC, one in Philadelphia -- being in the same frame, superimposed upon each other.
Recording (2 min. and 19 sec.).

b)  Eric presenting thoughts about videoconferencing to Toni.
Recording (2 min. and 58 sec.).

Still-images from this event:
a)  Mix_1.
b)  Mix_2.
c)  Mix_3.
d)  Drawing.
e)  Keyed.
f)  Squares.



6
14 children's songs-chants-dances-games. 
Performed in Vellambi, a forest mountain village in southwestern Tamil Nadu, India.  In Tamil language.  June-July 2004.
Background Information (on webpage).
Recording (12 min.).

For a webpage with links to the texts (in Tamil and English) -- and video recordings -- of each of the individual 14 songs-dances-chants-games, please click here.


7
"A Discourse about Kannagi, the Tamil Woman and Goddess, and about Traditional Tamil Storytelling Techniques" 
A webcast.  Eric Miller and Siri Rama, co-presenters.  April 21, 2000.
Background information (on webpage).
Recording (53 min.).


8 
Subbu Arumugam performing in Villupattu storytelling style.
Videotaped in Madras/Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.  In Tamil language.  March 19, 1991.
Recording (90 seconds).



 
 
 
Last updated: 30 August, 2005.