Adult Summer Reading: Novel Destinations
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SOUNDBITES: ONLINE AUDIO ACCESS
NATIONAL JUKEBOX: VINTAGE SOUNDS![]() Library of Congress JukeboxThis National Jukebox from the Library of Congress provides free streaming of vintage audio music. There are some 10,000 titles that have been unavailable for more than 100 years. Some examples of the vintage performances include Enrico Caruso, Fritz Kreisler; the first blues recording, "Livery Stable Blues," made in 1917 by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band; a comedy skit by the Vaudeville team of Gallagher and Shean; speeches of President Teddy Roosevelt; piano performances by jazz-ragtime pioneer Eubie Blake; and music by the Hohn Philip Sousa Band conducted by Sousa.
These are not downloadable. However they may be streamed on your computer and your smart phone. Click on the link below and enjoy a walk down memory lane. |
Andrei Codrescu![]() Andrei Codrescu (www.codrescu.com) has been a commentator on All Things Considered since 1983. He is an homme-de-lettres whose novels, essays and poetry have been infiltrating the American psyche since he emigrated from his native Romania to Detroit in 1965. He is the author of forty books of poetry, fiction, and essays, and the founder of Exquisite Corpse.
He has received a Peabody award for the PBS version of his film Road Scholar, and has reported for NPR and ABC News from Romania (1989) and Cuba (1996). His new books are The Posthuman Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess (Princeton University Press, 2009) and Jealous Witness: New Poems (Coffee House Press), with a CD of Storm Songs by The New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars. Andrei lives in New Orleans and the Ozarks. |