Let Go & Shine! A Musical Soundscape for Refining & Shining

Dear Listeners on the Edge,*

Whatever you're/we're holding onto that's bogging you/us down, it's okay to let it go. Whatever rough cut gems and unfinished stories remain, you/we can polish and share what is. This Bonus Track "Let Go & Shine" playlist has its own story, but it stands alone here as a musical soundscape for whatever you/we can use some inspiration and encouragement for refining and shining!

Be Kind, Be Kin, 

*AnthroBone 

AnthroBone letting go and shining
on a day off from the field,
Hillsboro, West Virginia, July 2, 2017

* Cf. Cave, Mark, and Stephen M. Sloan, eds. 2014 Listening on the Edge: Oral History in the Aftermath of Crisis. Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press. https://books.google.com/books?id=W8C6BwAAQBAJ

Being a "Kidd": Lessons from Ruby May

Dear Grandmother-Loving Kids of All Ages,

I'm an audiophile from way back when I was a kid and my Mamaw sometimes let me borrow her very state-of-the-art cassette recorder before many people owned such technology. She was organized and forward-thinking about using audio for self-documentation, and she saved and labeled numerous cassettes of her original music as well as some recordings of me as a child. I've written previously about some of the ways that I use and engage with sound as an anthropology graduate student, but I also enjoy producing creative audio projects as a media artist. This year my partner and I received an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women to produce short audio pieces about each of our paternal grandmothers and their influence on our lives. Thus, I am proud to premiere my new audio production, "Being a 'Kidd': Lessons from Ruby May" about my Mamaw as my primary creative inspiration and benefactor.

[If experiencing playback problems, you can listen directly on SoundCloud.]