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| What Do You Hear? | Listening Guide | Vocabulary |
| Do we really hear everything that is
conveyed in oral communication? These activities have been designed to
teach students how to critically listen to auditory information. Directions: Listen to one of the audio recordings below by clicking on the number. Use the Listening Guide to describe what you hear. Be sure to look at the vocabulary words. |
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Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (top left), 1861-1933. |
CREATED/PUBLISHED Boston: White, Smith & Co., 1878. |
Sidney Robertson Cowell copying California Folk Music recordings for the Library of Congress. |
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| Safeguard America! | Shivering and Shaking Out in the Cold |
Old Sam Finley Had a Pig |
| Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson | by Sam Lucas, David Arbury, soloist | Mrs. Byron Coffin, Sr., performer |
| American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election, 1918-1920 | Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 | California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties |
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Arkansas Traveller: scene in the back woods of Arkansas; Currier & Ives, 1870. |
Photograph of Thomas A. Edison listening to the new Edison Diamond Disc phonograph. |
Charles L. Todd prepares to record using the Presto disc recorder, California, 1941. |
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| The Arkansas Traveler (Descriptive Scene) | The Aba Daba Honeymoon | Runnin' Stewball |
| Performed and recorded in 1922 by Steve Porter and Ernest Hare | Words and music by Fields and Donovan performed by Collins and Harlan | Performer: Vester Whitworth Zelmer Ward, guitar |
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The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 |
Inventing Entertainment: The Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies | Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941 |
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Children playing "ring around a rosie" in one of the better neighborhoods of the Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois. |
Dancing to Wax Cylinder Recordings |
Buckaroo Myron Smart roping cattle, Ninety-Six Ranch |
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| Ring Round Rosey | Buffalo Dance | Buckaroos Then and Now |
| Performed by a group of children | Performers: James Walker and Rufus White | Narrator: Leslie J. Stewart; Carol Fleischhauer and William A. Wilson, interviewers. |
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Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip |
Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982 |
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