Our pre-SCMS Atlanta episode includes a detailed report from the Radio Preservation Task Force Conference, featuring interviews with Josh Shepperd, Sonja Williams, Gerald Seligman, and Wendy Shay.

In addition, we present a segment on the history and legacy of the SCMS Latino/a Caucus, from Luisela Alvaray, Laura Isabel Serna, and Rielle Navitski, featuring interviews with Margarita De La Vega-Hurtado and Charles Ramírez Berg.

See you in Atlanta for SCMS 2016!

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News & Notes

SCMS 2016 in Atlanta (March 30 - April 3) is just around the corner!

Radio Preservation Task Force Conference

Janis Joplin on Wikipedia and the web
Janis singing “Turtle Blues”
Studs Terkel
The Studs Terkel Archive at WFMT
Bessie Smith

The Radio Preservation Task Force
The Radio Preservation Task Force conference
Josh Shepperd’s page at Catholic University
How to improve your math GRE score

Film preservation
1996 Telecommunications Act
Media consolidation
The Library of Congress
The Library of American Broadcasting
Sonja Williams’ website and her page at Howard University
Sonja’s book on Richard Durham, Word Warrior, at Amazon
Richard Durham at the National Radio Hall of Fame
Durham’s show Destination Freedom at the Internet Archive
Alejandra Bronfman, who presented research on the Jamaican radio archive at the RPTF conference
The National Archives of Jamaica (The Jamaica Archives and Records Department)

Pacifica Radio
The Pacifica Radio Archives
The Best Years of Our Lives

Chris Sterling
The Smithsonian
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting
National Public Radio (NPR)
WNYC
Paley Center
National Federation of Community Broadcasters

National Recording Preservation Foundation
More about Gerald Seligman at WOMEX
Lacquers (acetate recordings)

J. Fred MacDonald
“Segregation, Incorporated,” the episode of Destination Freedom from which our clip was taken
Hurricane Katrina
An exhibit on hospital segregation in the 1950s
Study on ongoing racial disparities in medical access
Hurricane Sandy
Fats Domino
Allen Toussaint
“Yes We Can Can” by Allen Toussaint

Martin Grams, Jr.
Martin’s blog post on the RPTF conference
Wendy Shay at the National Museum of American History
Fibber McGee and Molly
ArchiveGrid

Michele Hilmes
Cynthia Meyers
Shawn VanCour
Derek Vaillant
Amanda Keeler
Neil Verma
Allison Perlman
Inés Casillas

Fountain Hughes on Wikipedia
Interview with Fountain Hughes

SCMS Latino/a Caucus

SCMS Latino/a Caucus
SCMS Latino/a Caucus on Facebook

Luisela Alvaray at DePaul University
Laura Isabel Serna at University of Southern California
Rielle Navitski at University of Georgia
Charles Ramírez Berg at University of Texas at Austin
Video of Mary Beltrán interviewing Charles Ramirez Berg on the development and growth of the SCMS Latino/a Caucus
Mary Beltrán at University of Texas at Austin
Chon Noriega at University of California at Los Angeles
Margarita De La Vega-Hurtado on Latin American women directors

Wrap-up

Info on all SCMS Caucuses and Scholarly Interest Groups (SIGs)
If you’re interested in putting together a Caucus or SIG oral history segment for Aca-Media, contact us at info@aca-media.org!
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