VS 185X: Songs & Places / American Roots / Fall 2015

From a course in the Visual Studies Program at U.C. Berkeley, Fall Semester 2015, taught by Anthony Dubovsky. Included here are the week-by-week project descriptions, preceded by the course description, themes, bibliography and song book. The students' work can be seen on their individual websites as the course develops.

Saturday, September 5, 2015

Connemara Cradle Song - Down in the Valley


Tommy Makem, Irish Folk Musician, Poet, Storyteller





















Tommy Makem version of the Connemara Cradle Song, an old Irish lullaby, which points to an Irish  precedent for Down in the Valley...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHGJu8oWkkE
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      • WEEK V: SPIRITUALS II / Oh Mary Don't You Weep
      • WEEK 4: WORK SONGS, SPIRITUALS & GOSPEL
      • Where Do We Come From...?
      • WEEK 3: YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE
      • Students' Online Notebooks - LINKS
      • American Song & Smithsonian‏ Archives
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The painter Anthony Dubovsky was born in San Diego, California, in 1945. He studied with Willard Midgette at Reed College, and has lived in Warsaw, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, and Jerusalem. "An exploration in which the goal becomes a part of the discovery..." You can reach him at anthonydubovsky.com
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