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Interview with Marilyn Wood, and slide show with commentary

Title
Interview with Marilyn Wood, and slide show with commentary, 1987
Author
Wood, Marilyn, 1929-
Publication
1987

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Details

Additional Authors
Murgiyanto, Sal
Description
2 streaming audio files (approximately one hour and 30 minutes): digital
Summary
  • Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 47 minutes). Marilyn Wood speaks with Sal Murgiyanto about her how her background led to her work creating festival celebrations including Anna Halprin's influence; her first fully-formed work, at the Seagram Building in New York (N.Y.) as a turning point; creating a festival that results in a city celebrating itself; the purpose of festivals, in particular as structures for communal expression; the requisites for a successful festival including the use of large-scale visual media, both man-made (e.g., video projections) and natural (e.g., a mountain range); the festival she is organizing in Singapore; Anna Halprin's festivals as compared with hers; the highly-organized nature of her festivals; the skills required to create a festival; the shamanistic nature of her work; the process of creating a festival including the incorporation of the community's cultural values; the use of unconventional performance venues and the resulting expansion of audiences; celebration festivals as a way to create new traditions and rituals; cities that have made her festivals an annual event, for example Tokyo and Columbus (Ohio); festivals and religion, for example in Japan; transposing festivals to an urban context [ends abruptly; interview continues on streaming audio file 2].
  • Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 43 minutes). Marilyn Wood speaks with Sal Murgiyanto about the broad societal trends underlying women's relatively high participation in dance festivals; her thoughts on organized religion today; the significance of festivals for a community, including spiritual renewal; the personal satisfaction she derives from her work [from approximately 19:55 until the end of the recording at 42:45, Wood shows Murgiyanto a slide show of her work accompanied by her commentary and responses to Murgiyanto's occasional questions].
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Interviews.
  • Sound recordings.
Note
  • Interview with Marilyn Wood conducted by Sal Murgiyanto, on May 7, 1987 (approximately one hour and six minutes) and a slide show (audio only) of Wood's work accompanied by her commentary and responses to Murgiyanto's occasional questions (approximately 22 minutes).
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
  • Sound quality is good on streaming file 1 and fair on streaming file 2, which is marred by "tape hiss".
Access (note)
  • Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Funding (note)
  • The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
Source (note)
  • Wood, Marilyn
OCLC
937391342
Author
Wood, Marilyn, 1929- interviewee.
Title
Interview with Marilyn Wood, and slide show with commentary, 1987
Production
1987
Type of Content
spoken word
Type of Medium
audio
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
audio file
Restricted Access
Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Event
Recorded by interviewer? 1987, May 7 New York (N.Y.)
Funding
The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
Original Version
Original format: one sound cassette (one hour and 30 minutes); quarter-track; 1.875 ips.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format (myd_mgztco33322_v01f01_sc and myd_mgztco33322_v01f02_sc) in 2015.
Source
Gift Wood, Marilyn, 1929-
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Added Author
Murgiyanto, Sal, interviewer.
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