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Mane Read 2024: Community

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 Muscle Shoals [Film] directed by Greg Camalier

Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama has helped create some of the most important and resonant songs of all time. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, Rick Hall brought black and white together to create music for the generations. He is responsible for creating the 'Muscle Shoals sound' and the Swampers, the house band at FAME Studios that eventually left to start its own successful studio known as Muscle Shoals Sound. 

Featuring interviews by Stephen Badger with Aretha Franklin, Bono, Alicia Keys, Steve Winwood, Gregg Allman, Clarence Carter, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Cliff, Percy Sledge, Wilson Pickett, Candi Station, John Paul White, Ed King, Donna Jean Godchaux, Jaimoe, Percy Sledge, Rick Hall, Jimmy Johnson, David Hood, Barry Beckett, Roger Hawkins, Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham.

 The Vibe of Muscle Shoals Sound [podcast] produced by Muscle Shoals Sound Studio 

Some of the biggest hits in music history came from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Terrell Benton brings you into the incredible history of the Muscle Shoals sound.

Building community through listening [TED Talk] presented by Johnny D Trinh

"Community is the place where our stories intersect..." Johnny D Trinh, explores ways we can build community through art and listening. Viewers are asked to consider: how we acknowledge each other’s stories, the people we choose to silence, and the people we choose to listen to. Johnny shares about being the artist-in-residence at the John Howard Society Pacific in partnership with the Community Arts Council of Vancouver (CACV). Johnny D Trinh is an interdisciplinary, community-engaged, spoken word poet.

 SOTA POP Podcast

Join School of the Arts students Kiya and Grayson, as they take you behind the scenes and keep you in the know of all the events and exciting things happening at the UNA School of the Arts and in the Shoals!