flowing stories
[looking for funding!]
what happens when a group of people create together fictional stories based on the challenges of their own community? how can collaborative storytelling be ethnographically relevant?
baño de oralidad is a radio show, a container for sound narrations from radio almaina, the free radio of granada. as editor of the show, i program audio fictions, audio documentaries, audio essays, and other sound products that, through storytelling, help to interpret the reality in which we live. all episodes are accessible through the show webpage. you'll find below the direct links to the special episodes in which i interview the creators of each series:
baño de oralidad # la desbandá
an interview with alejandro blanco, director of the radio drama LA DESBANDÁ, on the málaga-almería road massacre and produced by color comunitaria.
baño de oralidad # spectrum
an interview with soledad ruiz, creator of SPECTRUM: ENSAYOS SOBRE EL SONIDO Y LA ESCUCHA, an independent podcast of pandemia teatro.
[2023 © eug and the authors]
this book is at the same time the record of a research-creation course, the cathalogue of an art exhibition, and a didactic tool. its aim is to facilitate discussions in educational settings about the absence of black figures in historical narratives about spain. the first part consists of brief texts that aim to establish the basic coordinates for considering the neglect of the black contribution to spanish culture and society, through the perspectives of sociocultural anthropology, art, and historiography. the second part includes biographies of black figures that the historian and activist antumi toasijé has analyzed in his research. each biography is complemented by a didactic activity and a figurative portrait created by course participants.
[funded by the project APIARA B-SEJ-440-UGR20]
[san andrés island, colombia, 2020 - © ICANH and dario ranocchiari]
this book is based on the ethnographic research i made in the archipelago of san andrés, providencia and santa catalina and has been published by the colombian institute of anthropology and history. by exploring 'typical', 'gospel' and 'urban' music scenes, it analyzes the relations between musical practices and ethnicity in a context that is at the frontier between central and south america, english-speaking and spanish-speaking caribbean, catholic and protestant(s) traditions.
(a fragment from the audiovisual material shot during the fieldwork. this video is a rough cut of mr "pozo" greenard's performance of donkey race. at the guitar, his son and member of the creole group orlyn greenard. the maracas, the tube-bass and the jaw-bone are played by orlyn's students of sanandrean traditional music. camera: ubaldo medina)
por la verea. routes of transhumance
[2012-2013, sierra de segura, andalusia © dario ranocchiari] "nos vemos por la verea" / "we'll meet on the cattle-track" is a common expression between andalusian shepherds to indicate the particular kind of social relationship that they build with the people they met twice per year, during the transhumance (the seasonal migration of cattle, which characterized for centuries european sheep farming and which now risks to disappear). this project, based on an academic practical course lead by ángel acuña delgado at the university of granada, include a documentary film and a photographic report. they document the springtime route of pedro and tomás pérez, some accompanying shepherds and their cattle. these stubborn shepherds try to make transhumance survive in the 21st century, by pressing the local administrations to preserve the cattle tracks (which in spain measure 125.000kms and constitutes about 1% of national territory) and using conscious ecotourism to broadcast their claims. the movie por la verea. los caminos de la trashumancia has been shown in local and international ethnographic film festivals. a short version (18') was bought by rai news channel (italy).
