Show Notes
Teenage Wasteland enters a new chapter with From the Blaskets to the Bronx - a researched audio documentary centred on the extraordinary Mícheál Ó Gaoithín and the strange routes by which stories, sounds and memories survive. From the oral tradition of the Blaskets to Kool Herc’s breakbeats, Endtroducing…..and the making of Ryan’s Daughter, this is a story about fragments being carried forward and made new.
Research Sources and Further Reading
The Blaskets, Oral Tradition and Folklore Paul Hockings and Mark McCarty, The Village — filmed in Dún Chaoin in 1967 and released in 1968. National Folklore Collection, UCD, and Dúchas.ie. Mícheál Ó Gaoithín, A Pity Youth Does Not Last: Reminiscences of the Last of the Great Blasket Island’s Poets and Storytellers, translated by Tim Enright. Robin Flower, The Western Island, or the Great Blasket. Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, Twenty Years A-Growing, translated by Moya Llewelyn Davies and George Thomson. James Stewart, comp., Boccaccio in the Blaskets. Bo Almqvist, “The Mysterious Mícheál Ó Gaoithín, Boccaccio and the Blasket Tradition: Reflections Occasioned by James Stewart’s Boccaccio in the Blaskets,” Béaloideas 58, 1990, pp. 75–140. The Irish Folklore Commission and the work of Seán Ó Súilleabháin. An Claidheamh Soluis, the Gaelic League newspaper.
Hip-Hop, Technology and Cultural Memory Jeff Chang, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. Tricia Rose, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Mark Katz, Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music. Nelson George, Hip Hop America. Archival interviews and material concerning Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and the Universal Zulu Nation.
DJ Shadow and Sampling Conversation with The Expert. DJ Shadow, Endtroducing….. (1996). Doug Pray, dir., Scratch (2001). Eliot Wilder, DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing….., 33⅓ series. Mark Richardson, “DJ Shadow on the Music That Made Him,” Pitchfork, 2020.
David Lean, Film and Adaptation Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary. T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago. Kevin Brownlow, David Lean: A Biography. Paul Benedict Rowan, Making Ryan’s Daughter: The Myths, Madness and Mastery. Specific Steven Spielberg interviews discussing David Lean and Lawrence of Arabia.
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