Shows
Limited Fork MusicI Want To BeThe author, Thylias Moss, reads her picture book I WANT TO BE with music by the 2002-3 version of Ansted (when he was ten).
This audio file is For Janice H. and Talisa J., a mother and a teacher to whom this book has become important.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the book, thoughts that extend what the book accomplishes. I am glad to have you as collaborators in expansion.
This sound file is also for Janice's daughter and for all of the children in Talisa's learning space in Georgia.2008-03-0700 min
Limited ForkProject Genealogy (why I wrote Slave Moth)This movie poam explores what led me to write the narrative in verse SLAVE MOTH when my son, the composer of the soundtrack for this short movie poam, was in sixth grade at a grade-six-through-twelve school. During a meeting, some parents wanted to ban a required ninth-grade ancestry assignment that was embarrassing, humiliating, and demeaning for disclosing that their sons could trace their ancestry no further than slavery. Right away, I realized the need for other models of slavery so that the shame being experienced could be attached to a broader, and I felt, likely more accurate context, one more...2006-09-2300 min
Limited Fork Video AnthologyProject Genealogy (why I wrote SLAVE MOTH)This movie poam from May 2005 explores what led me to write the narrative-in-verse SLAVE MOTH when my son, the composer of the soundtrack for this short piece, was in sixth grade at a grade-six-through-twelve school. During a meeting, some parents wanted to ban a required ninth-grade ancestry assignment that was embarrassing, humiliating, and demeaning for disclosing that their sons could trace their ancestry no further than slavery. Right away, I realized the need for other models of slavery so that the shame being experienced could be attached to a broader, and I felt, likely more accurate context, one more able...2006-09-2300 minLimited Fork"Glory" from LAST CHANCE FOR THE TARZAN HOLLER2002 performance of "Glory" in which the poet speaks and sings the words, allowing the music composed and performed by Ansted Moss to reshape them for their occupancy of the sonic page instead of the 2D page.2006-09-2000 min