
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Twitter Lists Follow #cyberplayground on #Twitterlists The beauty of lists is you can't follow everyone, so make a list and follow the #cyberplayground.

Thursday, October 29, 2009
This map links the identity and politics of Mexican-Americans, that is, the Chicano people, with the art, rituals and philosophical practices of pre-Colombian Mexican.

Saturday, September 26, 2009
IP Intellectual property, ACTA sucks Protect the commons and your rights from corporations' corrupt copyright controls standards of practice. International treaties used to hijack your Fair Use rights.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009
K-12 Art Education Connecting Brain Research with Effective Teaching. The Brain-Targeted Teaching Model. ArtsEd Digest

Thursday, September 17, 2009
In order to make sure that we have a
sweet year to come, we eat sweet things. Not just sweet desserts, our
meat dishes are also sweet, and so are the sides. Honey is a prominent
part of the menu. So are pomegranates, because they are supposed to have 613 seeds which is the number of commandments the Jews have to follow.
Peter, Paul and Mary, Woody Guthrie, John Lomax, Folksongs, Folk Songs, folksong repository, sing and record your folksongs, this land is your land
the periodic table song, child development chart, music lesson plans, music educational websites, brain and music research, reading level assessment, public school dress code policy

Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Censorware vs. privacy & anonymity Filters - Censorship, Cyber Patrol , Net Nanny, blacklisted, Gator in schools, homes and libraries. China Sets New Rules For Music Sold Online China's government

Sunday, September 13, 2009
Jann Klose opens for Renaissance October 11th at the Keswick theater Pennsylvania.

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Friday, November 13, 2009
7:30 p.m. | Town Hall Theatre
RICHIE
HAVENS is gifted with one of the most recognizable voices in popular
music. His fiery, poignant, soulful singing style has remained unique
and ageless since his historic appearance at Woodstock in 1969. For
four decades, HAVENS has used his music to convey passionate messages
of brotherhood and personal freedom.

Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Copyright Mexican Police raided Sony's offices

Thursday, September 03, 2009
NetHappenings: Geeks Cracked Spy Trade, Auto-Tune,Communist Party’s latest anticorruption campaign, Type Of Deafness Identified,earthquake-resistant,Open-source Camera, DIEBOLD massive consolidation of voting-system vendors control all the votes in all the states fraud abuse pay for votes and cover it up.
In fact, there are but two essential reasons we maintain these increased controls on behalf of our community: to protect our participants so that images that violate their privacy are not displayed, and to prevent companies from using Burning Man to sell products.

Wednesday, September 02, 2009
What Is Burning Man? Once a year, tens of thousands of participants gather to create Black Rock City in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. They depart one week later, having left no trace whatsoever. Learn more about this incredible experience, and read our mission statement and the Ten Principles.

Monday, August 31, 2009
25 Great Pirate Bay Alternatives

Sunday, August 09, 2009
Educational CyberPlayGround, Inc. K-12 School Directory allows you to Home School your child when living in China. Find online K-12 schools. Find Resources for Gifted Students. Baidu and google.com.cn

Saturday, August 08, 2009
RIP Mike Seeger died tonight.

Wednesday, August 05, 2009
The thousand-year-old forest is home to the Pumi people, and has shaped the spirit of their
unique musical tradition: The forest has been a blessing for the ancient Pumi tribes…but times are changing and now the
Pumi people are urged to guard their roots in the forest, as well as their spiritual world. Today, these Pumi music ambassadors are with us here in Beijing. This summer, come and learn about the sounds of the Pumi forest…

Monday, August 03, 2009
wildlife protection - We must protect our oceans. Song "Please don't go" by Barcelona
United Breaks Guitars is a quirky Country song that was topical, catchy and unlike most of the songs I've written but it has drawn hundreds of thousands of people to my site and introduced them to my other music.

Sunday, July 26, 2009
Anyone who is censored on the Net either in America or in China needs a VPN.

Thursday, July 23, 2009
Thanks to KIRO 7 Consumer Investigator Amy Clancy While we know that the Consumer Product Safety Commission has not taken action
against Apple regarding the overheating iPods, the agency is
requesting that Apple continue to keep it abreast of the situation.

Monday, July 20, 2009
Good for musicians who want to record the concert. There's 4GB of built-in memory, a Memory Stick Micro slot and a microSD compartment. Sony also tossed in a built-in speaker, a 5-second pre-recording buffer, digital limiter and the ability to record directly to MP3.

Monday, June 15, 2009
austrailian digital divide 1 laptop per child - 5000 across australia computers made by Quanta Shanghai Manufacture City (China/Shanghai)Barry Vercoe

Tuesday, June 09, 2009
FIDDLE TUNES ILLUMINATED is a 120-page spiral-bound volume containing musical transcriptions for each of the 45 tunes contained on my two most recent CDs, A HENRY REED REUNION and SOUTHERN SUMMITS. The transcriptions – done with the able assistance of my fiddling colleague Liberty Rucker, who is skilled in managing the subtleties of the Finale transcription program – provide musical notation for both the tune and the performance style.

Monday, June 08, 2009
I want to know how music is licensed for legal distribution over the internet, what are the terms of said license and how dose the record labels make there money.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Ramblin Jack Elliott cowboy git along little doggie irish traveller whoopie ti yi yo folksong

Monday, May 18, 2009
Narikuravar - Anything I Catch: The Handfishing Story - The Pirogue Maker - Adirondack Minstrel - Why The Cowboy Sings -
From Shore to Shore - The Amish: A People of Preservation

Monday, April 06, 2009
Follow me http://twitter.com/cyberplayground

Thursday, April 02, 2009
Uriel Jones was really an amazing person - now there are only 4 Funk Brothers left!!
Google is evil because it will not protect our privacy and it will do what ever with music to make money.

Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Baidu leads the search market as it provides localized products like music search and download and a forum called Tieb.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
player piano and mechanical rights.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009
the new music business, how can an artist make money.

Thursday, March 12, 2009
A YouTube children’s grass mud horse song has become an icon of resistance to censorship in china.

Tuesday, March 03, 2009
RIAA Sued for Fraud, Abuse and Legal Sham. The music industry’s latest attack on technology and innovation. RIAA Staff Cuts Reported

Monday, March 02, 2009
Music The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights on "The Ticketmaster/Live Nation Merger

Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Tom Rush's music is as affirming as his words, as are the other authors of his songs. As with past albums this contains some of the tastiest side musicians and harmony singers one can find. Putting it together is Jim Rooney producer and man with the music. Rooney and Rush pull off a must hear, a must learn from musical experience. Good to watch, good to listen to, learned a lot from the show, a lot more from the recording.
Contesting Calypso, Soca, and Nationhood in Trinidad
Reviewed by Stephen Stuempfle

Saturday, February 21, 2009
There are no restrictions in terms of what you can listen to or when.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Democracy Web (www.democracyweb.org), a new website from Freedom House and the
Albert Shanker Institute, fills this need to examine the U.S. experience with
democracy and to compare it to the political systems of every other country in
the world.

Thursday, February 05, 2009
Florida's Official State Song by Stephen Foster, loved a century ago is highly offensive to USA citizens in the 21st century. Maybe it is time to bring back "Florida My Florida" which was the state song in 1913.

Monday, February 02, 2009
H-Folk -- in cooperation with The American
Folklore Society, The Folklore Society of Great Britain, The Folklore
Studies Association of Canada, the International Society for Folk
Narrative Research, the National Folklore Support Centre [India], and
the Socit internationale dethnologie et de folklore.

Sunday, February 01, 2009
Mother of Modern Dance - Carl Orff / Gunild Keetman / Traude Schrattenecker / Karen Ellis

Saturday, January 31, 2009
jazz, swing, gypsy jazz, guitar, jazz guitar, sinti gypsy roots, rand nephew Lulo Reinhardt omposer and player of gypsy jazz who carries the guitar gene, also find Doug Martin composer gypsy jazz guitar player.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Obama to announce new position, Filter Plan -- And Words from the Smothers Brothers,Obama's CTO,RIAA Ditches MediaSentry,Obama picks RIAA's favorite lawyer for a top Justice post
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Part of Inaugural Events
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will host “Out
of Many: A Multicultural Festival of Music, Dance and Story” from
Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009, through Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. The three-day
program to commemorate the inauguration of Barack Obama

Thursday, January 08, 2009
give away free information
If you want to sell the complete download of your album at a lower price, the best thing
to do is to send people to your CD Baby page to buy the download. You set the download
price in your account, and since we only take 9%, you'll make far more money than you
will from selling through iTunes.

Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Indie Artist - get your music heard on the radio.
Music Copyright Laws Information from the Educational CyberPlayGround.
Music Contracts, Music Deals, Copyright Law, Music Downloads
How to legally sell downloads of cover songs.
Works for Hire, Agencies , Music Rights , License

Sunday, January 04, 2009
China Folklore Since 1998, legislation work in the field of folklore protection has entered a new phase. The Committee on Education, Science, Culture and Public Health of the National People’s Congress has conducted a widespread and in-depth survey across the country, and the Ministry of Culture has also included in its agenda the formulation of the Law on the Protection of National Folklore.

Saturday, January 03, 2009
Shanghai China - Carlton J. Smith Soul Brothers can be found at the Marriott in Hongqiao Champions Barr M - S has a New CD The SkinnyBone Tree.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008
He's been named the world's "most durable DJ" by the Guinness Book of World Records. Hong Kong veteran
Ray Cordeiro, better known as 'Uncle Ray' to his listeners, has spent six decades entertaining listeners
while rubbing elbows with some of music's most famous and prolific artists.

Sunday, December 28, 2008
Nyro was born of Jewish and Italian parents in the Bronx in 1947. Her father was a jazz trumpeter and even outside her home, music was a constant visceral presence, like air or electricity. "I would go out singing, as a teenager, to a party or out on the street, because there were harmony groups there, and that was one of the joys of my youth," she wrote in the liner notes to "Stoned Soul Picnic." The doo-wop and girl-group rock that filled the streets of New York then informed her songs (an influence paid homage to in the '71 release "Gonna Take a Miracle"), but so did the jazz she grew up with, the folk she heard in the coffee shops of Greenwich Village, gospel, show tunes, soul music -- Nyro's music was like the polyglot city from which it sprang, rich and surprising with an odd hint of danger.
The Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
will begin interviewing in January for the a number of anticipated
temporary salaried positions with the Smithsonian Folklife Festival to
be held in June 24-28 and July 1-5, 2009.

Saturday, December 20, 2008
Vi Hilbert, considered by many to be the cultural leader of the Native American Northwest, died this morning. In 1994 Vi was the first
Washington Native American recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Friday, December 19, 2008
After years of suing thousands of people for allegedly stealing music via the
Internet, the recording industry is set to drop its legal assault as it
searches for more effective ways to combat online music piracy.

Thursday, December 18, 2008
The Quilt Box is no ordinary music venue. Brainchild of musician Marianne Welch, it's a shotgun house located in Louisville’s Crescent Hill neighborhood, decorated with hanging quilts that double for sound buffering. Welch uses the house as a teaching studio and occasionally holds small concert get-togethers here. Gifted pianist Harry Pickens of Brunswick, Georgia
Blues Room in Shanghai China Contact Nicky - tonight Gypsy jazz sensation Lulo Reinhardt is back in Shanghai for three music-filled nights at this Shanghai live music stage. No cover

Tuesday, December 16, 2008
K-12 Holiday Multicultural Resources - AMERICA'S FIRST CHRISTMAS CARD, Krampus - Origin of Santa Claus, The First Christmas Tree
Released on Dec. 11, “Preschool Curriculum: What’s in It for Children and Teachers” synthesizes the best research on how young children learn in those academic domains and discusses the implications for improving preschool education. Healthy children demand jump rope Physical Fitness, a Healthy Diet, Brain Based Learning and Brain Development Resources.

Saturday, December 13, 2008
2008 NEA National Heritage Awards" Dr. Michael White New Orleans, LA Traditional jazz musician/bandleader
Skroob Music Publishing New Orleans, LA 70179-9111
David A. Brooks, Sr. www.detroitbrooks.com

Monday, December 08, 2008
While these "gate-barring songs" are reserved mainly for tourists and official guests, the Dong song-style is a form of communication every child learns from the age of 5. "And they sing on key, on rhythm, perfectly a capella, in tune with one another," Tan says.

Sunday, December 07, 2008
Bob Dylan. "The first thing that turned me on to folk singing was Odetta," Dyland said in a 1978 interview with Playboy magazine.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008
American Jewish leaders got the card which requested "the pleasure of your company at a Hanukkah reception," and bore an image of a Clydesdale horse drawn cart, carrying the White House Christmas tree, with a Christmas wreath-adorned White House in the background. Captain Smartypants sings Dreidel the Kosher Cowboys

Tuesday, November 18, 2008
American-based Kemet, the world's largest maker of tantalum capacitors, has asked its suppliers to certify that their coltan ore does not come from Dem. Rep. of Congo or from neighboring countries. Such moves could lead to "Gorilla Safe " cellphones being marketed, much in the same way that Tuna meat is now sold as "Dolphin Safe".

Sunday, November 09, 2008
New Mailing List: H-Folk has been created to foster better international communication among folklorists and to increase scholarly dialogue in the field.

Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Copyleft v RIAA, False IP address, file sharing - download The Pirate Bay’s tracker returns random IP addresses which also includes false or random numbers. Use this defense in court when sued by the RIAA.

Monday, November 03, 2008
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The kids from the Ron Clark Academy performing live "You Can Vote However You Like," a parody to TI's "Whatever You Like". Atlanta Georgia Ron Clark Academy.

Sunday, November 02, 2008
Spielberg Jewish Film Archive has more than 10,000 film titles.
Film: The Spielberg Archive has the world's largest collection of Jewish documentary films, spanning most of the years in which the motion picture medium has existed.
Where We’re Going! Queen Latifah is the vocalist getting ready for 4 Nov 2008 - President candidate Barack Obama 4 Hip-Hop Rap 2008 President Election

Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Halloween Fun Facts, Scary Songs, ghost stories, trick-or-treaters, pumpkins and jack-o'-lanterns, candy, costumes, werewolf protection and dracula.
Skinhead Neo-Nazis arrested-Assassination plot against Obama foiled by Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of ATF's Nashville field office. TEACH CHARACTER EDUCATION - What does it mean to be an educated person? KKK white-supremacy Hate Site Recruiting Tools. THERE WERE MANY WARS ON TERROR INSIDE THE UNITED STATES.
Copyfight Sarah Palin, Davy Crockett, Woody Guthrie, This Land is Your Land. Story Telling, The Oral Tradition, Ballads, Folkmusic, and Folktales used in the classroom.

Monday, October 27, 2008
BUSH SIGNS RIAA-BACKED INTELLECTUAL-PROPERTY LAW President George Bush (R) on Monday signed into law an intellectual-property enforcement bill that would consolidate federal efforts to combat copyright infringement under a new White House cabinet position. Report on DMCA Law's Unintended Consequences. The Ten-Year Legacy of Harm to Fair Use, Free Speech.
TEACH HISTORY THROUGH MUSIC: Founder Toots Hibbert is credited with coining the word "reggae".

Saturday, October 18, 2008
This chart below, expertly crafted by George Ou at ZDNet provides a solid starting point for comparison, with average bitrates of most digital video available.

Friday, October 17, 2008
A simple mention on the quiet and untimely passing of an American treasure. Levi Stubbs, the lead singer of the
FOUR TOPS.

Monday, October 13, 2008
Deadline Jan. 16, 2009 The Texas Media Awards promote excellence in amateur media production and its importance in life-long learning. Since 1988, it has been an annual, statewide event open to school-aged Texas residents. Qualified, impartial volunteers judge entries on criteria for each individual contest division. Students with winning entries receive awards at the Texas Media Awards Program during the Texas Library Association Annual Conference.

Saturday, October 11, 2008
Hang down your head Tom Dooley Hang down your head and cry. Last words “Boys, stay clear of fiddlin’, women, and whisky.” A common manner of speech in the southern mountains is to shift a final unstressed uh sound to ee explained.
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.
In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
He had three ships and left from Spain; He sailed through sunshine, wind and rain.

Sunday, October 05, 2008
This incredible performance is one of the most electrifying collaborations ever assembled. Sheer perfection!!!

Friday, October 03, 2008
ASSA first uses learning techniques based on previous experience to identify notes that form the spine of the main melody, and builds accompaniment chords around those. It also identifies checkpoints where harmonies are clear at certain points in each song.

Thursday, September 04, 2008
Inspirational candidacy of Barack Obama. Forest Whitaker, Jason Alexander, Whoopi Goldberg, Cyndi Lauper, Barry Manilow, Joan Baez, Macy Gray and Joss Stone. Black History / American History

Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Harry Truman said about People in Public Office. Shame and Scandal in the Family.

Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Teacher Planbook: Integrating Folk Music, Folklore and Traditional Culture Instruction Into K-12 Education

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
music teachers wanted philly and nj.
Category: Education Tags: YouTube anthropology presentation ethnography digital ksudigg Music Copyright Laws, mashup, web 2.0 world Larry Lessig

Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Kudos to the NJEA Review for this fabulous techie article that we can all understand.
The Toolbox Featured in the January, 2008 issue of the NJEA REVIEW
Web widgets increase student engagement by Patricia Bruder, EIRC

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Friday, August 01, 2008
Band Leaks Track to BitTorrent Blames Pirates but it was the manager. How the real world works.

Thursday, July 24, 2008
Creole Dialect Speakers and Creole Culture. Learn about stigmatized varieties and much more. Administrators, Educators, Reporters, and the Public are invited to learn about the following topics from Academic Experts. Creole, Pidgin, Patois, Dialect AAVE, African American Venacular English, Ebonics Irish American Vernacular English.
EVERYONE on the East Coast can come to the Pennsylvania Convention Center: 1000's of $$$ Resources that empower you to afford any college, choose the right school, get accepted, succeed on campus, and transform your life along the way. FREE!

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
School Teachers and other scholars Deadline for proposals: September 1, 2008 for October through December 2008. December 1 for January through August 2009.

Tuesday, July 08, 2008
While Bealle's research focuses on "folksong" as the root concept for
interpreting Sacred Harp, Miller focuses on "diaspora." One of the
advantages of speaking of Sacred Harp singing as a diaspora is that
Miller can transcend well-worn notions of "tradition" and "revival."

Sunday, July 06, 2008
Music Business Video. Terry Prince explains how he sold 15,000 music CDs in 18 Months by playing 30 hours a month on the Santa Monica Pier.

Friday, July 04, 2008
Something for everyone: fiddlin', yodeling, double-double bass, drums by fireside and Tex Williams crooning 'Trouble With Me'.

Wednesday, July 02, 2008
The show, Red, White and Blues: The Sounds of Patriotic Pluralism is not the same old Sousa. Hear guests from Merle Haggard to Joan Baez talk about patriotism and protest with host Nick Spitzer as well as blues and New Orleans jazz versions of classic freedom songs, American anthems from James Brown, the Staple Singers, the Grateful Dead, Jimmy Martin, and more. A brief history of the holiday also known as Independence Day, which observes the day in 1776 when "the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence." Includes speeches, music, photos, and links to related topics. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.

Tuesday, July 01, 2008
If you were on your way to work and heard a musician in the subway play for free, would you stop when you didn't know this musician was paid $1000.00 a minute to play? Learn what happened.

Monday, June 30, 2008
all mp3s will be DRM-free

Saturday, June 28, 2008
What could be better than talented artists performing for you and your friends in the comfort of your home? ~~ Karen
super-easy instructions for making your own widget
I love whole wheat radio - Karen

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
play games, Playground, english, esl, play songs, slang, fun games, jump rope

Sunday, June 15, 2008
I am writing to let you know that as of August 31, 2008, Microsoft will change the level of support to be offered for music purchased directly from MSN Music prior to November 14, 2006. As of August 31, 2008, we will no longer be able to support the retrieval of license keys for the songs you purchased from MSN Music or the authorization of additional computers. License keys already obtained as of August 31, 2008 will continue to allow you to listen to songs on all the computers that you previously authorized for service.
We wanted to send out this notification well in advance to remind you to backup your music and to provide you sufficient time to confirm license keys for the songs you've purchased from MSN Music.

Friday, June 13, 2008
This year would have marked Woody’s 96th birthday.

Thursday, June 12, 2008
A list of funeral songs; some creative, some traditional.
GRAMMY Foundation Announces 2008 GRAMMY Signature Schools. Artists House Music has entered into a special partnership with the GRAMMY Foundation that will make free online educational opportunities available to musicians worldwide.

Monday, June 02, 2008
Media Sentry sends Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notice use a software program sold by Audible Magic. limewire,arin.net or samspade.org, Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notice. The RIAA only identifies when a music file is being made available by a college user, not whether it was actually downloaded.
The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act, S.2913,
Bomba is an Afro-Puerto Rican music and dance form that dates back to the 17th century
"hoochie-coochie" dance - Learn where the Snake Charmer Song came from. nursery rhymes, oral tradition, dr. knickerbocker number 9, playground rhymes, kiddy games, jumprope chants.
Cause of Death:Heart failure

Saturday, May 31, 2008
Revision3's CEO Jim Louderback explained the SYN flood attack and MediaDefender's role in his blog.

Friday, May 30, 2008
1935-2008: Bruce 'Utah' Phillips Folk artist made name singing of Utah history

Thursday, May 29, 2008
This new Orphan Works legislation proposes
a change in U.S. copyright that would (indirectly)
require artists, illustrators, photographers, and
any creative individual to actively maintain and
defend their copyright by registering each and every
work with privatized registrars. Failure to do so
would leave everything you've ever created as an
artist up for grabs by anyone who wanted to copy,
reproduce, create derivative works of, or flat out
steal your work since the act defines an "orphan work"
as any work where the author is unidentifiable or
unlocatable, and applies to both published and
unpublished works, U.S. and foreign, regardless of
age.
Proposed secret copyright deal takes aim at iPods, providers. I have a GREAT idea: Why don't we let the RIAA write our copyright laws? The Canadian government is secretly negotiating an agreement to revamp
international copyright laws which could make information on iPods,
laptops and other personal electronic devices illegal and greatly
increase the difficulty of travelling with such devices.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
DEADLINE APPROACHING FOR USA SONGWRITING COMPETITION!
2008 USA Songwriting Competition's deadline is fast approaching. Winning
songs will receive radio airplay in United States and Canada along with
great prizes such as a Top Prize of over $50,000.

Saturday, May 24, 2008
larry page talks about googles vision

Thursday, May 22, 2008
Meet the Funk Brothers, Karen Ellis, Alan Slutsky, Carla Benson, Joe Messina, and read their personal messages to you. National Children's Folksong Repository - find Producer Alan Slutsky, Lead vocalist Carla Benson and Joe Messina.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Regional clothing from our locale includes "bling bling, ice ice, grills" and "hoochie hoops."
Fashion - Dress Code - K-12 - Pull Your Pants Up Video by by the Do Right Rapper Ethan (Six 8) Birch.