Carol Bebelle is a native New Orleanian. She received her BA from Loyola University in Sociology and her M.Ed. in Education Administration from Tulane University. After spending over 20 years in the public sector as an administrator and planner of education, social, and health programs, she embarked in 1990 on a path of independence by establishing Master Plan Development Associates (MPDA), a consulting firm that offered planning, development, and grant writing services to social, cultural, education, and religious human service programs and initiatives. MPDA clients also included entrepreneurs and artists. Bebelle has published several articles and essays on the importance of community-based cultural work in the innercity and after disasters. She is also a published poet with a book and several anthologies to her credit. In 1998, Bebelle and Douglas Redd founded Ashé Cultural Arts Center, a pivotal strategy and force for the revitalization and transformation of Oretha Castle-Haley Boulevard, in Central City New Orleans. On this boulevard, Ashé has helped to create a vision for a cultural corridor with African and Caribbean culture as the theme. The corridor is the heart of a community vision of revitalization to which Ashé, Bebelle ,and Redd have become central features.
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Greetings Carol,
I am contacting you in the hopes you might be interested in contributing a short interview as an expert commentator in our documentary film work in progress “Americana Women: Roots Musicians – Women’s Tales & Tunes.”
Emphasis focuses on the role of women, particularly instrumentalists and their culturally rich music traditions, especially as they have broken the stereotypical limiting roles in music. There are various themes that can be developed for commentary: historical, cultural, ethnic, to name just a few.
The Library of Congress has already archived this substantial collection of oral history interviews and performance footage resulting from extensive fieldwork for the film, having identified it as a “key acquisition” for the American Folklife Center in its 2010 Annual Report to members of Congress.
A 1/2 hour introductory video of the documentary can be viewed, along with 136 music videos (not the interviews with musicians) on the MusicBox Project YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/musicboxproject. The channel has received critical acclaim for its significant content and technical quality.
MusicBox Project has further plans to develop an educational documentary DVD (or streaming content) from the collection of interviews and performances into eposodic modules with curriculum based lesson plans.
I hope you’ll take a few minutes of your valuable time to see what we’re about, and become one of our contriutors – and fans.
Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Highest Regards,
Dyann Arthur
MusicBox Project
425-750-5626
arthur@musicboxproject.org
http://www.musicboxproject.org
http://www.youtube.com/musicboxproject