As we celebrate our one-year quaranniversaries, I invite you to sing! When I began this series last March, I titled the first post after this song… even though the song I performed was Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive.” By the third Plague Song, I began using a lyric from each song as the title. But,…
In 1969, Sesame Street made its debut on PBS in the U.S. It has since become not just an American institution, but an international one –Â broadcast in 150 countries, and in over 30 languages. This show – as cross-media and transnational phenomenon – is thus an ideal subject for the MLA’s textual transactions theme, as…
Robert Krulwich has many ideas on how to celebrate 12/12 (today), including paying a visit to the Dozenal Society of America’s website. Â Here are two more contributions to the “12” party. Â First, it’s “Rocks Number 12,” a 2-minute animated film that aired on Sesame Street in the early 1970s. Â This is my first memory of…
