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 * The Black Heritage Trail Audio Project**

Project Summary

Thank you for participating in the Black Heritage Trail Audio Project. The project is a collaborative effort between Mark Auslander’s class “Making Culture” (CP201) at Brandeis University and the Museum of African-American History during 2009-10.


 * What is the goal of this project?**

Our goal is to create a digitally recorded walking (or driving) tour of historic African-American sites on Nantucket. The tour should be accessible for free to the public via cell phone and will also be archived on line to be downloaded into mobile devices. The tour will incorporate diverse voices of the community. We may also try to incorporate music and other sounds, to evoke the rich history of peoples of color on Nantucket.

Using new multimedia technology, we may also be able to incorporate visual materials, such as photographs, maps, art works, and even video clips into the tour, to be broadcast to “smart phones” such as iphone.


 * How can I follow the project’s progress?**

The students in Making Culture will post written transcripts of the audio segments, as well as draft audio segments, on our wiki space on line, at http://culturalproduction.wikispaces.com/Nantucket_history Your comments and suggestions are most welcome as the tour develops.


 * When will the tour be available?**

We hope to have an initial version of the tour by cell phone available by November 1, 2009.


 * For more information please contact**

Prof. Mark Auslander, Director of the graduate program in Cultural Production Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University (MS 006) 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454 Office: 781.736.2214 Cell: 781.290.7150 mausland@brandeis.edu

Renee and Bill Oliver African Meeting House (Museum of African-American History) Nantucket, MA Tel. 508-228-9833 oliverr@comcast.net