The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ferne Yangyeitie Caulker.

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ferne Yangyeitie Caulker.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 10 min., 12 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:	English
Subject:	Caulker-Bronson, Ferne, -- 1947- -- Interviews. African Americans -- Interviews. African Americans. Internet videos. Interviews. Nonfiction films. Oral histories. Oral histories. Internet videos. Nonfiction films.
Format:	E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11318367

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Varying Form of Title:	History Makers video oral history with Ferne Yangyeitie Caulker Ferne Yangyeitie Caulker
Other authors / contributors:	Caulker-Bronson, Ferne, 1947- interviewee. Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. Stearns, Scott, director of photography. HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:	digital
Digital file characteristics:	video file
Notes:	Videographer, Scott Stearns. Larry Crowe, interviewer. Recorded Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2007 November 30. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:	Choreographer and educator Ferne Yangyeitie Caulker was born August 9, 1947, in Sierra Leone, Africa. She earned her B.S. degree in education from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Caulker studied with the National Dance Company of Ghana at the University of Ghana, Legon, before moving to the U.S. In 1969, Caulker founded Milwaukee's Ko-Thi Dance Company to develop and showcase African, Caribbean and African American music and dance. Caulker began teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1971, creating the first courses there focusing on African, Caribbean and African American dance technique and history. In 1994, she was named a Fulbright Scholar. In 1999, Caulker was part of the Blue Ribbon Commission on the Arts in Education for the Wisconsin State Superintendent. In 2000, she was appointed to the National Endowment for the Arts dance panel. She also served on the board of directors of the Wisconsin Arts Board.

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 10 min., 12 sec.)) : sound, color. 031012
Playing Time:	03:10:12
Production Credits:	Videographer, Scott Stearns.