Whether it’s writing protest songs or using musical instruments as part of the rehabilitation process, music and disability have historically had a complicated relationship. As a foretaste of the theme of this years’ UK Disability History Month – exploring the…
Disability News Service Report on 19th November UKDHM launch
22 November 2018 Parliamentary event recognises disabled musicians who trumped oppression A parliamentary event has recognised some of the many artists over the centuries whose talent as musicians has “trumped” the oppression they experienced as disabled people. The event was…
PCS Supports Disability History Month 2018
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Posters for UKDHM 2018-4
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Johnnie Ray 1927-1990. Hearing Impaired Pop Singer, 1950s
John Alvin Ray (January 10, 1927 – February 24, 1990) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Highly popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor to what would become rock and…
My Song the award winning drama about deaf identity and sign language
MY SONG the award winning drama about deaf identity and sign language 2011 Focusing on Signed Song About a girl who is a dancer going deaf starinf Deaf Actress Lara Steward
Mandy Harvey American Deaf Singer Songwriter
Mandy Harvey Jazz singer Mandy Harvey always had a hearing problem. In her youth, she’d had infections that affected her hearing, but only to the point that she had to sit at the front of the class in order to…
Sean Forbes, American Deaf Rapper
Sean Forbes Sean Forbes has been deaf as long as he can remember. He’s also wanted to be a musician for just as long. Forbes became profoundly deaf when he developed a severe illness at only one year old. However,…
Pharrell’s “Happy” in ASL by Deaf Film Camp at CM7
This video is an ASL interpretation of Pharrell Williams’s “Happy.” An expression of music in ASL composed by Rosa Lee Timm and Azora Telford. The video was produced by a team of Deaf campers & staff from Deaf Film Camp…
Trio Beethoven’s Nightmare
Beethoven’s Nightmare For three teenagers attending Galludet University, a school for deaf and hard of hearing students in Washington, D.C., it wasn’t their disability that brought them together, but their love of rock ‘n’ roll. In 1971, Bob Hiltermann (drums),…