Below is a film excerpt of Lionel Ziprin, a Jewish mystic/ poet/ hipster who died about a month ago. For school, we are fact-checking obituaries, and I chose this guy. He actually was a buddy of Harry Smith (Folkways ethnomusicologist, among other things), Ira Cohen (Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda) and Thelonious Monk. I was amazed to find footage of him on youtube explaining some of his life when that was exactly what I was looking for. (There is also a great audio documentary of him done by Jon Kalish.) I don't know if vlogging serves this purpose but it was really wonderful to locate footage of someone telling their own biography.
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