Jocelyn Robinson
Director of Radio Preservation & Archives at WYSOJocelyn Robinson is a Yellow Springs, Ohio-based educator, media producer, and radio preservationist. As an educator, Robinson has taught transdisciplinary literature courses incorporating critical cultural theory and her scholarship in self-definition and identity. She also teaches community-based and college-level classes in digital storytelling and narrative journalism.
A Community Voices producer at WYSO since 2013 and anAIR New Voices Scholar in 2014, Robinson's recent audio work has includedWest Dayton Stories at WYSO, and as an independent producer, contributing to the Goethe-Institut USA podcastThe Big Ponder and WHYY’sThe Pulse.
Guiding the growth and development of theWYSO Archives for the past ten years, Robinson has worked to establish the archive’s infrastructure and position WYSO as a national leader in radio preservation. She is skilled in using historical media in content creation, producingRediscovered Radio, a series of short documentaries using WYSO’s civil rights and Vietnam era audio as source material. With WYSO’s music director Juliet Fromholt, she is co-producer of the Rediscovered Radio “Women’s Voices, Women’s Music in the Archives” podcast, scheduled for a spring 2024 release.
A member of the African American and Civil Rights Radio Caucus of theRadio Preservation Task Force at the Library of Congress, Robinson is project director of a multi-year effort to conserve and celebrate radio produced at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).The HBCU Radio Preservation Project will run through 2027 and is generously funded by the Mellon Foundation. She was the recipient of the 2022 Merit Award from the Society of Ohio Archivists and serves as the board vice chair of the Third Coast International Audio Festival.
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Rediscovered Radio Encore takes a look back to the fall of 1980 when WYSO News aired a story on the National Afro-American Museum project.
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West Dayton residents were without access to healthy foods, to quality fresh fruits and vegetables. But when the community decided to no longer accept the unacceptable, the Gem City Market emerged. And it's so much more than a grocery store.
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The Great Miami River and Wolf Creek are natural boundaries that once defined the borders of Dayton’s West Side. The artificial boundaries of I-75 and US 35 further shaped it. But there’s another boundary created by the practice of redlining, the intentional denial of opportunity to residents of an area based on race.
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Community producer Loveyah Stewart’s family is deeply rooted in West Dayton. Her grandparents came up from Mississippi and Alabama in the 1940s, and now three generations have lived in her home on West Third Street.
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In this encore edition of Rediscovered Radio, we have a story about a white Kentucky woman named Ann McCarty Braden who fought racism in this country for more than sixty years.In the early 1980s, Braden visited Ohio, and Rediscovered Radio producer Jocelyn Robinson found an interview with her in the WYSO Audio Archives.
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A few years ago, Producer Jocelyn Robinson rediscovered some incredible gems in our library that had gone lost. Including a rare recording of writer and social critic Susan Sontag, who visited Antioch College in the Spring of 1965 for a lecture series on “The Shape of Things to Come in America.”
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Between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s, about three and a half million people migrated from Appalachia to the urban manufacturing centers of the Midwest. Over 40,000 came to the Dayton area from West Virginia, Tennessee, and especially Eastern Kentucky, seeking work at companies like National Cash Register, Frigidaire, and General Motors. They brought their culture and their music along with them. Archives Fellow Jocelyn Robinson brings us the rich mountain heritage in the WYSO audio collection, preserved through the efforts of three local brothers.
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A few years ago, Producer Jocelyn Robinson rediscovered some incredible gems in our library that had gone lost. Including a rare recording of Studs Terkel, the legendary author, oral historian, and radio journalist. But producing a radio story was just the start of this recording’s journey.
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We’ve been reflecting on Black Joy on West Dayton Stories and our final commentary on the topic is from amaha sellassie.
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Our community producers have been considering the notion of Black Joy on West Dayton Stories, and this week, Tiffany Brown uses the performance art of spoken word poetry in her piece, “Stillness…to Joy”.