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Santa Cruz County Sounds Like
Santa Cruz County Sounds Like seeks to document life in Santa Cruz County through the medium of audio. The sounds we collect we'll share in short, roughly two-minute long, pieces, some paired with brief interviews, others with just the recorded sound. As the project grows, we imagine it becoming a sort of sound mosaic of life in the county.
And we're interested in all kinds of sounds—well known sounds like the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk or the wharf's sea lions, sounds from festivals and cultural events, sounds from daily life, sounds from the natural world, sounds from the human-built world, sounds that speak to the important issues of our day, sounds that reveal our past. The list could go on.
If you have ideas for sounds we should include or recordings you'd like us to hear, please reach out at digitalscholarship@ucsc.edu.
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Santa Cruz County Sounds Like is an initiative of the University Library at UC Santa Cruz. It is led by digital scholarship librarian and audio producer Daniel Story and community archivist Rebecca Hernandez.
The land on which we gather is the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to missions Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista during Spanish colonization of the Central Coast, is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma.
The land acknowledgement used at UC Santa Cruz was developed in partnership with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Chairman and the Amah Mutsun Relearning Program at the UCSC Arboretum.
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