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capri0mniEarlier today, trouble commented that most of the ASL music videos out there on YouTube are by hearing students of the language, not native signers -- that's mostly just a question of numbers. Think that there are about an average of 30 students in every ASL class, multiply that by all the ASL classes in the country, and that every one requires you to translate a song, and put it on YouTube for your final exam. And so -- yeah. A lot of (literally) sophomoric efforts out there.
So here are a couple of vids for her (and all of you):
Sean Forbes became deaf in early childhood, he's oral and from a hearing family; he's also a native signer, and the founder of D-PAN (Deaf Performing Artists Network), dedicating to hiring deaf performers, and making music vids in ASL.
Signmark is Deaf from a Deaf family. He competed in Eurovision, 2009, and signed a contract with Warner Music in May of that year. He composes his raps to "rhyme" by hand-shape and signs in rhythm by following the vibrations of the baseline.
trouble commented that most of the ASL music videos out there on YouTube are by hearing students of the language, not native signers -- that's mostly just a question of numbers. Think that there are about an average of 30 students in every ASL class, multiply that by all the ASL classes in the country, and that every one requires you to translate a song, and put it on YouTube for your final exam. And so -- yeah. A lot of (literally) sophomoric efforts out there. So here are a couple of vids for her (and all of you):
Sean Forbes became deaf in early childhood, he's oral and from a hearing family; he's also a native signer, and the founder of D-PAN (Deaf Performing Artists Network), dedicating to hiring deaf performers, and making music vids in ASL.
Signmark is Deaf from a Deaf family. He competed in Eurovision, 2009, and signed a contract with Warner Music in May of that year. He composes his raps to "rhyme" by hand-shape and signs in rhythm by following the vibrations of the baseline.
