
Overview
Global Recordings Network (GRN), founded in Los Angeles in 1939, has produced audio versions of Bible stories in over 5,500 languages, and aims to record in every language on earth. They distribute the recordings, along with ultra-low-tech hand-wind players, in isolated regions and among displaced migrant workers. The Bible stories played by the missionaries are sometimes the first encounter community members have had with recorded sound, and, even more frequently, the first time they have heard their own language recorded. GRN calls their target audience "the tailenders" because they are the last to be reached by worldwide evangelism. Filmed in the Solomon Islands, Mexico, India and the United States, The Tailenders focuses on the intersection of missionary activity and global capitalism and raises questions about how meaning, carried by the simple sound of a human voice, changes as it crosses language and culture.
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19 - 1No More Tears Sister June 27, 2006
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19 - 2Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball July 04, 2006
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19 - 3Tintin and I July 11, 2006
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19 - 4The Fall of Fujimori July 18, 2006
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19 - 5The Tailenders July 25, 2006
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19 - 6Al Otro Lado August 01, 2006
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19 - 7Lomax the Songhunter August 22, 2006
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19 - 8Waging a Living August 29, 2006
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19 - 9The Boys of Baraka September 12, 2006
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19 - 10Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela September 19, 2006
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19 - 11No Bigger Than a Minute October 03, 2006
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19 - 12Maquilapolis: City of Factories October 10, 2006
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19 - 13My Country, My Country October 24, 2006
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19 - 14Lawn July 11, 2006