http://www.metafilter.com/tags/traditionalmusic/rss tag posts with traditionalmusic Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:17:36 -0800 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:17:36 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/70248/Its-what-it-says-on-the-tin <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sEYIouqEdU">Smoke on the Water</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPKVaPBmGoo">We Will Rock You</a> -- the traditional Japanese versions. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.70248 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:17:36 -0800 music queen deeppurple japanese japanesemusic traditionalmusic traditional flatluigi http://www.metafilter.com/66650/Field-recordings-and-films-of-ethnomusicologist-Robert-Garfias <a href="http://eee.uci.edu/programs/rgarfias/">The website of ethnomusicologist Robert Garfias</a> is a treasure trove of mp3 <a href="https://eee.uci.edu/programs/rgarfias/sound-recordings.html">sound recordings</a> and short realplayer <a href="https://eee.uci.edu/programs/rgarfias/films.html">film clips</a> of traditional music from all over the world, including Japan, India, Mexico, Turkey, Albania, Okinawa, Spain, Burma, Alaska, Sudan, Venezuela, Spain and many more. Garfias' <a href="https://eee.uci.edu/programs/rgarfias/field-recordings.html">field recordings</a> are illustrated with his photographs. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.66650 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:26:53 -0800 ethnomusicology RobertGarfias traditionalmusic music Kattullus http://www.metafilter.com/60978/Musical-Traditions You could read about <a href="http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/trinidad.htm" title="Carnival in Trinidad: Evolution & Symbolic Meaning, by John Cowley">carnival in Trinidad</a>, or <a href="http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/appalach.htm" title="Appalachian Traditional Music: A Short History, by Debby McClatchy">Appalachian traditions</a> or <a href="http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/damn_soc.htm" title="Damn Society! : An Introduction to Greek Rembetika, by John Harrison">Greek rembetika</a>, or <a href=http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/b_yodel.htm title="America's Blue Yodelers: Jimmie Rodger's Black Precursors, by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff">African-American yodelers</a> or <a href="http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/ajua.htm" title="&#0161;Aj&#0250;a! : M&#0250;sica Chicana Takes Off, by Ben Tavera-King">m&#0250;sica Chicana</a>, or choose from <a href="http://www.mustrad.org.uk/arts_abc.htm" title="This is their full list of articles.">a couple of hundred other articles</a> about traditional music and musicians at <a href="http://www.mustrad.org.uk/index.htm" title="The magazine for Traditional Music throughout the World.">Musical Traditions</a>. <small>[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/38843/Ragtime-Cakewalks-Coon-Songs-and-Vaudeville-Barbershop-Quartets-etc" title="The Musical Traditions site was linked to before (by y2karl in a post from 2005), but in the context of a specific focus on ragtime, and as a relatively minor fish in a veritable ocean of other links! It's worthwhile, I think, to point once more to this site and call attention to the great variety of musical topics on offer here. Of course, admins might disagree, and if so, it's zotz time! Que sera sera! ">previously</a>]</small></a> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.60978 Tue, 08 May 2007 05:27:01 -0800 music traditionalMusic flapjax at midnite http://www.metafilter.com/31636/American-tarditional-music-streaming-video <a href="http://www.folkstreams.net/homepage.html">Streaming video documentary films about American traditional music.</a> Great American roots music films for free! Click and watch full length documentaries about the Popovich Brothers Tamburitza band of South Bend Indiana, Louisiana creole fiddler Canray Fontenot, the last Black medicine-show performer, sacred harp singing and much more. An amazing collaboration between folklorists and indie film makers. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.31636 Mon, 08 Mar 2004 02:35:59 -0800 traditionalmusic folkmusic rootsmusic films documentaries popovichbrothers tamburitza southbend indiana louisiana creole fiddlers canrayfontenot medicineshows sacredharpsinging folklorists streamingvideo zaelic http://www.metafilter.com/19386/ <a href="http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/isam/evans.html">Demythologizing The Blues.</a> Blues reseacher and scholar David Evans breaks it down. <i>Country blues as a living tradition tied to a rural black culture - there is something of that culture left - I think it's essentially over.</i>--that's from this <a href="http://bluesnet.hub.org/readings/evans.interview.html" title="But, at any rate, blues is not a major musical taste in that young generation, although it's respected - it certainly has gained in respect. Rap, because it draws upon and samples other sources - it certainly samples blues as well as other things - but the rhetoric and the sort-of outsider stance of the attitudes of living for now, of the self-centered approach of the singers, self-centered attitudes of the singers, and the very frank description of one's needs and wants and the conditions in which one lives, all resemble the blues. But the language is different, and I think in fact the language of blues, just the phraseology, the metaphors and so on, many of which are based in rural life, just sound old and old-fashioned to the rappers and so they've developed their own language, their own argot for rap.">interview</a> with David Evans--scroll past the autobiographical details for the meat and potatos. Paul Garon, of <a href="http://racetraitor.org/" title="RACE TRAITOR aims to serve as an intellectual center for those seeking to abolish the white race. It will encourage dissent from the conformity that maintains it and popularize examples of defection from its ranks, analyze the forces that hold it together and those that promise to tear it apart. Part of its task will be to promote debate among abolitionists. When possible, it will support practical measures, guided by the principle, Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.">Race Traitor </a>and <a href="http://www.livingblues.com/aboutmain.htm">Living Blues</a>, has strong feelings about <a href="http://www.wnmc.org/readingpage.asp?rd=48" title="While these ideas seem clear, dismissers of white blues performance are often accused of holding the position that whites ''do not have a right'' to play the blues. The right to play and sing the blues is never at issue. An important factor that is at issue is that white performers have so much coverage and such high record sales (compared to blacks) that their notion of being victims of discrimination because Living Blues doesn't cover them is quite laughable. As if Bonnie Raitt or Stevie Ray Vaughan were drowned in obscurity because of Living Blues' ''racist'' policies! The real truth is that with white performers, the opinion of Living Blues is a drop in the bucket compared to the critical establishment that does care about them, that does cover them, that does give out Grammy awards, and that does decide whether they make it or not (insofar as any critical establishment can do these things.) ">White Blues</a>. Similarly, black writer Jesse Douglas Allen-Taylor feels a chill amidst a white blues audience and asks <a href="http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/12.05.96/cover/blues1-9649.html" title="Who said Blues music is supposed to be slow and mournful? We're here to chase those blue demons away, not to curl up in a big old ball and die. My date is already snapping her fingers as she gets out of the car. It's Saturday night, Blues night, and we're set for a rocking good time. We don't get to have one. When we walk in the door of the club, all eyes turn to us. Nobody is staring, but nobody looks away, either. I try to read the crowd to see where the danger lies, but I'm way out of my element, so I can't sort out the signals. It's not my kind of crowd. It's biker-looking, all tattooed and tough, a ''somebody gonna do somebody wrong'' crowd."> Whose Blues Are They? </a>Also, n a related and timely topic, here's <a href="http://www.cdaddy.com/FormatArticle.cgi?file=Issue23&index=3" title="While the particular myth of Presley's success articulated by Public Enemy, Living Color and many others is implicitly, if not deliberately, racist on the part of African-Americans, ironically it springs forth from what can ultimately be deemed the racist marketing and reception of Elvis Presley and rock and roll in general on the part of white America. On both sides of this issue there is substantial emotional capital invested in identifying individual cultural gestures, including those of Elvis Presley, as either black or white. ">Elvis Presley and the Impulse Towards Transculturation</a>. (Hint: Elvis didn't sound black. <i>Well, duh...)</i> Originally in the NYT--<i>no password needed now</i>!--<a href="http://www.celticguitarmusic.com/blues_is_dying.htm" title="CeDell Davis says crack cocaine and the culture it bred turned the already tough juke joints into slaughterhouses over the last 15 years, driving people away and all but silencing the small live shows that are now mostly folklore.">The Blues Dying In The Land Where It Was Born</a>, and as a bonus, the New Yorker profile on an outfit I love to loathe, <a href="http://www.wnmc.org/readingpage.asp?rd=93" title="This seems to be what really attracts Johnson to these blues-makers-this spirit of anarchy, which he also finds in modern-day pop nihilists like Eminem and Kid Rock. It's a spirit that Johnson himself comes by honestly. Until recently, at least, his own life would have made a pretty good blues song, the my-baby-left-me-my-roof's-falling-in-police-at-the-door variety. He's got a damaged lung, bad teeth, a couple of hernias, and a back catalogue of death threats. His dentist once held up a toothbrush and asked him if he'd ever seen one, to which Johnson answered, ''I use one of those to clean my pistol.''">Fat Possum</a>. Is is this <a href="http://www.theonion.com/onion3606/affluent_white_blues.html" title="''Have you seen The Blues Brothers?'' Smalls asked. ''I just ordered it on DVD. It's one of my all-time favorite movies. Jake and Elwood sure know how to play them blues.'' A longtime fan of Blues Brothers star Aykroyd, Smalls can often be found at the comedian's famed club. ''Dan really did [House Of Blues] right,'' Smalls said. ''The way he modeled it after an old Mississippi shotgun shack was a great touch. It looks just like those old tin-roof shanties I used to drive past near Alliance's South Side factory only with much better drink specials.''">guy's</a> fault? And if you want to make the pilgrimage, let <a href="http://www.deltablues.net/" title="I'm a cultural anthropologist who lives in the Mississippi Delta, Louisiana side, and I spend lots of time in Delta juke joints. You're about to take a trip inside the places where the blues began. I'm not talking about white people blues bars filled with college students. I'm talking about edge-of-a-cotton-field juke joints filled with real Delta folks.">Junior's Juke Joint </a>be your guide! (don't forget to make that unannounced drop in on raysmj!) Added bonus: <a href="http://www.celticguitarmusic.com/patton1.htm" title="This is underground comic book genius R. Crumb's retelling of the life of Delta bluesman Charlie Patton, based on the biography by Stephen Calt and Gayle Dean Wardlow. ">R. Crumb's Charley Patton</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.19386 Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:01:37 -0800 music blues traditionalmusic history davidevans y2karl http://www.metafilter.com/18586/ <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/20/obituaries/20LOMA.html">Alan Lomax</a> , the legendary collector of folk music who was the first to record towering figures like Leadbelly, Muddy Waters and Woody Guthrie, died yesterday at a nursing home in Sarasota, Fla. He was 87. Mr. Lomax was a musicologist, author, disc jockey, singer, photographer, talent scout, filmmaker, concert and recording producer and television host. He did whatever was necessary to preserve traditional music and take it to a wider audience. (NY Times- Registraion Required) <a href="http://www.alan-lomax.com/">And</a>... <a href="http://www.rounder.com/rounder/artists/lomax_alan/">Additionally</a>... And <a href="http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~yekrah/johnalan.html">this</a>. <a href="http://www.furious.com/perfect/lomax.html">Also</a>... tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.18586 Sat, 20 Jul 2002 11:48:24 -0800 obits obituaries lomaxes alanlomax recordings blues musicologist folkmusic leadbelly muddywaters woodyguthrie sarasota traditionalmusic musicalpreservationists music y2karl