Sunday, February 27, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Pop'n'RnB Clips
Independent Labels
Big Joe Turner, "Shake, Rattle and Roll"
Patti Page - How Much Is That Doggie In The Window
Les Paul & Mary Ford, "How High The Moon"; multi-track demonstration on TV
Ruth Brown, "He Treats Your Daughter Mean"
Whitey's Lindy Hoppers: Something Wild
This is the Lindy Hop, the Jitterbug, the Suzie-Q. The clip is an excerpt from H.C. Potter's Helzapoppin' (1941). The Lindy Hoppers doing "The Big Apple" in 1939 are here. Enjoy.
In this clip the dancing starts at the 2:15 mark.
from Jonathan Demme's Something Wild; The Feelies play David Bowies's "Fame" and Jeff Daniels dances with his eye on the 'Other' for cues.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Subcultures I
In the Cultural Resistance Reader read the short chapters in Section IV on "Subcultures and Primitive Rebels" --we will be discussing the subcultures profiled there as case studies in class.Extra Reading: Dick Hebdige from Subculture: The Meaning of Style
Chapter 6 : Subculture: The Unnatural Break
Chapter 7 : Style as Intentional Communication
Chapter 8 : Style as Homology
Effects, Vulnerability, Reception I
Gandy, "Tracking the Audience"
Ang, "The Nature of the Audience"
Williams, "Effects? What Effects?"
Nussbaum, "What Would Tina Fey Do For A SoyJoy?"
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Post-War Hillbillies: Western Swing, Honky Tonk and Bluegrass
Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys - Take Me Back To TulsaHank Williams - Hey Goodlookin' + Lovesick Blues
Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys - Muleskinner Blues + Blue Moon Of Kentucky
The Sound Begins: Popular Music Readings II
in Garofalo:-Chapter 2: Blues and Country Music: Mass Media and the Construction of Race
-Chapter 3: “Good Rockin’ Tonight”: The Rise of Rhythm and BluesCharlie Gillet from The Sound of the City, "The Sound Begins"
Nelson George from The Death of Rhythm and Blues, "Dark Voices in the Night"
Monday, February 7, 2011
TV Is Not Our Fault...
Eileen Meehan on how the media and the rating services blame the victims + some random articles on audience assessment and its problems...
Meehan Chapter 1
Meehan Chapter 2
Article Compilation
Towards A Third Cinema
Of all African film directors, Sembene is the first to confer value to images."
--Med Hondo
Fernando Solanas & Octavio Getino, Towards a Third Cinema
Med Hondo, What is Cinema for us?
If you are interested in reading a brief outline of the life, ideas and struggles of Ousmane Sembene: OUSMANE SEMBENE: THE LIFE OF A REVOLUTIONARY ARTIST
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Folk From Around The World
from North Vietnam: A Brao Songfrom the Mississippi Delta: Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night
from the Mississippi Delta: Alan Lomax Collection - Arwhoolie (Cornfield Holler)
from Ireland: The Dubliners - Home Boys Home
from Democratic Republic of Congo: Konono No. 1 - Ditshe Tshiekutala
from India: Ravi Shankar - Dhun
But this is not 'folk music' as we defined it, rather it is an example of the 'high' in a different cultural and social context.
Art Music
Beethoven - Symphony N.9 d-moll Op. 125 (extract)
Text by Schiller here.
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 "Moonlight"
Chopin - Nocturne b-moll Op. 9 No. 1
Schumann - Dichterliebe, Opus 48, "A Poet's Love"
Text by Heine here.
Schumann - Liderkreis, Op. 39, "Intermezzo"
Text by Eichendorff here.
Schubert - An Silvia (D891 1826)
Text by Shakespeare here.
The virtuoso instrumentalist and composer as superstar: Franz Liszt.Good interview on WNYC's Soundcheck with Tim Blanning author of The Triumph of Music, a 'social history' of musicians in the west and how they went from being considered merely servants to being 'stars'. This is an excellent example of metacontextual musical knowledge. Required listening.
Download entire interview mp3 here. Stream interview.
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