Posts tagged history
Here’s my final project for NYU’s Psychology of Music class, enjoy. You can download the full paper here. Multimedia version coming soon.
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Applesoft BASIC cassette on Flickr.
On Hilobrow, Matthew Battles shares a story about “the father of country music,” Jimmie Rodgers, who died in 1933:
[Rodger’s] most curious legacy isn’t found in Nashville, however, but in Africa, where a selection of his records found their way to the Kipsigis, a Nilotic people living in Kenya’s southeastern highlands. Haunted by his ghostly yodels and the uncannily familiar modes in which he strummed, the Kipsigis understood Rodgers’ music as the vessel or avatar of some familiar spirit. Around 1950, ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey recorded a group of young women singing a paean to “Chemirocha,” calling on his music’s seductive powers to help them win husbands. Here the pure intervals and plangent timbres bend back to regard themselves, as if pondering the curious journey they’ve made.
Chemutoi Ketienya & Girls - Chemirocha by MatthewBattles
Via Matt Frost.
(via griotism)
“American Tune” genealogy on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
Tracing the lineage of this Paul Simon tune from a medieval Latin poem through Bach and Tom Glazer. See the accompanying blog post.
