Re: [microsound] folk-music instrument

[Thaniel Lee <thanielionlee@xxxxxxxxx>]

i personally think that the term folk art/music is a label that academia
made up to seperate and segragate the poor/minoraties from the academia...
in my opinion low art is a black kid talking about being a poor black kid,
but high art is a white guy with a MFA taking photos of the black kid.

On 2/11/06, mat.the.w <craque@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Perhaps it is that the people who can only express themselves through a
> more
> analytical medium now finally can.
>
> On 2/10/06 10:25 PM, "jeff gburek" <tsazmaniac@xxxxxxxxx> scribed:
>
> > i don't think devlashnull was saying laptoppers should
> > start "covering" folk-music traditions. maybe the
> > duelling banjos bit is a little too "hee-haw" to take
> > seriously. but there is a concept underlying this that
> > i find compelling: that the laptop has become very
> > common tool for expressing, akin one's voice, which is
> > also part of one's experience. i don't think of
> > folk-music as just a genre wherein you have your rosco
> > holcomb and your skip (or joseph) spence or records
> > and your harry smith anthology etc. set out on the
> > table to define what the music is. the argument has
> > been made that all folk-music is essentially popular
> > music. but i think of it differently: it comes out of
> > the songs you sing while working or after work when
> > waiting for the dinner that isn't coming because the
> > government seized all your chickens saying they got
> > some kind of flu. like that. arguably most people with
> > laptops don't have those kind of blues to sing. but on
> > the other hand, there is still isolation, death,
> > loneliness and desperation and the laptop itself to
> > make the material of laments
> > jg
> >
> > --- roberth <roberth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> nice image
> >> except going no deeper into the folk tradition
> >> than a commerialized thing like dueling banjos
> >> sure ain't dock boggs
> >> maybe says something about
> >> laptop shit
> >> robert
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "devslashnull" <dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 8:00 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [microsound] visual artists
> >>
> >>
> >>> to me this is a further reinforcement of the
> >> notion of much "laptop"
> >>> music (and by extension "laptop musicians") who
> >> exist outside of
> >>> academia, or without much formal training, being
> >> considered more as
> >>> "folk-artists" or making a new kind of
> >> "folk-music".
> >>>
> >>> the laptop and/or personal computer (and related
> >> software) having
> >>> become, in our time, in our culture, as ubiquitous
> >> as the odd guitar or
> >>> harmonica laying around the house, are now what
> >> could be considered
> >>> "folk instruments".
> >>>
> >>> conjures up images of "Deliverance" where dueling
> >> banjo's is played out
> >>> by a couple of folks sitting on the porch with
> >> laptops.
> >>>
> >>> in fact on a tour in the summer of 2002 we (
> >> 3-piece laptop improv
> >>> group) played a version of "dueling banjo's" on
> >> our laptops to
> >>> represent that very idea. we cut up all the
> >> guiitar and banjo sections
> >>> individually and loaded them on seperate machines
> >> and proceeded to
> >>> mangle them into sonic suuuuu-weeee.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Feb 7, 2006, at 5:16 PM, David Powers wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> It wouldn't surprise me if people with a "proper"
> >> musical background
> >>>> of some sort (I'm a music school dropout) are a
> >> minority,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> CommTom
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> >>>
> >>> http://www.commtom.com
> >>>
> >>
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