Will Tuladhar-Douglas
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My upcoming talk with Workers Circle College Network and Chaia. "a sonic-historical exploration. Focusing on Yiddish songs from the time of the 1905 Russian Revolution, we'll explore how Jewish radicals used political songwriting to build solidarity and fight social injustice."
It's on zoom on February 3 at 4pm PST !
Registration link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/oLTC6aPVR8q3yOFHNHHnBg
My upcoming talk with Workers Circle College Network and Chaia. "a sonic-historical exploration. Focusing on Yiddish songs from the time of the 1905 Russian Revolution, we'll explore how Jewish radicals used political songwriting to build solidarity and fight social injustice."
It's on zoom on February 3 at 4pm PST !
Registration link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/oLTC6aPVR8q3yOFHNHHnBg
Dane 🇮🇪🇺🇦🇻🇪🖖⚛️☮️☸️🕉️
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Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come followin’ you
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Song: “Mr. Tambourine Man”
Album: Bringing It All Back Home
First played: 1964-05-17
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/mr-tambourine-man/
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#Music #Rock #Folk #Dylan #BobDylan #MusicHistory #Lyrics #Poetry
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come followin’ you
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Song: “Mr. Tambourine Man”
Album: Bringing It All Back Home
First played: 1964-05-17
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/mr-tambourine-man/
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#Music #Rock #Folk #Dylan #BobDylan #MusicHistory #Lyrics #Poetry
Chip Butty
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Hi everyone, I wanna tell you about a really cool #trans person I’ve learned about recently - Wendy Carlos. (Thread: 1/3)
Carlos was born in 1939 and is currently 86 years old. She helped develop the first ever commercial #synthesizer, Moog, in 1964. She created the scores for iconic movies including A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980), and Tron (1982). She even won three #Grammy awards in 1970 for her album Switched-On Bach. (First trans woman to ever win one!)
She was also one of the first public figures to disclose that she underwent a feminizing gender-affirming surgery (she got the procedure in 1972, went public in 1979).
#transHistory #transgender #history #music #musicHistory #funFacts
Hi everyone, I wanna tell you about a really cool #trans person I’ve learned about recently - Wendy Carlos. (Thread: 1/3)
Carlos was born in 1939 and is currently 86 years old. She helped develop the first ever commercial #synthesizer, Moog, in 1964. She created the scores for iconic movies including A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980), and Tron (1982). She even won three #Grammy awards in 1970 for her album Switched-On Bach. (First trans woman to ever win one!)
She was also one of the first public figures to disclose that she underwent a feminizing gender-affirming surgery (she got the procedure in 1972, went public in 1979).
#transHistory #transgender #history #music #musicHistory #funFacts
Alex Akselrod
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there's no announcement here, but people were discussing it on a listserv and it seemed worth mentioning. This collector, Martin Schwartz, was obsessed about the links between various forms of Ottoman music including what we today called klezmer, and built up a big collection of 78rpm records that now reside at UC Santa Barbara.
https://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/martin-schwartz-collection
there's no announcement here, but people were discussing it on a listserv and it seemed worth mentioning. This collector, Martin Schwartz, was obsessed about the links between various forms of Ottoman music including what we today called klezmer, and built up a big collection of 78rpm records that now reside at UC Santa Barbara.
https://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/martin-schwartz-collection
Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World (Original Spoken Intro Version) ABC Records 1967, 1970
"What a Wonderful World" [1970 Spoken Introduction Version] along with Oliver Nelson's Orchestra is a song written by Bob Thiele (as George Douglas) and George David Weiss.
1st recorded by Louis Armstrong and released as a single in 1967. Thiele and Weiss were both prominent in the music world (Thiele as a producer and Weiss as a composer/performer).
Armstrong's recording was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. Intended as an antidote for the increasingly racially and politically charged climate of everyday life in the United States, the song also has a hopeful, optimistic tone with regard to the future, with reference to babies being born into the world and having much to look forward to.
The song was initially offered to Tony Bennett, who turned it down. Thereafter, it was offered to Louis Armstrong.
Neville Park
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The schedule for Klezkanada's Yiddish Culture Jam in Montreal at the end of February has been finalized and my talk "The Progressive Musical Benevolent Society: A Mutual Aid Society for New York Klezmorim, 1890–2010" is on Saturday Feb 28th at 10:30 AM at the Centre de Musiciens du Monde.
https://klezkanada.org/year-round/yiddish-culture-jam/
#Montreal #MusicHistory #SocialHistory #MutualAidHistory #klezmer #Yiddish
Dane 🇮🇪🇺🇦🇻🇪🖖⚛️☮️☸️🕉️
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Mama, put my guns in the ground
I can’t shoot them anymore
That long black cloud is comin’ down
I feel like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door
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Song: “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door”
Album: The Complete Budokan 1978
First played: 1974-01-04
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/knockin-heavens-door/
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#Music #Rock #Folk #Dylan #BobDylan #MusicHistory #Lyrics #Poetry
The schedule for Klezkanada's Yiddish Culture Jam in Montreal at the end of February has been finalized and my talk "The Progressive Musical Benevolent Society: A Mutual Aid Society for New York Klezmorim, 1890–2010" is on Saturday Feb 28th at 10:30 AM at the Centre de Musiciens du Monde.
https://klezkanada.org/year-round/yiddish-culture-jam/
#Montreal #MusicHistory #SocialHistory #MutualAidHistory #klezmer #Yiddish
Mama, put my guns in the ground
I can’t shoot them anymore
That long black cloud is comin’ down
I feel like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door
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Song: “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door”
Album: The Complete Budokan 1978
First played: 1974-01-04
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/knockin-heavens-door/
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#Music #Rock #Folk #Dylan #BobDylan #MusicHistory #Lyrics #Poetry
2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
https://cybercultural.com/p/lastfm-audioscrobbler-2002/
#HackerNews #LastFM #Audioscrobbler #SocialWeb #2002 #MusicHistory #CyberCulture
The U.S. patent for mp3 audio was granted on November 26 in 1996. This piece is kinda weird about it in spots, but it gives a decent history about how it laid the foundations for peer-to-peer music sharing, etc.
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/the-u-s-patent-for-mp3-audio-was-granted-on-this-day-in-1996-laying-the-foundations-for-peer-to-peer-music-sharing-itunes-and-todays-streaming-services
#mp3 #music #history #MusicHistory #tech #P2P #audio #90s #1990s #patents
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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40 years ago this week, "Running Up That Hill" by #KateBush entered the #Top40 at 39. It peaked at 30 on 30 Nov 1985. 37 years later, it climbed the charts again after being featured in "Stranger Things". That time, it peaked at 3 in the US and reached the top spot in her native UK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp43OdtAAkM #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo
40 years ago this week, "Running Up That Hill" by #KateBush entered the #Top40 at 39. It peaked at 30 on 30 Nov 1985. 37 years later, it climbed the charts again after being featured in "Stranger Things". That time, it peaked at 3 in the US and reached the top spot in her native UK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp43OdtAAkM #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo