#Ethnic Folkways Library

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Smithsonian Ethnic Folkways Library PALESTINE LIVES! SONGS FROM THE STRUGGLE OF THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE

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1961 reissue of the 1950 Folkways Records, ‘Ethnic Folkways Library’ release of Bela Bartok’s field recordings of the folk music of Hungary.

https://folkways.si.edu/folk-music-of-hungary/world/music/album/smithsonian

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14416746

https://arbiterrecords.org/bartok-exploring-transylvania/

https://www.npr.org/2009/05/06/103733863/bartok-from-the-fields-to-the-concert-hall

https://www.cpr.org/2016/03/29/listen-how-bela-bartok-turned-folk-melodies-into-classical-masterworks/

https://stringsmagazine.com/how-bela-bartok-redefined-classical-music/

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Mbuti Pygmies Of The Ituri Rainforest - Bachelor duet with Lukembi Mbuti Pygmies Of The Ituri Rainforest - Pygmy Dance In Bantu Village from Mbuti Pygmies Of The Rainforest (Folkways, 1958)(Ethnic Folkways Library / Folkways FE 4457) Recorded By Colin Turnbull And Francis S. Chapman

also Mbuti Pygmies Of The Rainforest (Smithsonian Folkways, 1992)

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Mbuti Pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest captures the variety and tonal quality of the solo and choral traditions present in Mbuti vocal music.  Songs are primarily concerned with Mbuti's nomadic life and the forest, from which their lives and those of the animal kingdom are sustained.

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Ohio National Guardsmen in gas masks and with rifles as they prepare to advance up Blanket Hill, through clouds of teargas, to drive back Kent State University students during an antiwar demonstration on the university's campus, Kent, Ohio, May 4, 1970

The shooting lasted a total of 13 seconds. These students lost their lives:

Jeffrey Miller - 20

Allison Krause - 19

William Knox Schroeder - 19

Sandra Lee Scheuer - 20

(and nine injured)

Kent State University’s virtual 50th Commemoration to honor and remember the events of May 4, 1970                              

READ MORE https://www.kent.edu/may4kentstate50

Celebrating Another 50th Anniversary: The Student Strike of 1970                                                                                May 1, 2020

 READ MORE https://woodstockfolkfestival.org/2020/05/01/celebrating-another-50th-anniversary-the-student-strike-of-1970/#comment-13

radio soundtrack

“Ohio” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – written by Neil Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings

“Kent” by Magpie (the duo of Terry Leonino and Greg Artzner) on their album Give Light; Terry Leonino is a survivor of the Kent State shootings

Dave Brubeck’s cantata “Truth is Fallen” was dedicated to the slain students of Kent State and Jackson State and other innocent victims

Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On?”

Steve Miller’s “Jackson-Kent Blues”

Bruce Springsteen’s “Where Was Jesus in Ohio?”

Barbara Dane’s “The Kent State Massacre”

“I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin-to-Die” by Country Joe and the Fish

“For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield

“Fortunate Son” by Creedence Clearwater Revival

“Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around” by Joan Baez

“The Universal Soldier” by Buffy Sainte-Marie (also a hit for Donovan)

“Bring ‘Em Home” by Pete Seeger

“Give Peace a Chance” by John Lennon

“Masters of War” and “Blowin’ in the Wind” by Bob Dylan

“War” by Edwin Starr

Books and Resources

Which Side Are You On? 20th Century American History in 100 Protest Songs by James Sullivan

33 Revolutions per Minute: A History of Protest Songs by Dorian Lynskey

Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation by Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw

Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century by Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison

Talkinʼ Bout a Revolution: Music and Social Change in America by Dick Weissman

Playing for Change: Music and Musicians in the Service of Social Movements by Rob Rosenthal and Richard Flacks

The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music by Jonathan Friedman

The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture by Michael J. Kramer

Politics in Music: Music and Political Transformation from Beethoven to Hip-Hop by Courtney Brown

Troubadours & Troublemakers: The Evolution of American Protest Music by Kevin Comtois

Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States by Kip Lornell

Music in the Air: The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason edited by Toby Gleason (Ralph was co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine)

Music: A Subversive History by Ted Gioia

American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation by Holly Jackson

Music is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change by Brad Schreiber

Sounds of Freedom: Musicians on Spirituality and Social Change by John Malkin

Curriculum materials produced by Facing History and Ourselves – “How Can Music Inspire Social Change?”

The Social Power of Music – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (4-disc box set and book)

Womenʼs Suffrage

Music in the Womenʼs Suffrage Movement – collection at Library of Congress – includes a digital collection of Womenʼs Suffrage in Sheet Music

Songs of the Suffragettes – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

“Let Us Sing As We Go: The Role of Music in the United States Suffrage Movement” by R.L. Brandes (appears to be a dissertation at the University of Maryland – may be accessible online)

The Womenʼs Suffrage Movement edited by Sally Roesch Wagner

Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Susan Ware

National Womenʼs History Museum (www.womenshistory.org) has materials and article by Nancy Hayward on their website has a list for further reading

The Music of the Suffrage Movement by Kate McKenzie at www.awsom.info Reviews of ʼ19: The Musical – musical last November in Washington, D.C. that was called “the Hamilton of Womenʼs History” – at National Archives

The Music of Womenʼs Suffrage – Amaranth Publishing – sheet music (this led me down an interesting path of other articles such as Women Ragtime Composers)

Earth Day and the Environment

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Earthrise Global Mobilizations – earthrise2020.org (please note this is entirely separate from the Festival’s “Earthrise” concert in 2018)

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau by Bill McKibben

Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat

Writings by John Muir

Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan

An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming and An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, both by Al Gore

It’s Getting Hot in Here: The Past, Present, and Future of Climate Change by Bridget Heos

Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World by Bill Nye

World Without Fish: How Could We Let This Happen? by Mark Kurlansky

Weather Makers by Tim Flannery

A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation by Aldo Leopold

Songs by Malvina Reynolds, Pete Seeger, Joni Mitchell, John Denver, Peter, Paul & Mary, and Neil Young; music by the Paul Winter Consort and John Cage; Live Earth Concert from 2007

Student Strike of 1970 and the Antiwar Movement

Vietnam and the American Political Tradition: The Politics of Dissent by Randall B. Woods

Sitting in and Speaking Out: Student Movements in the American South, 1960-1970 by Jeffrey A. Turner

Give Peace a Chance: Exploring the Vietnam Antiwar Movement by Melvin Small; William D. Hoover

The Vietnam War on Campus: Other Voices, More Distant Drums by Marc Jason Gilbert

The Movement and the Sixties by Terry H. Anderson

The 1960s Cultural Revolution by John C. McWilliams

From Yale to Jail by Dave Dellinger

The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam by Tom Wells

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era by Charles Chatfield

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam

Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald

Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow

Public television’s Vietnam: A Television History and Ken Burns’ Vietnam War series

Songs by Phil Ochs, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul & Mary, Bob Dylan, Country Joe & the Fish, Barry McGuire, Tom Paxton, Arlo Guthrie, John Lennon, Edwin Starr, Barbara Dane, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, among many others.

https://woodstockfolkfestival.org/aiovg_videos/woodstock-folk-festival-9th-annual-invitational-concert/

Ohio" cover The Steppin Stones doing a great Neil Young cover at their July 4th, 2013 show in City Market in Savannah, GA.

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1956 | Various ‎– Negro Folk Music Of Alabama Volume 1 - Secular Ethnic Folkways Library Cover: NM incl. Introduction Sheet Vinyl: NM Small Ad Find #washheargrade #ethnicfolkwayslibrary #ethnicfolkways #ethnicfolkwaysrecords #blues https://www.instagram.com/p/B1WtbjLI5C5/?igshid=1m40ojq336y9k

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its weird to think I’m now, like... freely and of my own volition, generating capital for redrum records, ethnic folkways library, etc.

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Soundtrack for March 1, 2017

The Nice - The Immediate Collection Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 - Karajan - LP Dvorak - Now World Symphony - Mehta LAPO - LP Gershwin - Concerto in F - Previn LSO - LP William Dawson - Negro Folk Symphony - Stokowski ASO - LP Afro-American Drums - Ethnic Folkways Library - LP Ten Years After - The Essential Collection Ten Years After - Live at the Fillmore East 1970 Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue - Bernstein LAPO - LP Gluck - Don Juan Compete Ballet - Marriner - LP

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RAMZi: Phobiza "Noite" Vol. 2

For the past five years, Canada’s Phoebé Guillemot has been unobtrusively building up a peculiar little soundworld as RAMZi, mostly on small batch cassettes (now available on her Bandcamp page). But over the past few years, Guillemot’s profile ticked upwards, with a release on the 1080p label, an eye-melting video, an art collaboration for RVNG Intl., and a full-length on Total Stasis (the label also responsible for Elysia Crampton’s The Light That You Gave Me to See You). She quickly follows all that up with a tantalizing EP for the buzzing Mood Hut imprint. And the more of her music we become privy to, the weirder, wormier, and more immersive that little world becomes.

Guillemot’s sound echoes trumpeter/composer Jon Hassell—who, on a 1980 collaborative album with Brian Eno, called Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics, presented his notion of a “fourth world” to listeners. A mix of Western electronics and indigenous sounds, it drifted between minimalism, jazz, world music, and ambient, preferring the ether above them all. But Hassell’s sound was exotic in much the same way as the painter Henri Rousseau’s jungle canvases were; they came not from globetrotting, but from introspective imaginings of other cultures. Guillemot is not alone in her ethnographic electronics, as a new generation of producers like Don’t DJ and Andrew Pekler (as well as Oneohtrix Point Never) concoct pretend world rhythms and then twist them into curious new shapes.

RAMZi presents her tracks as travelogues and postcards from strange realms; the sleeve designs for last year’s Phobiza Dia: Vol.1 and “Noite” Vol. 2 resembled old field recordings. Inside, Guillemot takes on aspects of Ethnic Folkways Library records—foreign voices, animals sounding in the landscape, tribal drumming patterns—and spins them through her circuitry.

As the album title playfully alludes, opener “For Vanda” might be the sound of Ibiza right after sunset. Cricket sounds mingle with spring gurgles. A synth patch mimicking a bamboo flute echoes a kilometer away and a voice (maybe Guillemot’s own) gets pitched down until it rumbles like a tribal elder. A hand drum enters, as resonant as a heavy stone splashed into a pond. As it all comes together and grows denser, it approximates the environmental moments of the Orb’s Orbus Terrarum.

RAMZi’s sounds are tangible and tactile, yet each piece feels slippery as river rocks. Guillemot’s voice slides across “Fuma” like a little cloud, and soon other altered voices arise and mix with it. With a grounding tabla pattern, “Messiah” is the most DJ-friendly track on the EP, but RAMZi still makes it feel like it’s floating four inches off the ground. Her whispered exhalations get pitched up until it wavers like a broken spider web. Equally playful is when she slows down her vocals of “Male heya” until they resemble a wobbly AutoTuned hook. She then sets it against another gently dubbed out ecosystem, suggesting what Future backpacking through Hassell’s Fourth World might sound like.

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Smithsonian Ethnic Folkways Library FOLK MUSIC OF PALESTINE