IVIV music

[Henry M]

Rock'n'Roll (not Rock), soul, etc. was performed by many an untutored youth
in my youth, but most of the population couldn't sing or play it like they
could a folk, e.g. Beatles, music.  As if to emphasis the elitism of the
genres, most lead vocalists sang/sing higher than anyone that I know is
able.  Sure folk music has had its fair share of tenors, Irish or otherwise,
but people are able to sing along in other ranges and it still makes sense.
A baritone singing Led Zep is great for comedaoke-dokey (my karaoke
specialty), but nobody should even try to sing along with that sound that
Plant makes at the start of Kashmir.

AsB4,

Henry Mu
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20


On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> In my memory, there was little home made music making as part of public
> life in the suburbs in the late 50s early 60s( Lots' of Band, Orchestra, and
> individual musical discipline) until the rock and folk movements took off.
>  A bit more music in the families and parties of my Jewish friends, and
> where I worked in an Hispanic Park.  But that really changed in the late
> 60s, lot's of public  music, street music. Also the FM stations were more
> daring and introducing music of every permutation.  It seemed to die off  a
> lot in the late 70's. Very personal recollection.
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> Doo wop, rock, hip hop, soul all move from home-made,  popular on the
> streets, local, public phenomena to commercial. Overall we are more and more
> individualized, isolated, treated as niche markets and consumers.
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> On Jan 12, 2010, at 5:29 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:
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>   In the sixties we all gave up hootenannies and round singing and glee
>> clubs and doo wop on the corner and church choirs for records?  This was in
>> the sixties!?  I'm so out of it ...
>>
>> lnherent Vice, the big drop in music quality came at some point in the 60s
>> when we abandoned making our own music and performing/listening/singing to
>> it in groups and for free, and instead started isolating ourselves with
>> headphones and privately stimulating ourselves with music that we pay for.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> To: dougmillison at comcast.net
>> Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Mon, Jan 11, 2010 9:52 am
>> Subject: Re: IVIV music
>>
>>
>> Now that's the way to thematically connect two seemingly disparate
>> threads, Doug....way to go...Pynchon knew.--- On Mon, 1/11/10,
>> dougmillison at comcast.net <dougmillison at comcast.net> wrote:> From:
>> dougmillison at comcast.net <dougmillison at comcast.net>> Subject: IVIV music>
>> To: "pynchon-l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>> Date: Monday, January 11, 2010,
>> 9:24 AM> Judging by the way it's depicted in> lnherent Vice, the big drop in
>> music quality came at some> point in the 60s when we abandoned making our
>> own music and> performing/listening/singing to it in groups and for free,>
>> and instead started isolating ourselves with headphones and> privately
>> stimulating ourselves with music that we pay for.> Another pornography,
>> another example of taking the fake in> place of the real. >
>>
>>
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