Ethnomusicology

[Keith Davis]

That blues sound is somewhere in between the natural and flatted notes, and I see it as a cry of emotional urgency that goes beyond any intellectual explanation. I might go further and say that that cry has nothing to do with our modern ideas of temperament and intonation.


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> On Nov 5, 2015, at 8:06 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thinkl of the collision of Celtic and African folk music in the Southern U.S.. Two modal, outsider music traditions that seemed to blend naturally even though the two cultures had been geographically separated for centuries.
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> Irish Traditional acquired the banjo.
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> The rest of us got Rock 'n' Roll.
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> Then, a bunch of blue-collar British kids took to it like ducks to water. There must be something in those flatted thirds and sevenths that says "Stick it to the man."
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>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As a musician, this is an interesting topic. I think most musicians, and maybe I would qualify that by saying improvising musicians, jazz musicians, those who incorporate different "styles", already know this instinctively. Of course, as in anything, different styles and systems appear over time, but these seem to be  "intellectual" developments, as opposed to what I would call folk or traditional source material. Sort of like a classical composer taking folk songs and making a symphony from them. Another approach might be the elaborate system of Indian classical music, where everything is very strictly dictated, while at the same time allowing for a certain amount of improvisation and personal interpretation.
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>> A few years ago, I was clicking through the channels, and came across the close of a PBS show about China. The last scene was of this old guy sitting on a chair on the burm between the rice paddies, playing a triangular shaped guitar type instrument and singing. Suddenly, I got a shock when I realized the guy was singing the blues! The Chinese blues...it's universal.
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>> I haven't finished the whole article, but I will. Mr. Witzel's book mentioned in the article looks very interesting, as well.
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>> Thanks for sharing this.
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>>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 1:12 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> http://thesmartset.com/face-the-music/
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