“Call me maybe,” this isn’t. Or is it?
Music
For the Fourth: Holy American Major League of Nations (Notes on Baseball, Booze, and the Re-De-Nationalization of Americanism)
It welcomed the tests of time/
Like an eternal friend,/
Our country is blessed,/
Our country is such!
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Patti Smith Sings “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” at Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Ceremony
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin’/
I saw a white ladder all covered with water/
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken/
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children…
The Oldest Song in the World – Open Culture
The piece, writes Richard Fink in a 1988 Archeologia Musicalis article, confirms a theory that “the 7-note diatonic scale as well as harmony existed 3,400 years ago.” This, Fink tells us, “flies in the face of most musicologist’s views that…
Prince’s Life of Faith – The Stream
A 2008 interview Prince gave to The New Yorker suggests this “clean, simple approach” left the singer a relatively strict social conservative who held the Bible as authoritative. “So here’s how it is: you’ve got the Republicans, and basically they want…
Merry Singing Xmas from Your Son at Boot Camp in 1944
Two “audio letters” home, sent December 19, 1944, one in which Duncan has his friend Joe (“a good singer”) sing “White Christmas,” the other featuring Duncan singing “Oh Holy Night.” The discs themselves are very lightweight, and have not survived…
DJ Earworm’s 2014 Mash-Up
(Put abstractly: DJ Earworm’s art of re-assembly constructs or realizes a depth – or, perhaps more precisely, synthesizes and integrates an ideational as well as actual polyvocality – that few to none of the popular music videos he samples can…
Ol Frenz
Silversun Pickups – The Pit (Neck Of The Woods) Courtesy of another old friend, just ran into on Twitter. Made me think of:
Seid nüchtern und wachet (Faust Cantata); VII. Es geschah (It came to pass)
http://youtu.be/dR78SQeRiC4
Donna Summer RIP – “I Feel Love” (NB “Marriage” as Dialectical Principle)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2q2bis6eLE [blackbirdpie id=”203187117147435008″]