As usual a refreshing piece. I was especially taken with the musical selection, a sort of getting back to basics to illustrate the beneficent, salubrious and generous nature of the non-digital world which we forget so easily. Once I went to record a jug band that was playing somewhere in Greenwich Village for my college's radio station. The band was blowing into jugs, rasping on a washboard, banging spoons together and the like. In the midst of the folk song renaissance popular at the time, this was as basic as one could get. A more artful statement of the same idea was put forth in the play Bring in da Noise, bring in da Funk, which commented on the origin and legacy of music and dance that originated with slaves in the US. And also the total improvised percussion of Stomp. Thanks for the reminder!
As usual a refreshing piece. I was especially taken with the musical selection, a sort of getting back to basics to illustrate the beneficent, salubrious and generous nature of the non-digital world which we forget so easily. Once I went to record a jug band that was playing somewhere in Greenwich Village for my college's radio station. The band was blowing into jugs, rasping on a washboard, banging spoons together and the like. In the midst of the folk song renaissance popular at the time, this was as basic as one could get. A more artful statement of the same idea was put forth in the play Bring in da Noise, bring in da Funk, which commented on the origin and legacy of music and dance that originated with slaves in the US. And also the total improvised percussion of Stomp. Thanks for the reminder!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_in_%27da_Noise,_Bring_in_%27da_Funk#Songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1haurYykR0E&list=OLAK5uy_lK24UEdLGeKEr3QFr-eGS083UXbK_xMDs&index=5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5z64xLXvLY&list=OLAK5uy_lK24UEdLGeKEr3QFr-eGS083UXbK_xMDs&index=25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZWEcixg_HM