Word: bluegrass
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...globe. Those in the social sciences cannot boast such concrete understanding, but Harvard’s Social Studies program has gone a long way toward promoting international concerns. Those in the humanities, however, may despair—although they may know everything there is to know about postwar Georgia bluegrass music or food imagery in Czechoslovakian spy fiction, their knowledge of the delicate interplay between cultural forces independent of nations may remain blighted. It is time to rethink how the humanities approach learning, and to usher in a new ethic of “transnationalism.”Developments like...
...admitted that his inability to read music sometimes limits the range of music he can play, but he also emphasized the advantages of his self-taught methods. By mimicking electric bass players, Fleck mapped scales on the banjo, allowing the instrument to play beyond the set intervals of bluegrass music. He claims he is proudest of the discoveries he made himself. Although Fleck is well versed in the traditional bluegrass music with which the banjo is associated, he is well known for his forays into other styles, including classical music and fusion jazz. “The banjo does well...
...CROWDSOURCING them to the enthusiastic, increasingly adept masses You Find It Wal-Mart can't afford to stock anything that won't sell in volume. But websites like MySpace or Netflix offer an endless array of obscure products, allowing users to forage successfully for Japanese ceramics or old-time bluegrass as easily as they might find the latest John Grisham book. This business model is known as the LONG TAIL THE ENTERTAINERS The song remains the same, but the way we listen to it is changing. The movie, music, book and video-game industries have all embraced the Internet...
...song endorsing Hillary Clinton for President, which you can hear him sing on TIME.com, I was more than curious about the motivation for his apparent left turn. And Merle let me know that he was more than happy to talk politics, given that he has a new album, The Bluegrass Sessions, which seems a political and musical return to his family's Okie and New Deal Democratic roots...
Hilly Kristal, who died Aug. 28 of complications from lung cancer, agreed to a rare interview in November 2006 to discuss the legacy of CBGB, the club he had founded to promote his first musical loves - country, bluegrass and blues (CBGB) - and which in the 1970s and '80s became the official mecca of the underground New York rock scene. By that point, he had been battling cancer for some time, making him noticeably skinnier and less mobile...