Word: musicalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play with music by Mark Rozovsky Adapted from a story by Leo Tolstoy...
...escape from four walls is the street musicians' major incentive. "I just wanted to do music without any kind of reviews, sales pitches, verbiage or anything-just music," says John Thomas, who plays folk music and Bach on his six-string guitar for strolling office workers in Washington. Boston Cellist Paul Stouthamer senses that "people are revolting against mechanical power. They're looking for a cello, they're looking for a flute...
Most of the performers are young, though an occasional patriarch emerges, like the banjo-playing retired executive vice president of Filene's department store in Boston. Some are music students or card-carrying professionals. Others are moonlighting (or sunlighting) engineers, carpenters, bookkeepers. Among the assortment on this summer's scene...
...Shanti Spaeth and her husband Karl regard street music as theater. They unashamedly cater to the tourists around Jackson Square, in New Orleans' French Quarter, by wearing ragtag getups and going barefoot. Karl, besides playing guitar, mandolin and trombone, laces their performances with his own political jokes and humorous songs (Ain 't No Sin to Take off Your Skin and Dance Around in Your Bones). But all is seriousness when Shanti belts out blues or scats like Ella Fitzgerald on Satin Doll. The couple were married nine days after meeting at a crafts fair in Oregon a year...
...1960s, and has been there ever since. A guitarist and dulcimer player, as well as a singer, he ranges out from his Boston base to cities and campuses across the country, carrying word of protest movements and food coops wherever he goes. His favorite cause is street music itself. He hopes for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to write a book about its lore, its leading lights and its legal problems. Balding, with thick wire-rimmed spectacles, Baird likes to work the same crowd for hours, usually starting with something loud, then inviting everybody...