Word: musicalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ming Cho Lee's grand ballroom and tapestry are as handsome as ever, and John Morri's substantial incidental music and songs stand up beautifully, supported by Graciela Daniele's choregraphy. The four supplementary singers are all back and in good voice...
...sure what music is today," Eric von Schmidt says. "The word is applied to punk rockers and discos and everything down to bubble gum... I wonder when they're going to get to the pablum audience...
...Popular music today is a serious business--with contracts, promoting and merchandising, and it all comes out looking like so many cans on a super-market shelf. Nevertheless, America's last three decades have fostered small but musicall potent "scenes." Eric von Schmidt is a lover of Cmabridge's own folk scene, and his 309-page book, Baby Let Me Follow You Down documents it all in words and photographs. Most would say this scene went out of existence with the last Molotov cocktail that flew through the window of the Charlesbank Trust Co. But to von Schmidt, the Cambridge...
...NAMES. Joan Baez, Mimi Farina, Richard Farina, Dave Van Ronk, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Tom Rush, Pete Seeger, Taj Mahal, Geoff Muldaur, Bonnie Raitt, John Sebastian, all spanning a decade. Von Schmidt sees an enduring musical "scene," based on the fact that people wanted to hear this music. Today that scene doesn't exist, and while von Schmidt wants badly to believe that the listeners are out there, he acknowledges popular decline of the folk movement, and the powerful appeal of electronic music...
...Electricity changed it all. It brought an overwhelming feeling to popular music. It shows the power of sound, and it has a lot of appeal. Folk music is less self-indulgent, it is more conversational...