Music around the world; Bits and pieces

The following program was originally released in 1967. This is the beginning of the end of the Golden Globes a golden time at the time and I did and I am telling them to let you know though they will use it in a variety of ways and for many different reasons. Hold the peoples of the world have an interest in the know. Michigan State University Radio invites you now to a program of music of around the world produced and hosted by Martin Lakos was when I first started thinking about what theme to choose for this the final program of the series music around the world that came to mind several musical subjects we've hardly touched on these past weeks. Why would. We want to. Know what. I want. National anthems for instance the national anthem. And here's a national anthem.

Home loan but I don't have very many recordings of national anthems so I thought of including them on a program with the theme national pride on which I'd also play such songs as this one featuring the favorite Lebanese singer Fairouz. Take me back to the beautiful land which raised me to move.

I'm a great fix. Bring me back to our village over long roads but they are in the soil of our village in the soil of. The nice songs describing and praising nature. Such as these children telling of their village in the early morning mist the leafy the

beautiful. For this ancient Chinese description of the river in spring is played on string and. We did have programs on The Voice flutes and string instruments but bagpipes of one

kind or another also found in many places around the. This one is from Bulgaria. And their horns evolved from very primitive ones such as Valley of India.

To the trumpets played in the Mexican mariachi bands. And what about a program on such instruments as the marimba favorite instrument in many places including my own. In the steel drums of Jamaica.

Uses of music an example of this would be this song from

Zambia. Mm hmm. The words express a moral standard of the society. Don't play about with your friends wife. Music can be a very efficient medium for transmitting various ideas within a society and several

societies take advantage of this in politics. This is. For the individual party purity decided to make this progress party.

While across the dancing South

Africa beer. In some societies the brew pot is passed around and each man drinks it before it passes it on.

Some South Africans sing about the great swallower who can keep the beer in front of him for weeks on end without passing it on. Everyone else is going out hunting except these great drinkers who stayed at home to continue his consumption. The repeated was an imitation of the sun swallowing. One of the most widespread dietary habits around the world is the consumption of liquid for mentation products. This petition often occurs in conjunction with festive occasions and it is often associated with vocal and trips to Korean endeavors on the part of the imbibers or

lads of Zambia. In our country when we are drunk we start dancing. Before I get too involved in the party though I better pass on some information I promise way back on the second program of the series. At that time I played some selections from the record of music from New Guinea.

But because the explanatory booklet was missing from the album I couldn't tell you much about the music other than the fact that I found it very interesting to listen to. Well I finally did look at a copy of the notes accompanying the dist So let's listen to those selections again and I'll tell you as much as I know. First from the gazelle Peninsula and south coast. Anyway your man singing an invitation to a feast. Then he stamps tubes of dried bamboo on the ground and on a hardwood log. Actually the next one on the record which we played on the other program is a song to make the target crowd

grow. But we'll skip to the one after that because it's appropriate to our party. It's all about singing and dancing. Man I am I am I am God and I was not than was I AM I AM I AM I AM I cannot you know I never ever heard of that one. Let's go back and identify the strange sounding instruments we heard from the Sepik River area of New Guinea. The first is a blade of wood being whirled around in circles at the end of the string. This sort of device is found in several places in the world for instance both it and the stamping tools we heard in the other selection are also found in Brazil. The instrument is often called a bull roarer although in the area of the separate River where this one comes from the sound is believed to this

be the symbolic mother of the crocodile. The next is a pair of giant bamboo flutes over six feet long. They're always played in pairs and different players take turns adding to the melody. Come to think of it the sound is very much like those seven foot salutes from the mouth of Grosso area of Brazil which we heard on SU program. I must admit I'm still somewhat mystified about the next part. But actually it's supposed to be mysterious. It's from a male initiation ceremony and performers are even hidden from the boys. It seems to be a combination of the stamping tunes and the notes say that the sound of the stamping tool

marks the stamping those giant salutes are in some sort of water splashing. And the last one was a device meant to sound mysterious to some people. Early Tree dwellers used empty coconut shells to distort so they couldn't be understood by the people on the ground. Let's get back to our party. Oh good I see people arriving from all over there to Michigan State graduate students from India near Ayan Mukerji is singing and Tarshish Mukhopadhyay is playing. It's not really a tub. It seems to be a three pound coffee tin. Well that's one kind of substitute when a real drum isn't available

and certainly quite acceptable at a party. This been the only song communicates the spirit of a midnight gathering of the song or

dance to express their joy. They are decorated with flowers arms around each other's waist the women dance. To do the kind.

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Like. You. Not. Enough where you sit. Next to you. Tonight he. Was. Nice. Do you know when you sleep. When the. Young. Man met. A. Man who has not. Met. You. Yet. Young. Man that. Man and not. Done. Anything. Yet. To meet. To meet why you. Do like. You. One day I. Would like to. Learn it. From. A. Player. Like you. Right up front. Maybe you're. Right. Right. On my feet. While you're catching your breath I'd like to thank the many people who helped me get materials for this series.

I do hope that you listeners have enjoyed hearing the music as much as I've enjoyed playing it. And now let's end the spell broke loose on the middle of times and it's the last song at a dance party to break the spell and say good night. In other parts of Africa similar songs are also used to mark the end of a storytelling session our drama. So I think we can use it to mark the end of this series of programs to use it around the world. That. We have presented music around the world with Martin Nicolas producer and commentator.

On this program was produced for Michigan State University Radio originally released in 1967. The program you've just heard is from the program library of National Public Radio.