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Negro music and American. Negro music in America. An exploration of it and its impact on American culture. Here's your host for the survey's Tony look at Bach during the making hundreds don't go Square New Orleans resulted with the boom boom of great African drums long after that the disappeared from other parts of the South as late as the 1880s. That's where posted the video of the drums and the EP of American chants of niggas who had once been bought and sold in the slave trade. Other instruments read vibes tambourines rattles whistles added to the frenzy. George Washington cable describe such a thing as it took place in February of 1886. And like the note of the parable of the no perp Renzi what wild parable delight the ecstasy ecstasy rises to madness. One two three of the dancers bowed with foam on their lips and are dragged out by
arms and legs from under the commode feet of crowding newcomers. The musicians you know put pig in the dance rages on. One of the foreigners the bird Corps try to capture the essence of Nigger Dick in the grill don't kill him as it might is that it goes in the last century in the course is a reminder of all the great love today. Me.
Morton was a North Korean whose life story diverse is a little worn to this week the New York born in 1885 he grew up in musically Fertile Crescent City and had classical music training as a youngster of only 14 or 15. He began to earn his way as a pianist in the story though. Well it was a pleasure. It was one of the very early one to combine the respect the music of the world
in Israel to study with the blues and folk with him in the next number. You will hear jelly roll as in live so that when you entertain in a bordello story the blue of the four it with no doubt heard in my life made very difficult very very hard to get living out more but a really good place for a court to get on if it got a lot it made mouth about the camera thing. Or
whether. I want to. Many of the niggers in New Orleans were quite familiar with the prisons and present farms of Louisiana
and brought from them to the city the work song they learned in prison. My next song calling is a song of lonely men yearning for freedom in love and it is typical of music born outside of the city brought into it eventually evolving into the blues form and finally combining with other sources to become classical jazz. The the the. The
the the mood of the. Jelly Roll Morton was colorful and unique a blend of his own personality his classical training the Spanish danger as he called it and folk and blues and ragtime some later musicians considered him corny because of the ragtime places remaining in their style. But I think quite possibly they may have really wished that they could have played as well as a really good example of the solos presented by him
in his own compositions of the original rags. Will hear music.
Music in America with the local radio network next week in America view of this program was distributed by national educational radio. This is the national educational radio network.
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Series
Opera: Battleground of the arts
Episode
The dominance of the singer
Producing Organization
WRVR (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.)
Contributing Organization
University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/500-xg9f969k
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Description
Episode Description
This program focuses on the dominant role that the singer plays in opera.
Series Description
A discussion series, hosted by Boris Goldovsky, that examines the welding together of music and drama, two distinct arts, into opera.
Date
1967-02-14
Topics
Performing Arts
Media type
Sound
Duration
00:14:25
Credits
Host: Goldovsky, Boris
Producing Organization: WRVR (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Producing Organization: Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.)
AAPB Contributor Holdings
University of Maryland
Identifier: 67-11-2 (National Association of Educational Broadcasters)
Format: 1/4 inch audio tape
Duration: 00:29:20
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Chicago: “Opera: Battleground of the arts; The dominance of the singer,” 1967-02-14, University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 18, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-xg9f969k.
MLA: “Opera: Battleground of the arts; The dominance of the singer.” 1967-02-14. University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 18, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-xg9f969k>.
APA: Opera: Battleground of the arts; The dominance of the singer. Boston, MA: University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-xg9f969k