ethnomusicology!

I know you're worried that you don't know enough about ethnomusicology! The advent of the internet and everyone knowing about all kinds of obscure things is stressful! But don't worry because I will help you know and love ethnomusicology and maybe help you be a little bit confused about what it is :D...

[cordjefferson]

Imagine being so married to your narrative that says black people have it easy in America that even when nine black people are murdered at the hands of an avowed white supremacist you feel the need to spin it as an attack on Christianity and not an attack on blackness. Imagine getting a whole TV network on which to do this. Imagine getting paid lots of money to do this. I bet they think they’re fucking brave.

[ethnomusicology4u]

Tonight! 5:30 PM in Silver Building, Room 320

[nyuveg-blog]

Yesterday, NYULocal reported that a number of NYU faculty members e-mailed President John Sexton (and other members of the administration) to voice their concerns over his plans to demolish the often-ignored Jerome S. Coles Sports and Recreation Center as early as next year (2013 for those of...

[comedybeanbag]

[ifc]

So unhummable.

[ethnomusicology4u]

Abby Hollander - Vocals, guitar Jeff Picker - Guitar, vocals

[overpricedvodka]

Who we need to cut over this Aretha Franklin autotune?

Man….I started listening to Aretha’s cover of “Rolling in the Deep” and I still ain’t been able to put my face together.  How do you autotune Aretha Franklin??  Who did this!  I can’t find any producers for her new album of diva covers other than Babyface & Andre 3000 and my heart just doesn’t want to let me believe they really did this to her.

Y’all.  Everything about this is already a mess.  Who let Coco Montrese do Aretha’s make-up?  I thought we decided garage-door solid brows-to-lashes monotone went out in 1993?

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[ethnomusicology4u]

A favorite first recorded by Eddy Arnold in 1955 Jeff Picker guitar Catherine Provenzano vocals Gabriel Rogers videographer Recorded in Montrose, West Virginia, June 2014

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and here's the referenced Voice article

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In Defense of Schlock Music: Why Journey, Billy Joel, and Lionel Richie Are Better Than You Think

Big corny windswept sentimentality might just be the thing that pop does best.

[ethnomusicology4u]

Merche Blasco and Thessia Machado at Reverse Space

[ethnomusicology4u]

The Quietus | Opinion | The Quietus Essay | Song Of The Digital Flesh: Vocal Manipulation & Our Cyborg Selves

The highly charged vocal manipulations of Holly Herndon, Katie Gately (pictured), Burial and The Knife, writes Alex Borkowski, are powerful expressions of our fast-evolving relationships with technology, space and our own bodies

[ethnomusicology4u]

A Brief History of Auto-Tune

This is the final article  in Sounding Out!‘s April  Forum on “Sound and Technology.” Every Monday this month, you've heard new insights on this age-old pairing from the likes of Sounding Out! vete...

[ethnomusicology4u]

Gillain Welch's "One More Dollar" for #collabmonday with Bennett Sullivan and Jeff Picker

[beautravail]

The churn of Western sexual politics has always required an exotic outside against which to test and rediscover itself. When the white world had reason to celebrate chastity, people of color were imagined as sexual savages; now that whites have discovered erotic pleasure as good health, they have invented a non-white world full of genital mutilators, sexual oppressors, and homophobes. Without the energizing illogic of race, whites, like pandas, might die of their lack of interest in each other.

Hannah Black, "In a Mirror Darkly" (via beautravail)

[ethnomusicology4u]

[thestrutny]

(via Watch Barack Obama sing Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’)

It’s not officially the song of the summer until the President has performed his cover. Watch Barack sing Daft Punk’s Get Lucky HERE

[ethnomusicology4u]

I wrote this for culturadar.com