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Alex Horne from The Horne Section and the Observer's Emma John host an evening of cricket, comedy and chat at a Guardian Members' event in central London. Comedian and author Andy Zaltzman, cricketer Dean Headley and Felix White from the Maccabees give their take on what's what in the world of cricket (and beyond) plus there's music (and comedy) from Alex's five-piece band The Horne Section. There are also a few cricket quizzes - if you like that kind of thing.
It was once derided as hillbilly music. How did bluegrass become the new sound of political protest across the US?
The Guardian, in this book excerpt from bluegrass ignoramus, Emma John, gets bluegrass history badly wrong.
Nostalgia gave gruelling poverty a rosy glow? No. The genre's pioneers were nostalgic for the communities and culture they left behind when they went north to find work. How could any writer expert enough to write a book on bluegrass miss songs like "The Fields Have Turned Brown", "Sharecropper's Son", "Mountain Folks", or "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive"?
Bluegrass was eclipsed by rock 'n' roll for a few years, until musicologists and social justice advocates like Ralph Rinzler, and members of The New Lost City Ramblers haunted early bluegrass shows in their dogged determination to learn, understand, catalog, and promote the music that had so utterly captured their attentions. Again, how could any self-respecting bluegrass author miss Mike Seeger's groundbreaking compilation, Mountain Music Bluegrass Style, or the wildly-influential instruction book, How To Play the 5-String Banjo by Mike's half-brother, Pete Seeger?
"Can't You Hear Me Callin'" is nowhere close to Bill Monroe's most famous song. That honor belongs to "Blue Moon Of Kentucky", which became a massive, rockabilly hit when it was recorded by none other than Elvis Presley. The newest bluegrass fan on the block knows this fact like the back of her hand.
Something is changing and bluegrass music is in vogue? Has this woman never heard of Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou, whose bluegrass-inflected soundtrack swept the Grammys, oh, almost 20 years ago, in 2002?
Interested in learning more about the history of bluegrass music? Buy Thomas Goldsmith's Bluegrass Reader. Buy Richard D. Smith's award-winning Can't You Hear Me Callin'? But don't waste your money on Emma John's VSCO twaddle.
It was once derided as hillbilly music. How did bluegrass become the new sound of political protest across the US?
The Guardian, in this book excerpt from bluegrass ignoramus, Emma John, gets bluegrass history badly wrong.
Nostalgia gave gruelling poverty a rosy glow? No. The genre's pioneers were nostalgic for the communities and culture they left behind when they went north to find work. How could any writer expert enough to write a book on bluegrass miss songs like "The Fields Have Turned Brown", "Sharecropper's Son", "Mountain Folks", or "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive"?
Bluegrass was eclipsed by rock 'n' roll for a few years, until musicologists and social justice advocates like Ralph Rinzler, and members of The New Lost City Ramblers haunted early bluegrass shows in their dogged determination to learn, understand, catalog, and promote the music that had so utterly captured their attentions. Again, how could any self-respecting bluegrass author miss Mike Seeger's groundbreaking compilation, Mountain Music Bluegrass Style, or the wildly-influential instruction book, How To Play the 5-String Banjo by Mike's half-brother, Pete Seeger?
"Can't You Hear Me Callin'" is nowhere close to Bill Monroe's most famous song. That honor belongs to "Blue Moon Of Kentucky", which became a massive, rockabilly hit when it was recorded by none other than Elvis Presley. The newest bluegrass fan on the block knows this fact like the back of her hand.
Something is changing and bluegrass music is in vogue? Has this woman never heard of Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou, whose bluegrass-inflected soundtrack swept the Grammys, oh, almost 20 years ago, in 2002?
Interested in learning more about the history of bluegrass music? Buy Thomas Goldsmith's Bluegrass Reader. Buy Richard D. Smith's award-winning Can't You Hear Me Callin'? But don't waste your money on Emma John's VSCO twaddle.
Congrats to Emma John on the publication of her new book, Wayfaring Stranger: A Musical Journey in the American South, which features Punch Brothers and Rhiannon Giddens among others.
Polyamory’s Social Stance: Seeking a Freedom of Relatedness
Polyamory’s Social Stance: Seeking a Freedom of Relatedness
"Within the scope of this discussion, polyamory aligns with feminism in its ultimate desire and ability to challenge and reevaluate assumed paradigms of society and sociality. Here, polyamory supports some feminist aims in its ability and attempt to detach dependency from one romantic relationship. Furthermore, it allows people the ability to dictate relationships on their own terms and further extends experiences of relatedness to a more nuanced and complex personal approach."
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Benedict Cumberbatch is talking Edwardian manners, the brutishness of croquet and a million other things that segue rapidly into each other while my brain struggles feebly to keep up. He is making me a cup of Earl Grey, and a single question – shall we share a teabag? – has triggered this rush of inspiration, from tea ceremonies to post-colonial theory. It's fair to say that Cumberbatch is both a thinker and a talker.
Emma John, The Observer, September 2011 (x)
