Claude Vivier (deceased)
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Gay
DOB: 14 April 1948
RIP: 7 March 1983
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Nationality: Canadian / French
Occupation: Composer, musician, poet, ethnomusicologist, professor
Note: He may have had Tourette's

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Claude Vivier (deceased)
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Gay
DOB: 14 April 1948
RIP: 7 March 1983
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Nationality: Canadian / French
Occupation: Composer, musician, poet, ethnomusicologist, professor
Note: He may have had Tourette's
Harry Smith, ethnomusicologist & cat's cradle string-game expert, this be Cat's Whiskers design. Weakening malnourished in NY Bowery Franciscan shelter, he stayed with me a few weeks, then we went together to Naropa Institute; as resident alchemist-philosopher he remained till his last year & trip to New York 1991 to receive a Grammy award for life-long advancement of American Folk Music. March 21, 1988, N.Y. (photo & caption: Allen Ginsberg)
#harrysmith #stringfigure #ethnomusicologist #smithsonianfolkways #anthologyofamericanfolmusic #naropauniversity #catscradle #allenginsberg (at East Village)
Harry Smith, corner of 12th Street and First Ave, New York, Fall 1987. Photo: Brian Graham "Hermetic film-maker, archivist, bibliophile, painter Harry Smith stayed in my apartment in the little music room for nine months most of 1985, he'd broken his leg a few weeks after he moved out of the hotel Breslin shut down for reconstruction. He spent months recording ambient sounds of the Lower East Side come in thru my Manhattan windows from miles around.” Photo: Brian Graham, caption Allen Ginsberg.
Harry and Allen horsing around in Allen’s kitchen, ca 1987
"Hermetic film-maker, archivist, bibliophile, painter Harry Smith stayed in my apartment in the little music room for nine months most of 1985, he'd broken his leg a few weeks after he moved out of the hotel Breslin shut down for reconstruction. He spent months recording ambient sounds of the Lower East Side come in thru my Manhattan windows from miles around.” Photo: Brian Graham, caption Allen Ginsberg.
#harrysmith #allenginsberg #beatgeneration #ethnomusicologist #avantgardefilm #anthologyofamericanfolkmusic #smithsonianfolkways #lowereastside
As a music professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, ethnomusicologist Alan Williams said that his students don’t know that he’s
Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, musician, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker.
well...
Being an ethnomusicologist doesn't sound too bad to me