John Lomax News
American musicologist and folklorist (1867–1948)
- United States of America
- musicologist, historian, ethnomusicologist, music historian, university teacher, folklorist, composer
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2021-12-22 07:33:55
[…] scheme, Luke Lewis and Alicia Jane Turner, have been up to. Sian Edwards will be conducting the premieres of Luke Lewis' Echoes Return Slow and Tell Me When You Get Home (with soprano Ella Taylor). Lewis' new piece is based on musical transcriptions of speech patterns, made using innovative new software, which Lewis has then transformed into music. His piece is based on Welsh miners recorded in the 1950s by the visiting American ethno-musicologist, Alan Lomax and thus the new work becomes something of a dialogue with the past. Turner's new work is a sensory piece exploring gendered experiences of walking alone at night, with a libretto that draws on advice given by police. It will be presented in an immersive staging directed by Lucy Bailey. Full details from the Southbank Centre's website. There is also a chance to catch up with Alex Paxton as his new work is […]
2021-02-13 00:29:00
SightLinesMag.org: Artina McCain leads Austin Chamber Music’s Black Composers Concert. And it’s free. [“Celebration” will stream at 7:30 p.m. CST on Feb. 20.]
Artina McCain Photo by Sara Bill Sight Lines February 11, 2021 Pianist Artina McCain returns to Austin Chamber Music Center to once again lead the organization’s annual Black Composers Concert. “Celebration” will stream at 7:30 p.m. CST on Feb. 20. As with all of ACMC concerts this spring, tickets are free or pay-what-you-can. Go to austinchambermusic.org/event/celebration/ McCain curates Black composers concerts for multiple arts organizations and is an American Prize winner for “Heritage,” an album of solo piano music by Black composers. “Celebration” focuses on living Black composers as well the incredible legacy of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the Afro-British composer who enjoyed considerable acclaim before his death in 1912 at the age of 37. *** Other music featured in “Celebration” is by Fred Onovwerosuoke, Shirley Thompson, James Lee III, Valerie Coleman, Kerwin Young, Errollyn Wallen, Jeff Scott and Mark Lomax II.
2018-06-06 09:20:00
Let's face it, culture is screwed
[…] - i.e. audience - growth of just 19% from 55.9 to 66.6 million. It is an immutable law of economics that when supply grossly exceeds supply, prices crash - evidenced by low cost music streaming and free live concerts on social media - and cost pressures force quality to pursue price in a remorseless chase to the bottom - evidenced by dumbing down. So it is not surprising that the culture grey-out predicted by Alan Lomax in 1972 has arrived, and, as he forecast, a mismanaged, over-centralized electronic communication system is imposing a few standardized, mass-produced, and cheapened cultures everywhere. As another realist Colin Eatock explained recently "what is best is what sells the most", or as perceived value plummets even further, what is best is what can be give away in the largest quantity. My headline of 'Let's face it, culture is screwed' is not tasty click bait. With […]
2018-06-05 08:03:00
A culture grey-out is in progress
[…] the peoples of the earth, their rate of disappearance accelerated. This worries us all, but we have grown so accustomed to the dismal view of dead or dying cultures on the human landscape, that we have learned to dismiss this pollution on the human environment as inevitable, and even sensible, since it is wrongly assumed that the weak and unfit among musics and cultures are eliminated in this way. That extract is from Alan Lomax's startlingly prescient 'An Appeal for Cultural Equity' published in 1972 in the World of Music. Alan Lomax is seen above; do click on this link and read the whole article as one of his essays is worth a thousand tweets. If any confirmation is needed that a technology-driven cultural grey-out has well and truly arrived, it is provided by composer and writer Colin Eatock's recent thoughtful essay from which the following is taken:Expertise is […]
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