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Sunday, September 30, 2012

InsIde: Schedule and venues, festival info and lots more!

Here’s to Janet Place and
e Great Big Gone at the Weave, Jon Christie and Baffle at Southern Rail, and Rachel Kiel at e
Music Loſt.

Here’s to the moms and their strollers, dads and their wagons and the hipster teens with their skinny jeans.

Here’s to everyone who makes the music and keeps our toes tapping.

WE THANK YOU
FOR MAKING OUR
COMMUNITY WHAT IT IS.

Proudly supporting the
Carrboro Music Festival since 2003!

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Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012

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Welcome

It is my pleasure to invite you to the 15th Annual Carrboro Music Festival. Mark your calendars for Sunday, Sept. 30. I welcome you to come out and enjoy our unique, free, one-of-a-kind event. As always, there will be a wonderfully diverse variety of performers, at both indoor and outdoor venues, all over town.
I am so grateful to all the musicians, as well as the many volunteers and staff, for their energy and dedication behind the scenes.
Welcome to the 15th Annual Carrboro Music Festival! Take a walk around town on Sunday, Sept. 30 and enjoy a day jam-packed full of music. You can hear hiphop, country, blues, rock, Celtic, world music, bluegrass, jazz and more – and all within the seven or eight blocks of downtown Carrboro! Take a look at the festival website at carrboromusicfestival.com
Thanks to the mayor and the Carrboro Board of Aldermen for their continuing supportandthevariousCarrborodepartmentsthatmakethispossible:Recreation & Parks, Public Works, Police and Fire.
I look forward to seeing you there!

Mark ChIlton
Gerry WIllIaMs

Carrboro muSiC feStival Coordinator mayor of Carrboro

Helping you find a home in Carrboro

since 1997

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Students can receive Service Learning hours, and all volunteers will get a

free festival T-shirt and a free raffle ticket. Check out the volunteer page at

the festival website.

2012 Carrboro Music Festival Planning

Raffle Tickets and T-shirts

Founding festival committee member and musician Janet Place has created a special design for this year’s 15th annual Carrboro Music Festival. We have incorporated it into commemorative T-shirts, which can be purchased at all four information tables for $10. Posters will be available at the table on Weaver Street next to the Carrboro Century Center.

Tickets for the annual raffle (which not only has something for just about

everyone but also features a greater chance of winning than just about any

raffle you’ll ever see) can also be purchased at those tables. Tickets are $1

each or six for $5. Winners will be drawn the week following the event and

will be notified by phone.

Committee

Gerry WilliamS*

CoordInator:

Info Tables

The Information Tables are at the following locations from 1 to 6 p.m.:

• Town Commons

Carrboro reCreatIon & Parks:

rah troSt, denniS JoineS

Volunteers:

• Carrboro Century Center (Weaver Street side) • Weaver Street Market lawn • Cat’s Cradle (outside)

Charlie berry, Catherine devine*, tony Galiani, miChael GoWan, JaCkie helvey*, meG mCGurk and Janet plaCe*

* Carrboro muSiC feStival founderS

This publication is provided by The Carrboro Citizen – your local newspaper since 2007.

Activities/Food/Crafts

The Town Commons will feature a number of different activities, including a children’s craft table from 2-4 p.m. Participants will use a variety of recycled materials to create fun, unique musical instruments, from drums to kazoos!

robert dICkson

publiSher

susan dICkson

Crafts booths and specialty food vendors will also be in the area around Carrboro Town Hall – check them out! Food vendors include Captain Poncho’s, Big City Sandwiches, Antie Mae’s, Capp’s Pizza, Tar Heel Creamery and Little Dipper.

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layout & deSiGn

Craft vendors include: Designs By Helayne, Four Legged Flamingo,
Carved Tones, Carolina Moon, Deliza Designs, Scavenger Designs, Chalfonte Birdhouses, Leopold Designs, Chinwag Designs, Really Pretty Cardinals, DE

Andrews Silversmith, Butterfly Paints, Erin Griffin Silversmith, Silvan Song,

Auroa Metal Works, Wood Child, Indigo Arts, and Bondi Studio. Health Source of Chapel Hill will offer free chair massages. Paws4ever and The Art of Cool Project will be on hand to offer information about their organizations.
All of these activities are right next to the Town Commons stage, where six wonderful bands will provide the music, so you won’t miss a note.

Marty Cassady

advertiSinG SaleS

Information

Free Transportation
Foul Weather Plan

A free biodiesel shuttle bus will run back and forth between the Carrboro
Plaza park-and-ride lot and downtown from noon until 8 p.m. The park-andride lot is behind the center of Carrboro Plaza.
Ten of the 25 venues are either indoors or can move indoors, so music at these venues will continue rain or shine. In the case of a possible day-long rain, the Festival Committee and the Police and Public Works will make a decision concerning the viability of the outdoor venues by 9:30 a.m. on the day of the festival. Southern Rail’s Front Porch and Milltown will make their own call.
A map of the route is available online at carrboromusicfestival.com

Volunteer on Festival Day!

Want to be a part of this incredible community event? You can do that while making new friends or hanging out with old ones. Help out backstage,

assist with traffic direction and parking or work at an information table.

Those are but a few of the ways that you can help while still hearing an awful lot of music.

The N.C. Songwriters’ Stage at The Southern Rail Beer Garden will move

to the Town Hall Board Room.
If changes occur to the current performance schedule, they will be announced on the Carrboro Recreation & Parks Department weather line,

which can be reached at (919) 918-7373.

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102 East Main Street Carrboro, NC 27510
(919) 929-6881

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7:00 onjukaI – Contemporary/traditional Japanese music 8:00 tIM sMIth and eIleen reGan and FrIends – big Celtic fun 9:00 Crystal brIGht & the sIlVer hands – indie World folk

AuTo loGIC/PeCk AnD ARTIsAns/CARRboRo musIC

204 W. Main St.

1:15 sPIralFIre – rock 2:15 dooMbunny – alternative rock & roll 3:15 the lIds – Classic rock & roll 4:15 Motrendus – original hard rock 5:15 terCer dIVIsa naCIonal – rock: english & español 6:15 CatIe kInG – Pop-Rock

ARmADIllo GRIll

120 E. Main St. – upStairS

1:00 tony loW – folk rock 2:00 bearded Folk – folk/blues 3:00 PatrICk blaCkburn WIth Matt stutzMan – acoustic

Singer-Songwriter

4:00 daVe laukaItIs – Indie Folk-Rock 5:00 the hIllbIlly hIPsters – folkabilly 6:00 rebekah todd – folk/blues 7:00 laMont Coal – electronic

bAlAnCeD moVemenT sTuDIo

304 W. WEavEr St. (upStairS)

1:00 asCab nC – Capoeira: brazilian music and movement 2:00 Gene lloyd – original folk 3:00 jeWelsonG – A cappella, Ambient, New Age 4:00 shaWn deena – acoustic alternative 5:00 tea CuP GIn – vintage vocal Jazz 6:00 hearts oF knotty PIne – folk/americana/bluegrass 7:00 skylark – Celtic

The ARTsCenTeR (eARl & RhoDA Wynn TheATeR)

300-G E. Main St.

6:15 tony GalIanI – upstream Jazz 7:15 the bradshaW Quartet – Contemporary Jazz, bebop, r&b 8:15 FrankIe alexander and FrIends – Jazz Standards 9:15 keVIn Van sant – Jazz

The ARTsCenTeR (WesT enD TheATeR)

StaGE SponSor: rEaltor loGan a. CartEr 300-G E. Main St.

bAlloons & Tunes/FRAmeR’s CoRneR

208 W. Main St.

1:00 kItty box & the johnnys – hayseed torch Surf 2:00 oFF the road band – americana
3:00 GyPsy toWn – Original Southern Folk-Rock 4:00 WIldFloWer – folk/traditional

3:00 southern routes – Carrbor-ibean Music: R&R Through New Orleans

4:00 dry rIVer trIo – folk, bluegrass
5:00 barroWburn – Celtic folk 6:00 stePh steWart and the boyFrIends – Folk-Americana

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5:00 Fat bastard blues band – blues 6:00 the MelobellIes – Indie-Rock
3:00 Gary MItChell – rock, pop 4:00 PatrICk turner – rock 5:00 Gretyl C – Acoustic Pop-Rock 6:00 jereMy GIlChrIst – folk alternative

CAT’s CRADle

300 E. Main St.

3:30 taIn CollIns band – rock

Jessee’s CoFFee AnD bAR

401 E. Main St.

4:30 dark Water rIsInG – americana/folk/indie 5:30 todd jones and Money Vs. PeoPle – alternative pop 6:30 stranGer sPIrIts – mad Scientist/robot Girl rock 7:30 tIn Can saIlor – indie rock 8:30 trIPle Fret – rock, World & Jazz 9:30 arChbIshoPs oF blount street – Ska/reggae/rock 10:30 toon and the real laWW – pop hop
1:00 CurtIs eller’s aMerICan CIrCus – banjo music for funerals/Social

Gatherings

2:00 VIVa la Venus – rock 3:00 lud – rock, americana 4:00 justIn johnson – Slide blues, Cigar box & Gypsy Jazz 5:00 FunktIon – funk, Jazz, fusion 6:00 state oF IllusIon – modern rock 7:00 honeyChIle – rock, funk, Soul 8:00 the PInkerton raId – Outlaw Pop

CARRboRo CenTuRy CenTeR

StaGE SponSor: Franklin StrEEt rEalty StaGE 100 n. GrEEnSboro St

1:00 MaGnolIa klezMer band – klezmer

lookInG GlAss CAFe

601 W. Main St.

1:00 jaMIe Purnell – americana/roots 2:00 Carrborators – americana 3:00 durhaM ukulele orChestra – 1920s Standards to Classic & modern rock 4:00 soMethInG For noW – alt. rock, blues 5:00 bubba joe and the bruIsers – Surf punk/psychobilly 6:00 ParaFIlM – Indie-Rock
2:00 erICh lIeth and one sun – World beat Jazz 3:00 CaPItal transIt – Jazz (Manhattan Transfer-style) 4:00 MIMosa WInds – Classical, Show Tunes, Jazz 5:00 the MIGhty GosPel InsPIratIons – a cappella “Golden age” Gospel Quartet

6:00 Sawyer-GoldberG Jazz – improvisational Jazz Standards

7:00 skeedaddle – 1920s-’30s Swing & Hokum 8:00 the jazztones – Jazz Standards, bossa nova, latin 9:00 MarIe VanderbeCk trIo – Jazz

mIllToWn

307 E. Main St.

3:00 Mark holland – blues 4:00 onWard soldIers – Roots-Rock 5:00 toW3rs – Psych-Rock 6:00 MaGnolIa ColleCtIVe – Americana/Folk/Twang 7:00 ben daVIs and the jetts – rock & roll 8:00 MIdnIGht Plus one – punk

FIFTh seAson GARDenInG/GlAsshAlFull

106 S. GrEEnSboro St.

1:00 hWyl – Celtic rock 2:00 trIP MCCool and the old sChool – irish american 3:00 rouGh Cut – bluegrass 4:00 blue taIled skInks – Old-Time Tunes 5:00 neW sWeat – pop, rock, blues 6:00 bIG Fat GaP – Carrboro bluegrass 7:00 kIller FIller – Lounge-a-delic

musIC loFT/nIGhTsounD sTuDIos

rECorDinG artiStS’ StaGE

116 W. MaIn st.

FITCh lumbeR ComPAny Teen sTAGe

StaGE SponSorS: DoublE DECkEr buS MuSiC/MuSiC & artS/ MobilE StaGES

309 n. GrEEnSboro St.

1:00 the buCket brothers 1:45 subCulture danGer 2:30 seVryn sChaller 3:15 CoMPletely oFF balanCe 4:00 eMerson WaldorF jazz band 4:45 the shy Guys

1:00 raChel kIel – melancholy harmonies & rollicking Strings

2:00 raFael Green – psych folk & Ghostly tenor voice

3:00 VIrGIns – high priests of tribal double drum kit rhythm and drifting harmony

4:00 henbraIn – Basses Power Landscapes & Gutsy She-Demon Vocals

5:00 MornInG brIGade – Autumnal, Epic, Indie Folk-Rock

oPen eye CAFe

101 S. GrEEnSboro St.

1:00 ladIes oF the lake – Celtic 2:00 aPe Foot GrooVe – funk 3:00 sCarlet VIrGInIa – folk/rock 4:00 Con aCento – World beat/latin Groove/acoustic

5:00 ashe – Alternative Singer-Songwriter

6:00 sea CoW – rock/pop/americana 7:00 see no WeeVIl – blues/rock
5:30 rIGht oF Way 6:15 the CardInal Faults 7:00 tyler “FIrehead” thIGPen

FRAnk Cole buIlDInG Co.

101 CEntEr St. (Front porCh)

1:00 dan PelletIer – Acoustic/Folk-Rock/Americana 2:00 josePh north – Indie Folk-Rock
8:00 the ChatterIn’ teeth – original rock 9:00 the FIelds oF Mars – alternative/ambient rock/psychedelic

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7:30 VaGabond unIon – Alt-Country/Americana 9:00 FantastICo! – blues/rock

The sTATIon

210 E. Main St.

1:00 butter – rock/funk 2:00 Carrbros – Folk-Rock 3:00 tokyo rosenthal – americana 4:00 luCky’s starlIGht lounGe – Jazz standards and lounge 5:00 Mahalojazz – Smokin’ Straight-ahead Jazz 6:00 the InFIdels – barroom rock & roll 7:00 anna rose beCk – Folk, Singer-Songwriter 8:00 the banana seats – Three-Minute Pop Songs 9:00 the breaks – original rock

PnC bAnk

300 W. WEavEr St.

1:00 Gentle robot – rock & roll 2:00 beauty oPerators – blues 3:00 GrayMatter – acoustic rock 4:00 ManGosteen – rock
10:00 PurItan rodeo – roots rock, americana 11:00 debonzo brothers – rock/americana

ToWn Commons

StaGE SponSor: wEavEr StrEEt rEalty

301 W. Main St.

1:00 n.C. saxoPhone enseMble – Classical, traditional & Contemporary 2:00 barleyCorn & rye – irish and american roots music 3:00 MIPso – folk/americana/bluegrass/roots 4:00 the hey brothers – bluegrass 5:00 the Crossroads ColleCtIVe – acoustic rock/Gospel 6:00 tIM sMIth band – World music for the Soul, Soul music for the World!
5:00 radar’s CloWns oF sedatIon – Blues, Soul & Twang 6:00 rhonda robIChaux band – New Orleans Blues, Jazz and Funk

2nD WInD sAloon

118 E. Main St.

1:15 taMPa blue – delta & piedmont blues 2:15 suMMerGlen – original trombone/marimba pop

3:15 Near-bliNd JameS & HarmoNica bob – piedmont blues, ragtime,

hokum & Gospel

TyleR’s PARkInG loT

102 E. Main St.

2:00 turntable GraVeyard – epic rock 3:00 MIlaGro saInts – roots rock 4:00 stratoCruIser – rock
4:15 hendeCatoPe – atmospheric instrumental electronica 5:15 QuIet the VoICes – Singer-Songwriter/Folk 6:15 battlestar Canada – experimental/rock/electronica 7:15 skIPPy skIP – alternative rap/Creative rock

5:00 too MuCh Fun – r&b

souTheRn RAIl beeR GARDen

n.C. SonGwritErS’ StaGE

201 E. Main St.

1:00 Frank PrInCIotta & Mark knox 1:30 daVId bultMan 2:00 sherry lea 2:30 aMber dutton 3:00 GeoFF GIlson & erIC bannan 3:30 Mary roCaP 4:00 eMIly MusolIno

4:30 ace aNd T-boNe

5:00 brooke MCbrIde 5:30 jason derrICk
6:00 PaGan hellCats – original americana 7:00 GasolIne stoVe – americana 8:00 saludos CoMPay – latin music for dancing and listening

WCom RADIo

208 E. Main St.

1:15 doGWood blossoM – americana, folk 2:15 MebanesVIlle – roots, rhythm and World music 3:15 doWn rIVer – bluegrass 4:15 Mudbones blues reVIeW – blues/r&b dance band

5:15 MultIPles – Rock with Socio/Political Overtones

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    “Statesboro Blues”—Blind Willie McTell (1928) Added to the National Registry: 2015 Essay by Brian Bader Blind Willie McTell Blind Willie McTell was born May 5, 1901 in Thomson, Georgia. Though there is some uncertainty about his birth year, his comparatively long life (he died on Aug. 19, 1959, in Milledgeville, Georgia), his prolific recording career, the memories of numerous acquaintances, and McTell’s own recorded reminiscences, allow for a full picture of his life. His skillful fingerpicking guitar style ranks high with the playing of other acoustic blues artists, both blind (Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Blake, Reverend Gary Davis) and sighted (Josh White, Brownie McGhee). Hard to categorize, McTell embodied Piedmont blues, as well as ragtime, and gospel/spiritual/religious music, and may best be described as a mid-twentieth century American songster. One of his tunes--“covered,” or more accurately freely adapted, in a powerful electric blues rendition by the Allman Brothers Band-- is his legacy. This number most familiar to modern blues and rock fans: “Statesboro Blues.” Recorded by McTell and self-accompanied on twelve- string guitar in 1928 for Victor records, it showcases his distinctive voice and his talented guitar playing. The Allman Brothers later credited their cover of the song to “Will McTell” on their live two-record album “At Filmore East” released in 1971 on Capricorn Records. Guitarists Duane Allman (using a slide) and Dickey Betts cut loose with their trademark twin lead guitar line up in a memorable reading as a jumping blues shuffle. In an analysis of the history of “Statesboro Blues,” however, it is important to note that between the McTell recording and the Allman Brothers, there is a version from 1968 by Taj Mahal on his debut album.
  • Carrboro Music Festival 2016 Schedule

    Carrboro Music Festival 2016 Schedule

    Carrboro Music Festival 2016 schedule Saturday, September 24 Locations and Bands Listed Below: Carrboro Town Commons #3 2:00 pm Mebansville – rock and roll 3:00 pm Brooke Hatala– singer Songwriter 4:00 pm Shaan Hassaan ‐ singer Songwriter 5:00 pm The Klezbyterians– world klezmer Concert @ Cats Cradle #24 Sunday, September 25 Locations and Bands Listed Below: Johnny's #1 1:00 pm Multiples – Acoustic Original Rock 2:00 pm Thunder and Spice – Celtic/Renaissance 3:00 pm Rip the Calico – Traditional Irish Dance Music 4:00 pm Far From Done – Uke Rock 5:00 pm Temenos – Experimental/Free Looking Glass Café #2 1:00 pm Mic the Prophet – Folk Pop 2:00 pm Wyatt Easterling – Folk/Americana 3:00 pm Castle Wild – Pop Rock 4:00 pm Parallel Lives – Folk Pop 5:00 pm The Dogwood Blossom Band ‐ Folk/Americana Carrboro Town Commons #3 1:00 pm Rhythmicity – International Rhythm Based 2:00 pm The LIDS – Classic Rock, Motown 3:00 pm Sisters' Voices – Classic, World Folk 4:00 pm The Hay Brothers ‐ Bluegrass 5:00 pm Radar's Clowns of Sedation – Blues/Soul 6:00 pm Dmitri Resnik & Bootleg Beat – Louisiana Roots 1 | Page Mercado #4 1:00 pm Squandered Bongos – Folk Rock 2:00 pm Sound System Seven – Ska 3:00 pm Kitty Box & The Johnnys – Smorgasbord 4:00 pm Raid the Quarry – Indie Pop 5:00 pm Pagan Hellcats – Original Folk Rock Balanced Movement #5 1:00 pm Eric Bannan – Singer Songwriter 2:00 pm Near Blind James & Harmonica Bob – Piedmont Blues & Ragtime 3:00 pm North Carolina Harp Duo – Classical Baroque to Present 4:00 pm Judy Woodall – Rural Psychedelia 5:00 pm Stray
  • “Covering” the Bluesman from a Distance

    “Covering” the Bluesman from a Distance

    Introduction In many ways, my journey towards this thesis topic began with my brother’s music collection. Throughout my teens he would introduce me to a wide range of local and international acts, many of which were influenced by African-American blues artists. This influence is evident in both their construction of sound and the old songs that they rerecorded. From there I began tracing musical influences from song credits and interview excerpts—a path often travelled by musicians and fans alike—that would eventually lead me to an appreciation of blues music. The penultimate step towards this topic came in the form of my honours thesis—a creative project that involved rerecording several tracks from the catalogue of an early Australian country music artist, one of which was titled “Blue Mountain Blues”.1 From there I turned to blues music in Australia. Initially conceived as a history of “Australian blues”, it became apparent that this proposed sub-genre struggled to unify and explain the disparate musical styles contained therein. Although each artist was clearly addressing the musical characteristics and influences I had come to recognise as “blues music”, it all sounded different. In the meantime, I developed a keen interest in a fellow colleague’s thesis topic that addressed the role of “covers” within the Australian music industry (Giuffre, 2005). My epiphany—and catalyst for the current thesis topic—eventually presented itself while viewing a live performance from Peter Green Splinter Group. The concert was split into two courses: an acoustic entrée featuring several Robert Johnson “covers”; and, an electric main with side dishes of early Fleetwood Mac material—the band Green had help found many years ago.
  • What Is Blues Dancing? Shaped by the African

    What Is Blues Dancing? Shaped by the African

    Blues Dancing and its African American ROOTS WHAT IS BLUES DANCING? “Blues dance” is a new name describing a family of dances done to blues music and created within African American communites. Writng in the 1970s, African American jazz critc Albert Murray was the frst to categorize these dances as “blues-idiom.” Murray’s descripton of reactons to blues music—spontaneity, improvisaton, and control—applies to blues dance as well. SHAPED BY THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Despite enslavers’ atempts to eradicate African Americans’ heritage, African roots persist and are evident in blues music and dance characteristcs such as layering rhythms, emphasis on improvisaton, and a call and response format. Lyrics and music express everyday life experiences, ofen refectng themes of hardship, from racism and poverty to personal relatonships. Learning by watching and copying, as well as valuing innovaton and creaton of an individual’s unique personal style within the given aesthetc, is also part of the cultural traditon. Music and movement for African Americans during enslavement was ofen limited to actvites such as Christan prayer meetngs, work chants, and entertainment for plantaton owners. Afer emancipaton, African Americans gradually had more freedom to gather, play music, and dance on their own. Field hands in the South socialized in juke joints, small shacks where beer and liquor were sold, one or two local musicians played, and people danced. In Northern cites during the Great Migraton of the 1920s, middle-class blues and jazz musicians and dancers gathered in small apartments for occasions like rent partes. African Americans danced—and contnue to dance—on front porches and street corners, and in homes, back rooms of restaurants, community centers, and ballrooms.
  • The Blues: from the Delta to the South Side of Chicago

    The Blues: from the Delta to the South Side of Chicago

    The Blues: From the Delta to the South Side of Chicago Reading the Blues If you’d like your students to gain an appreciation of the richness, complexity, depth, and pervasiveness of African-American culture in relation to the broader American culture, listen to music. Music offers an entryway into the world of ordinary African-American men and women in the United States from the late 19th century onward. The blues, even though its beginnings are somewhat obscure, are an expression - even a chronicle - of the lives of people who had at one time been slaves. Music, of course, is only one of many African American contributions to American society. But it is an important contribution—one that can shed light on the ideas, values, and emotions of many otherwise silent African Americans. A history class isn't a music class. It's not a course in music history. Nevertheless, music can contribute to our understanding of history. A study of the blues can serve as a window on the black experience in post Civil War America up to the present. As we will see, the view through that window changed as failures of post-Civil War reconstruction in the South led black Americans to leave the cotton fields for the cities and eventually northward. The History of the Blues The best guess is that the blues first came into being as a recognizable music form sometime around the 1890s, long after the end of slavery, but deep into slavery's successor servitude of sharecropping, Jim Crow laws and other oppressions.
  • The Event of Blues Music and the Effects of Technology on the Artistic Event

    The Event of Blues Music and the Effects of Technology on the Artistic Event

    Western University Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository 10-26-2018 10:30 AM The Event of Blues Music and the Effects of Technology on the Artistic Event Adam Rejak The University of Western Ontario Supervisor Calcagno, Antonio. The University of Western Ontario Graduate Program in Theory and Criticism A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree in Doctor of Philosophy © Adam Rejak 2018 Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd Part of the Continental Philosophy Commons, Other Music Commons, and the Other Philosophy Commons Recommended Citation Rejak, Adam, "The Event of Blues Music and the Effects of Technology on the Artistic Event" (2018). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 5840. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/5840 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Western. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository by an authorized administrator of Scholarship@Western. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Abstract The goal of this dissertation is to find out whether or not blues music is an event. I explore what constitutes a musical or artistic event in modern times and to see how this has changed in relation to earlier periods. I also identify its essential formal elements. I divide blues music into two categories, namely, its technical playing qualities (the micro) and its historical changes (the macro). This division frames the entire project and illustrates that in order to discuss an artistic event, we must account for both its technical and historical aspects.