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American Frontier Music

Petek, 16 April 2010 11:14

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American Frontier Music
Predstavitev, predavanje in koncert

V sodelovanju z Ameriško ambasado bomo v okviru tedna ameriške kulture predstavili koncert tradicionalne ameriške glasbe imenovano American Frontier Music.

Dale Cockrell, profesor ameriške glasbe na univerzi Vanderbilt v Tennesseeju, ter svetovno znani violinist Joe Weed z ženo Marty Kendall (na kontrabasu) bodo predstavili tradicionalno ameriško glasbo ljudi, ki so osvajali ameriški zahod – American Frontier Music. Dr. Dale Cockrell bo spregovoril tudi o pomembni vlogi glasbe v tistih pionirskih časih nastajanja ZDA ter o težkih življenjskih pogojih prvih priseljencev, ki so ustvarjali ameriško identiteto in novo državo.

Biography: DALE COCKRELL

Professor of Musicology, B.M., M.M., Ph.D. (Illinois)

Publications include Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World (1997, Cambridge University Press; recipient of Hugh Holman Award for best book in Southern Studies); Excelsior: Journals of the Hutchinson Family Singers, 1842-1846 (1989, Pendragon Press; recipient of Irving Lowens Award for best book in American music); Happy Land: Musical Tributes to Laura Ingalls Wilder (CD); The Arkansas Traveler: Music from Little House on the Prairie (CD); and other books, articles, scholarly editions of music, and reviews. Lectures and papers presented throughout the world. Numerous grants and awards. Founder and President of Pa's Fiddle Recordings, LLC, an educational enterprise dedicated to producing recordings of the music embedded in the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Member: American Antiquarian Society (elected, 1995); American Musicological Society; College Music Society; International Association for the Study of Popular Music; Society for American Music (President, 1995-97). Member of faculty: University of Natal (South Africa), 1974-76; Indiana University, 1978; Dartmouth College, 1978/79; 1981; Middlebury College, 1979-85; College of William and Mary, 1985-96. Blair School since 1996.

For more info, pls. visit; http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Blair/faculty/faculty_muslit.html

http://www.ndxpress.com/ndxpress_stuff/pafiddle/fiddle_dloads_pdfs/Cockrell-bio.pdf

Biography: JOE WEED

Joe Weed has released six albums of his own, has produced sound tracks for movies and TV, and his work has been featured in Ken Burns' documentaries, The Lincoln Museum, The National Steinbeck Center, Arlington National Cemetery, PBS' documentary "Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil, and the Presidency," Martin Guitar Company promo, and many more projects. Joe Weed records acoustic music at his Highland Studios near Los Gatos, California.

"For those interested in American music, this is required listening.”
–The New York Post

"this musician's musician, known to cognoscenti for years as a fiddle wizard..." --Paul Hostetter, for Acoustic Guitar magazine

Two albums relevant to America Days:

Prairie Lullabies: Western-themed lullabies including Home on the Range, Red River Valley, Shenandoah, Streets of Laredo, and more.

American Portrait: Original instrumental music reflecting the sounds and spirit of different American cities and places, played on acoustic guitar, mandolin, fiddle, bass and harmonica.