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| Horace Pippin, Interior (detail), 1930's |
I was thinking back through all the paths we followed last night. It was quite wonderful--although I regret we didn't concentrate more on your ideas about Mary Don't You Weep. They emerged in the projects, however! Be sure to post thoughts about this on your Digital Notebook sites --while they're still fresh in mind. These last two weeks on Work Songs and Spirituals are an anchor in the course. But, as you'll see from the class S&P blog site, we're now heading for Appalachia--and a very different song world...
See new post on S&P website--we didn't have time to discuss, but dive in and we'll do that next week!
Last night, recap:
San Francisco Bay Blues (Jesse Fuller)
Rock Island Line (Leadbelly)
Candy Man (Rev. Gary Davis version)
Mary Don't You Weep (Tony's version, and why...)
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (Feather in air... Valdemar's painting... cenote...)
Since I Laid My Burden Down (John Hurt version)-- Moses and Jesus
question of transposing words and meanings (Jesus/Freedom, for example)
▶ Old Dog Blues' JIM JACKSON (1884-1937) Blues Legend - YouTube
Included in The Anthology of American Folksongs, Harry Smith ed. 1952 (Folkways Records)
Talking blues--transcendent--with all the biblical references (Old Blue treed a possum in Noah's Ark...)
one of the best songs going!
▶ Joseph Spence / 01 Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer.m4a - Box
Andos Island, in the Bahamas. Sam Charter book--The Day is So Long and the Wages So Small
How a song is transformed by listening
▶ ANNE SHELTON ~ COMING IN ON A WING AND A PRAYER ~ 1943 - YouTube
The version Joseph Spence probably heard on the radio...
▶ Visual Studies 185X: Songs & Places / American Roots: Bibliography
where you can find Sam Charter's book (and lots of others!)
Shakespeare's Sources:
The Bible, King James translation
and
Ovid: The Metamorphoses (the one I carried for years, in my bag, on the bus)
▶ Full Fathom Five - Incidental Music by David Lorimer for Shakespeare's The Tempest - YouTube
▶ full fathom five - shakespeare's The Tempest (Ariel's Song
telling a story through images... as in the songs... what they convey, how they set the tone...the music that follows (or leads?)
▶ Oss Oss Wee Oss! (1953) (edited to fit on youtube) - YouTube
Baylor's question about "dynamics" of the British song world--Helen will look into this for us! It will fit well with what we'll be doing in Week 6.
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| Mary Kay Ho, Mary Don't You Weep |
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