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Wednesday 26 October 2016

Michael Jackson Biography

Born: August 29, 1958 
Gary, Indiana 

African American entertainer, singer, and songwriter
Aperformer since the age of five, Michael Jackson is one of the most popular singers in history. His 1983 album, Thriller, sold forty million copies, making it the biggest seller of all time. Through his record albums and music videos he created an image imitated by his millions of fans.
Career planned in advance
Michael Joe Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana, on August 29, 1958, the fifth of Joe and Katherine Jackson's nine children. The house was always filled with music. Jackson's mother taught the children folk and religious songs, to which they sang along. Jackson's father, who worked at a steel plant, had always dreamed of becoming a successful musician. When this failed to happen, he decided to do whatever it took to make successes of his children. He tried to control his children's careers even after they were adults. The struggle for the control of the musical fortunes of the Jackson family was a constant source of conflict.
The Jackson boys soon formed a family band that became a success at amateur shows and talent contests throughout the Midwest. From the age of five Michael's amazing talent showed itself. His dancing and stage presence caused him to become the focus of the group. His older brother, Jackie, told Gerri Hershey in Rolling Stone, "It was sort of frightening. He was so young. I don't know where he got it. He just knew. "
Discovered by Motown
The Jacksons' fame and popularity soon began to spread. While performing at the Apollo Theater in New York City's Harlem neighborhood in 1968, Motown recording artist Gladys Knight (1944–) and pianist Billy Taylor discovered them. Later that year singer Diana Ross (1944–) became associated with the boys during a "Soul Weekend" in Gary. With Ross's support, the Jacksons signed a contract with Motown Records. Berry Gordy (1929–), the famous head of Motown, took control of the Jacksons' careers.
By 1970 the group, known as the Jackson Five, was topping the charts and riding a wave of popularity with such hits as "ABC," "The Love You Save," and "I'll Be There," each of which sold over one million copies. The group also appeared on several televised specials, and a Jackson Five cartoon series was created. Gordy quickly recognized Michael's appeal and released albums featuring him alone. These solo albums sold as well as those of the Jackson Five. The group managed to survive Michael's voice change and a bitter break with Motown Records in 1976, but as the Jackson family they continued to fight with each other and with their own father.
In 1978 Michael Jackson appeared in The Wiz, an Africa American version of The Wizard of Oz. He sang the only hit from the film's soundtrack album ("Ease On Down the Road") in a duet with the star, Diana Ross. His success as the Scarecrow was a preview of what was to come in his videos, for Jackson seemed to care
Michael Jackson. Reproduced by permission of Getty Images.
Michael Jackson. 


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most about dancing. (He later dedicated his autobiography [the story of his one's own life] to dance legend Fred Astaire [1899–1987], and the autobiography's title, Moonwalk, refers to a dance that Jackson made popular.)
Unbelievable success
While working on The Wiz, Jackson met producer Quincy Jones (1933–). They worked together on Jackson's 1979 album Off the Wall, which sold ten million copies and earned critical praise. In 1982 Jackson and Jones again joined forces on the Thriller album. Thriller fully established Jackson as a solo performer, and his hit songs from the album—"Beat It," "Billie Jean," and "Thriller"—made him the major pop star of the early 1980s. The success of Thriller (with forty million copies sold, it remains one of the best-selling albums of all time) and the videos of its songs also helped Jackson break the color barrier imposed by radio stations and the powerful music video channel MTV. By 1983 Jackson was the single most popular entertainer in America.
In 1985 Jackson reunited with Quincy Jones for USA for Africa's "We Are the World," which raised funds for the poor in Africa. Jackson's next two albums, Bad (1987) and Dangerous (1991), were not as hugely successful as Thriller, but Jackson remained in the spotlight throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s. In 1992 he founded "Heal the World" to aid children and the environment. In 1993 he was presented with the "Living Legend Award" at the Grammy Awards ceremony and with the Humanitarian (one who promotes human welfare) of the Year trophy at the Soul Train awards.

Rocked by scandal

Despite Jackson's popularity and good works, he became the subject of a major scandal (action that damages one's reputation). In 1993 a thirteen-year-old boy accused Jackson of sexually abusing him at the star's home. Jackson settled the case out of court while insisting he was innocent. The scandal cost Jackson his endorsement (paid public support of a company's products) contract with Pepsi and a film deal. His sexual preference was called into question, and his public image was severely damaged.
In 1995 Jackson was criticized following the release of his new album HIStory: Past, Present, and Future, Book I. One of the songs on the album, "They Don't Care About Us," seemed to contain anti-Semitic (showing hatred toward Jewish people) lyrics (words). To avoid further criticism, Jackson changed the lyrics. He also wrote a letter of apology to Rabbi Marvin Hier, head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, who had protested the lyrics.
Marriage and fatherhood
In 1994 Jackson shocked the world when he married Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of the late (deceased) rock legend Elvis Presley (1935–1977). Many felt that the marriage was an attempt to improve his public image. In August 1996 Jackson and Presley divorced. In November 1996 Jackson announced that he was to be a father. The child's mother was Debbie Rowe, a long-time friend of Jackson. They married later that month in Sydney, Australia. On February 13, 1997, their son, Prince Michael Jackson, Jr., was born in Los Angeles, California. The couple's second child, daughter Paris Michael Katherine Jackson, was born in 1998. Rowe filed for divorce from Jackson in October 1999.
Jackson and his brothers were elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1997. Later that year another album, Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix, containing new versions of songs from HIStory along with five new songs, was released. The album received good reviews, and the world continued to be fascinated by the talent and career of Michael Jackson.
In 2000 Jackson's promoter sued him for $21.2 million for backing out of two planned concerts the previous New Year's Eve. In 2001 Jackson, while delivering a lecture at Oxford University in England to promote his Heal the Kids charity, described his unhappy childhood and proposed a "bill of rights" for children that would provide for the right to an education "without having to dodge bullets." Later that year Jackson was again elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, this time as a solo performer. Jackson also released a new album, Invincible, in October 2001.
For More Information
Grant, Adrian. Michael Jackson: The Visual Documentary. New York: Omnibus Press, 1994.
Graves, Karen Marie. Michael Jackson. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 2001.
Jackson, Michael. Moonwalk. New York: Doubleday, 1988.
Marsh, Dave. Trapped: Michael Jackson and the Crossover Dream. New York: Bantam, 1985.
Nicholson, Lois. Michael Jackson. New York: Chelsea House, 1994.
Wallner, Rosemary. Michael Jackson: Music's Living Legend. Edina, MN: Abdo & Daughters, 1991.

Saturday 22 October 2016

Hisyory Of Guiter

he guitar is definitely an ancient and respectable instrument, whose history could be traced back more than 4000 years. Many theories happen to be advanced about the actual instrument's ancestry. It's often been claimed how the guitar is a development from the lute, or even from the ancient Greek kithara. Investigation done by Doctor. Michael Kasha within the 1960's showed these claims to become without merit. He showed how the lute is because of a separate type of development, sharing common ancestors using the guitar, but getting had no impact on its development. The influence within the opposite direction is actually undeniable, however - the actual guitar's immediate forefathers were a significant influence on the development from the fretted lute in the fretless oud that the Moors brought together to to The country.

The sole "evidence" for that kithara theory may be the similarity between the actual greek word "kithara" and also the Spanish word "quitarra". It's hard to imagine the way the guitar could have evolved in the kithara, which was a totally different type associated with instrument - specifically a square-framed clapboard harp, or "lyre". (Right)
It might also be passing strange if your square-framed seven-string clapboard harp had provided its name towards the early Spanish 4-string "quitarra". Doctor. Kasha turns the actual question around and asks in which the Greeks got the actual name "kithara", and highlights that the very first Greek kitharas experienced only 4 strings once they were introduced through abroad. He surmises how the Greeks hellenified the actual old Persian name for any 4-stringed instrument, "chartar". (See beneath. ).
The particular Ancestors

The earliest stringed instruments proven to archaeologists are pan harps and tanburs. Given that prehistory people have got made bowl harps making use of tortoise shells and also calabashes as resonators, with a bent stick to get a neck and more than one gut or cotton strings. The world's museums consist of many such "harps" from your ancient Sumerian, Babylonian, and also Egyptian civilisations. Around 2500 : 2000 CE more complex harps, such because the opulently carved 11-stringed tool with gold decoration within Queen Shub-Ad's grave, started to show up.



"Queen Shub-Ad's harp" (from the particular Royal Cemetery inside Ur)
A tanbur means "a long-necked stringed instrument using a small egg- or perhaps pear-shaped body, having an arched or spherical back, usually using a soundboard of timber or hide, plus a long, straight neck". The tanbur probably developed from your bowl harp because the neck was straightened out allowing the string/s being pressed down to generate more notes. Tomb paintings and also stone carvings inside Egypt testify to the fact harps and tanburs (together together with flutes and percussion instruments) have been being played inside ensemble 3500 - 4000 years back.



Egyptian wall portray, Thebes, 1420 BCE

Archaeologists have found many similar relics inside the ruins of the particular ancient Persian and also Mesopotamian cultures. A number of these instruments have survived into contemporary times in almost unrevised form, as witness the particular folk instruments with the region like the particular Turkish saz, Balkan tamburitsa, Iranian setar, Afghan panchtar and also Greek bouzouki.
The actual oldest preserved guitar-like device

At 3500 years of age, this is the best vintage guitar! It belonged towards the Egyptian singer Har-Mose. He was buried together with his tanbur near to the tomb of their employer, Sen-Mut, builder to Queen Hatshepsut, who had been crowned in 1503 BCE. Sen-Mut (who, it's suspected, was much more than just main minister and architect towards the queen) built Hatshepsuts stunning mortuary temple, which stands about the banks of the Nile even today.





Har-Moses instrument experienced three strings along with a plectrum suspended in the neck by the cord. The soundbox was made from beautifully polished cedarwood as well as had a rawhide "soundboard". It may be seen today in the Archaeological Museum within Cairo.


                                                  Queen Hatshepsut.


Exactly what guitar, anyway?

To distinguish guitars from other members with the tanbur family, we must define what any guitar is. Medical professional. Kasha defines any guitar as possessing "a long, fretted throat, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, plus a flat back, frequently with incurved sides".
The oldest identified iconographical representation of your instrument displaying every one of the essential features of your guitar is any stone carving with Alaca Huyuk inside Turkey, of any 3300 year outdated Hittite "guitar" together with "a long fretted throat, flat top, possibly flat back, sufficient reason for strikingly incurved sides".


The particular Lute (Al'ud, Oud)



The particular Moors brought the particular oud to The world. The tanbur acquired taken another distinct development in the particular Arabian countries, transforming in its size and remaining fretless.





The Europeans added frets for the oud and referred to as it a "lute" : this derives from your Arabic "Al'ud" (literally "the wood"), by means of the Spanish identify "laud".
A lute or oud means a "short-necked tool with many strings, a large pear-shaped physique with highly vaulted again, and an intricate, sharply angled peghead".
Renaissance lute by Arthur Robb

.Beautiful instruments!






It is hard to see how the guitar - with "a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides" - could possibly have evolved from the lute, with its "short neck with many strings, large pear-shaped body with highly vaulted back, and elaborate, sharply angled peghead".
The guitar

The name "guitar" comes from the ancient Sanskrit word for "string" - "tar". (This is the language from which the languages of central Asia and northern India developed. ) Many stringed folk instruments exist in Central Asia to this day which have been used in almost unchanged form for several thousand years, as shown by archeological finds in the area. Many have names that end in "tar", with a prefix indicating the number of strings:
Dotar
two = Sanskrit "dvi" - modern Persian "do" -
dotar, two-string instrument found in Turkestan

three = Sanskrit "tri" - modern Persian "se" -
setar, 3-string instrument, found in Persia (Iran),
(cf. sitar, India, elaborately developed, many-stringed)

four = Sanskrit "chatur" - modern Persian "char" -
chartar, 4-string instrument, Persia (most commonly known as "tar" in modern usage)
(cf. quitarra, early Spanish 4-string guitar,
modern Arabic qithara, Italian chitarra, etc)

five = Sanskrit "pancha" - modern Persian "panj" -
panchtar, 5 strings, Afghanistan.

Indian SitarThe Indian sitar almost certainly took its name from the Persian setar, but over the centuries the Indians developed it into a completely new instrument, following their own aesthetic and cultural ideals.
Persian Setar


Chartar ("Tar")

Tanburs and harps spread around the ancient world with travellers, merchants and seamen. The four-stringed Persian chartar (note the narrow waist!) arrived in Spain, where it changed somewhat in form and construction, acquired pairs of unison-tuned strings instead of single strings and became known as the quitarra orchitarra.

From four-, to five-, to six-string guitar

As we have seen, the guitar's ancestors came to Europe from Egypt and Mesopotamia. These early instruments had, most often, four strings - as we have seen above, the word "guitar" is derived from the Old Persian "chartar", which, in direct translation, means "four strings". Many such instruments, and variations with from three to five strings, can be seen in mediaeval illustrated manuscripts, and carved in stone in churches and cathedrals, from Roman times through till the Middle Ages. Right: Roman "guitar", c:a 200 CE.

Mediaeval psalter, c:a 900 CE. 
Angel with guitar, St. Stephen's church, 1591.
By the beginning of the Renaissance, the four-course (4 unison-tuned pairs of strings) guitar had become dominant, at least in most of Europe. (Sometimes a single first string was used.) The earliest known music for the four-course "chitarra" was written in 16th century Spain. The five-course guitarra battente (left) first appeared in Italy at around the same time, and gradually replaced the four-course instrument. The standard tuning had already settled at A, D, G, B, E, like the top five strings of the modern guitar.
In common with lutes, early guitars seldom had necks with more than 8 frets free of the body, but as the guitar evolved, this increased first to 10 and then to 12 frets to the body.

5-course guitar by Antonio Stradivarius, 1680
A sixth course of strings was added to the Italian "guitarra battente" in the 17th century, and guitar makers all over Europe followed the trend. The six-course arrangement gradually gave way to six single strings, and again it seems that the Italians were the driving force. (The six-string guitar can thus be said to be a development of the twelve-string, rather than vice versa, as is usually assumed.)
In the transition from five courses to six single strings, it seems that at least some existing five-course instruments were modified to the new stringing pattern. This was a fairly simple task, as it only entailed replacing (or re-working) the nut and bridge, and plugging four of the tuning peg holes. An incredibly ornate guitar by the German master from Hamburg, Joakim Thielke (1641 - 1719), was altered in this way. (Note that this instrument has only 8 frets free of the body.)
 
At the beginning of the 19th century one can see the modern guitar beginning to take shape. Bodies were still fairly small and narrow-waisted.
6-string guitar by George Louis Panormo, 1832
The modern "classical" guitar took its present form when the Spanish maker Antonio Torres increased the size of the body, altered its proportions, and introduced the revolutionary "fan" top bracing pattern, in around 1850. His design radically improved the volume, tone and projection of the instrument, and very soon became the accepted construction standard. It has remained essentially unchanged, and unchallenged, to this day.
Guitar by Antonio Torres Jurado, 1859 

Steel-string and electric guitars
At around the same time that Torres started making his breakthrough fan-braced guitars in Spain, German immigrants to the USA - among them Christian Fredrich Martin - had begun making guitars with X-braced tops. Steel strings first became widely available in around 1900. Steel strings offered the promise of much louder guitars, but the increased tension was too much for the Torres-style fan-braced top. A beefed-up X-brace proved equal to the job, and quickly became the industry standard for the flat-top steel string guitar.
At the end of the 19th century Orville Gibson was building archtop guitars with oval sound holes. He married the steel-string guitar with a body constructed more like a cello, where the bridge exerts no torque on the top, only pressure straight down. This allows the top to vibrate more freely, and thus produce more volume. In the early 1920's designer Lloyd Loar joined Gibson, and refined the archtop "jazz" guitar into its now familiar form with f-holes, floating bridge and cello-type tailpiece.
The electric guitar was born when pickups were added to Hawaiian and "jazz" guitars in the late 1920's, but met with little success before 1936, when Gibson introduced the ES150 model, which Charlie Christian made famous.
With the advent of amplification it became possible to do away with the soundbox altogether. In the late 1930's and early 1940's several actors were experimenting along these lines, and controversy still exists as to whether Les Paul, Leo Fender, Paul Bigsby or O.W. Appleton constructed the very first solid-body guitar. Be that as it may, the solid-body electric guitar was here to stay.

Friday 21 October 2016

INFORMATION ON TABLA




The Tabla is regarded as the queen of drums and percussion instruments and is the most popular Indian rhythm instrument. It consists of two drums, the Bayan (big bass drum) and the Dayan.The two of them are almost always played together. Both the two drums as a pair and also the Dayan on its own - as opposed to the Bayan - are called Tabla.
Both drums have a body that is closed at the bottom. The open top is mostly covered with a goat leather skin. To the edge of this basic skin, a second skin (Kani) is attached. In the centre of the skin is the so-called GAB: a black area which gives the instrument a special sound and makes the variety of sounds and modulations possible. It is a fine art to apply this GAB in the correct mixture, consistency and strength of a paste which consists mainly of rice flour and iron filings. When playing, the two drums are placed on rings (Bira) which support them. The tuning wedges that are held by leather straps at the sides are meant for tuning the instrument. Depending on whether the wedges are beaten upwards or downwards by the tuning hammer, the sound gets lower or higher. A fine tuning is done by beating with the tuning hammer on the woven ring around the skin.
The playing technique requires a differentiated fingering in connection with the complex composition of the skin membranes. The combination of the two drums produces an incredible fullness and details of different rhythm structures and this fullness of expression is unmatched by any other rhythm instrument.
The skins of the Tabla are likely to wear out and have to be changed from time to time, depending on how often the instrument is played and what kind of conditions it is exposed to. Even when the instrument is very old, it can, when the substance i.e. the wooden body is o.k., be restored to a wonderful instrument by a new skin. This task should generally be done by an expert.
BAYAN
The Bayan takes on the bass part of the drum duo. The body of the Bayan is mostly made of chrome-plated copper. The Bayan is played by the index finger and the middle finger of the left hand in turns or with both fingers simultaneously. While doing this, the ball of the thumb rests lightly on the edge of the skin or modulats the pitch by slightly pressing the skin.
DAYAN
The Dayan is made of different types of wood. Please see the explanations on this topic in the next paragraph about the meaning of the wood regarding the quality of a Dayan. It is customary, especially in Kolkata, to hollow out the inside of the body of a Dayan relatively roughly. The tuning wedges that are held by leather straps at the sides are meant for tuning the instrument. Depending on whether the wedges are beaten upwards or downwards by the tuning hammer, the sound gets lower or higher. A fine tuning is done by beating with the tuning hammer on the woven ring around the skin. The size of a Dayan is defined by the diameter of the skin. Sizes of 5 to 6 inches are in use. The standard sizes are about 5 1/4 inches to 5 1/2 inches whose tuning is around C. The measurements can also be given in centimeters. The tuning of a Dayan depends on the skin diameter. The smaller the skin is, the higher is the sound of the Dayan; the bigger the skin diameter, the lower it can be tuned. Specially low or high Dayans are played together with corresponding high or low melody instruments.

TYPES OF WOOD FOR DAYAN AS QUALITY FACTOR
There are different woods which Dayans are made of. The most used and well-known types of wood are Shisham, Neem, Mahagony and Babla Wood. Basically it is not possible to choose a good Dayan only from the kind of wood it is made of. Of course the wood is important for the continuous sound of a Dayan but also other factors such as the quality of the skin, the quality of the Gab and of course the manufacturing are important. When the manufacturer chooses the wood, then 1st priority is that the wood is completely dry. As the situation in India is that the manufacturers of Tablas have worldwide orders for many months, they do not get enough good wood. They send abroad whatever they can get. The wood very often is not dry enough. This is a very big problem.
Another important factor is the density of the wood depending from which part of the tree the wood is taken (upper or lower portion of the trunk) or if the wood is taken from a thin trunk. The thick trunk, which is the good wood, mostly is used for the furniture industry specially if it's a valuable wood like Shisham or Neem. This results in the fact that it is mostly better to use a good dry wood with good density from a no-name wood instead of a well-known wood as Shisham or Neem. It needs a well experienced person to evaluate what really is a good wood for good sound in a Dayan. It can be the case that one gets a Shisham-Dayan which signals that it is a good Dayan, and finally it turns out that it is a terrible Dayan.
It can be seen that the name of the wood, which a Dayan is made of, does not really give an objective evaluation. Sometimes a no-name wood of a Dayan which is completely dry, has a fantastic density, a good skin and gab and is made by a good experienced and reliable maker, is much better than a precious wood.
Still, we would like to mention below some of the types of wood that are well-known and much in demand:
ShishamIs first of the much sought-after kinds of wood, but it is absolutely necessary that it really comes from a thick trunk with a good density, otherwise Shisam wood is not good at all.
NeemAlso a very popular wood. Must also come from a thick trunk, otherwise it splits over the course of time. If, however, it is really taken from a thick trunk and has been completely dried, then even a split that forms in the course of time, does not influence the good sound at all.
MahoganyIs of a similar quality as Neem and reacts in the same way as Shisham wood.
Wood of the Five Star Quality
Due to the great efforts of Tabla Maestro Sajal Karmakar, we always get best quality of wood for the making of the five star Dayan. He looks for the right wood himself and even though he already buys the best available wood, he dries it himself for several months in a special procedure only to make sure to get high-quality professional instruments.

Wednesday 19 October 2016

Harmoniam

The Harmonium is one of India's most popular instruments. Its origins are associated with the Western influx into India probably back in the 15th century (if my dates are correct). It entered India via the Christian missionaries. They frequently would carry a pedal organ to do their religious singing accompaniments. Indian musicians were quick to latch on to this instruments ruggedness, the fact that it came pre tuned, and the ease of note production by pressing keys. They also must have found themselves uneasy sitting on chairs to play it. So the Indian instrument makers adapted it to the floor model by removing the pedals, creating a rear air pumping unit making the size and number of keys smaller and that was the birth of the Indian version of the Harmonium. Unlike its Western predesessor, which is played with both hands, the Indian Harmonium is played only with one hand. The other one is kept busy pumping the air. In India, the usage of this instrument has been focused as an accompaniment instrument to vocalists. My father, Pandit Shiv Dayal Batish, whose career as a North Indian classical and film vocalist spans over 60 years remembers this instruments popularity even back in the 30's. Over the years, although this instrument remains popular, there has also stuck with it a stigma of intonation inadequacy. As its Western design provided a permanently tuned instrument to the masses it's inherent lack of re tunability and it's standard equal temperament tuning structure makes it unpleasing to many that prefer to adjust their notes to the Indian musical intonation system that follows closely the "Just Intonation" system of tuning. Thus, the classical community of India often frowns on this instrument's usage in the classical field where purity of note is considered to be essential in creating the proper "Rasa" or emotional state. There have been past attempts to design and sell Harmonium tuned to the just intonation system but they never gained popularity. In the recent years there have also been some Harmonium designs that have 3 sets of reeds per note giving a very rich tone. The Harmonum tuners are also known to vary the note pitch between each reed set per note to a slightly different pitch. The result is to give a mean or average pitch value to the overall note produced by that reed set thus making the note sound more in tune overall. This slight variation within the reeds gives the Harmonium timbre a shimmering effect that sounds very cool. If one was to live with these tuning inadequacies, the harmonium really can be a lot of fun. It's quick access to all possible notes in the octave make it a favorite for popular singing styles such as, qawalli, Keertan, Bhajans, Filmi music, and solo instrumental playing. In the hands of a master Harmonium player as my father, this can become a monster solo instrument. My father's finger's are so fast his gamak production so amazing that one forgets its limitations in producing glissandos.

Folk Music

Folk music Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival. The term originated in the 19th century but is often applied to music that is older than that. Some types of folk music are also called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, or as music with unknown composers. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. One meaning often given is that of old songs with no known composers; another is music that has been transmitted and evolved by a process of oral transmission or performed by custom over a long period of time. Starting in the mid-20th century a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. This form of music is sometimes called contemporary folk music or folk revival music to distinguish it from earlier folk forms.[1] Smaller similar revivals have occurred elsewhere in the world at other times, but the term folk music has typically not been applied to the new music created during those revivals. This type of folk music also includes fusion genres such as folk rock, folk metal, electric folk, and others. While contemporary folk music is a genre generally distinct from traditional folk music, in English it shares the same name, and it often shares the same performers and venues as traditional folk music. Even individual songs may be a blend of the two. Traditional folk music A consistent definition of traditional folk music is elusive. The terms folk music,folk song, and folk dance are comparatively recent expressions. They are extensions of the term folklore, which was coined in 1846 by the English antiquarian William Thoms to describe "the traditions, customs, and superstitions of the uncultured classes.The term is further derived from the German expression Volk, in the sense of "the people as a whole" as applied to popular and national music by Johann Gottfried Herder and the German Romantics over half a century earlier.Traditional folk music also includes most indigenous music. However, despite the assembly of an enormous body of work over some two centuries, there is still no certain definition of what folk music (or folklore, or the folk) is. Folk music may tend to have certain characteristics but it cannot clearly be differentiated in purely musical terms. One meaning often given is that of "old songs, with no known composers", another is that of music that has been submitted to an evolutionary "process of oral transmission.... the fashioning and re-fashioning of the music by the community that give it its folk character. Such definitions depend upon "(cultural) processes rather than abstract musical types...", upon "continuity and oral transmission...seen as characterizing one side of a cultural dichotomy, the other side of which is found not only in the lower layers of feudal, capitalist and some oriental societies but also in 'primitive' societies and in parts of 'popular cultures'One widely used definition is simply "Folk music is what the people sing For Scholes as well as for Cecil Sharp and Béla Bartók, there was a sense of the music of the country as distinct from that of the town. Folk music was already, "...seen as the authentic expression of a way of life now past or about to disappear (or in some cases, to be preserved or somehow revived), particularly in "a community uninfluenced by art music and by commercial and printed song. Lloyd rejected this in favour of a simple distinction of economic class yet for him true folk music was, in Charles Seeger's words, "associated with a lower class in culturally and socially stratified societies. In these terms folk music may be seen as part of a "schema comprising four musical types: 'primitive' or 'tribal'; 'elite' or 'art'; 'folk'; and 'popular'. Music in this genre is also often called traditional music. Although the term is usually only descriptive, in some cases people use it as the name of a genre. For example, the Grammy Award previously used "traditional music" for folk music that is not contemporary folk music. Characteristics From a historical perspective, traditional folk music had these characteristics It was transmitted through an oral tradition. Before the 20th century, ordinary farm workers and factory workers were usually illiterate. They acquired songs by memorizing them. Primarily, this was not mediated by books, recorded or transmitted media. Singers may extend their repertoire using broadsheets, song books or CDs, but these secondary enhancements are of the same character as the primary songs experienced in the flesh. The music was often related to national culture. It was culturally particular; from a particular region or culture. In the context of an immigrant group, folk music acquires an extra dimension for social cohesion. It is particularly conspicuous in immigrant societies, where Greek Australians, Somali Americans, Punjabi Canadians and others strive to emphasize their differences from the mainstream. They learn songs and dances that originate in the countries their grandparents came from. They commemorate historical and personal events. On certain days of the year, such as Easter, May Day and Christmas, particular songs celebrate the yearly cycle. Weddings, birthdays and funerals may also be noted with songs, dances and special costumes. Religious festivals often have a folk music component. Choral music at these events brings children and non-professional singers to participate in a public arena, giving an emotional bonding that is unrelated to the aesthetic qualities of the music. The songs have been performed, by custom, over a long period of time, usually several generations. As a side-effect, the following characteristics are sometimes present: There is no copyright on the songs. Hundreds of folk songs from the 19th century have known authors but have continued in oral tradition to the point where they are considered traditional for purposes of music publishing. This has become much less frequent since the 1940s. Today, almost every folk song that is recorded is credited with an arranger. Fusion of cultures: Because cultures interact and change over time, traditional songs evolving over time may incorporate and reflect influences from disparate cultures. The relevant factors may include instrumentation, tunings, voicings, phrasing, subject matter, and even production methods.
Terminology Tune In folk music, a tune is a short instrumental piece, a melody, often with repeating sections, and usually played a number of times. A collection of tunes with structural similarities is known as a tune-family. The most common form for tunes in folk music is AABB, also known as binary form.[citation needed] In some traditions, tunes may be strung together in medleys or "sets." Origins Throughout most of human prehistory and history, listening to recorded music was not possible. Music was made by common people during both their work and leisure, as well as during religious activities. The work of economic production was often manual and communal. Manual labor often included singing by the workers, which served several practical purposes. It reduced the boredom of repetitive tasks, it kept the rhythm during synchronized pushes and pulls, and it set the pace of many activities such as planting, weeding, reaping, threshing, weaving, and milling. In leisure time, singing and playing musical instruments were common forms of entertainment and history-telling—even more common than today, when electrically enabled technologies and widespread literacy make other forms of entertainment and information-sharing competitive. Some believe that folk music originated as art music that was changed and probably debased by oral transmission, while reflecting the character of the society that produced it.In many societies, especially preliterate ones, the cultural transmission of folk music requires learning by ear, although notation has evolved in some cultures. Different cultures may have different notions concerning a division between "folk" music on the one hand and of "art" and "court" music on the other. In the proliferation of popular music genres, some traditional folk music became also referred to "World music" or "Roots music". The English term "folklore", to describe traditional folk music and dance, entered the vocabulary of many continental European nations, each of which had its folk-song collectors and revivalists. The distinction between "authentic" folk and national and popular song in general has always been loose, particularly in America and Germany - for example popular songwriters such as Stephen Foster could be termed "folk" in America.The International Folk Music Council definition allows that the term can also apply to music that, "...has originated with an individual composer and has subsequently been absorbed into the unwritten, living tradition of a community. But the term does not cover a song, dance, or tune that has been taken over ready-made and remains unchanged. The post–World War II folk revival in America and in Britain started a new genre, contemporary folk music, and brought an additional meaning to the term "folk music": newly composed songs, fixed in form and by known authors, which imitated some form of traditional music. The popularity of "contemporary folk" recordings caused the appearance of the category "Folk" in the Grammy Awards of 1959: in 1970 the term was dropped in favor of "Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording (including Traditional Blues)", while 1987 brought a distinction between "Best Traditional Folk Recording" and "Best Contemporary Folk Recording". After that they had a "Traditional music" category that subsequently evolved into others. The term "folk", by the start of the 21st century, could cover singer songwriters, such as Donovan from Scotland and American Bob Dylan, who emerged in the 1960s and much more. This completed a process to where "folk music" no longer meant only traditional folk music. Subject matter Traditional folk music often includes sung words, although folk instrumental musicoccurs commonly in dance music traditions. Narrative verse looms large in the traditional folk music of many cultures. This encompasses such forms as traditionalepic poetry, much of which was meant originally for oral performance, sometimes accompanied by instruments. Many epic poems of various cultures were pieced together from shorter pieces of traditional narrative verse, which explains their episodic structure, repetitive elements, and their frequent in medias res plot developments. Other forms of traditional narrative verse relate the outcomes ofbattles or describe tragedies or natural disasters. Sometimes, as in the triumphant Song of Deborah found in the Biblical Book of Judges, these songs celebrate victory. Laments for lost battles and wars, and the lives lost in them, are equally prominent in many traditions; these laments keep alive the cause for which the battle was fought. The narratives of traditional songs often also remember folk heroes such as John Henry to Robin Hood. Some traditional song narratives recall supernatural events or mysterious deaths. Hymns and other forms of religious music are often of traditional and unknown origin. Western musical notation was originally created to preserve the lines ofGregorian chant, which before its invention was taught as an oral tradition inmonastic communities. Traditional songs such as Green grow the rushes, O present religious lore in a mnemonic form, as do Western Christmas carols and similar traditional songs. Work songs frequently feature call and response structures and are designed to enable the laborers who sing them to coordinate their efforts in accordance with the rhythms of the songs. They are frequently, but not invariably, composed. In the American armed forces, a lively oral tradition preserves jody calls ("Duckworth chants") which are sung while soldiers are on the march. Professional sailors made similar use of a large body of sea shanties. Love poetry, often of a tragic or regretful nature, prominently figures in many folk traditions. Nursery rhymes and nonsense verse used to amuse or quiet children also are frequent subjects of traditional songs.