Ars Americana: American Popular Arts: kwietnia 2020

wtorek, 21 kwietnia 2020

New Listening List - Crossover Arstists!

The theme this week is Crossover Artists, that is African American performers who tended to have their greatest success with mainstream (white) audiences instead of African American audiences.
Stylistically this is all over the place, but some great performances.
As always please let me know if any of the links are dead...

Stormy Weather

Ethel Waters (1933)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zywZUhaUqMo

One for my baby (and one for the road)

Lena Horne (1945)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rypt-BMD_w

Tired

Pearl Bailey (1945)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz5gV6_MRoQ

Blue moon

Billy Eckstine (1948)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g83L5M_8Nt8

Nature boy

Nat King Cole (1948)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQerH4nRTUA

Banana Boat Song

Harry Belafonte (1956)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMigXnXMhQ4

Wonderful wonderful

Johnny Mathis (1957)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7wr2FBxcyI

Chi il bel sogno di Doretta

Leontyne Price (1960)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXhFiUaNksU

Guess who I saw today

Nancy Wilson (1960)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFbDj5RBouE

Do you know the way to San Jose?

Dionne Warwick (1967)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnzTgUc5ycc

Kiss an angel good morning

Charley Pride (1971)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-pU-DHEVaU

Wedding bell blues

The 5th Dimension (1969)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhtCGZbxTfc

Some auxiliary vidoes

Ethel Waters singing "His Eye is on the Sparrow" in the 1952 movie "Member of the wedding"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gua-NE8y8lE

Pearl Bailey and Nat King Cole (1957 TV)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmnx49qMs2U

Harry Belafonte British pop singer Petula Clark in 1968 (this was very controversial at the time)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQXVjY1oqRo

Ethel Waters singing Suppertime on TV in 1969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Zvjjbc-Hk

Pearl Bailey doing Hello Dolly! (Tony Awards 1968) Pearl's part begins around 3.45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4eS0x16v1k

Pearl Bailey with Ethel Waters (around 1969)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpSmPaisB6o

Charley Pride and Johnny Cash (in 1969)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=276aBrM2-FM

The Pointer Sisters singing Fairytale (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQWgKvvbT1g

Leontyne Price at the White House (around 1980)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGwyXrWuSyw

As always, take care and stay healthy!

środa, 15 kwietnia 2020

Gospel materials!!!

Okay, a little late, but here are the gospel materials.

Here are the notes.

Here is the listening list (with notes on the performances). All the performances (except one, see below) are easily available on youtube.

Here are the lyrics.

Also, since on performance was no longer available on youtube, here it is. The video quality is not great but it's an important performance.

Next listening list: Friday, April 17, 2019-20

As always, take care and stay healthy!

poniedziałek, 6 kwietnia 2020

Gospel! Listening list!

This week's list is longer than usual and I split it up between things that are more to listen to (that is the sound is more important than or just as important as the visual) and videos that more need to be seen to be understood.

More than almost any other kind of music in this course Gospel is about public live performance and many songs are far more expressive and emotional with audience feedback than their studio versions suggest.

As always, if you find dead links, please let me know.

Listening Music

Arizona Juanita Dranes

I Shall Wear a Crown (1927)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79hhWYVY75s

Thomas Dorsey

If You See My Savior (193?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2-twJpqjFY

(There'll be) Peace in the Valley (1973) w/Robert H. Harris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f5vEJV84l8

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Strange Things Happening Every Day (1944)