When musicians enter their seventies, they develop a new kind of star power.
“The voice comes into alignment with the persona,” says @traumaticolonel, a musicologist at Newcastle University.
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I’ll be giving a presentation based on my new book DJs do Guetto as part of the Music Research Forum series hosted by the International Centre for Music Studies (ICMuS) at Newcastle University. The talk is at 4pm 23 March https://t.co/mbuSwMzifa)
Six months into the PhD & @traumaticolonel’s DJs Do Guetto is the single most illuminating text about an underground music scene I’ve read so far. On first glance, my addled brain replaced the final vowel; pleased to discover it’s not a book about a remix album of French EDM 🤣
The 'album' I write about was a milestone in the Lisbon batida scene. I trace that story and highlight the music's role as a marker of Black Portuguese presence and a vital sound of Lisbon.
My book DJs do Guetto has been published by @BloomsburyMus in the 33 1/3 Europe series. It's on the 2006 collection of beats that helped launch the Lisbon batida scene. More details at https://t.co/AMaPHbJ15E
Everyone, including me, loves Nic Jones singing Canadee-i-o, but for this album I wanted to sing the original one that had been collected in the mid-1950s from Harry Upton a shepherd on the South Downs in Sussex. @Tim_Burgess#TimsTwitterListeningParty
#UrbanNostalgia conference starts tomorrow! All warmly invited to join Zoom or @EhessCral Facebook livestream. Three afternoons of musical travels across the world courtesy of our wonderful line-up of speakers, including @traumaticolonel@jonathancross @JacekBL @daniel_morat
This is without a doubt the best 'child interrupts BBC news interview' i've ever seen.
Zero fucks given, doing some interior design in the background behind her mum, then comes over to demand the presenter's name