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Today in Hip Hop History:
Ol’ Dirty Bastard released his debut album Return to the 36 Chambers March 28, 1995
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detroitlib · 2 days
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Portrait of Sarah Vaughan. Printed on front: "Sarah Vaughan. Personal management, George Treadwell. Tour direction, Gale Agency, Inc., 48 West 48 St., New York, City. James Kriegsmann, N.Y."
E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library
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aleprouswitch · 1 month
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BEFORE GRUNGE WAS BIG, IT WAS BLACK
L: Tina Bell, Bam Bam R: Doug Pinnick, King's X
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disease · 7 months
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EMS: SYNTHI AKS | est. MAR 1972
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primordialfather · 3 months
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Piano for the Bedridden
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cumberbatchitis · 4 months
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Please Help Me Find This Mysterious Song
Tumblr, I do not do this often, but please please can you help me with this? I know you are better than other websites who have all failed me so far... For many years I have been looking (alas, in vain) for a certain song. Very likely a novelty one, though I do not know – I have never caught its name nor the name of the singer. I heard it once or twice on a radio station which only aired retro songs, so it was probably from 1960–80s. Now this one song was sung from a first-person perspective – the singer (almost as desperate as I am) was a classical violinist who longed to be a rock n roll star, which is what he soulfully crooned in the refrain. It was a fun, bittersweet song and always reminded me of Kinks stylewise (though it is very likely not their song).
Nobody seems to know this song, no website or forum dedicated for searching for lost songs has ever helped me, whenever I type in the snippets of the lyrics I remember (for example, something like "the duke told the duchess that he thought that I had talent, the duchess winked at me and said Oh yes, it's quite apparent"), Google pretends it has never heard of it. But I know it exists (I have a witness who heard it with me) and I MUST find it. I will not have peace to die until I find this song. I will continue haunting this Earth as a mournful wraith unless I find it, which is a distressing notion.
Do you have any idea what it might be?
(My eternal gratitude for reblogs.) EDIT (30/11/2023): I think I might have lead all of you astray with the focus on duke and duchess. They are not that important, really. The singer himself, his desire to be a rock n roll star while he is stuck playing classical violin is the important part. But thank you all and please keep this post going, maybe someone will remember what godforgotten old song this is...
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amphibimations · 4 months
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can you draw klavier gavin ?!
yeah sure :-)
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Also, as a side note: if any of you ace attorney fans out there want to listen to a courtroom/law themed love song, theres one from the 1920’s called ‘my fate is in your hands’ !!! (link)
(the best cover imo is by josephine baker. Also if any of you don’t know who that is, you should read the wikipedia page for josephine baker because she was like the coolest woman of all time)
With lyrics like ‘wanting you is my offense, you have all the evidence, now i wait for you to sentence me.’ And ‘there’s no use pretending, love needs no defending, what is the verdict? My fate is in your hands.’ i feel like this is a song every ace attorney fan should listen to.
(Also my real motive here is that i just want everyone to listen to more 20s music. i love 20s music)
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lilyisfine · 2 months
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I wish more people talked about opera. like why aren't there more books and tv shows and movies about opera. opera is so fucking cool and it IS actually for everyone. thinking of opera as some elitist rich people ritual makes the problem worse and you miss out on so many opportunities to feel and experience art!!
the most frequent comment I hear is about the language barrier and not understanding what's going on, which I sooo get, but there is so much more to opera than the words and to think otherwise is to ignore how much other work goes into telling a story. in every direction there are people who have dedicated their lives to their craft. musicians and singers who have spent decades learning their instrument, designers and technicians who are creating the space, composers, conductors, stage managers, librarians. there is so much story that can be told through vocalization, instrumentation, setting, costume, lighting... and every performance is a showing of someone's life work. it's beautiful.
and yeah, the storylines are crazy and there's tropes out the wazoo but hey
it's opera
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svartmalt · 4 months
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Einstürzende Neubauten at Slurpen for “Tidskonsept II”, Oslo 1983.
Artist collective Lambretta invited Einstürzende Neubauten and Holy Toy to perform in their studio that they converted into a gallery space for the evening.
The locale was decorated with painted tv-screens, painted tarps, sheet metal and hanging oil drums, and playing documentary and propaganda clips from wartime Germany and the Soviet Union.
The performance was attended by the art elite, punks, and a tv-crew from the Norwegian national broadcasting network NRK.
The night ended with band members from Einstürzende Neubauten throwing Molotov-cocktails into the crowd, and the crowd reacting similarly by setting fire to the instruments and set design by Lambretta.
Videoclip taken from the NRK archives, Pan, episode “Musikk blir bilde”.
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violadagoomba · 8 months
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Put your [Guidonian] hands in the air!
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cardassiangoodreads · 4 months
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One of the struggles with teaching someone like Wagner is a lot of people want to dismiss past bigots as “figures of their time” and you have to explain that no, Wagner was considered extremely antisemitic by the standards of 19th-century Europe (which, even considering that Germany then wasn’t as bad as some other countries like France, is Really Saying Something). It was a thing people gossiped about regarding him. It was a reason a lot of people — including plenty of Gentiles, not just Jews — didn’t like him or his music. And he was obsessed. He refused to shut up about it, and Wagner refused to shut up about anything but he REALLY refused to shut up about this. It was to the point of setting a lot of his friendships and professional relationships (again, especially, but not only, with Jewish people) on fire over it. Obviously as a person who spent nearly a thousand dollars to see the full Ring Cycle a few years ago, I don’t think you need to share his bigotry to like his music or acknowledge his influence. But it’s not a thing you can discount about his legacy at all. And while Wagner scholars have debated the extent of this for a century and a half, he saw that belief of his as key to his German nationalism which he saw as key to his music dramas and his ideas about them.
And in general I think that people do this a lot with historical bigots. Yes, you should put their bigotry in its historical context — but you need to actually do that. Be aware of if their bigotry was actually typical or remarkable for their time and place! People are way too quick to reflexively assume the first thing.
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Today in Hip Hop History:
Run-D.M.C. released their debut album Run-D.M.C. March 27, 1984
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(x) wendy carlos is an american musician who worked on electronic albums from 1964 to 2005. she got a sex change surgery in 1972 but socially transitioned in 1968. her works have won 3 grammys and did some tracks for movies. although there is a biography on her life written by someone else, she describes the work as fiction and misrepresenting.
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dailyhistoryposts · 3 months
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On This Day In History
January 8th, 1947: English singer-songwriter David Bowie was born.
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▪︎ Violin.
Place of origin: Austria, Vienna
Date: 1749
Manufacturer: Wenceslas Kowansky
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mmondely · 4 months
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Slash on stage with a black Les Paul guitar
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