http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbv5tk79DZ4
This is an interview of Norah Jones by Katie Couric, and it is very interesting. I thought it to be really cool to have a "real world" (for me anyway) tie to Indian music--in this regard being Norah Jones. I love her singing, and she talks about her mother and her eclectic records that she listened to growing up. She also talks about the role of her absent father (whom we all have heard much about) and how she does not identify with being Indian because she grew up in Texas with an white mother. She says she is influenced by country and jazz. It is just interesting to me how musical inclination must be genetic--as she obviously has talent, but was not directly influenced by her father. Very interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baWShe9YBsQ
This is an Arabic video by the Yemen/Egyptian singer Arwa-- and I included this because (like Dr. Vaneman) I find the fusion music of today to be very interesting in that it seems to take traditional aspects of music from a particular culture and rev it up a little bit by making it pop-ier, such as in this video. It is like traditional music made marketable and commercial. The era of videos is also featured, as you can see a lot of the same features we have in videos today (close-ups, almost like a short-feature film).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNbzni-mGL4
I LOVE this video! I thoroughly enjoyed Dr. Vaneman's lecture on Blues music, and especially enjoyed the part of class in which we joked about Elvis' version of "Hound Dog" making no sense out of the context of the original song. I found this video that features an all-animal cast (with Elvis singing "Hound Dog" of course!) to kind of play on Dr. Vaneman's saying that Elvis would even bring a dog onstage! There is even a dog solo in the middle! Enjoy!
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I loved your second music video the most. I love the electronic sounds they use. It's so similar to our pop music.
ReplyDeleteWow! I'm so glad you thought to put the first video. I was surprised when we learned in class who her father is. It makes sense she wouldn't feel Indian. I felt defensive about the mean critic who called her Snore-uh Jones.
ReplyDeleteI could definitely hear the fusion. This song sounded a lot like some of the songs on the American radio stations, minus the language difference.
I think it's a little sad that he (a white man) could sing a song that makes no sense and be very famous for it, while a black woman with a great voice, was a great surprise to most of our class, when they learned she sang it first, and it MADE sense!!
Love the Norah Jones video! She makes music because she likes to? What a concept! It's also interesting to see that Ravi Shankar is a human who makes real life decisions. Thanks for sharing this!
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