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Madison Early Music Festival: July 7-14, 2018. See our display, borrow our holdings!

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  • Albert Ayler arrived in this life July 13, 1936, in Cleveland, Ohio. His compositions and improvisations are some of the most spirited and exuberant works recorded in the 1960s. There is a cry in his music—both of sorrow and of joy. Also, of love, as on his 1968 album Love Cry [Jazz Impulse AS 9165]. Ayler disappeared November 5, 1970, and turned up dead in New York City’s East River on November 25. He is immortal in his art. #albertayler #lovecry #musicisthehealingforceoftheuniverse #millsmusiclibrary
  • New Book. Making Time for Making Music: How to Bring Music into Your Busy Life, by Amy Nathan. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018. [ML3795 .N15 2018] We are here to serve all, and that includes amateurs. Nathan’s aim with this book is to help adults find ways to make music-making part of their lives, whether they played an instrument when they were younger or are wanting to start now. She provides success stories from more than 350 adults who have managed to fit music-making into their busy schedules. Make time to learn how to make time for music. #maketimeformusic #withoutmusiclifewouldbeamistake #amynathan #makingmusic #millsmusiclibrary
  • The folks at Tulane University’s Hogan Jazz Archive contacted us today to inquire about getting a high resolution scan of the cover of Crazy Blues, a song written by Perry Bradford—who also published the sheet music—and recorded in 1920 by Mamie Smith and her Jazz Hounds. They want to use it in their publication The Jazz Archivist, and we’re happy to oblige. Okeh Records released the recording, which was the first blues record ever issued. Smith, who was more of a vaudevillian than a blues singer, was the first African-American vocalist to record the blues. Okeh sold 10,000 copies the first week, and 75,000 within the first month. Bradford had convinced the Okeh executives to have Smith record his song. Our copy is in our Popular Sheet Music Collection. [ID: PopularMusic.pop005327.bib] #crazyblues #perrybradford #mamiesmith #mamiesmithandherjazzhounds #popularsheetmusiccollection #millsmusiclibrary
  • New Book! Drumming Asian America: Taiko, Performance, and Cultural Politics, by Angela K. Ahlgren. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018. [ML1038.T35 A55 2018] In Japanese, the term “taiko” (太鼓) refers to any drum, but outside of Japan it is used to refer to the form of ensemble taiko drumming more specifically called kumi-daiko (組太鼓 "set of drums"), which emerged in the 1950s. Ahlgren, an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at Bowling Green State University, is also an experienced taiko performer, and she uses ethnographic and historical approaches, combined with in-depth performance description and analysis, to explore the connections between taiko and Asian American cultural politics. #angela_k_ahlgren #taiko #taikodrumming #kumidaiko #performancestudies #ethnomusicology #asianamerica #millsmusiclibrary
  • It’s a heap of heretics! The Reformation gave rise to animosity between the Catholic Church and those who chose to sing a new song and defect to Lutheranism. The wood engraving pictured here is split between the CATHOLISCHE KIRCH on the left, and KECZER HAUFF (heap of heretics) on the right, as printed in Johann Leisentrit’s Geistliche Lieder und Psalmen, 1567, a Counter-Reformation hymnal. We have included this in the display of our holdings related to the Madison Early Music Festival, up right now in the Memorial Library lobby, to show the effect of Protestant vernacular hymns. This is a 1966 facsimile: Gesangbuch von 1567, by Johann Leisentrit. Faksimile-Ausg. mit einem Nachwort von Walther Lipphardt. Kassel; Basel; Paris; London; New York: Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1966. [M2138.L5 G4 1567a] #heretics #reformation #counterreformation #earlymusic #altemusik #madisonearlymusicfestival #millsmusiclibrary