Music
"A young jazz audience is such a rarity, in fact, that it's become a kind of holy grail for presenters. So how does Jarasum do it?"
Source: Bailey Rebecca Roberts via inthesetimes.com
"I'm creating hip-hop songs from a Lakota perspective
and looking at the way my ancestors framed our songs, whether that be a pow wow
or ceremony song. They're short, powerful phrases repeated. Something I love
about Lakota music that's very important to me is the drums; you just hear it
and know you're home."
Mariachi Flor de Toloache- NPR Tiny Desk Concert
Source: newyorker.com
"How does
a Berklee hotshot halfway to an EGOT end up playing keyboards on a tribute to a
melting pot, spend half a decade working to eliminate its weak spots, and find
himself sitting at the right hand of a juggernaut?"
“As I progressed from being a student to a professor who
teaches and writes about popular music culture, I’m always after some
recreation of my own experiences as a listener. Making selections for a course
syllabus isn’t all that different from DJing; in both cases, you’re thinking
about the mix."
“Influenced by Kraftwerk, electro, Bambaataa, Italo disco,
George Clinton, new wave, and post-disco boogie (essentially everything they
heard the Electrifying Mojo play on his radio show), Detroit techno soon became
way more popular overseas than it ever was at home."
"We need a better conception of Americana, one that is
polyglot and profoundly more varied than the dueling banjos of country and
blues."
“What I want to
do is explore what songwriting means to me, what it is that is going to be my
contribution to the music world at large other than interpretation. Because I
know I’m always going to be an interpreter. That is something I do well and is
something that is important not to lose sight of, but I also feel like I do
have a voice to be heard. I want to make sure that there’s something really
important being said.”
