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  • Elders, Mentors, and Legacies

    Elders, Mentors, and Legacies

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    Intro - 0:00

    Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

    Part I, What does Elders, Mentors, and Legacies mean? - 01:13

    Part II, Defining Tradition Bearers - 17:59

    Part III, Adapted Vernacular Pedagogies in the VMC Ensembles - 30:51

    Part IV, What is the Next Step? - 43:42

    Part V, Dedication to our Mentors - 50:50

    Paddy MoloneyTony MacMahonLee Scratch PerryPat MartinoNanci GriffithDusty HillRusty YoungCharlie WattsBunny WailerTony RiceRobin MortonDon EverlyTom T. HallRobby SteinhardtB.J. Thomas

    Outro - 52:22

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  • VVMC in the Kitchen: Sampler Plate

    VVMC in the Kitchen: Sampler Plate

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    Intro - 0:00

    Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

    Part I, Starting off the Foodways Sampler! - 01:09

    Part II, Baking w/ Gevyn Stockard (Production Engineer) - 3:20

    Part III, Holiday Food in Texas w/ Heather Beltz (Administrative Coordinator) - 5:47

    Part IV, Sampler Guest List - 9:52

    Part V, Vietnam Dishes w/ Ron Milam (EP 22) - 10:21

    Part VI, Dissertation Fuel w/ Roger Landes (Co-Host) - 12:09

    Part VI, From the Back Yard Vegetarian Pizzas w/ Aileen Dillane (EP 24) - 14:09

    Part VII, Learning the Indian Splash w/ Nicholas Gerardin (EP 17) - 16:26

    Part VIII, Local Foods in Washington D.C. w/ Patrick Warfield (EP 23) - 18:22

    Part IX, Anthony Bourdain Restaurant Tour w/ Rob Peaslee and Panamanian Fried Yuka w/ Rob Weiner (EP 26) - 20:37

    Part X, Bug Anecdotes & The Wrong White Chocolate w/ Rich Remsberg (EP 19) - 23:03

    Part XI, NOLA Jambalaya w/ Steve Waksman (EP 18) - 26:14

    Part XII, Onion Tarts w/ Cassandre Balosso-Bardin (EP 21) - 30:45

    Part XIII, Vegetarian Learning to Cook Meat w/ Genevieve Durham-DeCesaro (EP 28) - 33:22

    Outro - 36:12

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  • Dance, Movement, and a Changing World w/ Guest Interim Dean Genevieve Durham DeCesaro

    Dance, Movement, and a Changing World w/ Guest Interim Dean Genevieve Durham DeCesaro

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    Intro - 0:00

    Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

    Part I, Meet Interim Dean Genevieve Durham DeCesaro - 01:10

    Part II, The Role of Dance in Both the Program & the Community - 12:38

    Part III, How to Learn from Our Body - 15:31

    Part IV, Music & Dance Coexist - 22:35

    Part V, Making Higher Education Inclusive - 30:00

    Part VI, Live Performances & Leadership Post-COVID - 39:55

    Part VI, Engaging with Students & Cultural Traditions in an Ethical Way - 44:28

    Part VII, What is Vernacular Dance & Why Does It Matter? - 50:15

    Outro - 54:04

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    BIO: Prior to her appointment as Interim Dean, Professor of Dance Genevieve Durham DeCesaro served Texas Tech University as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs since 2014. She joined the Provost's staff after serving as Head of Dance since 2004 and as Associate Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance since 2008. Her choreography has been commissioned and performed across the country, with notable presentations at Virginia Tech, Spelman College, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

    More recently, her artistic and scholarly research agenda has foregrounded perceptions of the human condition as understood and expressed through movement and other types of performance. Her work in this area, including the 2016 monograph Ordinary Wars: Doing Transdisciplinary Research (with Dr. Elizabeth Sharp) has been featured nationally and internationally, with key presentations at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Liverpool John Moores University, and the annual convention of the American Psychological Association. Interim Dean Durham DeCesaro currently serves as the Vice President for Regional Planning for the American College Dance Association and is a Visiting Evaluator for the National Association of Schools of Dance.

    Somatic Authority and the Myth of the Ideal Body in Dance Education

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  • Book Club:

    Book Club: "Baby Let Me Follow You Down" and "Dylan Goes Electric"

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    Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

    Part I, Baby Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years - 01:10

    Preview at Archive.orgEric & Jim

    Part II, Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night the Split the Sixties - 35:07

    David Gahr’s photos of the Newport Folk FestivalOther photos of the Newport Folk Festival

    Outro - 01:03:57

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  • Comics & Pop Culture w/ Guests Rob Weiner and Dr. Rob Peaslee

    Comics & Pop Culture w/ Guests Rob Weiner and Dr. Rob Peaslee

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    Intro - 0:00

    Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

    Part I, Meet Rob Weiner and Dr. Rob Peaslee - 01:05

    Part II, What is Vernacular about a Superhero Universe - 13:51

    Part III, A Need for Superheroes - 21:24

    Part IV, A Need for Supervillains - 28:38

    Part V, Assembling the Collection - 31:06

    Part VI, Understanding Context w/in Pop Culture - 37:27

    Part VII, Dark Attraction to Joker - 41:31

    Part VIII, On Location - 50:44

    Part IX, Future Projects - 54:45

    Outro - 56:50

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    Rob Weiner BIO: Robert G. “Rob” Weiner is Popular Culture Librarian and liaison to the College of Visual and
    Performing Arts. He also teaches for the Honors College. His research interests include sequential
    art, popular music, and the history of film. He had authored/edited/co-edited over 15 books
    including Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries, The Supervillain Reader (with Robert Moses
    Peaslee), Marvel Graphic Novels, In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000 (with
    Shelley Barba) Python Beyond Python: Critical Engagements with Culture (with Paul Reinsch and Lynn
    Whitfield), Perspectives on the Grateful Dead, Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom (with
    Carry Syma), Marvel Comics into Film (with Matt McEniry and Robert Moses Peaslee) and the Joker:
    A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime (with Robert Moses Peaslee). Rob has also published
    articles and book chapters in The International Journal of Comic Art, ImageText, Journal of Pan
    African Studies, Texas Library Journal, Secret Origins of Comic Studies, The Routledge Companion to
    Comics, The Vietnam War in Popular Culture, What's Eating You: Food and Horror on the Screen, and
    Global Glam and Popular Music, Race in American Film: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation.
    Most recently he published several pieces in The American Superhero.

    Robert Peaslee BIO: Former Programming Chair for Flatland Film Festival (Lubbock, TX); Coordinator, TTU International Film Series; several years' experience in sports and higher education marketing and communications; many years' experience in food and beverage industry; extensive experience with international travel and study abroad leadership.

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  • At the Movies: Summer of Soul

    At the Movies: Summer of Soul

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    Intro - 0:00

    Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

    Part I, The Summer of Soul - a Documentary - 01:09

    Check out the documentary on HULU!A Summer of Soul Companion Reading ListSummer Of Soul: Harlem Cultural Festival 1969 YouTube PlaylistQuestlove on Building ‘Summer of Soul’ Around Awe-Inspiring Musical Moments Interview

    Part II, What Happened? - 08:58

    Outro - 50:49

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  • Irish Identities w/ Guest Dr. Aileen Dillane

    Irish Identities w/ Guest Dr. Aileen Dillane

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    Intro - 0:00

    Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

    Part I, Meet Dr. Aileen Dillane - 00:59

    Part II, Programming Festivals - 17:35

    Part III, Inclusivity in Festivals Since the Lockdown - 26:22

    Part IV, Limerick Soundscapes Project - 34:28

    Part V, Vernacularity of the Soundscapes Project - 48:03

    Outro - 53:55

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    Dr. Aileen Dillane is an ethnomusicologist, Global Irish musics specialist, and Popular Music scholar with research interests in ethnicity, identity, nationalism and cosmopolitanism in the traditional and popular musics of Ireland, UK, North America, and Australia; Music Festivals and Cultural Diversity; Music and Migration; Urban Soundscapes and Critical Citizenship; Protest music. PhD in Ethnomusicology, University of Chicago. (Fulbright Scholar and Century Fellow). PI on FestiVersities, HERA-funded research project on European Music Festivals (2019-2021). Co-Founder/Co-Director of LimerickSoundscapes; Popular Music & Popular Culture @UL; Power, Discourse and Society @UL. Member of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies. Course Director, MA Irish Music Studies. Follow her on Twitter.

    For more information, please see his University of Limerick Bio.

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  • Marching Bands to the Marching King w/ Guest Dr. Pat Warfield

    Marching Bands to the Marching King w/ Guest Dr. Pat Warfield

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    Intro - 0:00

    Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

    Part I, Meet Dr. Pat Warfield - 00:59

    Part II, The "Secrets" of Sousa - 12:06

    Part III, The Patriotism of Sousa - 31:32

    Part IV, The Dissemination of Sousa - 46:46

    Part V, The Legacy of Sousa - 54:51

    Outro - 01:01:40

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    Patrick Warfield, Ph.D., is a musicologist and specialist in American musical culture. His current research focuses on music in Washington, D.C., during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with a special interest in the American wind band tradition.

    Warfield has presented at conferences and meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, the Gesellschaft zur Erforschung und Förderung der Blasmusik and the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association. He has delivered keynote addresses at the North American British Music Studies Association and the Frederick Loewe Symposium on American Music and has served as a speaker at the International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music and the annual American Band History Conference. His publications have appeared in "The Journal of the American Musicological Society," "American Music," "The Journal of the Society for American Music" and "Nineteenth-Century Music Review." He recently completed the edition Six Marches by John Philip Sousa for the series "Music of the United States of America" and a biography of Sousa, entitled "Making the March King," published by the University of Illinois Press.

    Warfield was a founding member of the editorial board of "The Journal of Music History Pedagogy," and is especially interested in the teaching of American popular music, including rock, jazz and the blues. He is also active as a public musicologist, delivering programs for the Music Center at Strathmore, the Washington National Opera and the Smithsonian.

    In addition to his position in the School of Music, Warfield is an affiliate faculty member in the departments of American Studies and African American Studies.

    For more information, please see his University of Maryland Bio.

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  • Researching War w/ Guest Dr. Ron Milam

    Researching War w/ Guest Dr. Ron Milam

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    Intro - 0:00

    Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

    Part I, Meet Dr. Ron Milam - 01:13

    Part II, Vernacular Perspective of the Vietnam War - 05:18

    Part III, Researching Both Sides of the War - 13:06

    Part IV, Academic Conferences - 21:32

    Part V, Institute for Peace & Conflict (IPAC) - 26:10

    Part VI, Music and the War - 28:20

    'How many kids did you kill today?'

    Part VII, Social Identities within the War - 51:44

    Outro - 58:36

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    Ron Milam is an Associate Professor of History, a Fulbright Scholar to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and the founding Faculty advisor to the Veterans' Association at Texas Tech. He teaches both halves of the U.S. Survey, the Vietnam War, and graduate and undergraduate courses in Military History. His latest teaching interest is terrorism and insurgency, an interest that developed from his having been named an Academic Fellow for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He also serves as the Academic Advisor for the semi-annual Vietnam Center sponsored student trips to Vietnam and Cambodia. He has also taught at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam under a Ford Foundation grant.

    Dr. Milam is the author of Not a Gentleman's War: an Inside View of Junior Officers in the Vietnam War, published by the University of North Carolina Press, and the editor of The Vietnam War in Popular Culture: The Influence of America's Most Controversial War on Everyday Life (2 volumes), published by ABC-CLIO/Praeger. He is currently working on “The Siege of Phu Nhon: Montagnards and Americans as Allies in Battle,” which deals with one of the most significant battles in the late days of the Vietnam War.

    Dr. Milam is a member of the Texas Tech Teaching Academy, recipient of the President's Excellence in Teaching Award, the Chancellor's Council Excellence in Teaching Award, the President's Excellence in Teaching Professorship and is an Integrated Scholar. Dr. Milam is the Executive Director of the Institute for Peace & Conflict (IPAC), which includes the world renowned Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the David Westphall Veterans Foundation, which operates the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Angel Fire, New Mexico. He was recently named by Secretary of Veteran's Affairs Robert Wilke to the Veteran's Advisory Committee on Rehabilitation (VACOR).

    Dr. Milam is a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, and in 2015 was inducted into the Officer Candidate School (OCS) Hall of Fame at the National Infantry Museum at Fort Benning, Georgia. He rides and collects motorcycles.

    For more information, please see his Texas Tech University Bio.

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  • Bagpipes w/ Guest Dr. Cassandre Balosso-Bardin

    Bagpipes w/ Guest Dr. Cassandre Balosso-Bardin

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    Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

    Part I, Meet Dr. Cassandre Balosso-Bardin - 01:05

    Part II, Let's Talk About Bagpipes - 28:03

    Part III, The International Bagpipe Conference! - 53:07

    Outro - 01:03:18

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    Cassandre Balosso-Bardin is a musician, academic and events organiser. She is a senior lecturer in Music at University of Lincoln and specialises in Ethnomusicology, more specifically Mediterranean music, cultural sustainability, musical instruments, and intercultural music making, which are informed through fieldwork based research and performance. She completed her PhD in ethnomusicology at SOAS, University of London in 2015, focusing on the anthropology of the Mallorca bagpipes (the xeremies). She is the founding director of the International Bagpipe Organisation since 2012.

    Cassandre is also a prolific performer and plays the recorders and bagpipes. After many years of performing early music, including with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, she dedicated herself to the global music scene, performing with bands from different cultural traditions including Italy, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Greece, Anatolia and North-West Africa. She has performed at many international festivals and venues with her bands (Amaraterra, Världens Band, Bonnendis, Follow the Rats...) including the Proms, Womad, Cambridge Folk Festival, the Sage, Musicport, Aan Korb BBC festival, Bloomsbury festival, Urkult, Stockholm Culture Festival and Stockholm Folk Festival. Cassandre also organises a range of music events and is currently the artistic director for The Guild Sessions (community-based folk/world music concerts) and The Global Sound Sessions (Lincoln Performing Arts Centre).

    For more information, please see www.cassandrebalossobardin.com

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  • Let's Get Dissertatin'!

    Let's Get Dissertatin'!

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    Intro - 0:00

    Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

    Part I, Folkdance-Musicking with Dr. Roger Landes - 01:06

    Relating to his dissertation research, "The Sound Continues: ‘Folkdance-Musicking’ as Post-Nationalist Strategy in European 'Drone' Music Revivals 1975-Present".Jâcques Barzun and Henry Graff The Modern Researcher George Sand: The Master Pipers (“Les Maîtres Sonneurs”)The Staples Singers: “I’ll Take You There”

    Part II, Musical Improvisations with Dr. Chris Smith- 32:57

    Relating to his dissertation research, "I CAN SHOW IT TO YOU BETTERN THAN I CAN EXPLAIN IT TO YOU": ANALYZING PROCESDURAL CURES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSICAL IMPROVISATIONS"

    Outro - 01:01:26

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  • Archival Research w/ Guest Rich Remsberg

    Archival Research w/ Guest Rich Remsberg

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    Intro - 0:00

    Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

    Part I, Meet Rich Remsberg - 01:04

    Relating to his work with photography, critical mess methods, and archival research.

    Part II, Working with Documentaries - 36:07

    Relating to the film, Happy Valley.

    Outro - 51:43

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    Rich Remsberg is an Emmy Award-winning archival producer and visual researcher based in Western Massachusetts and New York City. His credits include John Lewis: Good Trouble, Bobby Kennedy for President, NUTS!, Happy Valley, and the Oscar-nominated A Night at the Garden.

    He has served on the faculty of the Maine Media Workshops and the Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center Field School; was a frequent collaborator with the sampling-based music duo The Books; and has been a contributor to VICE, Esopus, and NPR’s online feature The Picture Show.

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  • Electric Guitar w/ Guest Dr. Steve Waksman

    Electric Guitar w/ Guest Dr. Steve Waksman

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    Intro - 0:00

    Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

    Part I, Path to the Electric Guitar in Academia - 01:10

    Part II, Research into Amplification - 21:03

    Part III, Current Projects & Scholarship - 25:30

    Part IV, Talking About Bill Hanley - 28:15

    Part V, New Technology in Live Performances - 32:34

    Part VI, Perceptions of the Electric Guitar - 44:34

    Part VII, The Electric Guitar in American Culture Conference - 52:38

    Outro - 01:01:07

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    Elsie Irwin Sweeney Professor of Music at Smith College

    Scholar of U.S. popular music and popular culture, with particular specialty in the study of live music, music genres, music technology and musical instruments (especially the guitar).

    Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience (Harvard University Press, 1999)

    This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk (University of California Press, 2009)

    Contributor to the Cambridge Companion to the Guitar, the Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop and Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music Around the World

    Keynote speaker at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's American Music Masters event honoring the legacy of musician and inventor Les Paul. In 1998 Waksman's dissertation on the electric guitar won the Ralph Henry Gabriel prize awarded by the American Studies Association.

    New project:

    Live Music in America: A History, 1850–2000

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  • French Trad w/ Guest Nicolas Gerardin

    French Trad w/ Guest Nicolas Gerardin

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    Intro - 0:00

    Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

    Part I, Path to Learning and Teaching Music - 01:08

    La Perdrix rouge (1) - 17:00

    Part II, Diving into Tradition - 18:05

    Valse mineure à Bouscatel - 35:26Chabrette Duo Ancelin Rouzier 2 - 42:03

    Outro - 49:06

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    Nicolas Gerardin was born in France but emigrated to Canada as a young child. Meeting Jean Blanchard & Éric Montbel in Lyon on a trip back to France in 1998 was his first step into the world of French bagpipes. After Jean lent him a set of student pipes, he never stopped playing them, from the high-pitched A pipes to the low C sets. His travels in France allowed him to attend the Saint Chartier Festival and to meet several pipers and pipemakers, and of course this allowed him to order bagpipes from reputable manufacturers. Passionate about the work on the sound, he is interested in ancient bore French bagpipes and the cabrette and its unique temperament. He works as a teacher for children with learning disabilities.

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  • At the Movies w/ Guest Chris Simon

    At the Movies w/ Guest Chris Simon

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    Intro - 0:00

    Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

    Part I, Working on This Aint No Mouse Music! - 01:00

    No Speed Limit from This Aint No Mouse Music! - 07:35

    Part II, It's All About The After Hang - 09:37

    How Strachwitz found Lightnin' Hopkins - 11:06

    Part III, Working on Dutch Hop! - 13:21

    Dutch Hop Documentary Project Sampler -17:41Dutch Hop featuring members of the River Boys - 26:57

    Part IV, Working on [Closer to the Light] - 27:34

    Mike Beck - "Reuben's Song" - 31:18

    Part V, Working on I Hear What You See: The Old-Time World of Kenny Hall - 32:55

    Kenny Hall, Turkey in the Straw, Fresno Chiles - 36:28

    Part VI, Working with Vernacular Practices - 37:38

    Outro - 44:02

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    Chris Simon founded Sageland Media, in 1995, after 15 years as producer, sound recordist and editor for renown documentary director Les Blank. Since then she has completed seven independent films and numerous other films for non-profit organizations such as the Western Folklife Center and Crow Canyon Archaeology Center. Simon has a masters degree in Folklore and many, though not all, of her films focus on cultural subjects. This Ain’t No Mouse Music! is about roots music icon Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records. It premiered at SXSW and took top prizes at Hot Docs, Mill Valley and Washington DC Independent Festivals. Her most recent film, Dutch Hop! is about the polka tradition of the Volga Germans. It is currently playing nation-wide on PBS.

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  • "Listening to China" w/ Guest Dr. Thomas Irvine

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    Intro - 0:00

    Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

    Part I, Path to Soundscapes - 01:05

    Relating to Tom Irvine's experience in history, music, and the vernacular, elaborating on global soundscapes.

    Part II, "Listening to China" - 24:40

    Relating to a vast and diverse environment and the different soundscapes one encounters.Book blurb for "Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter.'

    Part III, The Past/Present/Future is Music - 47:48

    Relating to coming back and rebuilding after a Global Pandemic, especially with the arts.

    Outro - 01:00:36

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    Thomas Irvine is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programmes in Music, and an Alan Turing Fellow.

    “Like many students and staff in our department and university I have an international background. I was born in Munich to American parents and grew up in Stony Brook, NY, USA. After studying viola at conservatoire (at the Shepherd School of Rice University and Indiana University Jacobs School of Music) I moved to Germany and played professionally, mostly in Early Music ensembles but also in symphony orchestras. I also taught for a year at the Frankfurt International School and worked as a manager for a large Early Music organisation.

    In 1999 I found my way to musicology and back to the US, studying performance practice and musicology at Cornell University, where I took my PhD in 2005. In 2002 I crossed the Atlantic again as a DAAD scholar at the University of Würzburg Institute of Musicology, where I stayed on as a postdoctoral fellow in 2005/06. I have lived and worked in Southampton since 2006.

    I am a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute (the UK’s national institution for AI and data science), a Non-Executive Director of the Southampton Web Science Institute and currently serve as an external examiner at the Royal Academy of Music. I co-chair the American Musicological Society study group ‘Global East Asia.’ Outside of my teaching and research I am trying to learn Chinese and follow Southampton FC. Both can be challenging! I also sing a little.”

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  • An Introduction to Vernacular Foodways

    An Introduction to Vernacular Foodways

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    Intro - 0:00

    Part I, Irish Soda Bread & Memories - 01:02

    Making Irish Soda Bread - 11:26Amazingly Easy Irish Soda Bread

    Part II, Mofongo & Community- 12:15

    Mofongo - 13:21Puerto Rican Mofongo Recipe

    Part III, African, Indigenous, & Southern Connections

    Food of the Enslaved: Barbecue, featuring Michael Twitty - 23:26Epicurious review of Michael Twitty’s The Cooking GeneMichael Twitty Blog

    Part IV, Gumbo, Cajun Country, & Accordion - 23:59

    Marc Savoy “One Step de Chameaux” - 28:05Gumbo Recipe

    Part V, NOLA Crawfish - 30:33

    How to Eat a Crawfish - Always for Pleasure - 34:33

    Part VI, Mallorca & Music - 35:53

    Sóller - 42:23

    Part VII, Garlic Fills Us All - 43:43

    Alice Waters on Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers - 44:46

    Part VIII, Yum Yum Yum - 45:38

    Yum Yum Yum! (1990) - 46:02

    Part IX, Back to NOLA - 48:05

    Band Appétit: Homemade w/ Kermit Ruffins #JAMINTHEVAN - 50:35

    Part X, Kansas City, MO Barbeque - 51:10

    Netflix: High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America

    Outro - 56:17

    Full Playlist for EP 14

    VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist

    Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

  • Musical traditions & the American Avant-Garde

    Musical traditions & the American Avant-Garde

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    Intro - 0:00

    Part I, Works and Philosophies of Harry Partch - 01:10

    Delusion of the Fury: Exordium: The Beginning of a Web - 03:13Harry Partch - Music Studio - Part 1 of 2 - 05:04Harry Partch - The World of Harry Partch (1969) - 28:10Harry Partch - Chorus of Shadows - 32:12

    Part II, Works and Philosophies of Henry Cowell - 32:33

    Henry Cowell - Anger Dance (Schleiermacher) (1914) - 37:12Henry Cowell - “The Banshee” for piano strings - 38:43Henry Cowell: Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 1 - 53:09

    Outro - 53:35

    Full Playlist for EP 13

    VVMC Book Club

    VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist

    Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

  • At the Movies

    At the Movies

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    Intro - 0:00

    Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

    Part I, Barry Lyndon (1975) - 01:35

    Seán Ó Riada, “Women of Ireland” - 11:03Kubrick dir; Chieftains, Ó Ríada, Derek Bell; also music of Schubert, Handel, Vivaldi, Bach, Paisiello, Mozart

    Part II, The Long Riders (1980) - 14:24

    Ry Cooder, The Long Riders - 19:31

    Part III, The Three Musketeers (1973) - 22:10

    Michel Legrand Orchestra, All's Fair in Love and Feet - 25:35Richard Lester dir; Dumas & George MacDonald Fraser; Lalo Schifrin; David Munrow & the Early Music Consort of London; period music

    Part IV, Round Midnight (1986) - 26:54

    “Body & Soul” - 30:43Bernard Tavernier - Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon, Pierre Michelet, John McLaughlin, Billy Higgins

    Part V, Dead Man Walking (1995) - 33:30

    Nusrat fateh ali Khan & Eddie Vedder - “The Long Road” - 37:46Sarandon, Penn, Tim Robbins dir; Helen Prejean; David Robbins music; also Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Ry Cooder, folklorist Barry Jean Ancelet

    Part VI, Jazz '34 (1997) - 40:09

    Kansas City Band "Moten Swing" - 44:49

    Part VII, The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) - 48:00

    Peter Gabriel, "The Feeling Begins" - 51:21Scorsese dir; ethnomusicologist Lucy Duran; the stable of Real World artists;

    Part VIII, Vengo (2000) - 54:30

    Tony Gatlif, Vengo - 57:52

    Outro - 58:39

    Planxty Sir Festus Burke

    Full Playlist for EP 12

    VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist

    Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

  • Book Club:

    Book Club: "Last Night’s Fun" by Ciaran Carson

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    Intro - 0:00

    Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

    Part I, Last Night’s Fun by Ciaran Carson - 01:34

    Seamus Ennis “The Grip”Last Night's Fun, Joe Cooley - 27:39

    Part II, Hard to Fill - 50:02

    Cathal McConnell plays Reel - 36:46

    Part III, The Standard - 39:53

    Part IV, Off the Bus - 51:22

    Outro - 55:25

    Planxty Sir Festus Burke

    Ciaran Carson's Bio

    Full Playlist for EP 11

    VVMC Book Club

    VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist

    Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

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