{"id":1098,"date":"2012-07-01T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piano4u.com\/pianonotes\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2012-06-06T10:45:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T16:45:07","slug":"1098","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pianonotes.piano4u.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/1098\/","title":{"rendered":"National Museum of American History: Sounds of America"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the month of July, we wanted to share the history of music in America. Please enjoy this article
\nand\u00a0clips from the National Museum of American History’s “Sounds of America” online exhibit.<\/p>\n

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Photograph of bluegrass musician and singer Joe Val by Henry Horenstein<\/em><\/p>\n

Join the National Museum of American History and Smithsonian Global Sound, as we present an ongoing series of programs featuring music made and played in the U.S.A.\u00a0\u00a0Drawing from the Smithsonian collections, the series highlights the richness and diversity of the American musical experience.\u00a0 Upcoming programs will explore a range of both\u00a0adopted and native musical styles, and show how music has been used\u00a0for everything\u00a0from play to politics.<\/p>\n

Each program can be streamed on your computer, and lasts about an hour.\u00a0 To find out when new programs are available, subscribe to our\u00a0e-mail newsletter<\/a>.\u00a0 Sounds of America is presented by\u00a0Smithsonian Global Sound<\/a>\u00a0in collaboration with the National Museum of American History.<\/p>\n

Additional sound clips, featuring the Museum’s own music ensembles, can be found at the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n

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\"Classic<\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\nMaritime Music: Songs of the Water
\n\"\"\u00a0Listen now!<\/a>\u00a0In honor of the Museum’s “On the Water<\/a>” exhibition, this edition of Sounds of America presents a program of music from the Smithsonian Folkways collection inspired by waterways in the United States and around the world.The sea and other water ways such as large lakes, long rivers, and wide bays, have inspired songs for centuries. Maritime music plays a major role in life on the water, through its ability to entertain, motivate, and pace seamen in their work. Sailors and fishermen sing rhythmic songs called chanteys while pulling in nets, hauling anchors, and setting sails in unison. Songs are composed to commemorate battles at sea, pirate attacks, or storms. Some maritime songs celebrate particular bodies of water dear to a singer\/songwriter’s heart; others remind seafarers who and what waits for them on land.For more information on songs in this program, visit\u00a0Smithsonian Global Sound<\/a>. Additional maritime music can be found on the “On the Water<\/a>” Web site.Image: Cover from<\/em>\u00a0Classic Maritime Music, one of the albums in the Smithsonian collection featured in this month’s program.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"album<\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\nSongs of the Civil War
\n\"\"\u00a0Listen now!<\/a>\u00a0The year 2009 marked the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln\u2019s birth. As part of the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s\u00a0yearlong celebration<\/a>, we present a program of music about the 16th president and the American Civil War.During the Folk Revival of the 1950s and 1960s, Folkways Records (now\u00a0Smithsonian Folkways<\/a>) founder Moses Asch released many new recordings of historical songs, includingThe Glory of Negro History,<\/em>\u00a0narrated by poet Langston Hughes, and\u00a0Songs of the Civil War,<\/em>produced by\u00a0Sing Out!<\/em>\u00a0co-founder Irwin Silber. Both albums present versions of the \u201cBattle Hymn of the Republic,\u201d perhaps the best-known Civil War song. It was written in 1861 by Julia Ward Howe to the same tune as \u201cJohn Brown\u2019s Body,\u201d another song from the era performed here by political singer Joe Glazer.Also included are legendary bluesman Lead Belly\u2019s tribute to Lincoln, excerpts from the autobiography of Frederick Douglass (read by Ossie Davis), and Pete Seeger\u2019s version of Lincoln\u2019s campaign song \u201cLincoln and Liberty.\u201dImage: Cover from\u00a0<\/em>Ballads of the Civil War, one of the albums in the Smithsonian collection featured in this month’s program.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"album<\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n\u201cDo You Know Your Country?\u201d: Songs of American Places
\n\"\"\u00a0Listen now!<\/a>\u00a0On November 21, 2008, the National Museum of American History reopened its doors after a two-year renovation period. The Museum contains approximately 3 million artifacts representing all fifty states and Puerto Rico. In celebration of the reopening, this edition of Sounds of America includes songs specific to several regions of the United States.The\u00a0Smithsonian Folkways<\/a>\u00a0collection of more than 3,000 albums features songs from nearly every American region and musical style. Many of those songs are linked to geographic places either literally, as in Cephas & Wiggins\u2019 localized arrangement of a traditional blues (\u201cRichmond Blues\u201d); in theme, as in Woody Guthrie\u2019s call for farmers and laborers across the continent to organize (\u201cFarmer-Labor Train\u201d); or both, as in Nani Wolfgramm and the Islanders\u2019 ode to their home state (\u201cThere\u2019s No Place Like Hawaii\u201d).While this patchwork of place-songs ranges from popular standards to old-time fiddle, acoustic blues to cowboy ballads, New Mexico\u00a0corridos<\/em>\u00a0to New York calypso, it collectively communicates more than just the stories from a particular locale; it also paints an aural picture of the people, cultures, and social climates of those places at various times in our history. So listen and enjoy these songs about New York, Alabama, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and many others in between.Image: Cover from\u00a0<\/em>20 Golden Hits of Hawaii, one of the albums in the Smithsonian collection featured in this month’s program.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"album<\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n\u201cM\u00fasica Latina\u201d: Latino Music in the U.S.
\n\"\"\u00a0Listen now!<\/a>\u00a0Over 42 million Latinos make the United States their home. One out of eight Americans uses labels like Latino, Hispanic,\u00a0Tejano<\/em>, Chicano,\u00a0Mexicano<\/em>, New Yorican, Cuban,Nuevomexicano<\/em>,\u00a0salvadore\u00f1o<\/em>, and\u00a0colombiano<\/em>to point to their Spanish-speaking heritage in Latin America or the United States.\u00a0 Hand-in-hand with the burgeoning Latino population has come an equal infusion of Latino music, usually called\u00a0m\u00fasica latina<\/em>\u00a0in the windows and bins of record stores.Since 2001, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage have collaborated with the Smithsonian Latino Center to highlight grassroots Latino musicians and music in a variety of ways, including programs, exhibitions, and 19 new recordings. This month\u2019s program draws from the Latino audio holdings of the Folkways Collections\u2014old and new\u2014creating a cultural pastiche of sounds, styles, and cultures that hint at the vast cornucopia of music and cultural expression in the Latino world.Image: Cover from<\/em>\u00a0Taquachito Nights: Conjunto Music from South Texas, one of the Smithsonian Folkways albums featured in this month\u2019s program. Cover art by Joe Lopez.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"Bryan<\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n\u201cWhite House Blues\u201d: Music of American Politics
\n\"\"\u00a0Listen now!<\/a>\u00a0The American political process has been intertwined with music as long as there has been a United States of America. From \u201cFollow Washington,\u201d one of many songs written in praise of George Washington, to the popular theme songs used by present-day candidates, every election cycle has had its accompanying soundtrack.Before technology made it possible for candidates to spread messages across the nation through mass media, campaign songs\u2014 often set to popular melodies of the time\u2014were used to reach broad populations, especially those that could not read newspapers. One memorable example is \u201cTippecanoe and Tyler Too,\u201d set to the melody of the song \u201cLittle Pigs\u201d and written to praise 1840 presidential candidate William Henry Harrison. Known as the \u201chero of Tippecanoe\u201d after a battle at the Tippecanoe River in Indiana, Harrison and running mate John Tyler went on to win the election, though Harrison died of pneumonia one month after his inauguration.Natural accompaniments to political campaign songs are political satire and protest songs, and both categories are represented here by folk singer Joe Glazer and civil rights leader Hollis Watkins. Glazer, Oscar Brand, and Peter Janovsky each recorded albums of presidential campaign songs that, along with the other songs presented here, are part of the catalog of\u00a0Smithsonian Folkways<\/a>.Image: Cast-iron figures of a donkey with a portrait of William Jennings Bryan and\u00a0an elephant with the likeness of William H. Taft, created for the election of 1908. From the collections of the National Museum of American History.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"Conjunto<\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n\u201cDon\u2019t Fence Me In\u201d: Music of Texas
\n\"\"\u00a0Listen now!<\/a>\u00a0You can\u2019t typecast Texas music; there\u2019s just no \u201creining it in.\u201d From the sounds of Texas blues, swing, and conjunto, to country and western, gospel, and Tejano music, the state\u2019s musical range constantly reminds us of the lively cultural landscape of the Lone Star State.The influence of Texas musical traditions on quintessentially American genres such as blues, jazz, rock and roll, and country and western is undeniable. And the significant contributions of the state\u2019s Hispanic population, such as the various folk and popular forms of Tejano music, inform the growing popularity of Latin-flavored and Spanish-language music in the twenty-first century.The diversity of Texas musical styles resulted from a cross-pollination of sounds\u2014what makes American music great. By borrowing tunes, passing on licks, and adopting new rhythms, Texas artists continue to create new traditions. Listen to these Texas tunes from the Smithsonian Folkways collections.Image: Narciso Martinez (right), considered the founder of the contemporary conjunto style,\u00a0 made the genre’s first truly popular recording with “La Chichoronera” in 1935. Photo by Al Rendon.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"Hawaiian<\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\nMusic of Hawai\u2019i
\n\"\"\u00a0Listen now!<\/a>\u00a0Music has always been an important part of native Hawaiian culture.\u00a0 In early Hawai\u2019i,mele<\/em>\u00a0(chant) paid homage to gods and remembered the actions of powerful people with drums and dancing. The small string of islands in the Pacific Ocean has also attracted sailors, explorers, and migrant workers, who all left their marks.Following the arrival of Europeans, Christian hymns and string instruments influenced native music and contributed to the development of new forms. In the mid 20th century, immigrants from Puerto Rico, Spain, Mexico, and Japan brought their own styles of music and singing. Both contemporary and traditional musical styles still thrive in Hawai\u2019i.Image: Hawaiian dancers perform on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"New<\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\nAfrican American Musical Traditions of New Orleans
\n\"\"\u00a0Listen now!<\/a>\u00a0The southeastern Louisiana city of New Orleans is one of the oldest cities in the United States and boasts a unique African American musical heritage. Born in the city\u2019s pre-American and early American days, the music is a blending of European instruments with African rhythms.New Orleans was the only city to have allowed slaves to gather in public and play their own music, and it nurtured the development of jazz, brass bands, rhythm & blues, gospel, and Mardi Gras music. The music has continued to thrive even after the recent devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. The songs here include tracks from the Folkways Records five-album series\u00a0Music of New Orleans<\/em>\u00a0released in 1958\u20131959.Image: New Orleans brass band marches on the National Mall. Photograph by Jeff Tinsley.<\/em>
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\"Singer-songwriter<\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\nWomen in American Music
\n\"\"\u00a0Listen now!<\/a>\u00a0This program features some of the best-known women performers of traditional American music, from rural country pioneer Maybelle Carter to singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams.\u00a0 Drawn from the Smithsonian Folkways collections, these songs cover multiple genres including country, folk, blues, jazz, bluegrass, and gospel.Some selections included in the program illustrate the groundbreaking talent of their performers, such as Elizabeth Cotten\u2019s signature guitar playing in \u201cShake Sugaree\u201d or Mahalia Jackson\u2019s renowned gospel singing in \u201cHe’s Got The Whole World In His Hands.\u201d\u00a0 Some represent courageous political statements, including Peggy Seeger\u2019s stand for women\u2019s rights in \u201cI\u2019m Gonna Be an Engineer\u201d or Janis Ian\u2019s story of an interracial relationship in \u201cSociety\u2019s Child.\u201d\u00a0 And many artists stand out not only for their talent, but as women who succeeded in a male-dominated field, such as bluegrass musicians Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, and jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams, who was one of the few female jazz musicians of her time who wrote and performed her own material.\u00a0 These women, and countless others not represented here, helped shape the canon of American music.Image: Malvina Reynolds (1900-1978), American folk singer-songwriter and political activist. Her best-known song is “Little Boxes,” made famous by Pete Seeger. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.<\/em>
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\"SNCC<\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\nFreedom Songs of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
\n\"\"\u00a0Listen now!<\/a>\u00a0The music of the modern Civil Rights Movement came from many sources. In southern black communities, everyone knew the spirituals that had been passed down from the enslaved generations. Young and old also knew the Protestant hymns sung in church. Labor activists and strikers contributed songs from previous workers struggles. When college students began to lead, they added tunes from the radio and popular music on records. People of different generations and perspectives adapted these melodies and improvised lyrics to create a body of new songs from a mixture of sources. In non-violent resistance training sessions at places such as the Highlander Folk Center (Tennessee), activists learned these new songs which they taught to others at demonstrations, sit-ins, and marches. Eventually, these songs became the anthems of the Freedom Movement throughout this nation and around the world.Image: The SNCC Freedom Singers perform during a march in support of the Selma, Ala. Civil Rights Movement in Harlem, New York, March 1965. Photograph by Diana Davies.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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“Begin the Beguine” by Artie Shaw<\/a>
\nRecorded by the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra
\nFrom\u00a0Tribute to a Generation: A Salute to the Big Bands of the WWII Era<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97” by Ludwig van Beethoven<\/a>
\nRecorded by the Castle Trio
\nFrom\u00a0Beethovern: The Piano Trios, Vol. 2
\n<\/em>Virgin Classics 7914422<\/p>\n

“Serenade in E Minor, Op. 20” by Edward Elgar<\/a>
\nRecorded by the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra
\nFrom\u00a0Metamorphosis Deutsches Harmonia Mundi<\/em>\u00a005472-77343-2<\/p>\n

“String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18, No. 4” by Ludwig van Beethoven<\/a>
\nRecorded by the Smithsonian String Quartet
\nFrom\u00a0Beethoven: The Early String Quartets, Op. 18<\/em>
\nPerformed on Original Instruments
\nSmithsonian Collection of Recordings ND0322<\/p>\n

“Flying Home” by Lionel Hampton<\/a>
\nRecorded by the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra
\nFrom\u00a0Tribute to a Generation: A Salute to the Big Bands of the WWII Era<\/em><\/p>\n

“Mission to Moscow” by Benny Goodman<\/a>
\nRecorded by the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra
\nFrom\u00a0Tribute to a Generation: A Salute to the Big Bands of the WWII Era<\/em><\/p>\n

The Sounds of Boogie-Woogie<\/a>
\nSmithsonian’s own jazz man, John Edward Hasse, gives a lesson on the influential music genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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