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I had 28th live broadcast of “Pops
Lounge” yesterday in TBN Ulsan Traffic Broadcasting Network’s “Studio1041”. The
topic of yesterday's broadcast was “British popular music of the 1970s”,
including the genres of Folk music, British soul and Industrial music.
I uploaded content of yesterday's
broadcast on YouTube.
I
had 7th live broadcast of “Pops Lounge” yesterday in TBN Ulsan Traffic
Broadcasting Network’s “Studio1041”. The topic of yesterday's broadcast was
“Folk music," a genre of popular music which was popular in America in the
1960s.
Since
yesterday's broadcast was the first time to introduce popular music which was
popular in America in the 1960s, I also talked about some characteristics and
trends of American popular music in the 1960s.
I
uploaded content of yesterday's broadcast on YouTube, and please enjoy the
below link.
The 29th lecture for today is "World
Music: Australia".
This lecture was the 29th lecture of “ACJ
Music Academy”, which was held on 14 November 2015.
Indigenous music in Australia refers to the
music of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.
The music has existed for many years,
integrating the social and cultural elements of the people in these regions.
A representative instrument of traditional
Australian indigenous music is the “didgeridoo”, the world's oldest woodwind
instrument.
However, in modern times, these indigenous
music are developing in the form of fusion mixed with various music styles such
as rock 'n' roll, country, hip hop and reggae.
Under these circumstances, Australian
Aboriginal singer ‘Jimmy Little’ was the first Australian Aboriginal singer,
who succeed with his debut song "The Royal Telephone" in 1964.
Australia's “Bush Music” is a piece of
traditional oral culture that dates back to songs sung by inmates who were deported
to Australia during the early days of British colonies.
The songs are about the hard lives of
people such as criminals, laborers, and herders, and among which is “The Wild
Colonial Boy”.
Considered an unofficial national anthem in
Australia, “Waltzing Matilda” is one of the typical Australian folk songs,
inspired by Celtic folk ballads.
Australian folk music has a unique
tradition that mixed Aboriginal traditional music with European folk music
introduced from Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In Australia, their traditional folk music
from immigrants from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Germany and Scandinavia were dominant.
In this sense, Australian folk music are related
to the folk music of other countries with similar ethnic, historical and
political origins, such as New Zealand, Canada, and the United States.
Today, I will introduce 3 music as follows:
1. The Royal Telephone-Jimmy Little
2. The Wild Colonial Boy-The Clancy
Brothers
3. Waltzing Matilda
You can listen to all the songs from
following YouTube link.
The 26th lecture for today is "World
Music: Hungary/Romania".
This lecture was the 26th lecture of “ACJ Music
Academy”, which was held on 24 October 2015.
The Magyarok, making up the Hungarian people,
has a unique language that is independent of the Slavs surrounding them, and
they are characterized by a firmness of superiority for their national identity.
Hungarians have strengthened their identity
through their traditional music in order to resist the assimilation of the
surrounding Slavic culture while maintaining their national superiority and
confidence.
The strengthening of the ethnic identity of the
Hungarians began with folklore studies as in other countries, and the
culmination of Hungarian folk music was achieved by the composers ‘Bela Bartok’
and ‘Zoltan Kodaly’.
They were not only excellent composers, but
also excellent folklore scholars, and gave birth Hungarian folk music into a
global music.
One of the representative Hungarian folk music
is 'Tanchaz', meaning ‘dance house’.
The music is derived from the traditional dance
house of the village, and the Tanchaz is a shabby dance house whose main
repertoire is folk music.
The ‘Tanchaz Movement’ began in the 1970s as a
backlash against national-led folk music modernization policies.
Musicians such as “Ferenc Sebo” and “Bela
Halmos” collected and learned music from different villages along the footsteps
of Bartok and Kodaly and introduced them to Budapest.
Romania, which means “the country of the Romans”,
is surrounded by many Slavic countries, including Ukraine and Bulgaria.
Around 106 AD, the Roman emperor ‘Trajan’
conquered the current area of Romania where the ‘Dacia’ lived at the time and the
territory became a tributary of the Roman Empire.
Despite the powerful industrialization policy
of the Ceauşescu regime over 24 years, Romania is still
easily accessible to rural villages and maintains a social system dominated by
deep-rooted practices based on the rural economy.
This means that Romanian people are very
interested in traditional music and have a strong will to keep the music.
One of Romania's traditional music, “Doina”, is
the most widely known Romanian traditional music, meaning ‘lament’ or ‘longing’.
This music has a sad mood following a downward
pattern and it maximizes sadness with free improvisation and slow tempo.
Doina's lyrics, with the tendency of blues, are
poetic, full of sadness, pain, farewell, and longing.
Today, I will introduce 3 music as follows:
1. Hetedik-Ferenc Sebo (Hungary)
2. Kalotaszegi Táncok-Muzsikás (Hungary)
3. The Lonely Shepherd-Gheorghe Zamfir (Romania)
You can listen to all the songs from following
YouTube link.
The 22nd lecture for today is "World
Music: Benelux".
This lecture was the 22nd lecture of “ACJ
Music Academy”, which was held on 12 September 2015.
Benelux is a union of Belgium, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg in Europe.
In 1944, exiled representatives of three
countries signed “The London Customs Convention”in England, the treaty that
established the “Benelux Customs Union”, and then the name began to be used
after the three countries.
The treaty came into force in 1948 and
covered the elimination of tariffs between the three countries and common
tariffs to third countries.
In 1960, the alliance was developed into a
“Benelux Economic Union”that ensures the free trade of labor, capital,
services and goods in the region.
TheBelgian music shows a complex mixture of
music of German minorities, immigrants of Democratic Republic of Congo and
other countries, as well as Flemish Dutch-speaking and Walloon French-speaking
traditions.
For the folk and traditional music,
“Bobbejaan Schoepen”was the first Belgian singer to enter the world stage, and
recorded folk music singing in Flemish dialect in the 1950s.
Dutch folk music is characterized by a
simple and straightforward bass and a style complemented by fast and pleasant
melodies.
Unlike folk music from other European
countries, Dutch folk music is not the melody but the bass line that is danced
to.
This means that although the music itself
sounds fast, the dance usually has a medium or slow tempo, and the dance is
primarily a group dance rather than individual or dual dances.
In the 1970s, Dutch artists such as Jos
Koning, Dommelvolk and Wolverlei led the movement for a “Roots Revival”, and as
a result, the revival of folk music in the Netherlands peaked in 1974.
The first reference of Luxembourg music is
related to Roman culture and musical style, and most of its musical heritage is
closely related to German tradition.
Luxembourg has a long history of dance
tradition that reflects many of the dance traditions found in neighboring countries.
However, there are also pure traditional
dances of Luxembourg itself, and one of the most famous traditional dances is
the dance procession at Echternach.
Today, I will introduce 3 Benelux music as
follows:
1. Café Zonder Bier-Bobbejaan Schoepen (Belgium)
2. Jagertje-Wolverlei (Netherlands)
3. Dancing Procession of Echternach (Luxembourg)
You can listen to all the songs from
following YouTube link.
The 21st lecture for today is "World Music: Nordic".
This lecture was the 21st lecture of “ACJ Music Academy”, which was held on 5 September 2015.
Nordic countries typically include Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland.
Among them, I will briefly introduce the folk music of Iceland, Norway and Sweden today.
Due to the geographical isolation, it was difficult for Iceland to access the music of continental Europe.
Therefore, its similarities with other European countries are very low, and the music of the Middle-Ages prevailed the music of Iceland until the 19th century.
The music of Iceland has a very long tradition, and some of the songs made in the 14th century are still sung today.
Folk songs generally deal with love, harsh winters and mythical creatures, and are very secular and humorous.
For Norway, more than half of the land is located in the north of the Arctic Circle, and northern Norway is characterized by continuous white nights in summer.
Norway's most representative instrument is the fiddle, which is shorter than those of other countries, and it features a higher pitched sound than standard-sized fiddles.
The Norwegian fiddle is called the ‘Hardingfele', named after ‘Hardanger’, the southwestern part of Norway, and it has been used since the mid-17th century.
Sweden is the most influential countries in the pop and rock music market in the world among the Nordic countries, producing many worldwide stars that have gained great popularity, such as Abba, Ace of Base and Yaki-Da.
Recently, however, Swedish folk music has begun to attract global attention, which is the result of a movement to establish a "national identity" like other Scandinavian countries.
Despite these movements, however, the main trend of Swedish culture is characterized by a tendency to actively embrace the culture of the outside world and enjoy it as a global culture, rather than adherence to tradition.
Thus, unlike many Nordic countries, it is characteristic that Sweden is hard to find a rigorous folk tradition.
Today, I will introduce 3 Nordic music as follows:
1. Ólafur Liljurós (Iceland)
2. Khoom Loy-Annbjørg Lien (Norway)
3. Vallåtar från gammelboning (Sweden)
You can listen to all the songs from following YouTube link.
