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The E-Learning Curve Blog's Other Podcast
Michael Hanley is the author of the popular E-Learning Curve Blog and E-Learning Curve Podcast. This is E-Learning Curve's Other Podcast; it's about subjects that interest Michael that are not elearning-related (but are probably educational). Topics include aviation, anthropology, architecture, archeology, and more.
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New Beat: The Guitar in Brazil
In Brazil, the guitar is the solo instrument par excellence, and has been used in popular as well as classical music. It is a traditional instrument of the Chôro who were originally working class, mainly amateur musicians.
They formed groups very much like the jazz bands in New Orleans and transformed the popular European music of the late-Nineteenth Century into something more vital and syncopated, reminiscent of the rhythms of the African slaves.
Foremost among the early chorões was João Pernambuco, an untrained musician who earned his living as an iron-worker, but supplemented his income by playing in clubs and bars with his group Caxânga. It was on these occasions that he met Heitor Villa-Lobos, a towering figure in the history of Brazilian music, who gained his musical training as a chorão in the streets of Rio de Janeiro as much as in the Conservatoire in Paris. Villa-Lobos was responsible for notating many of Pernambuco's improvisations, and indeed was influenced by them...
This edition of the E-Learning Curve's Other Podcast explores the music of the Chôro and their new beat - the Bossa Nova.
Narrated by Laurie O'Flynn.
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Castletown House: A Place in History
- This episode of the E-Learning Curve Blog's Other Podcast is from my personal audio archive; I re-discovered it while researching something else, but I thought I might bring it to you because it aptly demonstrates the effectiveness of using wildtrack in an audio production, and the skill of an unusual subject matter in bringing a topic to life.
Castletown House in Celbridge, County Kildare is Ireland's earliest, largest, and some would say finest Palladian country house. It was built between 1722 and 1729 for William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and the wealthiest commoner in Ireland. In 1998 I had the opportunity to meet with Gillian Byrne, who was curator of Castletown House at the time, and she was kind enough to give me a personal tour of the house, and tell me about its history.
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Duration: 14:57 m - Filetype: mp3 - Bitrate: 128 KBPS - Frequency: 44100 HZ
Django Reinhardt and the Sound of Swing
Django Reinhardt and the Sound of Swing
The great jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt was born in France in 1910. The son of Gypsy parents, he grew up in a Manouche camp on the outskirts of Paris during the Great War. Django grew up in the world of the bohemian and the vagabond on the doorstep of a great city and it was here that he first learned the guitar.
This 15-minute podcast documentary follows the career of one of the great innovators in the guitar, through the 'Roaring Twenties,' the accident that nearly ruined his careers, his discovery of Jazz, and the emergence of the Swing style, epitomized in his work with the Stephane Grapelli and The Quintet of the Hot Club of France.
The soul of Swing is relaxation, so sit back and enjoy the magic of the music.Click here to view the transcript (PDF, 81k).
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