Neal Pomea

Interactive hardware, and twice the good will!

One when you hold the iPod vertically, the other when you hold it horizontally!

Music will certainly survive and people will continue to do new things with it. I am only kidding a little when I say I preferred it when a "single" was really two songs, side A and side B. They didn't have to put anything out on side B, but they did. You maybe bought the record for one song, then got a surprise on the flip side that sometimes you liked even better! Could it be that the music industry today has only half the good will it used to have? :blush2: A downloaded single could easily come with a surprising bonus second song, but I never see it happening.

Alan Lomax Archive and IODA to Disseminate more than 17,000 Historic Recordings

I am listening to Walter Johnson do play by play for a Senators game in 1939 with the Cleveland Indians! Amazing! It's part of a radio station premium for their fundraising. They have cds of an entire day of broadcasting. Game picks up in 4th inning. Ran from 4:00 -5:15 on the last day of the season. http://www.archive.org/download/CompleteBroadcastDay/WJSV_390921-COMPLETE_BROADCAST_DAY_PART_11.MP3 From Internet Archive

I haven't seen too many of his films in the last twenty years either except Hollywood Ending, which I liked. I barely remember Manhattan Murder Mystery. I am more partial to some of his lesser regarded films like Broadway Danny Rose, Zelig, Radio Days. I rate Danny Rose very highly. I would be interested in seeing Match Point, which he says is perhaps closest to his original vision.

I just think Murray should remember that he's working in metaphors. First language/second language, "owning a music," "a music evolving" are all metaphors. Sure, I realize that's what we have to work with any time we use language, but sometimes the metaphors only go so far. They also can obscure. I am particularly wary/weary of the metaphor of a genre of music "evolving/developing" because I think such metaphors can be an inauthentic way of relating to the past. But that is a political issue, for sure. "The past is never dead -- it's not even past!" in the words of Faulkner. This thing about one race having a better aptitude for X than another race is potentially dangerous. The flip side is that said race does not have aptitude for Y, which is how they used to argue against voting rights for certain groups. Be careful, Mr. Murray, of what you are introducing to the argument!

We will probably also add umlauts over the p and the w in Super Bowl. You know, to toughen up our image! http://www.theonion.com/search/?q=toughens+image+with+umlauts

Will we still be using Roman numerals when we get to Super Bowl L?

A stirring moment in jazz history to echo in Turkish Embassy

Agreed! I don't see a lot of strings attached. Guess the giants "need" them, and the smaller guys don't. How come people like HIM don't get invited to sit in the first lady's area of the State of the Union address and get recognized as heroes? Or get honored by the Kennedy Center? What all he has done over the years to keep Cajun and Creole culture from dying of forgetfulness has been amazing. His series of lps in the 70s on Cajun music (I know I have 9 or more) has truly been very lasting in importance to Louisiana. A few songs on the Harry Smith Anthology in the 50s were nice to raise awareness, but Arhoolie really took off with it.

RIP. Great duets with his brother. He seemed like a more contented man than Ira, who was a tortured soul, as covered in this story: http://killingthebuddha.com/mag/exegesis/satan-is-real/

You could cross Mingus with Pink Floyd and have an album called Mingus Ah Umma Gumma.

Tim Hardin II (quite jazzy on several tunes) After Bathing at Baxter's --- Jefferson Airplane Mason Proffit -- Wanted La La (Louisiana Black French Music) (digitizing them)

Q: Were women involved in the making of these records? A: Of course they were! Who do you think made the biscuit? (Ducks shoe toss from the gallery) Great video! Thanks for posting.

I am sorry that I misunderstood your comment. I apologize.

But the copyright does not need to remain with Universal in order for this to happen. Mosaic could do this if the music were in the public domain. There does not seem to be any sense of urgency whatsoever among the jazz community, or at least this board, that something will be lost (some things already lost) if nothing ever goes into the public domain. I must be looking at these issues from a completely different vantage point when I see in my culture (Cajun) the urgency of preserving and remembering our folk art rather than letting "the market" decide what gets sold and what gets forgotten and allowed to just disappear. From the 1960s on there have been deliberate, conscious efforts by musicians to help the Cajun French language and culture survive through the appreciation of our folk art. It may sound like an idealistic dream to you, but it is not to me and many people in Louisiana. Having the music available is part and parcel of instilling pride, enough pride to make efforts to keep our heritage. The music needs to be heard by people within the culture, not forgotten or thrown away because it has no profitable market. Maybe no one feels this way about jazz music, but there are other perspectives and other needs that can be best met by the public domain rather than private ownership. Who said I favor the 50 year rule? I don't. I hope you hold copyright for your lifetime and that you continue with your contracts. I can put emoticon frowns, too, at your apparent lack of concern for the survival of my culture, if I wanted to twist things the way you are twisting my arguments. Freeloader indeed! Not every argument for the public domain is some kind of weaselly clause used by freeloaders/.

If you understand the LOC to "own" this music, you should re-read the article. This would be in the public domain if it weren't for the continued extension of the term of copyright. Where is it going end? Perpetual copyright? Is that what you want? This company has already enjoyed windfall profits from the extensions. This should have already been in the public domain.

Try Reddit. I stopped looking at Digg when they changed the interface and went to Reddit. You might like it.

The Corn Chip Bowl? Well that's dignified.

"Appropriate mission"? Perhaps I don't understand what you're tyring to say, but isn't this how the LOC grants access to all the other music in its collections? Come to think of it, how is this different from the art collections held by all museums, universities, and historical societies? Where in the world can you just stay at home, sit back, and enjoy unfettered access to art that is owned and preserved by someone else? American Memory Collection. This should be part of the American Memory Collection. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/help/view.html "Many American Memory collections contain sound recordings, video, high-resolution images, and enhanced text that require special viewers. Most viewers can be downloaded free from vendor sites." "Where in the world can you just stay at home, sit back, and enjoy unfettered access to art that is owned and preserved by someone else?" Well, it's now owned and being preserved by the LOC. Not someone else.

Statement from LOC: http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2011/11-003.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed "This gift is particularly important in the context of the findings of the first comprehensive, congressionally mandated study ever conducted in the U.S. on a national level. It found that only an estimated 14 percent of pre-1965 commercially released recordings were currently available from rights holders. The study also found that of the music released in the U.S. in the 1930s, only about 10 percent of it could be readily accessed by the public." So much for the supposed superiority of the private sector for guarding heritage. It's an appalling record. Affects my culture quite profoundly.

"So they will preserve the physical masters for us and make them available to academics and anyone who goes to the library, and Universal retains the right to commercially exploit the masters.” Only academics and people who can visit the LOC in person? That's FAR from an appropriate mission for them. They should stream it ALL, not just the remainders of what Universal figures it can't sell on iTunes.

I plan to go in the fall one of these days, combining this with some leaf watching in upstate New York. Pure pantheism from what I understand!