VOICES FROM THE VERNACULAR MUSIC CENTER

Roger Landes and Chris Smith
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VOICES FROM THE VERNACULAR MUSIC CENTER is a podcast from at Texas Tech University. Hosts Roger Landes and Chris Smith, musicians and directors of the VMC, explore vernacular art forms: musics and dance which are learned, taught, and passed on by ear and in the memory. We talk about how the VMC engages with music and dance from around the world, and about the connections, histories, and community meanings of these art forms. We hear from players, scholars, dancers, builders, and listeners; we hear about times and places and people, and together with our audience we seek to discover and celebrate the webs of human meaning which connect all of them. We would like to thank the TTU Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation for funding Series 1 and the J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts for funding Series 2. Please Like | Follow/Subscribe | Download | Share | Leave a Review!

  1. 01/03/2022

    Elders, Mentors, and Legacies

    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 SmithPart 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. ThomasOutro - 52:22 Planxty Sir Festus Burke  Full Playlist for EP 30 VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist  VVMC Book Club Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

    54 min

  2. 12/21/2021

    VVMC in the Kitchen: Sampler Plate

    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 SmithPart 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 Planxty Sir Festus Burke  Full Playlist for EP 29 VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist  VVMC Book Club Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

    38 min

  3. 11/15/2021

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

    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 SmithPart 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 Planxty Sir Festus Burke  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   Full Playlist for EP 28 VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist  VVMC Book Club Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

    56 min

  4. 11/01/2021

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

    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 SmithPart I, Baby Let Me Follow You Down:  The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years - 01:10 Preview at Archive.orgEric & JimPart 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 FestivalOutro - 01:03:57 Planxty Sir Festus Burke  Full Playlist for EP 27 VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist  VVMC Book Club Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

    1h 5m

  5. 10/18/2021

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

    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 SmithPart 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 Planxty Sir Festus Burke  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. Click HERE for more information   Full Playlist for EP 26 VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist  VVMC Book Club Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

    58 min

  6. 10/04/2021

    At the Movies: Summer of Soul

    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 SmithPart 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 InterviewPart II, What Happened? - 08:58 Outro - 50:49 Planxty Sir Festus BurkeFull Playlist for EP 25 VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist  VVMC Book Club Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

    52 min

  7. 08/23/2021

    Irish Identities w/ Guest Dr. Aileen Dillane

    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 SmithPart 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 Planxty Sir Festus Burke 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.   Full Playlist for EP 24 VVMC Book Club VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

    56 min

  8. 08/16/2021

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

    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 SmithPart 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 Planxty Sir Festus Burke  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.   Full Playlist for EP 23 VVMC Book Club VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

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VOICES FROM THE VERNACULAR MUSIC CENTER is a podcast from at Texas Tech University. Hosts Roger Landes and Chris Smith, musicians and directors of the VMC, explore vernacular art forms: musics and dance which are learned, taught, and passed on by ear and in the memory. We talk about how the VMC engages with music and dance from around the world, and about the connections, histories, and community meanings of these art forms. We hear from players, scholars, dancers, builders, and listeners; we hear about times and places and people, and together with our audience we seek to discover and celebrate the webs of human meaning which connect all of them. We would like to thank the TTU Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation for funding Series 1 and the J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts for funding Series 2. Please Like | Follow/Subscribe | Download | Share | Leave a Review!

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