VOICES FROM THE VERNACULAR MUSIC CENTER

At the Movies

Episode Summary

We are wrapping up Series 1 with Episode 12! In this episode, our hosts have a conversation about vernacular music in film. Roger and Chris talk about 8 different movies that use vernacular music and practices in both diegetic and non-diegetic film music and how the artists involved collaborated in a way to add to the atmosphere/mood of the films. VOICES FROM THE VERNACULAR MUSIC CENTER, hosted by Chris Smith and Roger Landes, with funding from the Texas Tech University Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation. Join Roger and Chris as they range across the centuries and around the worlds of oral-tradition music and dance, with guests along the way!

Episode Notes

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 Smith

Part I, Barry Lyndon (1975)  - 01:35

• Seán Ó Riada, “Women of Ireland” - 11:03
  • Kubrick dir; Chieftains, Ó Ríada, Derek Bell; also music of Schubert, Handel, Vivaldi, Bach, Paisiello, Mozart

Part II, The Long Riders (1980) - 14:24

• Ry Cooder, The Long Riders - 19:31

Part III, The Three Musketeers (1973)  - 22:10

• Michel Legrand Orchestra, All's Fair in Love and Feet - 25:35
  • Richard Lester dir; Dumas & George MacDonald Fraser; Lalo Schifrin; David Munrow & the Early Music Consort of London; period music

Part IV, Round Midnight (1986) - 26:54

• “Body & Soul” - 30:43
  • Bernard Tavernier - Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon, Pierre Michelet, John McLaughlin, Billy Higgins

Part V,  Dead Man Walking (1995) - 33:30

• Nusrat fateh ali Khan & Eddie Vedder - “The Long Road” - 37:46
  • Sarandon, Penn, Tim Robbins dir; Helen Prejean; David Robbins music; also Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Ry Cooder, folklorist Barry Jean Ancelet

Part VI, Jazz '34 (1997) - 40:09

• Kansas City Band "Moten Swing" - 44:49

Part VII,  The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) - 48:00

• Peter Gabriel, "The Feeling Begins" - 51:21
  • Scorsese dir; ethnomusicologist Lucy Duran; the stable of Real World artists;

Part VIII, Vengo (2000) - 54:30

• Tony Gatlif, Vengo  - 57:52

Outro - 58:39

• Planxty Sir Festus Burke

Full Playlist for EP 12

VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist 

Voices from the Vernacular Music Center