VOICES FROM THE VERNACULAR MUSIC CENTER

Genres: The Sounds Around Us

Episode Summary

Episode 2 is out and our hosts have a conversation about being in environments where they heard new genres that they became attached to, like Irish trad and Mississippi Delta Blues. They discuss how they learned about the music, culture, and how they personally could participate in the traditions of that genre. 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

Part I, Irish Trad - 01:08

• Tune called Sir Thomas Leixlip, the Proud (as Roger knows it), also known traditionally as The Humours of Glynn, played on the Irish Bouzouki

Part II, Mississippi Delta Blues - 27:40

• Song called The Death Letter Blues, by Eddy "Son" House on the slide guitar

Outro - 41:27

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