Son Jarocho: A Musical Style That Unites Mexican-Americans Mono Blanco, a veteran Son Jarocho band from Veracruz, performs in Los Angeles. Betto Arcos hide caption toggle caption Betto Arcos Betto Arcos It's a warm evening at Tia Chucha's Bookstore in Sylmar, in California's San Fernando Valley, not far from the neighborhood where Ritchie Valens created a rock 'n' roll version of the most famous son jarocho tune "La Bamba." "I like the way that the jarana sounds," he says. Students learn the jarana in a Son Jarocho class at Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural & Bookstore in Sylmar, Los Angeles. Son jarocho comes from Veracruz, a state in the Gulf Coast region of Mexico, where three different cultures — Spanish, indigenous and African — came together more than 500 years ago. "This is the first instrument that I've ever learned, so I want to keep playing," Castellanos says. Castellanos' teacher is Cesar Castro, a key figure at the center of the Son Jarocho explosion in Los Angeles. Fandangos are at the heart of son jarocho. YouTube
Duane Allman & Eric Clapton 1970 - Studio Jams 1 thu 6 Music Origins: Mesopotamia, American Gospel and the Neurology of Faith, Part II | AntiquityNOW Image courtesy of Andrew Newberg, NPR. In Part I we looked at the importance of music in Mesopotamia and its specific role in communing with the gods. Fast forwarding nearly four millennia we found a remarkable similarity in the strains of American gospel music and the belief that the ecstasy of song enables the Holy Spirit to enter the bodies of the faithful. What is the nature of this willingness to give up one’s self to a higher being? How does music play a part? The neurology and self-selection theories of faith There have been theories posited—understandably controversial given the way faith is understood and embraced—about why people seek a higher power. Muslims praying towards Mecca; Umayyad Mosque, Damascus. What actually happens inside the brain when people have a spiritual experience? Another view of religion’s origins is offered by biologists David Sloan Wilson and Edward O. Where does music fit in with these theories? Here’s where neurology enters the picture. Like this:
20 Albums To Begin A Journey into Jazz This is for you if you want to a journey into listening to jazz more seriously, or if a friend asks you what jazz records they should listen to in order to appreciate it more fully. It's no good people starting to listen to jazz on the margins; it's like giving a ten year old, Tolstoy's 'War & Peace' to read, chances are they will not make it past the first page. There are some jazz fans that can be awfully snooty about the music they love, they almost try to turn it into a club that refuses to let in new members. So we decided to put together a list of the 20 albums to start your collection with. Every one is a brilliant record and no discerning jazz fan would turn their nose up at any one of them. So our list is both credible and accessible. It includes albums like Miles Davis's, Kind of Blue, Bill Evan's, Waltz For Debby and John Coltrane's, Blue Train; all three consistently make the list of the most important jazz albums ever.
Music Origins: Mesopotamia, American Gospel and the Neurology of Faith, Part I | AntiquityNOW Through the centuries many forms of music have arisen out of mystical or spiritual ardor: Indian ragas, Japanese Shinto music, Madih nabawi or Arabic hymns, the classic liturgical anthems of Europe and American gospel. Whether by the pounding of drums or the sonorous stones of Stonehenge or the arpeggios echoing against ancient cathedral walls, worship through music has defined civilizations from early times. What is this power in music that moves humans to seek their deities in notes, rhythms and sounds? Let’s look at two very different cultures with surprisingly similar perspectives. For the Mesopotamians, music was an intrinsic part of the world around them. The origin of Mesopotamia is a story of many civilizations in the region in southwestern Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. A drawing of one side of the tablet on which the Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal is inscribed. The gods, in fact, were differentiated in terms of their voices. Mahalia Jackson [2] Farmer, Henry George.
De (soms hangende) groentetuin in potten van Connie. Groenten in potten, natuurlijk kan het. Op deze site besteedden we er al meermaals aandacht aan. Maar dat het ook op zo’n grote schaal en met zo’n mooi resultaat kon als in de tuin van Connie uit Sijsele, dat had ik nog niet durven stellen. Voor Connie kent de teelt van groenten in potten blijkbaar geen beperkingen, tenzij zijn eigen vindingrijkheid. Maar ook daar is er voorlopig geen gebrek aan. Eerst iets over één van de blikvangers in zijn tuin.De hangende tomaten. Connie schrijft : “Hierbij enkele foto’s van mijn uitvinding: Tomaten kweken in hangformaat. Klik op de foto’s om te vergroten. Over de pottentuin.Over de andere groenten in potten schrijft Connie het volgende. “Ik kweek al mijn groenten in potten en emmers omdat mijn tuin helemaal is aangelegd als siertuin maar op de scheiding van de buren heb ik nog een randje en daar staat het vol met potten, zo’n 80 stuks! Ik gebruik ieder jaar dezelfde grond om kosten te sparen. Ik doe soms tot drie teelten na elkaar in een pot.