American Folk Movement - The Most Influentials According To WBK.fm

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Very beautiful young Emmylou Harris probably 1977

Listen to the reverbaration of her voice and those youthful droopy stoned eyes....two together alone is a trip althogether....

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By the ways guys, my wife is from Nashville and she looks almost exactly like Emmylou Harris of above (1977), jodio amar wife gaan-bajnaa parey naa....I thank the Lord above for his blessings on my wife's beauty and her brain everyday.

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Dear Mod bahis and admin bahis, apnara bhabtey paren areey ei beta thread-e boshey unrelated kotha boley spam kortese naki...hehehhehe...naa bhais, Srotara jaatey ghumiye naa porey tai ektu spice dhukacchi aarki hehehe...BQE-te abar jodi ghumiye office jawar pothey arek garikey laagiye dei apnader jege theke gaari chalaatey onurodh korchi...Srota-beendo ekhon matro ekjon...ektu ageo kintoo 5-6 guest chilo ei thread-e bhai...thakun amar shathey gaan shunun aar jege thakun ghum na aashley...prithibir je kono jaiga tei thakun keno apni, Australia, Middle-East, South Afrika, North Afrika, Berlin, or Chicago! Going Live from NYC Uptown.

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Joan Baez, born in 1941 in Staten Island, New York of Mexican Immigrant parents. Ms. Baez is one of the most sincere honest beautiful foreign (Non-Bangaldeshi) born voices that cried and sang for our people along with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shanker and a few others during our war of Independence and struggle for Bangladesh. She is one of the most front-line participant, voice for oppressed people, Human Rights, Anti-Viet-Nam War, Anti-Iraq war, Civil-rights for all and the Immigrants in the United States.

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In response to the Viet-nam war....

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Anti - Iraq war rally/concert.

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In response to the Viet-Nam war....

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No Video...just a still image...but it is her voice from the early 70s...

Ofcourse In response to the Viet-Nam war....

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Dylan's sings in response to the Viet-Nam war....

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We were going heavy for a while....so bringing in the amazingly beautiful Judy Colllins and her amazingly gifted voice to neutralize things down...

[Navo]

BK bhai, really enjoying this thread. Learned a lot. I love Ginsberg, Dylan and Joan Baez but some of the other musicians are new to me. All the embedded videos slow down my computer a lot though =/

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Ohh so sorry my dear Navo....was away yesterday...now I am going to add a few more very powerful songs....What should I do Navo? I will only post the link of the song, without embeding it, right? Only every now and then if the image is importante I will post the embeded youtube link of the song, if the singer's easy on the eye, hehehehe!!!

One of the main reasons behind this thread, and include and expose these songs here are to let my young brothers and sisters know that there are many many Americans, influencial American artists that are vocal against the U.S. policy on war and aggression on another human being, things that often rejected or ignored by the main-stream American and World society and the media scumbags. It is my desire and intention to promote the "Good" American ideologies. Because otherwise, things like these fall under the rubbles of the mass bad and often not known or forgotten.

I can add Lyrics and historical background info on the songs as well, so if the listener didn't listen to the song, at least read the lyrics, I fear often younger generation may not have the patience to sit down and listen to a whole song if it is not very "glamourous" .....Navo, please stay with me bro and listen to all the artists I metion here in this thread adn listen more on them, buy the albums when you get a chance and listen to them on yuor stereo, on a better listening environment, rather than just this youtube link on the web.

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Faithful 1964


Faithful w/ Jagger
Faithful in recent years, 2009, Zurich

Songs:

"Yesterday" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1IkyTb0fH8
"Mondey Monday" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYqdM3OvuvA

[Shock]

Originally Posted by bujhee kom
Jadukor bhai mentioned a young English singer/song-writer named Adele and I looked her up and and thought of making a thread dedicated to these great artists/individuals mentioned below. I find the below American Folk artists to be the most influential in constructing, reconstructing, awakaning the American Conscience and for me, personally, influenced me heavily in my thought process and my design work for the built environment and the ecological art.

Although the thread may sound and look like a thread with posts of Youtube provided songs/performances of these below mentioned musicians/singer/song-writers and may look similar to the "What Are You Listening At The Moment" thread, dear Mod bhais and admin bhais, please let me do this thread as it will be a refined collection of specific types of songs/writings/expressions - with which I will eventually show a parallel between these American philosophers/thinkers/singer-song writers and the Bengali Lalon/Baul Musik and Spirituals i,e Puradash Baul and the great late Hon. Lalon Shah (may Allah bless his soul). I believe I will be able to establish and show how they (the American vocal Folk artists) speak of the same thing, same pain and suffering of a human soul and the same human experience and feelings of the Spiritual Movements of Bengal furhter down the road.....I mean I hope to create another thread where we shall discus the Bengali Root/Spiriual sounds and musik.

All bhais and apus, please contribute as well.

Music is part of a culture. Of course it will influence. But what it will convey depends who writes the music. What state he was in when he wrote the music. And for us muslims listening to their music (Americans)(and yes muslims I mentioned) is it wise? I stopped listening to music from today. Because, it leads to wrong path. Someone's imagination can't be equal to the Qur'an of Allah and Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (S). So isn't it wise to follow sunnah and quran rather than someone's imagination? Only wise ones will understand. Others will call me backward.

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The most revered, respected and reckignized and the most gifted British-Black-Female soul voice, Blues singer-songwriter arrived at the rock-pop scene in the 70s....Armatrading's first song that I chose here and poted you will clearly see the influence of Jazz/Parlour Jazz/Billy Holiday/The sounds of St. Louis and find these visible and the second song heavily Blues influenced, you will almost mistake her as an American blues guiterist/singer from the deep south of the 40's or 60's. She is also heavily influenced by the American sounds that originated from the Detroit area, better known as Motown, soul and R & B. What a living legend!


"Love And Affection" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTIs-TBwcbk
"Tall In The Saddle" - Live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT_0M...eature=related

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Look at actor/singer Lyle Lovitt in the line-up...

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@Shock - did you really have to go there? But your post does not violate any forum rules so it stays ...

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I don't have much knowledge about American Folk music. I always thought country music is the folk music. So I never heard much but it looks very interesting now. Bk bhai put an amazing effort compiling all this. Ekdin time niye boshe ekta ekta kore shunbo

Maybe time to open a thread about Bengali Folk Movement. Only Lalon Shah and Hason Raja comes to mind. Anyone else?

[Navo]

Originally Posted by bujhee kom
Navo, please stay with me bro and listen to all the artists I metion here in this thread adn listen more on them, buy the albums when you get a chance and listen to them on yuor stereo, on a better listening environment, rather than just this youtube link on the web.

BK bhai, don't worry, I won't lose interest in this thread at all. I wholeheartedly agree that it is important to highlight and promote those artists/musicians/writers/film makers who have been anti-Establishment for many years. But besides their message of dissent, I appreciate them just for their musical accomplishments and creativity.

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Thank you my dearest Mufi and Navo, right on.

I am putting at least two most important songs per artists, but for Towns Van Zandt, there are a lot of importante songs, so it is very hard to not throw another one of his greats, also I am particularly attracted to the American Confessionalist poet/ movement of Sylvia Plath, Gary Soto, John Berryman, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, and William De Witt Snodgrass. And from the kind of pain and suffering Plath specifically talks about, I see parallel, influence and resemblence of Plath in these singers/song-writers works... It is clear that these artists would have known OF Plath and her work as she was active and alive right before they (these singers) came into the scene.

and as Mufi said, I am letting them out from my collection.



"Daddy" by Sylvia Plath reda by Plath herself


Here is a structure analysis of "Daddy"
I know I feel I should not qoute the WIki, but this time it is easy and I read the stuff, it all sounds accurate and true to me.

Structure and form
The poem repeats in quintains with meter and rhyme scheme resembling the style and structure of a nursery-rhyme:

You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

Sylvia Plath, introducing the poem for a BBC radio reading shortly before her suicide, famously described the poem as about "a girl with an Electra complex. Her father died while she thought he was God.".[5] Coupled with morbid imagery, the narrator's childlike intonation evokes a keen state of unease in the reader throughout the poem, climaxing in the final line "Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through".

[edit] Common interpretations

"Daddy" deals with a girl's deep attachment to the memory of her father and the unhappiness it caused in her life.[citation needed] It can also be seen as an outlet for Plath to deal with her father's death or her husband's betrayal.[citation needed] She does this through reinventing the relationship as one between a Nazi and a Jew, creating an "oppressor-oppressed" dynamic

Autobiographical

The poem "Daddy" can be interpreted along with other poems by Plath as semi-autobiographical regarding her own relationship with her father or her husband, Ted Hughes. Plath's poems "Full Fathom Five"[6] and "The Colossus" also explore the relationship between a girl and a dominant father figure. The writer Theodore Dalrymple has written critically about evoking the holocaust in this context.[7]

"Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,
Ghastly statue with one grey toe
[...]
And a head in the freakish Atlantic"

In all three of these lines, her father is portrayed differently. In "Full Fathom Five", he is portrayed as the god of the sea; surfacing only on occasion. He is portrayed as ancient, ethereal, mysterious, and powerful. Quite differently, in "The Colossus", he is portrayed as a massive fallen statue, who Plath has spent her life trying to reassemble, and in so doing, resurrect. In "Daddy", Plath continues in the same vein as "The Colossus", portraying her father in the same manner. However, "Daddy" differs from the others in that it shows an attempt to change the situation. Plath states: "Daddy, I have had to kill you." By this, she of course means her unhealthy relationship with the memory of her father. The extent to which her father's memory affected her is obvious; especially from the twelfth stanza on. She states

"At twenty I tried to die
And get back, back, back to you.
I thought even the bones would do."

Here Plath refers to an attempted suicide by overdose of sleeping pills, stating that it was an attempt to get back to her father, to be with him in death. She continues by stating that:

"But they pulled me out of the sack,
And they stuck me together with glue.
And then I knew what to do.
I made a model of you,
A man in black with a Meinkampf look

And a love of the rack and the screw.
And I said I do, I do."

The 'man in black with a Meinkampf look' is a reference to her husband, Ted Hughes (who dressed head to toe in black), from whom she had recently separated. She portrays their relationship as a manifestation of her Electra complex, that she was attracted to Hughes because he reminded her of her father. In the next stanza, Plath describes the outcome of this relationship.

"If I've killed one man, I've killed two-
The vampire who said he was you
And drank my blood for a year,"

The two men she refers to are her father and Hughes. Killed here means that she has moved on, and forgotten about them. Although from the portrayal of both of them as vampires, it is obvious that this was not done easily, that Plath endured seven years of marriage to this 'vampire'. But, as she says in the poem "So Daddy, I'm finally through." In stating this she means that she has overcome the memory of her father, and has moved on. This could also mean that Plath is through with dealing with these painful memories and living with these thoughts going through her mind since she commits suicide a mere 4 months after writing this poem.

[edit] Rejection of religion

Sylvia Plath's rejection of religion is also a potential theme in "Daddy".[8] Plath explicitly compares her father to God and later to a devil, prompting some[who?] to suggest that she was openly attacking her own religious beliefs. (She was raised as a Unitarian.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy_(poem)

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