I've got a new project ready to go next week with my first interview. My intent is another set of interviews of musicians from around my home town who play Old Time. What's that? Well, I'm going to find out, but my initial impression is that it is pre-blue grass folk music. I want to talk to all levels of musicians from beginners to professionals, and all instrumentalists. I want to find out about repertoire, instruments, the music, the culture, and of course the people who make it--without them we could put it in a museum under glass.
This project may have a similar trajectory as Milwaukee Jazz Profiles, but I'm guessing it will be pretty different, maybe not; I don't really know what the end result will be. The goal is to publish something...asside from my rantings here. I will try to blog it and post photos and hopefully video, but the ultimate goal is a publication.
I found out from MJP that my projects are really investigations into myself. "I'm interested in this, let me see what I can find out." The fact of it is that I find musicians to be very interesting people...and I want to know why. I expect that I'll find out a lot about myself on the way.
So here it goes...hip chops!
This project may have a similar trajectory as Milwaukee Jazz Profiles, but I'm guessing it will be pretty different, maybe not; I don't really know what the end result will be. The goal is to publish something...asside from my rantings here. I will try to blog it and post photos and hopefully video, but the ultimate goal is a publication.
I found out from MJP that my projects are really investigations into myself. "I'm interested in this, let me see what I can find out." The fact of it is that I find musicians to be very interesting people...and I want to know why. I expect that I'll find out a lot about myself on the way.
So here it goes...hip chops!
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