Quote of the Day

[celticdragonfly]

I just found this on telynor's page, and I *LIKE* it.

We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world, and make all the other singers feel inferior because they're not like him. Once that gets started, he gets backed by so much cash and so much power that he becomes a monstrous invader from outer space, crushing the life out of all the other human possibilities. My life has been devoted to opposing that tendency.— A. Lomax

I don't know who A. Lomax is. I suppose I should go google zir now.

A toast to filking! And singing in general. I've been singing a lot in the car with the kids lately, not having gotten other good opportunities to sing. I was hoping to do a singing part in church next month, but it looks like that's getting taken away as the music director is doing new music and wants the experienced singers to have it. Oh well. I will just keep singing on my own.

UPDATE: According to Wikipedia - "Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an important American folklorist and musicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, the West Indies, Italy, and Spain."

Marvelous. A toast to him!

Comments

[telynor.livejournal.com]

Alan Lomax collections are great, if you can find them. :) I'm glad you like the quote. It's one of my favourites.

[(Anonymous)]

One of my classics professors called Herodotus the Alan Lomax of Greece.