WFMU: Why Do We Only Listen to Dead People? with Carol Gimbel and Cullan Bryant: Playlist from January 12, 2025

Listener comments!
	6:01pm AskJoe: Hi
	6:01pm Lance Wilcox: Hey guys, listening live.
	6:02pm ViolaChica: Hi Dad and Lance! So fun you are here!
	6:03pm tom tom the pipers son: hi carol...cullan ...people
	6:04pm Lance Wilcox: ↳ ViolaChica @6:02 Proud member of the fan club
	6:06pm tom tom the pipers son: i guess you had to be there....
	6:07pm tom tom the pipers son: relationships
	🎻 6:07pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Mozart: A Musical Joke, K 522, 1st mvt." by "Amad... It reminded me a bit of a TV commercial jingle for a heartburn medicine called Brioschi. Many decades ago.
	6:08pm tom tom the pipers son: called a dub song classical recently
	🎻 6:09pm Dan S: Art music? So what is musical music?
	6:09pm ViolaChica: Good evening everyone! Good evening Tom Tom and Dan!
	6:10pm tom tom the pipers son: there was that term 'art damaged'
	6:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I thot that calling it Western Academic Music wasn't too off the mark ...I like Leonard Bernstein's designation presented to me whew (by Cullan?) that it is 'Exact' Music. That makes a lot of sense... In the 20th Century - that is, under Modernism - it seems to me all the Boundaries & Categorizations began to dissolve... Certainly in my life TheBeatles & John Coltrane are indisputable 'Classics' - but this seems willfully obscuring the question to some extent ? Despite Howard Goodall's thesis that TheBeatles resurrected the entire system of Western Harmonics &tc. - & significantly broke down the barriers between Art & the Popular audience... Which as a know-nothing young Rawker I saw from quite the opposite lens : they started conventionally in Pop terms & then brought the masses along with them into the Avant-garde...
	6:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @6:18 to me *here
	6:19pm Lance: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @6:18 This makes a lot of sense to me.
	6:21pm Lance: Don't finish. Keep us coming back each week.
	6:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...whereas calling it 'Art' Music I think implies something Culturally like what we preserve in the Museum. Concert Hall Music in other words ...& there are other words from the better-informed...
	6:24pm tom tom the pipers son: when was the symphony invented?
	6:24pm Lance: You guys play Wagner you can take the rest of the evening off.
	6:26pm Lance: When Bach was writing for his church he was pumping out cantatas virtually every week. Guess that is everyday music.
	6:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & of course any Genre designation fails the closer & broader you consider it...
	6:26pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:24 in its current meaning late 18th c
	6:27pm Polly.: 91.1 is static only.
	6:28pm ViolaChica: ↳ Polly. @6:27 What about 91.9fm?
	6:29pm officina: 91.1 is down. Static only.
	🎻 6:29pm chresti: Hi Carol and Cullan dead people's Music show!
	6:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Manager Ken informed there would be repairs going on for a few hours.
	6:30pm ViolaChica: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:24 It comes from the baroque sinfonia, so the early 18th c.
	6:30pm tom tom the pipers son: there was an exhibit of puccini ephemera at the morgan library a ways back....did you guys see it?
	6:31pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ViolaChica @6:30 ok thanks...wiki needs an update
	6:31pm ViolaChica: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @6:29 thank you. To reiterate....repairs are happening on 91.1
	6:32pm ViolaChica: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:31 Sammartini was the first to officially write a stand alone piece using the word Symphony - 1730s
	6:35pm tom tom the pipers son: thanks... wiki does not mention that
	6:35pm Lance: ↳ Song: "Puccini: Chrysanthemums" by "Emerson String Quartet" Beautiful piece indeed.
	6:36pm Gaston: CAN'T STAND OPERA. LISTEN TO LIU'S SOLOS DURING TURANDOT.
	6:36pm tom tom the pipers son: internal relationships
	6:36pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:36 equilibrium
	6:38pm tom tom the pipers son: satie...?
	6:38pm Harry Corvair: “What is classical music? I know it when I hear it.” Pornography enjoys the same distinction. Good company.
	6:39pm Lance: As I understand it, Debussy hated being called an impressionist.
	6:39pm Mama 💜: Hi kids!
	🎻 6:40pm chresti: A reference
	6:40pm tom tom the pipers son: cullan carol ...why don't you play music you think as classical that isn't usually thoight as 'classical'
	6:42pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "String Quartet no.2, Op 10, 4th mvt." by "Pražák ... this seriously beautiful
	6:43pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:42 does not strike me as 'atonal' though
	6:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: They always make the point how dissonant Beethoven sounded to some in his own time ...yet not to us...
	6:46pm Pianoman: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:40 Tom! I think that we do that a lot....
	6:46pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Pianoman @6:46 that would be interesting...
	6:47pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:46 oh sorry misread comment...
	6:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:43 I would say somewhat angular melody & harmonies. But not out of tonality...
	6:49pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @6:49 right...
	6:52pm tom tom the pipers son: i think this crisis over classical has come about fro globalization and that the western canon is no longer central
	6:54pm yippie: i recently got a cool opera by john paul jones of led zeppelin called "ghost sonata", that one is classical music
	6:56pm tom tom the pipers son: these words remind me of the painter munch... who i've gotten into lately
	6:57pm tom tom the pipers son: caspar david friedrich too
	6:58pm tom tom the pipers son: oh fuck...very sad
	6:59pm Lance: Thank you for the reference to LA. As a longtime Angeleno, this has been absolutely gutting. So much art, architecture has been destroyed, let alone so many homes. And lives too.
	7:04pm ViolaChica: en.wikipedia.org... E. Randol Schoenberg - a life connected to music and art
	7:05pm Pianoman: ↳ Lance @6:59 We are devastated, Lance! Peace to you and yours
	7:07pm carlos danger: Saw a performance of Pierrot Lunaire at Juilliard a few weeks back and Schoenberg's grandson was in the audience. He's traning to be a chef I believe
	7:08pm ViolaChica: ↳ carlos danger @7:07 Oh wow. Wish I had known about that! Maybe you mean a great-grandson? en.wikipedia.org... E. Randol Schoenberg is the grandson I ws referring to.
	7:10pm ViolaChica: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:35 another disservice to classical music - many crap wiki listings for classical works.
	7:12pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Schoenberg: Drei Klavierstücke, Op 11" by "Hardy ... i'm surprised how low key this piece is...
	7:18pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:12 some of this, to me, feels like musical archeology, sifting through the past
	7:19pm AskJoe: Noise of Arnold s…tburg. Excedrin headache #55. I absolutely hate it.
	🎻 7:22pm PaulRobeson1925: It must be getting early, clocks are running late Whistle through yer teeth and spit cause’ it's alright
	7:25pm tom tom the pipers son: ah maybe its irrelevant what's called classical music...
	7:25pm carlos danger: Possibly! That make more sense, perhaps. Performance was great
	7:26pm carlos danger: Do people here think Glenn Branca's solo stuff counts as classical music?
	🎻 7:27pm PaulRobeson1925: I don’t get art
	7:28pm ViolaChica: youtube.com... The link to the Music of all African Countries Playlist
	7:29pm tom tom the pipers son: maybe the word 'classical' shouldn't be used anymore
	7:30pm tom tom the pipers son: is calling african music 'classical' gving it a burden it didn't ask for...?
	7:30pm ViolaChica: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:29 yes, maybe so. that's a thought!
	7:32pm carlos danger: ↳ Song: "Fincadu na Raiz" by "Nácia Gomi & Ntóni Denti D'O... Carol, why do you label this as being "classical" vs, say, "folk"? What's the relevant criterion? Is it something to do with the context in which this music was composed and performed?
	7:33pm ViolaChica: ↳ carlos danger @7:32 that track you are referring to is folk. the current track is by a griot which is considered "classical"
	🎻 7:36pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Kaira (traditional Mandinka)" by "Mafu Conteh, ko... This could be/is classical, I would think because of the strings?
	7:38pm tom tom the pipers son: FRANK SINATRA IS NOT CLASSICAL!
	7:39pm carlos danger: Maybe it's like the famous Supreme Court definition of pornography—"I know it when I see [hear] it"
	7:41pm tom tom the pipers son: i think one characteristic is a sort of impersonality where the compsers personality is absorbed formally
	7:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Was thinking of this in terms of 'Indian Classical'... Something is Classical when a defining time-honored Traditional element of Culture. Something to do with Cultural Identity in continuity ...inevitably questions of the Tribal present themselves ...& maybe even in 'Classical' even the word Class is embedded...
	7:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...whereas otherwise these are termed 'Traditional Folk' elements - where elsewhere 'Classical' & 'Folk' are in some senses considered opposites - in which part of a Society practices them...
	7:44pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Song: "Vizinha" by "Herdeirus de Gumbe (Guinea-Bissau)" A set of Guinea-Bissau music — www.wfmu.org...
	🎻 7:44pm PaulRobeson1925: I’m pretty sure it was The Beatles, who said “IT is so much easier to say IT isn’t it isn’t it isn’t it isn’t than to say what IT is!”
	7:45pm ViolaChica: Thanks everyone for chiming in on this! I was pressing pianoman for an answer, but you all are getting to the heart of it. So hard to put into words!
	7:46pm ViolaChica: ↳ PaulRobeson1925 @7:44 I think you have pianoman's heart with this comment!
	7:49pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Song: "Traditional Bondo Dance" by "Temne of Sierra Leone" Sets from Sierra Leone and other nations found here: www.wfmu.org...
	7:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...flip the script & try & define 'Folk Music' - the same question from the other direction. Which maybe implies Classical (Academic 'Museum' Musics) & Folk (of the People) are a defining polarity ? But from Bach to Bartok to Africa to the Beatles this exact distinction collapses...
	7:56pm Malcontent: Your conversation on Schoenberg and the archives was quite lovely. Outside of Leonard Bernstein's video lecture series, Schoenberg is a tragically-overlooked topic in popular aesthetic discourse. Keep up the great work!
	7:57pm listener 126464: Fantastic show, thanks Carol & Cullan.
	7:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...but like people being uptight about what is Country Music exactly ...& the form is really pretty new since the 1940s as most conceive of it. Classical as we conceive it is also only a few centuries old - even as it supposedly represents some deepest defining Western structures & forms. & itself never stood still but continuously transformed too...
	7:58pm Mama 💜: I loved the show! Just amazing!
	7:59pm tom tom the pipers son: oh this should be someones theme music
	8:00pm listener 126464: The other garbage time
	🎻 8:00pm AMYGDALA: Psyched for a fill-in, but we'll miss you all (pronounced y'all). Nice time tonight - enjoyed!
	🎻 8:01pm Listener Robert: Yay!
	8:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJs CGCBs ~

Why Do We Only Listen to Dead People? with Carol Gimbel and Cullan Bryant: Playlist from January 12, 2025

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From the most profound classical music recordings ever made, to genres and musical perspectives from around the globe, talk on music, art and recordings that changed our lives and the world around us. Tune-in as we explore why we only listen to "dead" people, and what is "alive" in music today. Special guests, call-ins welcome.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Amadeus Quartet	Mozart: A Musical Joke, K 522, 1st mvt.		Deutsche Grammophon	1980	with Rainer Zepperitz, double bass; Gerd Seifert & Manfred Klier, French horns	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sviatoslav Richter	Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op. 17, 3rd mvt.		Warner Classics	1960		0:08:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Emerson String Quartet	Puccini: Chrysanthemums	The Emerson Encores	Deutsche Grammophon	2001		0:27:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Pražák Quartet, Christine Whittlesey	String Quartet no.2, Op 10, 4th mvt.		Praga Productions	1994		0:40:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Hardy Rittner	Schoenberg: Drei Klavierstücke, Op 11	Schoenberg Complete Piano Music	MDG Scene	2009	recorded on an 1870 Streicher piano	1:01:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Fulani Musicians, Senegal	Traditional Fulani		private			1:21:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Nácia Gomi & Ntóni Denti D'Oro (Cabo Verde)	Fincadu na Raiz	Fincadu na Raiz	AV Produçoes	2005	Cabo Verdean Morna music	1:26:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mafu Conteh, kora (The Gambia)	Kaira (traditional Mandinka)		private video	2018	Kora players traditionally come from jali families, who have passed down their skills and historical knowledge of the Mandinka people through the generations. Mafu is the grandson of the great kora player Alhaji Bai Konte. Mafu lives and teaches at the family compound in Brikama. International students are warmly welcomed - for more info check out the Konteh Kunda School of music website or Facebook page: http://www.kontehkunda.org / kontehkunda	1:33:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Herdeirus de Gumbe (Guinea-Bissau)	Vizinha	Nha Fiansa	?	2012		1:38:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sory Kouyate, balaphone (Guinea)	Mamadou Bitiki (traditional Mandinka)	Guinea: An anthology of the Malingo Balaphone Vol. 2	Buda Records	2005		1:42:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Temne of Sierra Leone	Traditional Bondo Dance	private video	private	2012		1:47:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kpelle musicians (Gbarnga City, Liberia)	Traditional Kpelle turu music	video	private	2016		1:49:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
One Ring Zero	Radio "Radio" by "One Ring Zero"	As Smart As We Are	Barbes Records	2004

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Listener comments!
	6:01pm AskJoe: Hi
	6:01pm Lance Wilcox: Hey guys, listening live.
	6:02pm ViolaChica: Hi Dad and Lance! So fun you are here!
	6:03pm tom tom the pipers son: hi carol...cullan ...people
	6:04pm Lance Wilcox: ↳ ViolaChica @6:02 Proud member of the fan club
	6:06pm tom tom the pipers son: i guess you had to be there....
	6:07pm tom tom the pipers son: relationships
	🎻 6:07pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Mozart: A Musical Joke, K 522, 1st mvt." by "Amad... It reminded me a bit of a TV commercial jingle for a heartburn medicine called Brioschi. Many decades ago.
	6:08pm tom tom the pipers son: called a dub song classical recently
	🎻 6:09pm Dan S: Art music? So what is musical music?
	6:09pm ViolaChica: Good evening everyone! Good evening Tom Tom and Dan!
	6:10pm tom tom the pipers son: there was that term 'art damaged'
	6:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I thot that calling it Western Academic Music wasn't too off the mark ...I like Leonard Bernstein's designation presented to me whew (by Cullan?) that it is 'Exact' Music. That makes a lot of sense... In the 20th Century - that is, under Modernism - it seems to me all the Boundaries & Categorizations began to dissolve... Certainly in my life TheBeatles & John Coltrane are indisputable 'Classics' - but this seems willfully obscuring the question to some extent ? Despite Howard Goodall's thesis that TheBeatles resurrected the entire system of Western Harmonics &tc. - & significantly broke down the barriers between Art & the Popular audience... Which as a know-nothing young Rawker I saw from quite the opposite lens : they started conventionally in Pop terms & then brought the masses along with them into the Avant-garde...
	6:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @6:18 to me *here
	6:19pm Lance: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @6:18 This makes a lot of sense to me.
	6:21pm Lance: Don't finish. Keep us coming back each week.
	6:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...whereas calling it 'Art' Music I think implies something Culturally like what we preserve in the Museum. Concert Hall Music in other words ...& there are other words from the better-informed...
	6:24pm tom tom the pipers son: when was the symphony invented?
	6:24pm Lance: You guys play Wagner you can take the rest of the evening off.
	6:26pm Lance: When Bach was writing for his church he was pumping out cantatas virtually every week. Guess that is everyday music.
	6:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & of course any Genre designation fails the closer & broader you consider it...
	6:26pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:24 in its current meaning late 18th c
	6:27pm Polly.: 91.1 is static only.
	6:28pm ViolaChica: ↳ Polly. @6:27 What about 91.9fm?
	6:29pm officina: 91.1 is down. Static only.
	🎻 6:29pm chresti: Hi Carol and Cullan dead people's Music show!
	6:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Manager Ken informed there would be repairs going on for a few hours.
	6:30pm ViolaChica: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:24 It comes from the baroque sinfonia, so the early 18th c.
	6:30pm tom tom the pipers son: there was an exhibit of puccini ephemera at the morgan library a ways back....did you guys see it?
	6:31pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ViolaChica @6:30 ok thanks...wiki needs an update
	6:31pm ViolaChica: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @6:29 thank you. To reiterate....repairs are happening on 91.1
	6:32pm ViolaChica: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:31 Sammartini was the first to officially write a stand alone piece using the word Symphony - 1730s
	6:35pm tom tom the pipers son: thanks... wiki does not mention that
	6:35pm Lance: ↳ Song: "Puccini: Chrysanthemums" by "Emerson String Quartet" Beautiful piece indeed.
	6:36pm Gaston: CAN'T STAND OPERA. LISTEN TO LIU'S SOLOS DURING TURANDOT.
	6:36pm tom tom the pipers son: internal relationships
	6:36pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:36 equilibrium
	6:38pm tom tom the pipers son: satie...?
	6:38pm Harry Corvair: “What is classical music? I know it when I hear it.” Pornography enjoys the same distinction. Good company.
	6:39pm Lance: As I understand it, Debussy hated being called an impressionist.
	6:39pm Mama 💜: Hi kids!
	🎻 6:40pm chresti: A reference
	6:40pm tom tom the pipers son: cullan carol ...why don't you play music you think as classical that isn't usually thoight as 'classical'
	6:42pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "String Quartet no.2, Op 10, 4th mvt." by "Pražák ... this seriously beautiful
	6:43pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:42 does not strike me as 'atonal' though
	6:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: They always make the point how dissonant Beethoven sounded to some in his own time ...yet not to us...
	6:46pm Pianoman: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:40 Tom! I think that we do that a lot....
	6:46pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Pianoman @6:46 that would be interesting...
	6:47pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:46 oh sorry misread comment...
	6:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:43 I would say somewhat angular melody & harmonies. But not out of tonality...
	6:49pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @6:49 right...
	6:52pm tom tom the pipers son: i think this crisis over classical has come about fro globalization and that the western canon is no longer central
	6:54pm yippie: i recently got a cool opera by john paul jones of led zeppelin called "ghost sonata", that one is classical music
	6:56pm tom tom the pipers son: these words remind me of the painter munch... who i've gotten into lately
	6:57pm tom tom the pipers son: caspar david friedrich too
	6:58pm tom tom the pipers son: oh fuck...very sad
	6:59pm Lance: Thank you for the reference to LA. As a longtime Angeleno, this has been absolutely gutting. So much art, architecture has been destroyed, let alone so many homes. And lives too.
	7:04pm ViolaChica: en.wikipedia.org... E. Randol Schoenberg - a life connected to music and art
	7:05pm Pianoman: ↳ Lance @6:59 We are devastated, Lance! Peace to you and yours
	7:07pm carlos danger: Saw a performance of Pierrot Lunaire at Juilliard a few weeks back and Schoenberg's grandson was in the audience. He's traning to be a chef I believe
	7:08pm ViolaChica: ↳ carlos danger @7:07 Oh wow. Wish I had known about that! Maybe you mean a great-grandson? en.wikipedia.org... E. Randol Schoenberg is the grandson I ws referring to.
	7:10pm ViolaChica: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:35 another disservice to classical music - many crap wiki listings for classical works.
	7:12pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Schoenberg: Drei Klavierstücke, Op 11" by "Hardy ... i'm surprised how low key this piece is...
	7:18pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:12 some of this, to me, feels like musical archeology, sifting through the past
	7:19pm AskJoe: Noise of Arnold s…tburg. Excedrin headache #55. I absolutely hate it.
	🎻 7:22pm PaulRobeson1925: It must be getting early, clocks are running late Whistle through yer teeth and spit cause’ it's alright
	7:25pm tom tom the pipers son: ah maybe its irrelevant what's called classical music...
	7:25pm carlos danger: Possibly! That make more sense, perhaps. Performance was great
	7:26pm carlos danger: Do people here think Glenn Branca's solo stuff counts as classical music?
	🎻 7:27pm PaulRobeson1925: I don’t get art
	7:28pm ViolaChica: youtube.com... The link to the Music of all African Countries Playlist
	7:29pm tom tom the pipers son: maybe the word 'classical' shouldn't be used anymore
	7:30pm tom tom the pipers son: is calling african music 'classical' gving it a burden it didn't ask for...?
	7:30pm ViolaChica: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:29 yes, maybe so. that's a thought!
	7:32pm carlos danger: ↳ Song: "Fincadu na Raiz" by "Nácia Gomi & Ntóni Denti D'O... Carol, why do you label this as being "classical" vs, say, "folk"? What's the relevant criterion? Is it something to do with the context in which this music was composed and performed?
	7:33pm ViolaChica: ↳ carlos danger @7:32 that track you are referring to is folk. the current track is by a griot which is considered "classical"
	🎻 7:36pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Kaira (traditional Mandinka)" by "Mafu Conteh, ko... This could be/is classical, I would think because of the strings?
	7:38pm tom tom the pipers son: FRANK SINATRA IS NOT CLASSICAL!
	7:39pm carlos danger: Maybe it's like the famous Supreme Court definition of pornography—"I know it when I see [hear] it"
	7:41pm tom tom the pipers son: i think one characteristic is a sort of impersonality where the compsers personality is absorbed formally
	7:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Was thinking of this in terms of 'Indian Classical'... Something is Classical when a defining time-honored Traditional element of Culture. Something to do with Cultural Identity in continuity ...inevitably questions of the Tribal present themselves ...& maybe even in 'Classical' even the word Class is embedded...
	7:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...whereas otherwise these are termed 'Traditional Folk' elements - where elsewhere 'Classical' & 'Folk' are in some senses considered opposites - in which part of a Society practices them...
	7:44pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Song: "Vizinha" by "Herdeirus de Gumbe (Guinea-Bissau)" A set of Guinea-Bissau music — www.wfmu.org...
	🎻 7:44pm PaulRobeson1925: I’m pretty sure it was The Beatles, who said “IT is so much easier to say IT isn’t it isn’t it isn’t it isn’t than to say what IT is!”
	7:45pm ViolaChica: Thanks everyone for chiming in on this! I was pressing pianoman for an answer, but you all are getting to the heart of it. So hard to put into words!
	7:46pm ViolaChica: ↳ PaulRobeson1925 @7:44 I think you have pianoman's heart with this comment!
	7:49pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Song: "Traditional Bondo Dance" by "Temne of Sierra Leone" Sets from Sierra Leone and other nations found here: www.wfmu.org...
	7:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...flip the script & try & define 'Folk Music' - the same question from the other direction. Which maybe implies Classical (Academic 'Museum' Musics) & Folk (of the People) are a defining polarity ? But from Bach to Bartok to Africa to the Beatles this exact distinction collapses...
	7:56pm Malcontent: Your conversation on Schoenberg and the archives was quite lovely. Outside of Leonard Bernstein's video lecture series, Schoenberg is a tragically-overlooked topic in popular aesthetic discourse. Keep up the great work!
	7:57pm listener 126464: Fantastic show, thanks Carol & Cullan.
	7:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...but like people being uptight about what is Country Music exactly ...& the form is really pretty new since the 1940s as most conceive of it. Classical as we conceive it is also only a few centuries old - even as it supposedly represents some deepest defining Western structures & forms. & itself never stood still but continuously transformed too...
	7:58pm Mama 💜: I loved the show! Just amazing!
	7:59pm tom tom the pipers son: oh this should be someones theme music
	8:00pm listener 126464: The other garbage time
	🎻 8:00pm AMYGDALA: Psyched for a fill-in, but we'll miss you all (pronounced y'all). Nice time tonight - enjoyed!
	🎻 8:01pm Listener Robert: Yay!
	8:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJs CGCBs ~

Why Do We Only Listen to Dead People? with Carol Gimbel and Cullan Bryant: Playlist from January 12, 2025

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