Roll On Columbia: Woody Guthrie, Migrants' Tales, and Regional Transformation in the Pacific Northwest

Gold, John R.

doi:10.1080/08873639809478314

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“…Ekomüzikolojinin 5 alanına giren ve şarkı sözlerindeki çevresel anlatımlara en iyi örnek Amerikalı halk ozanı Woody Guthrie'nin müzik çalışmalarıdır (ballads). Guthrie, şarkı sözlerinde fiziki unsurların yanında kırsal yaşam, tarım, ekonomik problemler ve göçmen hikayelerine odaklanmaktadır (Gold, 1998). Bu haliyle müzik, çevre koruma ve çevresel farkındalık konusunda mesajlar içermektedir (Mather, 1992, Aktaran: Kong, 1995.…”

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Main Approaches in Music Geography: A Comparison of Anglo American and Turkish Geographic Agenda

TOPRAK

2021

Ege Coğrafya Dergisi

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Music studies, dominated by musicologists and folklorists, turned into a field where other sciences were also interested in the 1960s. Music geography is a subfield within the urban and cultural geography emerged during 1960 and 1970s. Literature of music geography deals with the relationship between human and his environment, landscape, space and place concepts. Geographers laid the foundations of music geography with determination of music regions, music genres and the spatial distribution of musicians. Since the 1990s, an epistemological breakthrough has been experienced in the music geography with the effect of the "cultural turn" and music has started to be studied under the concepts of space, place, identity, urban image and cultural economic geography. The main framework of this study was determined over the thematic classification made by Carney (1998). There is no theoretical study in emergence, epistemological development, and transformation of music geography in Turkish geography. It has been determined that the studies do not have the diversity in the Anglo American literature and even the music geography studies conducted in Turkey has a anachronic view. The aim of this study, which adopts a critical position, is to evaluate the epistemological development of geography and music geography in a related way and to reveal the strong potential of music geography in subject and methodology.

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Main Approaches in Music Geography: A Comparison of Anglo American and Turkish Geographic Agenda

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2021

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“…This state‐sponsored music, other than being the very type of propaganda that Guthrie often opposed, firmly conceptualised and politicised the Columbia River and the region (Pedelty, 2008, 2012). The song ‘Roll on Columbia’ not only promotes violence against Native Americans, but sets a clear divide between nature and society through the lyrical description of men labouring ‘gainst the river's wild flight’ and their ultimate victory in ‘the hard fight’ (Gold, 1998; Rogers, 2004). Sonevytsky and Ivakhiv's (2015) ecomusicology of Ukrainian folk music during the end of Soviet era examines how music (and people) around Chornobyl were displaced by the disaster, but furthermore how the region known as Kyïvan Polissia was impacted (pre‐ and post‐disaster) by the establishment of state ‘authentic’ folklore called avtentyka .…”

Section: Geographies Of Music and Nation‐buildingmentioning

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Music work: Traditional Cambodian music and state‐building under the Khmer Rouge

Rhodes

2020

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Recent scholarship has opened questions as to the everyday actions of the Khmer Rouge and those living under the regime which led to the Cambodian Genocide. Current work examines the critical cultural geographies of the Khmer Rouge: photography, poetry and music, for example. Music specifically has an interesting underpinning, as it was previously understood to be have been eradicated in the genocide as the standard narrative has us believe. This paper instead investigates the pieces of evidence that exist, which explain the use of music by the Khmer Rouge. I explore the geographies of music beyond the lyrics and look at the transformation and use of music in Cambodia and Democratic Kampuchea. What elements of traditional Khmer music were used during the regime? What modifications occurred to the music of Cambodia during the regime, and how did the Khmer Rouge modify existing Cambodian (and other) music to best fit their desired uses (state‐building and genocide)? This paper goes beyond traditional geographies of music, which rely on lyrical analyses, to bring an ethnomusicological perspective to the work of music and its role in shaping the idea of the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea.

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“…The San Francisco Sound is an example of a place-based musical phenomenon whose musicfor both insiders and outsiderstends to culturally define the region where it originated (Bell 1998;Gold 1998;Gumprecht 1998;Smith 1999;Romero 2001;Von Glahn 2003;Browner 2009;Romig 2009;Adelt 2010). Speaking about the relationship between music and culture, Shepherd (2012, p. 242) notes, "if music was a social construct, it followed that connections should exist between social groups and their music".…”

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“The music never stopped”: naming businesses as a method for remembering the Grateful Dead

Gunderman

Harty

2017

Journal of Cultural Geography

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Memorialization on the cultural landscape is a common method of celebrating the legacy of an event or person significant to the history of geographical location. The Grateful Dead is a band that continues to define the ideals of the late-1960s San Francisco Sound through their music's creative freedom and inclination toward experimentation. Although the original lineup of the Grateful Dead is no longer intact, the spirit of the music they created and their psychedelic appeal has been preserved on the cultural landscape. Despite differing reasons for naming their business after the band, hundreds of business owners in the United States have collectively preserved the Grateful Dead's presence on the cultural landscape. In this paper we explore the distribution of businesses in the United States with Grateful Dead-related names, and how the presence of these business names enriches the cultural landscape with the memory of the band's music as a product of the iconic San Francisco Sound.

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Roll On Columbia: Woody Guthrie, Migrants' Tales, and Regional Transformation in the Pacific Northwest

Cited by 13 publications

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Main Approaches in Music Geography: A Comparison of Anglo American and Turkish Geographic Agenda

Main Approaches in Music Geography: A Comparison of Anglo American and Turkish Geographic Agenda

Music work: Traditional Cambodian music and state‐building under the Khmer Rouge

“The music never stopped”: naming businesses as a method for remembering the Grateful Dead

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