MOVEMENTS
Bomazeen Land Trust: Healing for Wabanaki Land
Cedarville Band of Piscataway: Movement for Sovereignty & Land Back
FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture with Art & Activism(
THE LIBRARY
an archive of the soil I grow from
ALL OTHER TRADITIONAL MUSIC *
Anna & Elizabeth, The Invisible Comes to Us
Beach House, 7
Cormac Begley, B
Dervish- Midsummer's Night
Hot 8, The Life and Times Of...
Huun Huur Tu, Sixty Horses in My Herd
(Tuvan)
Lady Gaga, The Fame Monster
SOPHIE, Product
Warpaint, The Fool
BOOKS/ TEXTS
brown, adrienne maree Pleasure Activism.
Estés, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Women Who Run With the Wolves.
hooks, bell. “Is Paris Burning”. (excerpt from the book Black Looks)
Lorde, Audre The Uses of the Erotic.
Lama Rod Owens, & Jasmine Syedullah Radical Dharma.
...ON MUSIC
Burney, Lawrence. “A Brief History of the Club Music You’re Hearing Drake Attempt on Honestly, Nevermind”.
Hopkins, Pandora. Aural Thinking: Performance and Communication with the Hardingfele.
Klein, Tony. Signe Flatin: Skuldasbruri.
Maurseth, Benedicte. To Be Nothing.
Tanenbaum, Susie J. Underground Harmonies.
Tidermand-Österberg, Jennie. Kulning: The Swedish Herding Calls of the North.
NORWEGIAN TRADITIONAL MUSIC
MUSICIANS
(albums below are suggested starting points in these traditions bearers' extensive repertoires)
Telemark region
Hauk Buen, Feledåm
Per Anders Buen Garnås, Greinir
Anne Hytta, Strimur
Gubrandsdalen region
Hans Brimi, Hjarliv
Ola Moløkken, Slåttar Frå Lom NRK Recordings
Mari Eggen & Helen Høye- Glod
Vestland region
Malin Alander, Indre bølgjer
Valdres region
Marit Matisgard, Tre Ord Te De
ESTABLISHMENTS
Hardingfele Association of America
NRK (Norwegian National Radio)
FILMS & INTERVIEWS
Caro, Nikki. Whale Rider.
Hemphill, Prentis. Finding Our Way
Monáe, Janelle. A Revolution of Love (visual manifesto).
Sayles, John. The Secret of Roan Inish.
TT the Artist. Dark City Beneath the Beat.
(also available on Netflix)
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P. S. If links have broken, and/or something has become out of print, please feel free to contact me.
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* Genre is unspecific and paradoxical. I'm sorry I'm using it at all! What makes music "traditional"? Isn't all music made within a specific lineage of influences and culture? But surely pop stars don't count! I leave this question joyfully unanswered.