Flux Final Paper Notes

5 Books
3 Articles
4Tapes/DVD's Last of the Mississippi Jukes, Standing in the Shadows of Motown Story of the Funk Brothers, Beat Street, Stomp Out Loud

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John Cage
Jazz and the Blues
Spike Jones
Ripley's Believe it or not or 20/20 segment on objects as instruments 1984
Blue Man Group
The Funk Brothers

Research Tools
Abstraction
Triangulation

The Flux style of using ordinary and unusual common objects to make music has been a staple in the modern music
world for close to 4 decades, and was also around even before the flux movement had a name.

It has been said that the Fluxus movement was the beginning of using ordinary, and uncommon as well as unexpected objects to make music. However this is true to a degree as this way of making music is on the streets of the world and in theater performances. Making music that has been defined and revolutionized by the Fluxus movement actually can be traced back to the early days

of Blues and Jazz, and can also be associated with the early days of Hip-Hop.


When Jazz first started musicians made music with instruments but to get different sounds, they
couldn't afford additional enhancements for the instrument so they improvised by using household items to gain those types of sounds for their music. The different objects ranged from pieces of string, a washboard, loose pipes, and possibly the bottoms of toilet plungers that musicians used to create music, give it different, or similar sounds of the enhancements that they
could not afford also the musicians used their voices as an instrument by mimicking different sounds or repeating small words really fast. That has become to be known as scatting made

Famous by creator Louis Armstrong, and innovated by singers, and performers such as Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore, Billie Holliday, and later performers Al Jereau, and Kurt Elling.

Blues the musicians as the same as Jazz used things like tin cups, washboards, boxes, wood, and other objects to make music.

Also many musicians growing up in different parts of the south, and midwest as well as other countries have made the greatest music that has ever been recorded have attributed their lack of proper instruments and making the instruments they wanted from these different objects
was good training and helped them come up with many sounds that could not be gotten from actual instruments had they not created those facsimiles of them.


The Documentary Standing in the shadows of Motown "The Story of the Funk Brothers" is the story of how the Hits of Motown, and being the greatest "Hit-Machine" in Music History and how they came up with the music, and what went into making it, Also how they were classically trained, how they were rooted in Jazz, and all it's styles and making music that had to be Rhythm & Blues. Most of the musicians talk about one in particular James Jamerson, and how flawless his Bass Guitar playing was, and how he mastered it. More detail is given by His son James Jamerson Jr. that said as a boy his father tied a piece of string to a stick as a bow, and would stick it in an anthole and pluck the string to make the ants dance. As well as from another Funk Brother Eddie Willis explains how he made his house rock from tying a string to the side of his house, and using a plucking device going up and down the string.

Books:

John Cage

Spike Jones

Books on Fluxus art in Music


Videos:

Standing In the Shadows of Motown "The Stories of the Funk Brothers"

Beat Street

Hip-Hop 1970's to the present

Stomp Out Loud

Fluxus 1998

FluxFest 2011

The Blue man Group


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