Music Anthropology

A. L. J.

2008-09-12T22:38:00.001+02:00

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2008-05-04T17:14:00.004+02:00

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2008-01-24T16:10:00.001+01:00

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Barrelhouse Jazzband Vienna

2007-11-08T14:58:00.000+01:00

Barrelhouse Jazzband (Vienna)

2007-10-28T18:23:00.000+01:00

... some old tapes! They show the Barrelhouse Jazzband of the 60ies in Vienna. Not suffice to say, they are great. This is the kind of music I like to hear. I like the interpretation and improvisation of Jazz songs composed, for instance, by Count Basie. I still start to cry, when I hear Lonesome World and my daddy´s horn. The interview preceding Lonesome World and I Got Rythm show Guenther Schifter asking first Horstl Bichler, then Otti Kitzler, Franz Bilik and Peter Hoffmann. Schifter tries to get out the most of them, well, musicians are people, who prefer to communicate in sounds. Courtesy of ORF Austria I added, but left everthing else unedited. However, the music is the message. The tapes I found must have been our mum´s, I copied them to DVD. These tapes are of Jazz historical value, I think.
It feels like home, this Jazz.

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Jazz: BHBJ

2007-08-19T16:39:00.001+02:00

I edited and cut this video, then published it on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOdMfU3S0Zc . Thanks to the Austrian ORF I could copy an old VHS to DVD in best quality, possible - on my machine. This is the Barrelhouse Jazzband located in Vienna in the 1960s of the 20th century: Heinz Feix (b), Peter Hoffmann (p), Otti Kitzler (t), Horsti Bichler (dr), Alfons Wuerzl (cl) and Norbert Vas (tb) are the musicians. They perform three pieces of Jazz, which were very popular in the 1920s: 1 is called Where Am I?, the second is the Flat Foot Floogie, the third on the Shimmy Sha Wabble.

Vienna - Barrelhouse Jazzband
This kind of Jazz focuses on entertainment, it was played in the cafés and bars, but also on the streets in the Deep South. The Barrelhouse Jazzband Vienna was honored for best classical Jazzband in the sixties, as were some of the musicians: Horsti Bichler, the drummer, and my daddy, Otti Kitzler playing trumpet and English horn. The BHBJ refers to the Chicago Style and Dixieland. They published several CDs, recently, and earlier a single and the famous Pferdeplatte.

Here I found something about the Flat Foot Floogie at Ethnopoetics including the lyrics. Jerome Rothenberg writes about lyrics:

"While the initial focus of ethnopoetics was on orality and performance, the discourse turned as well to the visible aspects of language — writing & inscription — both as a persistent contemporary concern & as an often unacknowledged kingpin of a revitalized & expanded ethnopoetics. In an age of cybernetic breakthroughs, the experimental tradition of modernist poetry & art has expanded our sense of language in all its forms, the written along with the oral. In doing this, it should also have sensitized us to the existence of a range of visual/verbal traditions and practices, not only in literate cultures but in those also that we have named "non"- or "pre"-literate — extending the meaning of literacy beyond a system of (phonetic) letters to the fact of writing itself." (Rothenberg: http://www.ubu.com/ethno/visuals.html).

Popularizing the Shimmy in America tells its story. The shimmy was a new kind of dancing dating back to 1910, and "One of the most talked-about dances of the time was `the shimmy`."(Bryant, Rebecca 2002 at JStor: American Music). This site explains a little bit more, where this kind of dance comes from: http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3shimy.htm: The shimmy goes back to "Haitan Voodoo" with shales of hips and shoulders. In this text one might stumble over the expression of sheet music, which is self-explaining: It denotes music, which was, for the first time, written on paper. Blues and Jazz were before delivered orally, or should I say early? There is another piece of music relating to the ability of dance, it is called I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate, here are the lyrics and sound, Satchmo played it, too.

The best way to learn about Jazz is to listen to the music: Listen to the sounds and try to get the lyrics. There are lots of internet sites about Jazz. Here are related links:

All About Jazz: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/

Big Band Database: http://nfo.net/

Jazzology: http://www.jazzology.com/jazzology_records.php

Chicago Jazz Archive: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/

Summer 67 .com

2007-07-08T13:50:00.000+02:00

Welcome to Summer 67 .com: "It was the Summer of Love. Flower Power and the San Francisco Sound were in full bloom. The Beatles released Sgt. Peppers, The Doors 'Light My Fire' had burned up the charts and in a small arena on the
beautiful Monterey peninsula the infamous Monterey International Pop Festival proved to be magical."

Jazz playlist

2007-06-29T19:21:00.000+02:00

I continually broaden the Jazz channel´s volume, it is my collection of songs, that are sometimes critical, sometimes sad.

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Ein witziger Auszug aus Papa´s Tagebuch

2007-03-24T18:19:00.000+01:00

So vergnuegte sich die Jugend ...

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protest gegen die nicht-foerderung des club electronique

2007-03-24T18:04:00.000+01:00

Der club electronique wurde nicht gefoerdert, aber die Unterschriftenliste mit heute teilweise prominenten KuenstlerInnen blieb erhalten.

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die streichholzschachtel

2007-03-24T18:00:00.000+01:00

Im 18. Bezirk ...

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Studio 15

2007-03-24T17:55:00.000+01:00

Jazz im Studio 15.

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Mausefalle

2007-03-24T17:50:00.000+01:00

Papa´s Text spricht fuer sich selbst.

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Gschnas

2007-03-24T17:48:00.000+01:00

Ein Gschnas mit der Barrelhouse.

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Das Riverboat

2007-03-24T17:44:00.000+01:00

Das Riverboat in der Schwarzspanierstrasse war ein beliebter Treffpunkt, auch Literarisches wurde rezipiert.

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Ueber die Anfaenge der Barrelhouse Jazzband

2007-03-24T17:34:00.000+01:00

Papa notierte ueber die ersten Anfaenge unter dem Reklameflugzettel:
"Die ersten Anfaenge, noch unter dem Namen "rabble mop stompers", mit teils sehr variablen Besetzungen, z. B. Walter Voves dm, Werner Tritta bjo, Helmut Naderer dm, Otmar Kitzler tp, Franz Bilik, im Goiser Gmoa Keller, Zeit ungefaehr 1958 und 1959. Dann langsam beginnende Aufloesung, die mit Schliessung des Clubs endete."

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Barrelhouse Video

2006-08-25T20:46:00.000+02:00

This is a rip copy of an old VHS video I recorded with my digicam. It shows the Barrelhouse Jazzband, Vienna, including my daddy:

Lexikon: Swing that Music!

2006-06-22T12:15:00.000+02:00

Melhardt, Axel (2002): Swing That Music! 30 Jahre Jazzland. Ein sehr persoenliches Jazzland - Lexikon. Wien: Pichler Verlag.

In diesem lexikalen Nachschlagwerk fand ich einige Interessante Details, wie auch eine kleine Geschichte ueber Papa im Eintrag Bilik, Franz nachzulesen steht. Auf Seite 158 steht da Interessantes geschrieben:

Otti Kitzler, mein Papa, ist im Dezember 1978 seinem Krebsleiden erlegen. Wie sein Bruder Kitzler, Erich und seine Mutter berichteten, trank er seit Jahren keinen Alkohol, weil er, wie er auch mir sagte, als jugendlicher Mann "zu sehr ueber die Stränge schlug". Seine Aerzte diagnostizierten, daß das Rauchen den Krebs foerderte, und bestaetigten, daß Papa ohne Alkohol lebte.

Die Auflistung der Bands mit denen Papa musizierte ist auch unvollstaendig: Da waren nicht nur die Barrelhouse Jazzband und Hot Ottis Band, sondern auch die Swing Serenaders und, wie mir Irmela Rettenbacher bestaetigte, das Art Orchestra. Irmela Rettenbacher ist die Schwester der begabten Rettenbacher - Brueder, hier ein witziges Foto:
Horstl Bichler, "da nackate" & "da gelbe", Otti Kitzler

Ein Photo von Papas Begraebnis: ? ?, Bernie Gottlieb, Horsti Bichler, Alfons Wuerzl, Franz Luttenberger, Walter Terharen

Ich halte nicht viel von diesem und aehnlichem Negativgerede ueber Papa und behalte ihn so in Erinnerung, wie ich ihn kennen gelernt hatte: Immer zu einem Spaß aufgelegt und alles auf der Trompete spielen koennend.Ich erinnere auch Papa´s permanente Migraene, die so manches verhinderte: Onkel Vicki behandelte nicht nur unser aller Zaehne, er versuchte auch Papa´s und meiner (schon als Kind ausgepraegten) Migraene "Herr" zu werden. Papa lag tagelang im Bett und trug seine Augen verbunden, da jeder Ton, jedes Licht Schmerzen bereitete. Er nahm zahlreiche Medikamente, auch gegen seine Allgerien ein, sensibler Mensch, wie er war. Folge der Migraene: Uebelkeit, dauerndes Erbrechen und Depressionen. Ein Teufelskreis, denn jede Beschaeftigung oder Arbeit war von drohenden Migraeneanfaellen ueberschattet. Seine letzten Lebensjahre verbrachte er bei seiner Mutter, die auf ihre Art versuchte ihn zu pflegen. Sein Bruder Erich war damals sein einziger Gespraechspartner, er wollte zu niemandem mehr Kontakt pflegen. Er fuehlte sich unverstanden, hintergangen und benutzt, wollte ausser seinen drei Kindern niemanden mehr empfangen. Er warnte uns vor Menschen, die Gewalt gebrauchten und ausser "Blackmail" nichts von sich gaben.

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2006-06-11T17:08:00.000+02:00

Camaron

I found some nice buleria artists here.

Sybil watches her daddy

2005-12-13T14:51:00.000+01:00

Barrelhouse Jazzband: Rathauspark, Vienna

Barrelhouse Jazzband Single / Back

2005-12-13T13:24:00.000+01:00

Barrelhouse Jazzband Single

2005-12-13T13:22:00.000+01:00

Musix 1

2005-09-28T17:20:00.000+02:00

Singles. Rarities, I don´t know. Family heritage, anyway. My nephews collection. We won´t sell them - no way!

Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday:

Sidney Bechet:

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Sybil´s newsletter

2005-09-14T16:10:00.000+02:00

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Sybilloid

2005-08-23T15:49:00.000+02:00

Book preview: Sybilloid
Marketing starts December 2005. Edition available from 2006.
Works by me. If you´d like to order a copy already,
please send your comment.
Yours sincereley, Sybil Amber

Papa´s List

2005-07-20T17:28:00.000+02:00

This is a list of Pap´s engagements, he wrote it himself.

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Although

2005-07-14T17:10:00.000+02:00

this blog is not daddy - centered, I found some press material.

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Otti & Erich

2005-06-30T17:30:00.000+02:00

Of course, we keep a lot of photos...from my daddy, Otti:

And his brother, Erich:

And the bill for their early trumpet / horn:

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Music Anthropology

2005-06-22T13:22:00.000+02:00

Details und aktuelle Hinweise zur MedienG-Novelle finden Sie unter folgendem Link:

http://www.internet4jurists.at

Zambezi River Music: July 29 - 30, 2005

2005-06-15T14:14:00.000+02:00

The festival takes place in A-3500 Krems at the Donau University, some two or three hours from Vienna. The ethnomusic fest Glatt und Verkehrt provides all relevant infos to stay and listen.

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Riverboat Shuffles 2005

2005-06-02T13:44:00.000+02:00

This calendar shows important dates concerning Hot Jazz 2005: Good to listen old Jazz, traditional Jazz and lots more of hot music. The startlogo provided does not show off nowadays Jazz musicians, although I got to know some of these grand virtuous people, who did look similarly "done":

Picture: Wirkllicher JazzClub Wien

Now, what does the term hot refer to? It refers to circumstances of Jazz music production, reception and a certain kind of situation, when everthing seems not - in - order, crazy, in the opposite of cool.