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Following Up

loriluna — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:44:37 -0600

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/thatsreallyweek/57602/nov-2-8-domestic-...

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And let's not forget

loriluna — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:19:25 -0600

Her "softball" interview with Mike Tyson! Bleck!

Valid point

Denise — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:26:27 -0600

I'm with you on the "not an O fan" and I'm with you on this specific point.

If you are going to speak out on domestic violence and take a stance against it, do so without being biased. Do so without approaching the situation as a victim supporter and an abuser trasher…unless the abuser is your close friend. Don’t look at it with a different set of eyes and speak on it with a different voice just because he is a gospel singer and a close friend. That, Oprah is hypocritical.

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Jazz fan here

Mata H — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:34:38 -0600

Across all lines of music, women are in the second tier as far as opportunities go. Look at any band. Male musicians are the overwhelming majority. Vocally, on the jazz side, the numbers and the faces get different. Much less pop-culture-pretty for both men and women. The vocal people of jazz are not so much involved with looks as with sound.

Some fave jazz women :

Abby Lincoln, Billy Holiday, Betty Carter, Nina Simone, Rosemary Clooney, Blossom Dearie, Morgana King, Diane Schuur, Etta James, Rebecca Parris, Anne Hampton-Calloway, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae.

~~ Contributing Editor, Mata H. also blogs right along at Time's Fool

They aren't allowed to talk down to me.

lauriewrites — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:19:50 -0500

They're not (most of them) in the top 100, but a lot of worthy men aren't either:

Jenny Lewis

Dar Williams

Neko Case

Patty Larkin

Patty Griffin

Rosanne Cash

Shannon McNally (check her out, not as well known as she ought to be.)

Tift Merritt

I could go on and on. All have viable careers. There are a bunch more.

I managed a music department in a chain bookstore. All of my staff members were male. We all liked different stuff. Some of my male friends are my primary sounding boards about and suppliers of music. My dad and I like a lot of the same bands but my mother - not a performer but a hardcore Motown and 70s rock fan - introduced me to most of what I listened to until I was able to choose it on my own. I don't think I've ever set my male friends up in my mind as a club or the fans who knew what they were talking about, but that's probably reflective of the fact that I don't allow for that kind of discrimination at all. If someone were to treat me like that we wouldn't be friends and I surely wouldn't care what he thought about music.

I know just as many "fangirls", if by that you mean women who love music, as I do guys, but that could just be because I'm drawn to people who love music and a lot of my activities revolve around listening to it and seeing it live. I think in some cases we're talking about very narrow strata here - dudes who rep indie rock really hard or maybe hip-hop or metal.And I'm not involved on an academic level, where if we're going to ponder it there, male dominance is no different in this discipline than in any other, sadly.

Jazzheads used to have the ability to make me feel stupid until I freed myself by deciding that I just didn't care that much about jazz on the usual encyclopedic level of knowledge that a lot of fans have. I will ask questions though, if I'm moved to, mostly about Charles Mingus and Miles Davis who I really really like for the most part.

Then again I was at early Lollapaloozas and Metaliica shows with my (mostly, at the time) guy friends. I think a lot of times it's just what you'll take from people and the other fans you run into along the way. Women, honestly, just need to show up and refuse to be discounted as consumers and fans

Laurie

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Thanks Kperfetto

Nordette — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:55:23 -0500

Have you heard of the Lilith Fair, a concert series that features female music artists?

I just heard about it today at The New York Times.

Nordette Adams is a BlogHer CE & you can find her other stuff through Her 411.

I Don't Know If We Have Opera Divas

Gena Haskett — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:06:35 -0500

I think for the right person it could be magical night. I've been to one full opera. A'int doing that again anytime soon.

I have gone to two recitals type performances; Thomas Hanson who was kinda cool and another person who I have burned from memory. Not cool.

I think I would gain more if I was in Italy and watching the audience react to a performance. That would be a gasser.

Otherwise, I'll maintain my slow short emersion method. Once a year check-in is plenty.

Gena - Out On The Stoop

I've never been to an opera

sassymonkey — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:48:45 -0500

Neither has the fake husband. We both really want to go. I think that opera is one of those things that I you really need to see live and performed well in order to truly appreciate. Both the fake husband and I like Callas but I couldn't tell you why I like her except that she gives me little tinglies on the back of the neck.

It's funny, I read a book written in the hmmm 50s I think, bemoaning the last of training and the less-than-stellar voices that resulted because of it at that time. Can you imagine what they'd think of today's opera divas?

Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.

Oh don't let go of Elmer!

Kim Pearson — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:43:16 -0500

I should have said thaat ther are specific arias that move me, like the Habenera from Carmen, or I, Pagliacco. I feel you on the poetry analogy, though.

Glad you like Julia. Let me know what you think of her Habenera. I think it's pretty hot.

And by the way, we'll have to talk about that okra thing too. ;-) Maybe I can get Kalyn and Alanna to conspire with me for the next BlogHer confab.

Kim
BlogHer Contributing Editor|KimPearson.net|

Well, No but Julia Is A Hoot

Gena Haskett — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:39:14 -0500

I just had time to check out the first video. See, that is the thing. I never heard of Julia before you told me about her. The fact that I included the word opera in the post drove away a good chunk of people who may have some aversion to the music.

The same kind of aversion that was produced by well meaning English teachers to poetry.

It is a process. It is hard to let go of Elmer.

Gena - Out On The Stoop

Perhaps you needed the right introduction

Kim Pearson — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:18:25 -0500

I'm not an opera fanatic, but there are operas, performers and specific operas that do move me. I especially enjoy watching Julia Migenes:

And I do love the way she brings the Bronx to Carmen:

And in the hands of a gifted opera singer, a popular song becomes an aria:

Are you feeling the love yet?

Kim
BlogHer Contributing Editor|KimPearson.net|

People Die, So Does a Child's Idealism

SharonMcEachern — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:57:53 -0500

This post made me think about how our idealism dies when we're kids. And then I thought about kids playing with toys, particularly Mattel toys (and toys from Fischer Price, its subsidiary). Think Barbie dolls. Few people know, or remember, that Mattel, the largest toymaker in the world, was responsible for 6 lead-tained toy recalls two years ago. And Mattel continues to have the majority of its toys in China, where lead-paint is routinely used.

Well, now Mattel has been exempted from Congress' new toy safety law. Last year Congress passed the law -- mainly because of Mattel and its huge 2 million toys recall -- mandating that toy manufacturers submit samples for independent, third-party lab tests on toys.

Guess what? Mattel said "NO, we'll test our own toys" and the feds at U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has said "Okay, everybody except Mattel has to comply with the law. Read more about this issue at:

http://www.ethicsoup.com/2009/09/mattel-secretly-exempt-from-safety-law-...

Beyonce

Nordette — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:07:20 -0500

She's certainly proving to have her head on straight. Kanye is, well, ... the boy, who thinks he's a man, needs help. Yay for Beyonce and for Taylor's mom giving Kanye a piece of her mind.

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Kanye... that was awful

UnplannedCooking — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:48:11 -0500

My heart went out to Taylor Swift--good for you Beyonce! Taylor deserved her moment in the sun.

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Kanye is a big nuisance. So

onada01 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:05:38 -0500

Kanye is a big nuisance. So proud of B for giving Taylor Swift her moment back!

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