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iannagoski.bsky.social
Oct 28 I'll talk online about American Folklore; how it lead to the Chuck Berry-Elvis-Little Richard-Dylan-Beatles-Stones cataclysm of 1955-65; how immigrants & natives were left behind; & what, if anything, we can do about it now
FREE!
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RIP Ken Jacobs, a titan of experimental film and one of the 5 or 6 most important filmmakers in my lifetime. Must revisit this epic.
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RIP KEN JACOBS one of the last masters of lo-fi avant garde cinema. if you don't know his work, do yourself a favor and check it out

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Ken Jacobs, Visionary Experimental Filmmaker, Is Dead at 92
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iannagoski.bsky.social
…Hard Fisters, Cut Headers, and Single Combatants, Tigers, Rip Raps, and Black Snakes.
iannagoski.bsky.social
Gangs mentioned by the Sun ca. 1845-55:

Rollers, Gumballs, Cock Robbins, Grizzly Bears, Will Fights, Greasy Pigs, Butt Enders, Sandy Bottoms, Never Sweats, Screw Bolts, Rangers, Fountain Rackers, Tormeniors, Blood Tubs, Blue Dicks, Cantan Rackers, Arabs, Skin Flints, Blue Bumpers, Saddle Horses….
iannagoski.bsky.social
The nativist won the election ls that way. Baltimore’s mayor was a Know Nothing. When the city’s reputation for violence got too bad with other Maryland politicians, he put the gang leaders on trial and told the cops to go crack skulls. So he broke up the gangs that got him elected.
iannagoski.bsky.social
The street gangs that overran Baltimore in the 1850s were used by the nativist politicians to cause election day riots to keep the Germans and Irish from voting.

Hours of musket and blunderbuss fire. Hundreds caught balls and slugs in their jaws and eyes.

The Plug Uglies were the biggest gang.
iannagoski.bsky.social
Bandcamp Friday
Complete discography (almost 200 titles) is only $161.

Please baby please baby baby baby baby please

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iannagoski.bsky.social
…Oct. 1916 - Jan. 1917 before spending 2 years on business in Mexico City. Returning to NYC, he cut 2 discs for Victor, June - July 1921. He moved to Brooklyn in the 40s and died Dec. 16 1965

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Wana Mali, pts 1+2 (What Is Wrong With Me?), by Moses Cohen
from the album To Say I Was Here: Arabic, Greek, Judeo-Spanish, and Turkish Speaking Jewish Recording Musicians, 1907-69
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iannagoski.bsky.social
Moses Araktingi Cohen (b. Aleppo ca. 1892-3), immigrated 1908 and worked initially with his brother in the jewelry business before going into business for himself selling lace curtains from a storefront at 121 Canal St. He lived on the Lower East Side and and recorded 3 discs for Columbia…
iannagoski.bsky.social
Acoma musicians Philip Sanchez and Wilbert Hunt.
1928 in New Mexico by Frances Densmore
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iannagoski.bsky.social
Whoa! I was at this show! Nice! Thanks!

(Saw Renbourne in Ardmore a month later. I’m more a Jansch guy but JR was fantastic.)