{"id":262,"date":"2009-06-02T17:03:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T22:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2009-06-02T17:03:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T22:03:05","slug":"quills-black-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"quills => black winds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Instruments that originated among the black population had to be cheap. They used the body: patting juba, whistling, singing. Or they could be made out of materials in the woods, like making banjos from gourds and pipes out of split bark; both of these instruments came from Africa.<\/p>\n

This kind of pipe was called “quills.”<\/p>\n

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I was thinking about black American wind playing influenced by quills, so I made a playlist:<\/p>\n

Otha Turner’s fife and drum style is mid- 19th century.
\nHenry Thomas’ blues quills are early 20th century.
\nYusef Lateef’s jazz flute is late 20th century.\n<\/div>\n

Otha Turner<\/a> -> Everybody Hollerin’ Goat<\/a> -> Shimmy She Wobble<\/a><\/p>\n

Henry Thomas<\/a> -> Texas Worried Blues<\/a> -> Charmin’ Betsy<\/a><\/p>\n

Yusef Lateef<\/a> -> Eastern Sounds<\/a> -> The Plum Blossom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Instruments that originated among the black population had to be cheap. They used the body: patting juba, whistling, singing. Or they could be made out of materials in the woods, like making banjos from gourds and pipes out of split bark; both of these instruments came from Africa. This kind of pipe was called “quills.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}