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exotica-digest        Friday, January 21 2000        Volume 02 : Number 605



In This Digest:

(exotica) Universal Music Spins Off E-Commerce Divisions
(exotica) Seks With A Slut
(exotica) Seks with a Slut(retry!)
(exotica) Re: Vampyros/Italian horror
(exotica) "Early Modulations: Vintage Volts," a primer on the roots of electronic music, from 1939 to 1967
(exotica) recent finds
(exotica) Early Modulations
Re:  (exotica) New Hawaiian Finds
(exotica) F.C.C. to Approve Plans Supporting Low-Power Radio
Re: (exotica) recent finds
Re: (exotica) recent finds/Kai
(exotica) Astroslut Article
Re: (exotica) Bacharach getting big praise for 'Stuart Little' song
(exotica) And Seks Bomba too.
Re: (exotica) Sampling in hiphop - and breakbeat
Re: (exotica) recent finds
Re: (exotica) recent finds/Kai
Re: (exotica) recent finds/Kai
Re: (exotica) recent finds/Kai
(exotica) Mead Work Named Worst of Century
Re: (exotica) Early Modulations
Re: (exotica) Mead Work Named Worst of Century
(exotica) Whore songs
(exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #603
(exotica) 4 for TV
(exotica) Ave Maria (skating slightly over the edges of being on topic)
Re: (exotica) Mead Work Named Worst of Century
(exotica) [obits]Isabella Yurieva,Molouk Zarrabi,Josh Clayton-Felt
(exotica) [obits]Juggy Gayles

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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:44:25 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Universal Music Spins Off E-Commerce Divisions

http://www.bizreport.com/news/2000/01/20000119-3.htm

Interesting article, if you're trying to keep up with who's doing
what, where.
- ---------
OT:British animation comes to your PC

You may have seen Morph or Wallace & Gromit on TV or at the movies -
or even down your local video store - but now you can find them online
as Aardman and Atom Films have teamed up to offer their best animation
shorts online. The firms say that classic characters such as Morph and
Rex the Runt are among the animated favorites debuting on the Internet
for the first time this week, with the launch of a unique service on
its Web site.
World Wide Web: http://www.atomfilms.com



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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 07:08:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Seks With A Slut

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/music/00/01/20/CELLARS_BY_STARLIGHT.html

=====
"It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter
Buy the debut release from Astroslut:  LOVE AT ZERO G at:
http://cdalley.com
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 07:11:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Seks with a Slut(retry!)

Sorry, kids, if this reached you twice(email trouble!)
Jane Fondle

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/music/00/01/20/CELLARS_BY_STARLIGHT.html

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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:41:14 -0500
From: Jenna K <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Vampyros/Italian horror

Hi all
I joined recently (been wanting to for ages but had too many lists :-)
The Vampyros soundtrack is one of my favorites. A couple people mentioned
that they are expensive but a friend of mine sells them for regular price
($14) (and a ton of other crippled dick stuff - he just gave me the coolest
crippled dick logo boomerang ashtray for xmas...) the URL is
http://www.trashpalace.com/html/records_and_compact_discs.html and he sells
the film too.
There are a ton of horror soundtracks being reissued now - but I've had
50-50 luck with them. The Beat at Cinecitta series is great. There was also
a reissue from "The Devil's Nightmare" (reissued by redemption UK - great
movie) which has the great music from the film but it's the same song over
and over again...
jenna
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:43:37 +0100
From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "Early Modulations: Vintage Volts," a primer on the roots of electronic music, from 1939 to 1967

To say that "Early Modulations" is inaccessible is an
understatement. Even those who groove on abstract artists like
Squarepusher, Aphex Twin and Autechre might find that ugly little
conservative voice in their heads sneering, "This isn't music, this is
just, just ... noise!" during pieces like Vittorio Gelmetti's "Treni
d'onda a modulazione d'intensit=E9."=20

It's hard not to be cowed by the highbrow cachet of works like
this, works that weren't made to be liked. Featuring long, droning
tones of various degrees of intensity and unpleasantness, "Treni
d'onda a modulazione d'intensit=E9" certainly does evoke
maddening claustrophobia, even terror. If listening to it is horrible,
if it makes you want to run screaming from the room, well ...
that's the point.=20

http://www.salon.com/ent/music/review/2000/01/20/modulations/index.html




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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:52:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Bruce Lenkei <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) recent finds

Found a bunch of good stuff the past few days.

Three Suns - Fever and Smoke
No comments needed. This record is so good, so right, I was so happy to
find it. In perfect shape, too. Really made my day.

Kai Winding - More
I guess me and DJJimmyBee are living parallel lives. Or something.
Anyway, I like it a lot. Rockin'-surf-easy-listening trombone & guitar
tunes. With ondioline. Cool.

Edmundo Ros - Give my regards to Broadway
I know Ros aint too popular with some list members, but I don't know
why. Almost every Ros album I've found is a blast. Maybe it's his earlier
stuff that's good, I don't know. Out of the four albums I have, three are
excellent.

Lawrence Welk - Calcutta! and Winchester Cathedral
WC is ok, not super great, not terrible. The usual Welk
good-time-happy-music. Calcutta! however, is a *cut* above.
Harpsicord all over the place! Between that and the vocals, it reminds me
of Enoch Light's Far Away Places album, and that's o.k. with me. A whole
lot of fun.


++++++++++++++++++++

Lenkei Design

www.lenkeidesign.com

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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:13:56 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Early Modulations

Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]> wrote:
> To say that "Early Modulations" is inaccessible is an
understatement. Even those who groove on abstract artists like
Squarepusher, Aphex Twin and Autechre might find that ugly little
conservative voice in their heads sneering, "This isn't music, this is
just, just ... noise!" during pieces like Vittorio Gelmetti's "Treni
d'onda a modulazione d'intensitΘ."

Here's the description of this CD from the latest Aquarius Records
catalog:
V/A "Early Modulations : Vintage Volts" (Caipirinha) cd 14.98
 Curated in part by Rob Young, editor for the exemplary UK magazine The
 Wire, "Early Modulations" tracks the historical birthing of electronics
 within the academic framework of European and American institutions. The
 scope of the compilation is not so much an analysis of the importance of
 these pieces but a celebration of contemporary electronica by looking to
 its past. And if you can handle the K-Tel musk of the project, this makes a
 pretty cool primer.
 Founders of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the late
 1940s, Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky found within the tape machine
 a means by which to scramble the structuralist codes of musical notation.
 Their 1953 piece "Incantation" processes multiple tape machines in which
 flutes, pianos, and gongs flicker in metaphorphic sonic swells. Similar
 experiments were made in france by Pierre Schaeffer, the inventor of
 musique concrete. His featured piece "╔tude Aux Chemins De Fer" (1948)
 stitches together tiny fragments of tape, collaging repeated signatures of
 chugging locomotives stopped in mid-stride by a variety of whistles,
 offering a new experiential sonic landscape of the familiar. The earliest
 and perhaps most breathtaking piece on the compilation is John Cage's
 "Imaginary Landscape no. 1" (1939). Pure tones bleep and modulate against
 an a prepared piano, whose internal organs are exposed and prodded to coax
 a secondary palette from the piano. While Iannis Xenakis, Morton Subotnik,
 and Luc Ferrari are also documented, the one glaring omission is Karlheinz
 Stockhausen (strange, 'cause he's so prominent in the historical parts of
 the "Modulations" film).

- ------
Those interested in academic electronica should peruse the CRI catalog,
especially items like:
CD 611 - Electronic Music Pioneers (Ussachevsky, Luening, Smiley, Arel,
Davidovsky, Shields)
CD 813 Vladimir Ussachevsky
CD 668 Alvin Curran
CD 764 McLean Mix
CD 647 Alice Shields: Apocalypse, an electronic opera
CD 651 Alwin Nikolais: Electronic dance music

and, tying back to a question from a few months back,
CD 728 New Music for recorded & electronic media: Women in electronic
music - 1978. Inc. works by Beyer, Lockwood, Oliveros, Spiegel,
Roberts, R. Anderson, Laurie Anderson (her 1st recording - New York
Social Life; Time To Go, with the amazing Scott Johnson on guitar).

I don't think CRI has a web site (strangely enuf), but their stuff
can be ordered from Forced Exposure:
http://www.fe.org/labels/cri.html

Or get a catalog by calling 212-941-9673 or writing to
CRI, 73 Spring St.., Suite 506, NY, NY 10012
They're having a sale their Emergency Music and Exchange series
recordings, until February.

Lou
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:46:20 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) New Hawaiian Finds

In a message dated 1/20/0 12:14:09 AM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Featuring a gorgeous photo of Diamond Head.

That reminds me, anyone heard the OST to "Diamond Head" on Colpix? Got a
chance to pick it up for $24.99


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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:55:51 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) F.C.C. to Approve Plans Supporting Low-Power Radio

Full article at:
http://nytimes.com/library/financial/012000fcc-radio.html


excerpts:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 -- Moving to open the radio airwaves
to hundreds of small broadcasters, the federal government is
planning to approve rules to allow educational, religious and community
groups to run inexpensive low-power FM radio stations.
<snip>
Since an antenna tower -- the most costly item for a high-power radio
station -- is not required for broadcasting at 10 or 100 watts, the new
stations can be established for as little as $1,000 each.
- ----------------------
Well, since the advent of web-casting, I guess the interest in having
a personal FM station has declined, but it's still a cool idea.

So, who's gonna apply for a license?

- -Lou
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 00 09:14:32 -0800
From: "B.J. (Barbara J.) Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) recent finds

>Kai Winding - More
>I guess me and DJJimmyBee are living parallel lives. Or something.
>Anyway, I like it a lot. Rockin'-surf-easy-listening trombone & guitar
>tunes. With ondioline. Cool.

This is a CLASSIC Kai Winding LP; one which I've never been able to find.
 It also helped to establish Kai in the pop music field as well as his
already established jazz place (since his recording of "More" went to
number 1, I believe, in 1963).  I remember hearing it played in the am
radio constantly in the summer of '63.

>Lawrence Welk - Calcutta! and Winchester Cathedral
>WC is ok, not super great, not terrible. The usual Welk
>good-time-happy-music. Calcutta! however, is a *cut* above.
>Harpsicord all over the place! Between that and the vocals, it reminds me
>of Enoch Light's Far Away Places album, and that's o.k. with me. A whole
>lot of fun.

"Calcutta" put Welk on the pop charts, too.  People who despised the
bubble maker were suddenly buying his records to get this tune.  It's
very well arranged, nothing not to like.

Congrats, two very good finds!!



Regards,
- --bj
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:43:04 -0500
From: Peter Gingerich <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) recent finds/Kai

I just thrifted Kai Windings 'The Swingin' States', an early Columbia LP
(with a great cover, girl in collegiate skirt and all) which I haven't
perused yet (music that is). Interesting, or standard swing jazz?

thanx,
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:46:56 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Astroslut Article

A little bird told me about  an article about Astroslut in the Boston
Phoenix. Checked out BP web page and look....

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/music/00/01/20/CELLARS_BY_STARLIGHT.ht
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:04:35 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bacharach getting big praise for 'Stuart Little' song

>http://cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/19/bacharach/
>
>Rest of the article, with multimedia clips, at the URL at top.

And if you're a fan of Burt's vocal stylings, be sure not to miss the audio
sample. Prime Burt.


m.ace  [e-mail]
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:15:16 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) And Seks Bomba too.

Seks Bomba is also featured on the same page. Scroll down.

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/music/00/01/20/CELLARS_BY_STARLIGHT.ht
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:31:43 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Sampling in hiphop - and breakbeat

At 06:01 AM 1/20/00 PST, Robert McKenna wrote:
>
>which reminds me, to get sort of nat-ish about it,

meaning?

Natish



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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:52:53 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) recent finds

At 10:52 AM 1/20/00 -0500, Bruce Lenkei wrote:

>Edmundo Ros - Give my regards to Broadway
>I know Ros aint too popular with some list members, but I don't know
>why. Almost every Ros album I've found is a blast. Maybe it's his earlier
>stuff that's good, I don't know. Out of the four albums I have, three are
>excellent.

With Mimi's permission I hope, I'm throwing in the hat on my
once-upon-a-time Edmondo dissing.  When I first put him down, it was only
because I thought people were reaching a bit, trying to elevate him above
Cugie, Prado or Puente.
I don't think his stuff has the breadth or depth of those guys. It's not
just that he can't compete with them on "authenticity".  It's also that his
kookiest genre-bending stuff isn't as out there as some of their stuff.
But his "Hair" record and his "Heading South of the Border" are classics
and I find myself using his versions of "Light my Fire" and "United We
Stand" on a lot of tapes.
When he's tepid, he's awfully tepid.  And when he sings, the words
"acquired taste" spring to mind.
But there's room for Edmondo.

Nat




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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 14:11:11 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) recent finds/Kai

At 12:43 PM 1/20/00 -0500, Peter Gingerich wrote:
>
>I just thrifted Kai Windings 'The Swingin' States', an early Columbia LP
>(with a great cover, girl in collegiate skirt and all) which I haven't
>perused yet (music that is). Interesting, or standard swing jazz?

Don't think I know this one but I'd certainly be afraid it was going to be
standard.
I have a love/hate relationship with Kai.
I have six of his LP's.  Two of the ondioline things, Soul Surfin and Mondo
Cane 2. His funky jazz Dirty Dog.  His crime jazz Suspense Themes in Jazz.
 And a couple of Now Sound ones, In Instrumentals and one just called Kai
Winding.
I love him for venturing out of his standard jazz trombonist identity and
covering all the bases represented here.  I love him for what he was trying
to do.
But for me he always falls short and it often feels like he's willfully
pulling back at the last minute.
He's picking all these genres with great potential for far-out grooviness
but then he delivers an MOR version of the genre.  The ondioline stuff
comes close but it's mighty repetitive.
The closest I think he comes to "genre authenticity" is Dirty Dog.
But still, six LP's...

Nat



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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 00 11:39:37 -0800
From: "B.J. (Barbara J.) Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) recent finds/Kai

>I have a love/hate relationship with Kai.
>I have six of his LP's.  Two of the ondioline things, Soul Surfin and Mondo
>Cane 2. His funky jazz Dirty Dog.  His crime jazz Suspense Themes in Jazz.
> And a couple of Now Sound ones, In Instrumentals and one just called Kai
>Winding.
>I love him for venturing out of his standard jazz trombonist identity and
>covering all the bases represented here.  I love him for what he was trying
>to do.
>But for me he always falls short and it often feels like he's willfully
>pulling back at the last minute.

Interesting, I never got that impression from his recordings.  I've got
you beat by three.  My Kai LPs and CDs are thusly:

1. The Great Kai Winding Trombones (Columbia) on which there is a swell
arrangement of "Whistle While You Work"
2. Israel (w/J.J. Johnson, A&M)
3. Betwixt and Between (w/J.J. Johnson, A&M) on which there resides an
arrangement of "Little Drummer Boy" the likes of which I've never heard
elsewhere--complete with finger cymbals and lots of dischord between the
two 'bones.
4. Mondo Cane #2 (Verve)
5. The Incredible Kai Winding Trombones (Impulse!)
6. The Great Kai and J.J. (Impulse!)
7. Kai Winding Solo (Verve)
8. More Brass (Verve) This is my most favorite Kai LP of all time, and
it's never been released on CD.  Nine Trombone choir, complete with the
likes of Urbie Green, Carl Fontana, Bill Watrous, Kai, Wayne Andre, John
Messner, Dick Lieb, Tony Studd, Bill Toel.  Though the entire LP is
wonderful, "September Song" is the most outstanding of all the tunes due
in part to the incredible harmony in the trombone entrance after the male
vocal stops.
9. Kai Winding, The In Instrumentals (Verve)

>He's picking all these genres with great potential for far-out grooviness
>but then he delivers an MOR version of the genre.  The ondioline stuff
>comes close but it's mighty repetitive.

IMHO, "MOR" gets a very bad rap.  In fact, it gets a terrible rap.
There's lots of fine music out there that falls in the "MOR" category and
I don't believe that means it's bad music.

>The closest I think he comes to "genre authenticity" is Dirty Dog.
>But still, six LP's...

Are you trying to say here that you can't believe you have six of his
LPs, or that you are disappointed that only one of the LPs is "genre
authentic"...?



Regards,
- --bj
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 14:11:11 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) recent finds/Kai

At 12:43 PM 1/20/00 -0500, Peter Gingerich wrote:
>
>I just thrifted Kai Windings 'The Swingin' States', an early Columbia LP
>(with a great cover, girl in collegiate skirt and all) which I haven't
>perused yet (music that is). Interesting, or standard swing jazz?

Don't think I know this one but I'd certainly be afraid it was going to be
standard.
I have a love/hate relationship with Kai.
I have six of his LP's.  Two of the ondioline things, Soul Surfin and Mondo
Cane 2. His funky jazz Dirty Dog.  His crime jazz Suspense Themes in Jazz.
 And a couple of Now Sound ones, In Instrumentals and one just called Kai
Winding.
I love him for venturing out of his standard jazz trombonist identity and
covering all the bases represented here.  I love him for what he was trying
to do.
But for me he always falls short and it often feels like he's willfully
pulling back at the last minute.
He's picking all these genres with great potential for far-out grooviness
but then he delivers an MOR version of the genre.  The ondioline stuff
comes close but it's mighty repetitive.
The closest I think he comes to "genre authenticity" is Dirty Dog.
But still, six LP's...

Nat



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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:05:35 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Mead Work Named Worst of Century

Mead Work Named Worst of Century
          Filed at 3:46 p.m. EST
By The Associated Press
HONOLULU (AP) -- In 1925, a 23-year-old New York City college
student set sail for American Samoa to observe the transition from
childhood to adulthood among members of a primitive culture.

Margaret Mead hoped to test theories taking hold among Western social
scientists about the inherent turbulence of adolescence.

What she concluded after visiting the Manu'an Islands 2,300 miles south of
Hawaii was that teen-age girls and boys there were free of the hang-ups
of their Western counterparts and that sexual promiscuity was common.

``Samoans laugh at stories of romantic love, scoff at fidelity to a long
absent wife or mistress, believe explicitly that one love will quickly cure
another,'' Mead wrote in the best-selling ``Coming of Age in Samoa.''

Those conclusions long have been scoffed at by American Samoans. And
now a conservative academic think tank promises to keep the debate going
by naming Mead's 1928 treatise the worst nonfiction book of the past 100
years.

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute of Wilmington, Del., criticized Mead's
methods as scandalously sloppy and her findings as patently false.

``So amusing did the natives find the white women's prurient questions that
they told her the wildest tales -- and she believed them!'' the 46-year-old
nonprofit institute wrote recently.

Mead's book joined Beatrice and Sidney Webb's ``Soviet Communism: A
New Civilization?'' (1935) and Alfred Kinsey's ``Sexual Behavior in the
Human Male'' (1948) atop the institute's list of the 20th century's 50 worst
nonfiction books originally published in English.

``The books on the worst list are still very popular on college campuses
nationwide in spite of subsequent scholarship that has demonstrated the
flaws in their conclusions,'' said Winfield J.C. Myers, one of three editors
who made the selections.

Scholarly criticism of Mead, who died in 1978, isn't new.

In 1983, Derek Freeman, an anthropologist at the Australian National
University at Canberra, attacked Mead's Samoa work. ``Her account of
the sexual behavior of Samoans is a mind-boggling contradiction,'' he wrote
in ``Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an
Anthropological Myth.''

Freeman said Mead was inexperienced in fieldwork and stayed only six
months in the territory -- hardly long enough to draw such sweeping
conclusions about Samoan society.

He also said Mead was duped by her teen-age subjects and ignored
evidence that did not support her hypothesis in order to please her mentor,
Columbia University professor Franz Boas, a pioneer of the cultural school
of anthropology.

In 1996, Martin Orans, an anthropologist at the University of California at
Riverside, argued in his book ``Not Even Wrong: Margaret Mead, Derek
Freeman, and Samoa'' that Mead's field records do not support her claims,
which are so grandiose that they could not be empirically tested.

But others in academia defend Mead.

Lowell Holmes, former chairman of anthropology at Wichita State
University, retraced Mead's steps in the 1950s and disagreed with
Freeman's criticism in his own 1987 book, ``Quest for the Real Samoa.''

Although critical of Mead's findings, Holmes said Freeman's critique
stemmed from ideological differences. He also said he found no evidence
that she was trying desperately to satisfy Boas by concluding that the
storm and stress of adolescence were products of nurture rather than
nature.

American Samoa-born Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard, an assistant
professor of Pacific literature at the University of Hawaii, said Mead has
been victimized by ``the dissemination of idle rumor faintly disguised as
scholarship by certain organs of popular media.''

She said ``Coming of Age in Samoa'' was an important challenge to the
growing chorus of social scientists in the early 20th century who believed
that biology -- not culture -- was the main determining factor for human
behavior and intelligence.

The biology argument provided intellectual support for eugenics, the
pseudoscience of human breeding that aimed to produce a superior race,
Sinavaiana-Gabbard said.

Myers countered: ``Obviously, eugenics is a great evil,'' but ``you don't
answer sloppy scholarship with sloppy scholarship.''



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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 22:07:45 +0100
From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Early Modulations

>V/A "Early Modulations : Vintage Volts" (Caipirinha) cd 14.98

> the one glaring omission is Karlheinz
> Stockhausen (strange, 'cause he's so prominent in the historical parts of
> the "Modulations" film).


Not so strange.

My sixth sense tells me there's an obvious reason for it: MONEY.

Cheers, Ton


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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:30:01 -0500
From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mead Work Named Worst of Century

Whoever thinks Margaret Mead's "Coming of Age in Somoa"
is the worst non-fiction book of the last 200 years obviously
hasn't read that mid-80s coffee table book on Rock Star Homes.

Will


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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:20:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Whore songs

I was listening to Cross-Eyed Mary by Jethro Tull
(okay, I admit, I still like classic rock) and
remarked to my friend that the world needed more songs
about whores.  We thought of a few, but I thought I'd
ask the music lovers on this list to name a few.

Since the majority are classic rock, I don't expect
posts to the list, so if you could email me privately
I'd appreciate it.

I'll post the final list if anyone's interested.

Thanks!
Peter
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:26:23 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #603

I just put up a couple more tiki bar reviews on my web page (which also has an
exciting and more appropriate url, www.tikifish.com). Im sorry to  report I
havent found anything worth travelling to since the Yokohama tiki bar, but
someones got to go to these places, so you don't have to!

I am also considering swapping the Montreal Tiki Tour for a sojourn to the Lake
George Howard Johnsosn Tiki Resort and Waikiki Supper Club - IF they are still
indeed Tiki-themed. I tried calling but no answer this morning. Anybody been
there?

In other strange news, I got an odd piece of swag at the office the other day.
Usually I just get the usual crap - mugs, pens, calendars, and whatnot, but the
other day someone from a music production house dropped off  "Beautiful Hawaiian
Steel Guitar" by Sonny Kamahele and Mel Abe on vinyl (what else). They didnt
even know I collect - I think they thought it would be a hilarous gag gift. Ha
ha! Strange.

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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 22:45:43 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) 4 for TV

A few TV items of tenuous list relevance...

The thinking man's Flint movie that isn't really a Flint movie:
"The President's Analyst" (1967)
AMC - Saturday night, 6:00pm, Midnight (eastern)

Soft pop?
Profiles: The Mamas And The Papas
Bravo (US) - Sunday afternoon, 1:00pm, 7:00pm

An obscure, low-budget version directed by Edward L. Cahn (his last feature):
"Beauty And The Beast" (1962)
TCM - Tuesday afternoon, Noon

Latter-day Hollywood still knows how to do the fakey exotic thing:
"Rapa Nui" (1994)
TNT - Tuesday night, 1:15am


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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:40:20 +0100
From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ave Maria (skating slightly over the edges of being on topic)

Told you about Frank Scheffer's movies last week, and as
fate will have it, coming Sunday his documentary about Riccardo
Chailly, Mahler's fifth and The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
will be broadcast by Dutch TV, it contains one of the most
exhilarating examples of musicianship on film. Maria Joao
Pires is contracted to play a certain pianoconcert by Mozart,
you know how these things go, faxes are send back and forth
and one or two details may get lost in the process. Enters
Maria in the Concertgebouw and sits down behind the piano,
knicks the ok to Chailly and the orchestra starts playing
another pianoconcerto, not the one she has prepared. Maria
is visibly shaken and freezes, then talks to Chailly who
laconicly and gayly talks her into diving deep into her iron
memory and then she starts playing, flawlessly.

Cheers, Ton

PS

If you're looking for the complete works of Varese, look no
further, Riccardo Chailly and The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
recorded it all magnificently.


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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:50:34 -0500
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mead Work Named Worst of Century

Cool - I just found this at the Goodwill (paperback) with a ridiculous =
cartoonish cover of a native boy 'n girl............obviously marketed to =
the "dirty book" crowd by the looks of it!!!




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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:14:59 -0500
From: "Lou Smith" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obits]Isabella Yurieva,Molouk Zarrabi,Josh Clayton-Felt

MOSCOW (AP) - Isabella Yurieva, a celebrated singer of Russian folk
songs who
was lively enough to perform as she entered her second century of life,
has
died at age 100, the news agency ITAR-Tass reported Thursday.

Yurieva died Wednesday night at her apartment in Moscow, the report
said, but
did not state the cause of death. She had celebrated her 100th birthday
five
months earlier with a performance at the Rossiya concert hall in Moscow.

Yurieva was well-known on Moscow's musical stages even in the 1920s,
after
moving there from the southern city of Rostov-on-Don.

Her repertoire focused on urban and rural romance songs, even though the
genre
was often discouraged during Soviet times.

``Her songs brought warmth and kindness into people's souls, making an
unforgettable impression which will never die in their hearts,''
ITAR-Tass
said.

No information on survivors or funeral arrangements was immediately
available.
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TEHRAN, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Iran's pioneer woman singer and actress has
died at
the age of 108, two decades after her career came to an end with the
1979
Islamic revolution, newspapers said on Thursday.

Molouk Zarrabi helped break an established taboo against women in
entertainment
in an Islamic society when she began her singing career at an early age
against
the will of her parents.

She trained in traditional Persian music with some of the leading
musicians and
became immensely popular in Iran. Coming from an aristocratic family,
she never
worked for money, a decision which earned her a reputation as a 'singer
of the
people'.

The independent-minded Zarabi also acted in plays, including classic
Persian
love story ``Leili and Majnoun.''

Her singing career came to a halt after the revolution, which banned
women from
singing solo in line with its interpretation of Islamic teachings.
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Former School of Fish lead singer Josh Clayton-Felt has died (Thursday)
following a battle with testicular cancer. He released a solo album on
A&M last
year, but was dropped from the label following Seagrams' purchase of
Polygram.
http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=9:37:36|AM&p=amg&sql=B149799
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Hedy Lamarr websites:
The Hedy Lamarr Page
   http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/1797/
Classic Movies
   http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/9766/lamarr.html
Hedy Lamarr Gallery
   http://users.deltanet.com/users/dstickne/hedy.htm
Hedy Lamarr Biography - The German-Hollywood Connection
   http://www.german-way.com/cinema/lamarr.html
Hedy Lamarr
   http://geocities.com/Hollywood/Studio/3654/actresses/lama
Not Just Another Pretty Face
   http://www.hoxie.org/news99/senior99/hedy1.html
Another story about Hedy's passing:
   http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000119/re/lamarr_death_3.html
The scientific Hedy:
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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:42:47 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) [obits]Juggy Gayles

January 21, 2000
Juggy Gayles, 86, Promoter Who Turned
Songs Into Hits
By JON PARELES,NYTimes

Juggy Gayles, whose career in the music business stretched from the
Lindy Hop to hip-hop, died in his sleep on Monday at the Parker
Geriatric Nursing Home in New Hyde Park, N.Y. He was 86.

Mr. Gayles promoted hit songs as a song plugger bringing material to big
bands and crooners, as a music publisher, as a promotion man getting
songs played on the radio and as a partner at a hip-hop record label. "My
creative power has always been in publicizing great geniuses," he said in a
1994 interview in Rolling Stone magazine. "I didn't make hits. All I did was
help make a hit."

Mr. Gayles was born George Resnick in the Brownsville section of
Brooklyn; Juggy was a younger brother's mispronunciation of "Georgie."
He danced the Lindy Hop at the big midtown ballrooms in the 1930's, and
his friendship with big-band leaders led to a job plugging songs for Remick
Music, a publisher.

Most song pluggers performed new tunes for band leaders, but Mr.
Gayles's main method was to wine and dine the band leaders or join them
in betting on horses. Among the songs he plugged was Irving Berlin's
"White Christmas," which became the second best-selling single in the
history of recording.

He placed songs with Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra, and in the 1940's
he started a publishing company, United Music, which had a major hit with
"The Hucklebuck." But much of his publishing profits disappeared at the
track.

In the 1950's he promoted singles for companies including Carlton
Records. His job, he said in 1994, often included giving cash or marijuana
to disc jockeys as payola. From 1965 to 1969, he was a promotion man for
Atlantic Records, helping to gain exposure for performers from Otis
Redding to Led Zeppelin. He became an independent promotion man in the
1970's, freelancing to promote hits including Silver Convention's "Fly,
Robin, Fly" and Herb Alpert's "Rise."

In 1983, when he was 70, Mr. Gayles began promoting singles for Sleeping
Bag Records, an independent company that put out dance music and
singles in an emerging genre: rap. Seeing potential, Mr. Gayles invested in
the company and became a partner in Sleeping Bag and its subsidiary,
Fresh, until the late 1980's. Sleeping Bag discovered the hip-hop group
EPMD, which included Mr. Gayles's name in the rap "Listen to My
Demo."

Failing health made Mr. Gayles leave the business. But in the 1990's, after
decades behind the scenes, he was heard on the air himself. A phone
conversation with the comedy team the Jerky Boys appeared on their
album "Stop Staring at Me!" and has been played frequently on Howard
Stern's radio show.

Mr. Gayles is survived by a son, Ronald Resnick of Queens; a daughter,
Jacqueline Cowit of Boca Raton, Fla.; five grandchildren; and two
great-grandchildren.
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http://nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-j-card.html



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