Friday Music Mix Tape
I'm trying something new, thanks to Grace. I did it for me, but then I thought I'd share it.
The above image of a cassette tape (with a vintage black-and-white photo on it from Warm Springs Institute of five women with polio using wheelchairs, each with one arm vigorously upraised in a wave to the camera) is a clickable link to a ten-song audio mix tape of former Friday Music artists. It's not all the same songs as featured before, and the clickable image isn't accessible for vision impairments. Below are alternative links to YouTube -- also not particularly accessible for various impairments, but the songs start there when the page loads so it's an alternative way to get the audio or see the artist.
Here's the playlist:
The Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism
Ben Harper with the Blind Boys Of Alabama - Take My Hand
Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me
Sinéad O'Connor - If You Had A Vineyard
Neil Young - See The Sky About To Rain
Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
Kristen Hersh - Your Ghost
Warren Zevon - For My Next Trick I'll Need a Volunteer
Joni Mitchell - A Case of You
Chavela Vargas - Paloma Negra
Ahem: I haven't posted on Neil Young yet. I shuffled posts around to accommodate the Thanksgiving weekend holiday and my reluctance to spend it typing much, but Young will be the very next Friday Music post.
3 comments:
Fun fun fun! Thank you!
Are all those artists disabled? If so, says something about impairments being hidden or concealed in the mainstream media, i think...
Shiva: The Dresden Dolls' song is clearly about disability or normalcy, though I don't have any specific info on the artists. The Blind Boys are all blind, Nina Simona was reportedly bipolar. O'Connor is too. Neil Young has a number of disabilities, but had polio as a child, for one. Robert Wyatt was paralyzed in an accident back in the '70s. Hersh is bipolar. Zevon had OCD, was an alcoholic and died of cancer. Mitchell had polio as a child. Vargas too.
Yes, it does say something about disabilities being hidden in the mainstream. Or about how disability is part of many people's lives, organically maybe even part of their creative processes, and is such a part of society that it hides in plain sight everywhere.
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