Othar Turner and the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band: Ida Reed (1978)
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- Othar Turner's Rising Star Fife & Drum band (Turner, fife; G.D. Young, bass drum; E.P. Burton, snare; Eddie Ware, snare) playing a picnic at Othar's farm. Shot by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long in Gravel Springs, Mississippi, August 1978. For more information about the American Patchwork filmwork, Alan Lomax, and his collections, visit culturalequity.org. [02.08.10]
Genius how this was incorporated into Gangs of New York. Sounds like war drums! Such a great film.
Agreed, and to my understanding (admittedly limited) it’s roots are from literally the revolutionary war.
“Fife and drum blues is an American folk music form derived from country blues, martial music tradition, and African rhythms. It is performed typically with one lead fife player and a troop of drummers. Unlike a drum corps, the drum troop is loosely structured. “
-Wikipedia
This is my great great uncle
Awesome!
Keep the legacy strong!!
i swear if your beats arent riddled with fife trills ill be mad
Don't believe you...Where is your red cap?
What a feel!
Dead Rabbits
This is the most pure, authentic folk music that I have ever discovered in the course of 40 years of searching for a clear link between the West African Fife and Drum traditional music and the Gheechee
Irish Funk
This is Igbo drum and flute from South Eastern Nigeria
Black Indigenous Americans🏹🏹🏹
These guys aren't "Gheechee" and there was likely no "fife and drum traditional music" in West Africa at the time of the slave trade, although there was likely a barrage of music that combined wind instrument and drum/other percussion, with some of those traditions surviving today. It's debatable if they had any direct influence on this tradition however, even though the rhythm and intonation is strongly influenced by West African music in a broad sense. Given that, this isn't "Igbo drum and flute" either. It's a particular African American tradition that could have been influenced by numerous West African sources, but is also pretty clearly influenced by European fife and drum tradition (With them playing snares and basses with western drum sticks while "marching" in a straight line). It's more likely that this particular instance of combining percussion with flute was more directly influenced by European fife and drum, rather than anything in Africa, with the music itself being the thing that's distinctly African in it's origin. It's important to remember that the Africa today is a very different Africa from the one 400-200 years ago and that, overwhelmingly, African slaves were in a completely different cultural environment once they reached the Americas, with many different people taken from many different regions and ethnic groups finding themselves among each other. No particular tradition or set of customs survived, especially in North America. The traditions that did survive would have been common to a sleuth of different ethnic groups in Africa, and would have lost any individual meaning in the Americas and instead took on an entirely new, somewhat homogeneous one reflective of the distinctly American life and environment of the enslaved. This is all to say, while many African elements permeated and continue to permeate through out African American culture and especially music, it's near impossible to definitively trace the origin point of these elements back to anything in particular in Africa.
It’s in the DNA, man, no matter how academic you want to get about it.
That sounds really like African music. Really raw stuff.
I can hear Miles Davis in that.
AA culture is wonderful! I find out new stuff everyday!
"Gangs Of New York" opening sequence.
Everybody hollerin' GOAT! Cos Othar Turner would cut himself a reed fife and him and the guys would play up a storm to advertise the fact that a goat had been slaughtered and it was BBQ and party time over at Othar's place. Bring a bottle. Everybody hollerin' GOAT!
This music would carry for miles in North Mississippi. Just like Charley Pattons voice. All the real deal and smoking hot.
These are the true people.
I have lived in britain my whole life. And the british are divided stupidly by religion and false hatrid, cast by the politicians that are scared that the people will one day UNITE.
Now is the time people!
Help your fellow brothers and sisters in life.
No matter your colour, when you seen a fallen soul on the streets, help that soul to its feet.
We the poor must look after each other, not hate each other.
We are the ones who run the machine.
Why do we not run it for EVERYONE, not the the ONES.
peace out and spread smiles.
do not seperate by miles.❤❤❤
I feel really good when i hear this kind of music..
It makes my imagination works too, thanks !
Eat shit AI generated music. You will never engage the soul like this does. 🔥🔥🔥
If this doesn't have African roots in it, go take a look at traditional African rituals!
I'm going to keep on saying it there's only one Mississippi and they got the musicians to prove it well done Mr Otha Turner and the fife band🥁
This is straight from Africa..
AfroCeltic music
So this is what they mean when they say black Irish!
Smokin'! Othar Turner is a Mississippi legend.
The song they’re playing kind of reminds me of the beginning of Gangs Of New York
They're the band whose music was used in Gangs of New York.
A little but similar to samba.
This is American
Yes, but the connection to Africa is clear. Listen to any of Othar's music with the *Afrossippi* Allstars and you can hear Senegalese musical instruments. Drum(+wind instrument) music is also at the core of much Ghanaian and other African countries' traditional music.
There is something that just connects to you in this music, that driving beat but then this beautiful ethereal (almost plaintive) flute over it all, something about the human spirit is conveyed in this sound
I said the same thing when I first heard it. It connects deep down in your soul. And I'm white. Music knows no color but is a gift from God if played properly and from the heart!!!😎🎸
Othar and a slightly different version of this band played with us on Tav Falco's Panther Burns Behind the Magnolia Curtain album
Eons later, this beat is 🔥🔥🔥
Sonst habt ihr aber noch alle stramm?
This is 'Fife & Drum' music, early 19th century music, of course mixing African and white. A beautiful mix that has been done for thousands of years folks.
You can hear Euro/British/Irish recreated & played well in the CD 'Marching Out of Time' by The Fife & Drums of Colonial Williamsburg. Welsh folk tunes, Purcell, well researched.
Could be heard in the Caribbean too. Folkways released a CD sounding very good: 'Bongo, Backra, & Coolie, Vol. 2', recorded Jamaica 1975.
There was a fair bit recorded of this stuff in America, if you dig deep, North MS mostly. Multi-instrumentalist Sid Hemphill, Napoleon Strickland, also compilation 'Traveling through the Jungle'.
There were also singers from the Georgia Sea Islands, where proper 18/19th century African roots could be heard sung most strongly, recorded in session with cane pipe and drum players from inland, >Ed Young< & >Georgia Sea Island Singers
BTW This CD is definitely worth the money:
'From Ear to Ear, the Passage of African Music through American Slavery', again by Colonial Williamsburg. Recreated, but done with much thought (and I suspect loads of research), as well as feeling.
I see west afrikan music that dates nack to the 1700s in northern mississippi only the instrument are are non afrikan well the fife anyway everything else pure afrikan
Damn these boys are lit
Those were the days before tv dinners and reality shows. People had lives.
@@Finsami71 what the Hell are you on about? TV dinners were invented over 20 years before that video, and there was always dumb shit on the TV ever since it came out.
Minha gente é um maracatu com um pifano!!!!!
lurchn on by like a funeral procession
Incredible music
This is some of the most moving, passionate music I've ever heard in my life. God bless you all to continue your talents, they are indeed powerful!
Crazy bout ida red
i came here after watching gangs of new york from the opening sequence
To be play on my funeral...
Very nice! The Otha, remember this bands of pifano in Brazil!!!
Banda de Pífano
What a beautiful story they told.
These guys are mashin' up a grizzly!
#GODBLESSTHETROOPS 🇺🇸🇻🇮🇺🇸
This is just beautiful
This is warrior music.
Epic ✨
Native flute and drums. Mizi-Ziibi. Black Indigenous Americans. 🏹🏹🏹
mary prayling
Thanks for posting .They sound like an entire Samba band from Brazil!!!I Feeling souful and magical while watching this ,best wishes to all.
sounds more like maracatu
Wow
I love this.
Feet tapping,Soul Shimmering! Lawd Hep Us...every opportunity I had at New Orleans Jazz&Heritage Fest to hear Mr.Turner I ran as this music course through your veins straight out of Africa.
This is just awesome
“👁” see u brotha 🪶🏹 , yea it is a wonderful thing to see
como se llama este album? a cual pertenece?