Ep3 Talking music and culture with Ethnomusicologist and Drummer Bill Carbone

Bill Carbone is an ethnomusicologist, musician, and a writer. He teaches at Wesleyan University and Southern Connecticut State University where he teaches "Music of the World's People. " As a musician(drummer, writer, singer), Bill has worked with with renowned bands and artists like Max Creek, Zac Deputy, Melvin Sparks, Toussaint and the China Band, and the Z3. As a writer, Bill has been published in Wax Poetics, Modern Drummer, jazz.com, and in a long-running New Haven Advocate column. Find Bill Carbone here: http://www.billcarbone.com Bill on FB: https://www.facebook.com/billcarbone What is the "Chitlin Circuit" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitlin%27_circuit Film: The Girls in the Band http://thegirlsintheband.com/synopsis/ Very clever and funny Mike Judge film that we refer to several times: Idiocracy http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/ The 100 People Project http://www.100people.org/statistics_detailed_statistics.php http://www.100people.org/wp/the-100-people-project-an-introduction/ Some of the "Avant-garde" jazz musicians that we talked about: Anthony Braxton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Braxton Pheeroan akLaff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheeroan_akLaff Sun Ra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra Art Ensemble of Chicago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Ensemble_of_Chicago Music played on this podcast: Opening theme: Composed by Matt Oestreicher, used as an opening and closing theme of the film "We Cause Scenes." Performed by: Marissa Licata, Ervin Dede, and Egil Rostad at SST Studios in Weehawken, NJ.