标题: 瑞安农-吉登斯 歌手、乐器演奏家、作曲家 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-5-18 04:53 标题: 瑞安农-吉登斯 歌手、乐器演奏家、作曲家 Rhiannon Giddens
Singer, Instrumentalist, and Songwriter | Class of 2017
Reclaiming African American contributions to folk and country music and bringing to light new connections between music from the past and the present.
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Title
Singer, Instrumentalist, and Songwriter
Location
Greensboro, North Carolina
Age
40 at time of award
Area of Focus
Music Performance and Composition
Website
rhiannongiddens.com
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Social
Twitter
Published October 11, 2017
ABOUT RHIANNON'S WORK
Rhiannon Giddens is a singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter enriching our understanding of American music by reclaiming African American contributions to folk and country genres and revealing affinities between a range of musical traditions, from gospel and Celtic to jazz and R&B.
In her recordings and live performances, Giddens has mined the history of the African American string band tradition, introducing new audiences to the black banjoists and fiddlers whose influences have been left out of popular narratives of the lineage of folk and country music. Giddens is a native of the Piedmont region of North Carolina, and she trained as an opera singer before returning to North Carolina to immerse herself in traditional American roots music through study of archival recordings and the mentorship of the octogenarian fiddler Joe Thompson. Having honed her skills on the fiddle and 5-string banjo, she co-founded with two other bandmates the Carolina Chocolate Drops in order to share this tradition with a new generation of listeners. More recently, Giddens has released two solo albums. Tomorrow Is My Turn (2015) offers riveting interpretations of songs that were written or made famous by women, spanning folk, bluegrass, country, gospel, jazz, Celtic, and other genres. Freedom Highway (2017) consists mainly of original compositions by Giddens, and the album traverses the experience of African Americans from slavery to the present. Drawing inspiration from slave narratives, early twentieth-century songwriters such as Mississippi John Hurt, and even a rap about police violence written by her nephew, Freedom Highway is at once a recuperation of suppressed voices and a history lesson.
With extraordinary vocal abilities and emotional range afforded by her classical training, Giddens is a powerful presence on stage, and her explanations of the historical and social contexts for the music she performs further demonstrate how discrete musical approaches can inform one another. Giddens's drive to understand and convey the nuances, complexities, and interrelationships between musical traditions is enhancing our musical present with a wealth of sounds and textures from the past.
BIOGRAPHY
Rhiannon Giddens received a B.M. (2000) from Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Her additional albums include Genuine Negro Jig (2010) and Leaving Eden (2012), both with the Carolina Chocolate Drops. She has performed at national and international festivals and venues, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the White House, the Spoleto Festival, the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Chicago Blues Festival, the Aarhus Festival (Denmark), and the National Folk Festival, among others.
在她的唱片和现场表演中，吉登斯挖掘了非裔美国人弦乐队传统的历史，向新的听众介绍了黑人班卓琴手和提琴手，他们的影响被遗漏在民谣和乡村音乐血统的流行叙述中。吉登斯是北卡罗来纳州皮德蒙特地区的人，在回到北卡罗来纳州之前，她接受了歌剧歌手的培训，通过对档案录音的研究和八旬小提琴家乔-汤普森的指导，使自己沉浸在美国传统的根源音乐中。在磨练了她的小提琴和五弦班卓琴技能后，她与另外两个班友共同创立了卡罗莱纳巧克力滴水乐队，以便与新一代听众分享这一传统。最近，吉登斯发行了两张个人专辑。Tomorrow Is My Turn》（2015年）对那些由女性创作或成名的歌曲进行了引人入胜的诠释，涵盖了民谣、蓝草、乡村、福音、爵士、凯尔特人和其他类型。自由之路》（2017）主要由吉登斯的原创作品组成，这张专辑穿越了从奴隶制到现在的非裔美国人的经历。自由公路》从奴隶叙事、二十世纪初的作曲家如密西西比-约翰-赫特，甚至她侄子写的关于警察暴力的说唱中汲取灵感，既是对被压抑的声音的恢复，又是一堂历史课。
