The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, November 28, 1979, Page page 12, Image 12
page 12 Wednesday, november 28, 1979 daily nebraskan- 9 , Authentic old time music reappears fiddle By Mary Kay Wayman The Nebraska Old Time Fiddlers Asso ciation will be fiddling around for the public again after an eight-year absence, the associations's founder, "Fiddling De," said. The fiddlers will perform old time country fiddle music from 10 a.m. to 5 pjn. Sunday, Dec. 2 at the Dodsworth and Sons Farm Store, 6L32 Havelock Ave., DeRyke said. All old time fiddlers, pickers and singers are invited to participate in Sunday's performance. The 15 -year-old organization is reorganizing after losing many original members, she said. "We're trying to get young people in. volved," she said, adding all ages are repres ented in the association. "This is the kind of music to which your great-grandparents danced, listened and performed," she said. The authentic music must be at least 50 years old, DeRyke said. The public is invited to bring all the food it wishes for a potluck luncheon at noon, she said, adding that dishware, silver and hot beverages will be provided. A collection will be taken to defray expenses. . DeRyke 'said she founded the, asso ciation before the Nebraska Centennial to prevent exploitation of fiddlers such as had taken place in other states. "I decided it wasn't going to happen here and it didn't ," she said . DeRyke has been fiddling for 42 years and teaches fiddling at Southeast Commun ity College. "They call me Fiddling De," she said. "A saddle-maker out in Idaho hung that on me in the late '50s and it kind of stuck." The Nebraska fiddlers dress in pioneer style costumes, long skirts, bonnets and western shirts. DeRyke said those attend ing the performance should wear such cos tumes if they have them. Food and beverages Sunday will be heated on wood -burning stoves. The Farm Store itself is heated by wood fuel . "We're going to kind of go back to the rustic. We've kept it that way from the beginning," DeRyke said. She described the old time fiddlers' brand of music as different from Huegrass, Western swing or Nashville styles. "Fiddling must be for dancing," she said. "You must keep that dance beat so it's very clear." Jigs, reels, hornpipes waltzes and polkas are among the dances played by the old time fiddlers, she said. Difficulties finding halls to rent for per formances and illness kept the fiddlers playing only twice a year in DeRyke's base ment, she said, just to stay together. "We seem to be over our spell of ill ness," she said. "We're bringing it (the music) out into the public more." Photo courtesy of Sheldon Film Theatre Knife strife "In the Realm of the Senses," is part of the Sheldon Film Theater's Japanese Cinema series this week. Three films by director Nagisa Oshima will be shown Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Sheldon Film Theater. "Boy," a 1969 film in color and black and white, will be shown Thursday at 5 p.m., Friday at 9 pm. and Saturday at 7 p.m. "The Ceremony," a 1971 color film, will be shown Thursday at 7 p.m., Friday at 3 p.m. and Saturday at 9 p.m. "In the Realm of the Senses," a 1976 color film, will be shown Thursday at 9:15 p.m., Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 3 p.m. . Observation of music trends key to Blondie's success By Casey McCabe It seems as though the members of the, rock group Blondie have been spending the last 25 years inside a portable radio, picking and choosing influences in antici pation of the day they would be able to hit the airwaves with their interpretation of what it is all about. That is why the music that has enabled Blondie to rise to. the top of the ever-widening New Wave category doesn't come as a slap in the face, but as a signal that the music ot the last three decades is heading for a melting pot in the '80s. Last year's Parallel Lines shot the band into the national spotlight at a time when it already was the darling of the smaller punkNew Wave cult scene. In terestingly enough, it was Blondie's blatantly danceable "Heart of Glass" that broke them open, and one of the distinctions that arose out of this was being included in a K-Tel Disco Explosion record package. Fans at this point could be excused for wondering who the hell Blondie was trying to kid. To some, passing disco off as New Wave represented the lowliest depths a band could sink to. But save for the occasional surfacing of a funky rhythm line, Blondie's latest album, Eat To The Beat should quell the fears that the band has contracted some horrible disease, the kind that gets you mixed up with K-Tel. mm CCUCGt'J It is irrelevant to classify the band, as they touch" on '. several bases of the old. and new wave, and lay some strikingly different tracks back to back. What does be come apparent after several listenings is the band's affinity for the romantic ideals pop and rock music supposedly have been striving for all along. WHILE THIS includes playing on a few cliches, , Blondie is smooth enough to appear original where others -would come off pretentious. . 1 Hie key . to the- band's musical and popular image is New Wave dream girl Deborah Harry, certainly one of Documentary on Asian Americans begins t Charlie Chan, Suzie Wong and Fu Manchu are among the countless screen characters stereotyping Asians as exotic, erotic, karate-chopping villians, geishas, or heavy weights of mystey and intrigue. Pearls, a new six-part documentary series combining . historical facts with personal accounts, looks at the heri tage and real lives of Asian Americans when the series premieres on Sunday at 6:30 pjn. on the Nebraska Educational Television Network. Focusing on the life of a particular person or group, each 30-minute program attempts to combine the clarity of historical facts with the richness of people's lives. The principle subjects for the different episodes of the series are from diverse walks of life. One is an actor in Hollywood, another a fisherman who works the coastal waters off Southern California. Another is a Filipino old timer in Seattle's International District. Two are teachers in New York's Chinatown. There is an organization of Asian American women, and lastly, a Nisei woman who returns to Manzanar internment camp and other places of her past. the more recognizable audio-visual talents to emerge this last year. ' "' ' An extremely adept vocalist, she gives a Connie Francis touch to. side one's "Shayla" and side two's "Sound-A-Sleep," only to follow them up with the primal scream antics of Patti Smith on "Eat To, The Beat" and "Victor." "Dreaming" comes off as the epitome of pop music from the mid-60's standpoint, with its machine-gun drum ming and dissonant recording quality. BLONDIE LAYS down its nastiest rock 4n' roll on the title track, "Victor," and "Living In The Real World," while keyboardist Jimmy Destri gives that uneasy, stalk ing quality to two of the albums stronger cuts, "Acci dents Never Happen" and "Atomic." "Atomic" is built around a Ventures style guitar lead and once again, De borah Harry adapts to the occasion with fitting vocal quality. . They touch on reggae effectively with side -two's opening cut "Die Young Stay Pretty," and while a underlying disco beat threatens to invade "The Hardest Part" on side one, it is offset by the knife-edge vocals and lyrics by Harry. All this could serve to alienate the listener. Someone attracted to the sheer punk of "Eat To The Beat" probably will not know how to take the sugary lullabye of "Sound-A-Sleep," certainly the biggest question mark on the album. The fact that all six members contribute compositions helps explain the diversity, but there is some hard to explain cohesion in Blondie that prevents it from scattering into too many unidentifiable parts. With this album Blondie will probably strengthen the wall between fans and critics, for those looking for a hard cut label of pop, rock, New Waveor disco will not find one to comfortably fit the band on Eat To Vie Beat. Given the circumstances of the current music scene, avoid ing a label is an admirable trait.