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07 Dec 10 - 02:31 AM (#3047923) Subject: Lowlands Turner Prize 2010 From: VirginiaTam The Sound installation by Susan Phillipsz plays Lowlands and it won the Turner Prize. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-06/singer-susan-philipsz-wins-turner-prize http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/06/who-win-turner-prize-2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSiJpWRGqRc&feature=player_embedded And Susan made a statement in support of the students demonstrating outside the Tate. |
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07 Dec 10 - 03:00 AM (#3047931) Subject: RE: Lowlands Turner Prize 2010 From: Phil Edwards Fantastic! |
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07 Dec 10 - 03:07 AM (#3047934) Subject: RE: Lowlands Turner Prize 2010 From: Keith A of Hertford Lowlands keeps being described as a Scottish folk song. Any opinions on that? I know it as an unusually sentimental shanty. |
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07 Dec 10 - 10:29 AM (#3048101) Subject: RE: Lowlands Turner Prize 2010 From: EBarnacle I just saw a posting of this on ArtDaily. Here's the link: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=43177 |
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07 Dec 10 - 10:59 AM (#3048115) Subject: RE: Lowlands Turner Prize 2010 From: greg stephens Rather morer Caribbean than Scottish I would guess, but nobody really knows where shanties come from. They roll around the world picking up bits of stuff here and there. I am intrigued that she thinks of herself as a visual artist. Maybe one of my banjo tunes will win the Booker prize? |
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08 Dec 10 - 07:04 AM (#3048677) Subject: RE: Lowlands Turner Prize 2010 From: Richard Bridge Definitely a forebitter not a shanty, if indeed a sea song. Surely there are other threads on the song here (departs searching)... |
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08 Dec 10 - 07:12 AM (#3048683) Subject: RE: Lowlands Turner Prize 2010 From: greg stephens Disagree, Richard. Definitely a work song, in some versions at least. Though not in the long dragged out version that became popular in the 60's clubs. The "dollar and a half a day" refrain versions show their Caribbean and worksong origins clearly. |
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08 Dec 10 - 07:12 AM (#3048684) Subject: RE: Lowlands Turner Prize 2010 From: GUEST,LDT Maybe some folk musicians could turn up and play along. ;) lol! |
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08 Dec 10 - 11:06 AM (#3048862) Subject: RE: Lowlands Turner Prize 2010 From: autoharpbob Not sure she claims to be a visual artist - just an artist. She studied as a sculptor and claims to use sound as the "material" she now sculpts. I guess you have to be there - each installation is specific to a particular place - but I am very sceptical. It would be difficult to join in anyway - she sings three different versions of it all at the same time. Though come to think, so do most folk clubs. |
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08 Dec 10 - 11:18 AM (#3048871) Subject: RE: Lowlands Turner Prize 2010 From: Sarah the flute Some years ago we realised in my band that the shanty Lowlands fits a treat to the tune of Camptown Races as in I dreamed a dream the other night Lowlands Lowlands I dreamed a dream the other night Lo - o-o wlands away Lowlands away Lowlands away (my John) I dreamed a dream the other night Lo - o-o wlands away We didn't win the Turner prize!!! Sarah |
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08 Dec 10 - 11:20 AM (#3048875) Subject: RE: Lowlands Turner Prize 2010 From: GUEST,^&* Wrong Lowlands, methinks. |
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08 Dec 10 - 11:23 AM (#3048879) Subject: RE: Lowlands Turner Prize 2010 From: Sarah the flute Thats obviously why we didn't win the prize then!!! StF |
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08 Dec 10 - 11:32 AM (#3048886) Subject: RE: Lowlands Turner Prize 2010 From: GUEST,^&* Sorry Sarah - our messages crossed! I meant that I agree with Keith (for once) - there's no reason to believe the song even refers to Scotland. ;>) |