On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 12:51:30PM +0000, Dan S wrote:
>
> I had a lot of the same issues when trying to establish a good
> wikipedia article for beatboxing. A lot of the real origins of
> beatboxing are very poorly documented (mostly just half-sentences in
> hip-hop books etc, or oral history well-known among beatboxers - also,
> in a good documentary film that never went to worldwide release), and
> so there's an inevitable bias towards the more recent work by more
> privileged and tech-oriented people. There's also a tendency for the
> wiki to accumulate random crap from people who use the term
> "beatboxing" much more loosely than the specific cultural form it
> originally designated, e.g. to claim it was invented by Paul McCartney
> - as it CURRENTLY ACTUALLY SAYS on wkp >:(
Yes, I attended one lecture on the history of the research into the
history of turntablism, which had similar issues as well. At least
that field now has at least one doctoral study, I am happy to have it
on the shelf here. Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen was generous enough to
send me a copy, he might have more to spare for interested parties
asking nicely. I recommend it.
>
> Anyway, the same thing will happen to livecoding. Get ready to learn
> about how it was invented by Einstein, since he clearly wrote
> statements in formalised languages, while he was alive, which makes it
> live-coding ysee...
I predict something else will happen. I already attended one event
where the host with a straight face traced the origins of livecoding
to one Professor Nilson in the 60's before a attentive audience, some
of whom were taking notes. We may need to leave notes for future
archaeologists about the percentage of the time that we are fully
joking or completely serious.
"Dear archaeologists; I feel for you, but I don't think I am very
sorry. Sorry about that."
;-)
Kas.
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