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  Mayday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mayday is an emergency code word used internationally as a distress signal in voice procedure communications, derived from the French m'aidez (the infinitive form of the reflexive verb "help me", which is a pemissible alternative for the imperative form).
Although a Mayday call will be understood irrespective of the radio frequency on which it is broadcast, first-line response organisations, such as the coastguard and air traffic control, monitor designated channels: marine VHF radio channel 16 and airband frequency 121.5 MHz, respectively.
Making a hoax Mayday call is a criminal act in many countries because of the danger to the rescuers' lives that a search-and-rescue operation can create, as well as the very high costs of such rescue efforts.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mayday   (983 words)

  
 Mayday (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mayday, like Love Parade, is one of the oldest and most reputed electronic music festivals, having its debut on 1991.
Each Mayday has a theme composed by Members Of Mayday, DJs Westbam and Klaus Jankuhn.
The popularity of those "anthems" (with a 2001 album named "Anthems of the Decade 1991-2001") is very high, some agree it already reached cult status.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mayday_(music)   (172 words)

  
 Music -- Their Lives
The voluntary music schools that have existed in the majority of municipalities in Sweden are being transformed into schools of arts, and the work of the latter is often pursued in co-operation with the compulsory school.
In concrete terms it is a question of, on the one hand, their "own music", the music to which they have a personal relation; and, on the other hand, "school music", the music judged in accordance with certain established norms of value associated with the school.
Music contributes to the cohesion of the group and constitutes a symbolic field of force within which it is possible to feel a sense of belonging and harmony.
www.siue.edu /MUSIC/ACTPAPERS/v3/Stalhammar04.htm   (8184 words)

  
 Mayday: Bushido Karaoke - PopMatters Music Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
However, despite extensive differences in style, the musicians involved in the scene shared some common qualities, plying their trade in distinctly American styles of music -- be it folk, bluegrass, or country -- and infusing their songs with a sense of urgency and passion that had long been absent from the pop radar.
Mayday's cast consists of the usual suspects (containing many members of the original Lullaby lineup and some old Omaha / Saddle Creek peers), and their MO remains the same, providing a discolored Polaroid snapshot of rust-soaked Americana for Stevens' nearly paranoiac ruminations on isolation, desperation, and loss.
It is at once lovely and strangely discomfiting, a moving musical document evocative of blood, tears, and a startling sense of subdued beauty.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/m/mayday-bushido.shtml   (935 words)

  
 Medieval Music
Music of the Middle Ages was especially popular during times of celebration and festivities.
It was believed in those days that medieval music was not only delightful to the ears, but it also helped in the digestion of food, hence the reason for music at mealtimes.
The music of Medieval times was very important to the listeners of that era, whether it be for special celebrations, holidays, or for something as simple as eating a meal.
www.medieval-life.net /music.htm   (242 words)

  
 Music Education: Invitation To Join The MayDay Group . . . [SIG] (C)
The social and cultural contexts of musical actions are integral to musical meaning and cannot be ignored or minimized in music education.
Aesthetic theories, with their claims that musical meaning and value transcend time, place, context and human purpose and usefulness, fail to account for the fullest range of meanings inherent in individual and collective musical actions.
Music educators must have, therefore, a theoretical foundation that unites the actions of producing music with the various contexts of those actions, so that musical meaning appropriately includes all of music's humanizing and concrete functions.
www.musica.uci.edu /news/groups/msg00001.html   (800 words)

  
 Soulstage Magazine - Published by The Music Mayday Foundation
Music Mayday recently launched a book-reading club in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia which has grown to a bi-monthly platform for authors, critics and young people to debate the issues raised in pop literature.
This is one way Music Mayday attempts to create new opportunities for Ethiopian youth, by providing a forum in which they can enhance their debating skills, in a setting where they feel comfortable.
Music Mayday provides new opportunities for the planet's youth to present themselves in a positive way, to see their future with perspective, and to connect with each other.
www.musicmayday.org /soulstage/archive/04march.html   (1718 words)

  
 Mayday Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Music is an important part of any Mayday celebration.
Polka music is a favorite because it works great with the dances and seems to sound like Spring.
Download their music library and you can listen to all the songs you like.
www.ldssplash.com /traditions/may_day_traditions/mayday_music.htm   (133 words)

  
 Mayday 2005 - Prototypes | Beatfreax - Electronic Music Platform
Mayday was and remains the primary playground for new event technologies, making it by default the "prototype" for everything that has followed in its wake.
Under the motto "Prototypes", Mayday demands not only a further pioneering sound and lighting concept, but also the perfect combination of all the elements for the maximum intensity of the delirium to be experienced.
His career in the harder realm of electronic dance music is a role model example of uncompromising integrity.
www.beatfreax.nl /s/760edfdc1f/art_id/963.html   (1828 words)

  
 New Releases - 07/98 - Me & Jeremy
The first release, "Mayday, Mayday" is only a hint of things to come from this band.
Their music is upbeat and fun to listen to, and one of their selling points, according to Mark Houlihan, manager and guitarist/musician extraordinaire, is that they have a full-time dancer.
There are moments where the music could be tighter, but this band is still feeling its way in the music world.
home.nycap.rr.com /meandjeremy/reviews/newrel12a.html   (579 words)

  
 Flagpole Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Adopting the voice of a self-effacing raconteur, Stevens' approach is that of a poignant and pensive county music sage.
Now residing in Chicago and teaching music to children, Kowalski wrote the song "Which Branch" that is featured on a 7" released by Her Majesty Records.
Outside of Mayday's own sense of global awakening, elements of death and dying walk hand-in-hand with the album's livelihood.
flagpole.com /articles.php?fp=5452   (1255 words)

  
 Mayday - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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Stevens gets assistance in Mayday from a diverse cast of local supporting characters, including all his Lullaby mates and members of Azure Ray, Bright Eyes, Cursive, and Now It's Overhead.
The first Mayday album, Old Blood, released in 2002, represent years of songwriting on Stevens' part.
www.epitonic.com /artists/mayday.html   (276 words)

  
 :: 4 W A R D S ::
Music Mayday organises campaigns and festivals that contribute to the development of African young talent.
There are Music Mayday offices in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Eritrea and several other countries will be opening local Music Mayday offices in the (near) future.
Music Mayday campaigners will go to the participating venues and will proudly promote the 4WARDS campaign to the audience.
www.4wards.nl /index_uk.html   (277 words)

  
 Indie Music Features on CLUAS - Interview with Mundy
'Mayday' it transpires was one of the first songs that Mundy recorded after being dropped.
You either want to play music or you don't and thankfully there's a lot of people doing just that" He mentions Witnness as a gauge as to how good Irish music has become.
Among the many acts that tickle Mundy's musical tastebuds David Kitt is mentioned.
www.cluas.com /music/features/mundy.htm   (1405 words)

  
 NYC Raves at Hyperreal
The Mayday Festival (AKA the 19th Annual Squatters Mayday Celebration) is held yearly in Tompkins Square Park as commemoration of Anarchist founded, international workers holiday, Mayday.
Mayday also has significance as the ancient pagan celebration of fertility and the coming of spring.
The Mayday Festival is a time for our communities to come together, to celebrate, to plot, to inspire.
www.hyperreal.org /raves/nyc/events/view?identifier=393   (196 words)

  
 Mayday: Old Blood: Pitchfork Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It's a word inherently filled with panic and dread, originally descending from the French m'aider-- literally "help me." It's certainly never a good thing to hear it coming over your radio, as it means death might be just around the corner for whoever's out there in the air or on the ocean calling it out.
The members of Mayday seem like an unlikely bunch to relate to a primarily nautical distress call, having spent the majority of their lives adrift in the oceans of grain that cover Nebraska and the rest of the Great Plains.
Mayday have turned the desperate cry for help into a thing of fragile, spontaneous beauty, and the result is stunning.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/m/mayday/old-blood.shtml   (717 words)

  
 Living a dream.. or living in a dream: 10/31/2004 - 11/06/2004
But Mayday is not just a regular bunch of guys, they are a bunch of serious musicians, dedicated towards making music, friendly and warm, a very good bunch of friends, and always striving to make music that touches the hearts of others.
You just have to listen hard to their music and their lyrics to know that their music encourages while it urges you to keep believing in your own dreams.
After all, it is because of Mayday, that I have come to become a strong believer that dreams can and do come true, so long as you keep believing and keep striving, not afraid to fall.
whitecarrotcake.blogspot.com /2004_10_31_whitecarrotcake_archive.html   (2546 words)

  
 Sponic Zine - Music Reviews - Mayday   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
What threw me off when I first heard the new Mayday album was the upbeat approach.
Bushido Karaoke is bursting with songs that swing like great barroom country jams, twirling you around the floor and stepping on your toes a bit, and even in restrained moments, you know there’s a big smile and a bright picture in the background.
Mayday write pop songs that have their pants around their ankles; they are slow and cold and true.
www.sponiczine.com /review_detail.asp?wfArtist=Mayday   (332 words)

  
 Ink 19 :: Mayday
Mayday tip-toe around their songs, at times they seem to barely want to move for fear of ruining the brilliant beauty they convey.
Not to say that this is either repetitive or genteel music, far from it, the songs move around like mad, but they do so in a careful manner, always feeling their way, never bursting into chaos where a quiet whisper will do.
So that when they do break into frantic, chaotic noisescapes, it seems necessary, almost, as if they've tried to get their meaning across in every other way and this is their last way out, a final, frustrated scream.
www.ink19.com /issues/july2002/musicReviews/musicM/mayday.html   (304 words)

  
 Mayday: I Know Your Troubles Been Long - PopMatters Music Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Mayday frontman Ted Stephens plays guitar for Cursive, and he also fronts the gloomy Americana folk outfit Lullaby for the Working Class.
That theme is most explicitly articulated in the faintly surly, sad-eyed track "The Laundromat", which finds Stevens' confronting the dirty affairs of the world with a yearningly helpless eye.
Musically, the song is an straight-up dirge, but Stevens's emotive, weary-as-all-hell voice grows palpably inconsolable as he sings about his personal impotence in the face of war and murder and political manipulation.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/m/mayday-iknow.shtml   (804 words)

  
 CMT.com : Mayday : Biography
Omaha mainstay Ted Stevens put time in with a number of influential acts, but Mayday was his most personal.
Named after an annual concert that Stevens and his friends threw on the first day of May, Mayday was the songwriter's return to his earlier style of composition.
A mix of the lilting and quiet sounds of Lullaby and detours into Spanish flavored guitar workouts and sea shantey themes, the disc was clearly a release for years of Stevens original material that had been gathering in the vaults.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/mayday/bio.jhtml   (388 words)

  
 The City Paper - Smart, Fast, Free   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
While clearly in the contemporary rock vein musically, Mayday's songs sometimes discuss such cheery subjects as dismemberment, devotion that borders on obsession, materialism and addiction.
Stevens is also very encouraged with what he sees and hears in his native state, saying that Mayday is among a number of modern bands coming out of the area that are influenced as much by literature and film as music.
Rather than tight arrangements or cute hooks, Mayday's music has a fierce, challenging lyrical tone, one that's augmented by a potent rhythmic foundation.
www.nashvillecitypaper.com /index.cfm?section=12&screen=newsprint&news_id=43214   (390 words)

  
 [i:Vibes] - your guide to electronic dance music (trance, techno, house, progressive etc.)
Every single DJ that is performing at the Mayday is standing on the scene dancing with hands in the air.
One of the Fathers of the Mayday was presenting fine electronic music with a lot of breaks and abstract Rhythms.
His set always is one of those not to miss at the mayday, because it is him who always has the right taste for new styles of music.
www.ivibes.nu /?article=3024   (1131 words)

  
 Ink 19 :: Mayday   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
With this musical state of being I went into I Know Your Troubles Been Long and was greeted with an entirely mixed bag.
At their best, Mayday manage to cross the dark country sounds of Knife in the Water and The Willard Grant Conspiracy with the '70s outlaw country of Gram Parsons.
Mayday, on the other hand, seem like they've been around country music all their lives, but didn't really start living it until they'd bought an old cowboy hat, boots and a Hank Williams record.
www.ink19.com /issues/july2003/musicReviews/musicM/mayday.html   (392 words)

  
 Mayday MP3 Downloads - Mayday Music Downloads - Mayday Music Videos
Bright Eyes is the musical vehicle of Conor Oberst, a young singer-songwriter from Nebraska, who first attracted the attention of the indie music world in 1994 -- when he was just 14-years old -- as the singer and guitarist for Commander Venus.
Chamber pop quintet Matt Pond PA was led by titular singer/songwriter Pond, who formed the group upon relocating from New England to Philadelphia; also featuring guitarist/bassist Josh Kramer, cellist Jim Hostetter, violinist Rosie McNamara-Jones and drummer Sean Byrne, they debuted in 1998 with Deer Apartments, that same year winning top honors...
Tim Kasher spent the end of the 1990s making powerful and somewhat underrated music as the lead singer and guitarist for the Omaha-based post-rock quartet Cursive, but the band never really allowed for him to explore any of his softer ideas and more personal sentiments.
www.mp3.com /mayday/artists/483279/similar.html   (437 words)

  
 Live365 - CARP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Music and interviews contributed by the Live365 community speaking out about CARP.
Based in Washington DC, the FMC is also working towards solutions to the complex challenges that music/technology issues present, including designing and developing new business models that help citizens and musicians benefit from new technologies.
On May 1, 2002, the Independent Webcasting community declared, "Mayday!" in protest of the proposed CARP royalty recommendations.
www.live365.com /carp   (342 words)

  
 All Artists on Download.com Music - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
Music » Religious » CCM/Contemporary Gospel » Contemporary Gospel
Sweeping across a broad field of demographics, (18-60 years of age, marital status, gender, race and religious affiliation), this music catches every one of them all at once.
His music is based on the desire God and to praise and encourage others.
music.download.com /3605-8437_32-0.html   (651 words)

  
 MayDay music and dance, trah la!
Since Mayday has been celebrated for thousands of years all around the planet, I can assure celebrants that there is no ONE right way.
In ancient Europe, the Mayday procession was a march around the village, the marchers holding baskets, wreaths, May-poles or effigies.
The stations of the march would include village wells, barns where milk cows were housed, and around the village boundaries.
salmonriver.com /maydance.html   (497 words)

  
 Mayday Anime Forums - Music ya cant stand?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
the only kind of music that bugs me are techno and country.
Ho k lets get something straight, dont knock country music cuz your not smart enough to comprehend the redkneckt'itude, i suppose most of you dont dont like country music based on a few songs you heard, well dont listen to those songs listen to the good ones...Mr.
Most music is crap actually, I hear a song of any genre that I like and thats it really.
www.mayday-anime.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1346   (1229 words)

  
 * Mayday , search Mayday : music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Mayday Bemanning - Bemanning inom administration/kontor, telefoni, marknad och ekonomi i Stockholm.
Mayday, Centrum Edukacji Kulturalnej i Artystycznej - Organizator koncertów, imprez młodzieżowych, wystaw i zajęć plastycznych a także warsztatów aktorskich, gitarowych i języka migowego.
Mayday Interiors and Projects - Supplies office furniture and office services including space planning, refurbishment and relocation assistance.
www.fansea.com /?key=Mayday   (592 words)

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