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  Encyclopedia: Mickey Hart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Hart was influential in recording global musical traditions on the verge of possible extinction, working with archivists and ethnomusicologists at both the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, and the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian Institution.
Mickey Hart is on the Board of Trustees of the American Folklife Center and has been a spokesperson for the Save Our Sounds audio preservation initiative.
Mickey Hart is best known for his nearly three decades as an integral part of an extraordinary expedition into the soul and spirit of music, disguised as the rock and roll band the Grateful Dead.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mickey-Hart   (1037 words)

  
 Mickey Hart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Mickey Hart (born September 11, 1943) is known as one of the two drummer (Someone who plays a drum) s from the rock band (A band of musicians who play rock-'n'-roll music) the Grateful Dead (additional info and facts about Grateful Dead).
Hart was influential (sometimes even single handed) in recording global musical traditions on the verge of possible extinction (The reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation).
Mickey is now one of the primary curators for music with the Smithsonian Institution (additional info and facts about Smithsonian Institution), known for reissues and other recordings with historical and cultural value.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/mickey_hart.htm   (310 words)

  
 Drummerworld: Mickey Hart
Hart's lifelong fascination with the history and mythology of music is documented in three books: Drumming at the Edge of Magic (written with Jay Stevens and Fredric Lieberman), Planet Drum (with Fredric Lieberman and D.A. Sonneborn) and his 1999 offering, Spirit into Sound: The Magic of Music (written with Fredric Lieberman).
Long a social activist, Hart appeared in August of 1991 before the U.S. Senate Committee on Aging, speaking on the healing value of drumming and rhythm on afflictions associated with aging.
Recently Hart was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the American Folklife Center atthe Library of Congress where he heads up the sub-committee on the digitization and preservation of the Center's vast collections.
www.drummerworld.com /drummers/Mickey_Hart.html   (524 words)

  
 Mickey Hart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Mickey Hart (born 1943) is known as one of the two drummer s from the rock band the Grateful Dead.
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The Celebrity Cafe: Mickey Hart Interview in which Hart discusses his scholarly writing on music.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Mickey_Hart.html   (495 words)

  
 MICKEY HART NET BIOGRAPHY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Mickey has written four books documenting his lifelong fascination with the history and mythology of music.
Long a social activist, Mickey appeared in August, 1991 before the U.S. Senate Committee on Aging, speaking on the healing value of drumming and rhythm on afflictions associated with aging.
In 1999, Mickey was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress where he heads the sub-committee on the digitization and preservation of the Center's vast collections.
www.mhart.com /Pages/mh.html   (508 words)

  
 Baby Massage: Behind The Scenes. Mickey Hart.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Hart then overdubbed the organic rhythm of the heartbeat with drums, bass harmonies, and wooden flute.
Hart's tireless study of the world's music led him to many great teachers and collaborators, including his partners on Planet Drum, which received the first ever Grammy for Best World Music Album in 1991, and was #1 on Billboard's World Music Chart for 26 weeks.
This sparked Hart's lifelong pursuit of the heritage of the drum and drumming.
www.babymassage.net /behind_mickey.html   (282 words)

  
 Surround: Mickey Hart
For most of us, Mickey Hart is best known for his nearly three decades as an integral part of an extraordinary expedition into the soul and spirit of music, disguised as a rock'n'roll band called the Grateful Dead and its subsequent incarnation as The Other Ones.
Mickey also serves on the advisory board of the Smithsonian Folkways and was recently appointed a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress.
Here, Mickey discusses the pros of surround, his techniques for using it, and what it means in the futures for "shapers of sound" like himself.
www.meyersound.com /news/press/sur_hart.htm   (2906 words)

  
 Alibris: Mickey Hart
Legendary Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart brings all his passion for music and the magic it creates to this long look at what music is and at the songcatchers who have gone to the remote corners of the planet to record it, preserving and deepening cultural diversity worldwide.
Mickey Hart, percussionist for the Grateful Dead, tells the compelling tale of his quest to unlock the power, myths, and legends of percussion.
Mickey Hart's dazzling companion to his bestselling Drumming at the Edge of Magic is a captivating chronicle of our global fascination with drums and the primal rhythms and spells of percussion, dramatically illustrated with 350 photographs and illustrations, 200 in full color.ra tour.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Hart,Mickey   (634 words)

  
 USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Mickey Hart: The audience plays a large part in performance, since we feed off their energy.
Mickey Hart: I don't think it affected it one way or the other.My religion is rhythm.
Mickey Hart: Our music was improvisational, so we always thought the audience played an important part,a nd that we didn't fully own it.
cgi1.usatoday.com /mchat/20030613003/tscript.htm   (1495 words)

  
 the iMAGAZINE - MICKEY HART   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
For well on 20 minutes, drummer and percussionist Mickey Hart has been coherent, thoughtful, observant, enmeshed in explaining the intricacies of his ongoing 20-year project to both familiarise a planet with and commit to history world music.
Mickey Hart was there for all but four of those 30 years and countless albums, arriving in time to start working out on the Dead's imperious psychedelic second Anthem Of The Sun in 1968.
Hart is getting twitchy, says he has to get back to those tape machines, finish off the two tracks he's working on for Hagar's solo album.
www.thei.aust.com /isite/hart.html   (1298 words)

  
 Mickey Hart Interview
Hart used a Grateful Dead concert as a palette for his rhythmic investigations.
Hart’s passion for percussion has evolved way beyond the realm of a Grateful Dead concert, and he has traveled the world researching different cultures and their associations with rhythm.
The Vermont Review had a chance to speak to Mickey Hart on his car phone, as he was about to cross the Golden Gate Bridge on his way to his daily rehearsal with Planet Drum.
members.tripod.com /vermontreview/Interviews/MHart.htm   (2685 words)

  
 dirty linen
Although originally trained in the marching band/military rudimentary drumming style as a child, Hart expanded his repertoire as a percussionist early on, and his role in the Dead was as much a percussionist as a second drummer.
At the beginning of 1971, Hart took a three-year leave of absence from the Dead and immersed himself in solo projects recorded at his barn-studio in Marin County.
Hart dubbed this sprawling array of facts, references, and quotes "the Anaconda," in recognition of the way it snaked across the walls of his studio.
www.dirtynelson.com /linen/86/hart.html   (882 words)

  
 Rykodisc Catalog - Mickey Hart's Mystery Box - Mickey Hart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Hart crafted songs from the rhythmic foundation up, and that meant not just the beat, but the melody.
The voices, the last fundamental element of Hart's vision appeared in the form of the Mint Juleps, a remarkable a cappella group from Great Britain.
While Hunter's words melded perfectly with Mickey's grooves, they really took flight when given voice by the Mint Juleps on songs that run the gamut from the soulful ("Where Love Goes (Sito)") to the surreal ("John Cage Is Dead").
www.rykodisc.com /catalog/dump/rykoalbums_54.asp   (331 words)

  
 Mickey Hart and Jay Stevens, Drumming at the Edge of Magic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
As I write this I'm listening to Mickey Hart and Planet Drums' Supralingua, letting the groove carry me to the Edge; feeding on the inspiration that was just one of the things Hart hoped to convey with his book.
Noisemaker Hart then takes the reader on a journey through slit gongs -- (think Tarzan-style movies from the '30s: "That infernal drumming is driving me mad, Higby!") -- tars and damarus, congas and drone pipes, trap sets and kettle drums.
Invariably, Hart also talks about some of the great drummers of the 20th century -- America's own Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich and Chick Webb, India's Alla Rakha and Zakir Rakha, Nubia's Hamza el Din -- and the work each has done to carry drumming to another level, or, as Hart puts it, to The Edge.
www.greenmanreview.com /drumming.html   (673 words)

  
 Digital Interviews: Mickey Hart
Many fans of the group regarded the "Rhythm Devils" portion of a Dead concert a personal highlight, as Hart and drummer Bill Kreutzmann used percussive instruments and electronic wizardry to create a pulsating beast of a drum solo.
Hart is also an author, composer and producer.
Mickey Hart: I guess the beginning was when I first hit a drum pad.
digitalinterviews.com /digitalinterviews/views/hart.shtml   (3430 words)

  
 Q&A: Mickey Hart on New <I>Songcatchers</I> Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Summary Best known as a longtime percussionist with the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart is also a dedicated musicologist and advocate for the preservation of the world's music.
Best known as a longtime percussionist with the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart is also a dedicated musicologist and an advocate for the preservation of the world's music.
Author Mickey Hart, along with a masked Flora Purim and Airto Moreira, perform as part of Hart's "Planet Drum" experiment, which involved percussionists from cultures around the world.
news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/06/0605_030606_mickeyhartqa.html   (953 words)

  
 African Music Encyclopedia: Babatunde Olatunji
Mickey Hart first encountered Olatunji in one of those educational African programs.
His two Rykodisc releases produced by Mickey Hart -- Drums of Passion: The Beat (1989) and Drums of Passion: The Invocation (1988) -- show both his willingness to experiment and find common ground with American musicians, and his devotion to ancient African traditions.
In 1991 he and Hart joined forces on Planet Drum, a group that toured around the country and later recorded an album that won a Grammy Award.
africanmusic.org /artists/olatunji.html   (1258 words)

  
 Mickey Hart MP3 Downloads - Mickey Hart Music Downloads - Mickey Hart Music Videos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Hart's new age sort of blend of melodic elements and percussion are here again, centering around a very spiritual sound with heavy South American and African tribal influences.
Ever since the early '90s, when he released the acclaimed Drumming at the Edge of Magic book and the book/record set Planet Drum, Mickey Hart was nearly as well-known as a world-music aficionado as he was a member of the Grateful Dead.
Long before 'world music' was a widely used term, ethnomusicologist and performer Mickey Hart became enamored with the culture of rhythms.
www.mp3.com /Mickey-Hart/artists/2760/discography.html   (516 words)

  
 Mickey Hart Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Mickey Hart (born 1943) is best known as one of the two drummers from The Grateful Dead.
His travels and his keen interest in all things percussion related, lead him to collect percussion instruments, and to meet many percussion masters the world over.
Mickey is now one of the main (THE main?) curators for music with the Smithsonian Institution.
www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/m/mi/mickey_hart.html   (154 words)

  
 SearchCeleb.com - Hart, Mickey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Mickey Hart Solo Projects - Lyrics to his non-Grateful Dead songs.
Surround: Mickey Hart - Interview about the pros and techniques of multichannel recording and the preservation of the Library of Congress Sound recording archive.
The Celebrity Cafe: Mickey Hart - Interview in which Hart discusses his scholarly writing on music.
searchceleb.com /celebrity/Arts/Music/Bands_and_Artists/H/Hart,_Mickey   (328 words)

  
 Mickey Hart Net NEWS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Mickey Hart and Bob Weir performed in concert with OAR and the Flying Other Brothers at the Ritz Carlton in Washington, DC on 9/20/04 at 6pm in honor of Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy.
Mickey Hart is attended the museum opening as an invited guest in appreciation of his dedication to American Indian musical works and support of the museum.
Mickey performed as a guest artist on the National Mall as part of their free concert celebration on the evening of Sept 21st with world renowned artist Rita Coolidge.
www.mhart.com /Pages/news.html   (2740 words)

  
 Hydra "Is" - Orange Peel - Asheville, NC 4.26.5
As the musical life of the performance aged, wisdom was found in a few verbal, sonic vibrations before leaving its known vessel of the concert hall and dying a death only to be reborn a thousand times over in living rooms, cd players, tape decks, stories of youth, acts of valor and foolishness.
The band that guided the full house at the Orange Peel, Hydra was born as a collaboration between world renowned percussionist, musicologist, writer and researcher Mickey Hart (of the Grateful Dead family) and Particle, a pioneering west coast electronic/jam-rock band.
Hart has always been a musical pioneer and perhaps the most progressive member of the Grateful Dead.
www.focusnewspaper.com /feature3.htm   (662 words)

  
 Mickey Hart : The Apocalypse Now Sessions - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Marin County neighbors, percussionist Mickey Hart and filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola collaborated on the music and ethereal madness that sonically accompanied the groundbreaking and genre-defining Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now.
While Hart was definitely a centrifugal force in the creation and execution of the sounds on the Apocalypse Now Sessions (1989), the actual aggregate credited on the disc is the Rhythm Devils.
Also joining the festivities is Hart's longtime associate Michael Hinton, who co-composed much of the material with Hart and Moreira.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,99485,00.html   (330 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Songcatchers: In Search of the World's Music: Books: Mickey Hart,K.M. Kostyal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Hart and Kostyal note major figures and events in field recording down to the present, at which point Hart relates his own experiences.
Hart ventures across time and continents in following the songcatchers and their machines, and throughout it all he celebrates music and its ability to transcend the mundane and transport the human spirit.
Mickey Hart is in full-boogie these days touring with The Dead, and millions of fans are grateful they're back on the road.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/079224107X?v=glance   (1049 words)

  
 Music Preview: Mickey Hart and Bembe Orisha
Mention the recently released "The Best of Mickey Hart" and the drummer is quick to distance himself from the project.
A Mickey Hart collection encompasses his work with the Rhythm Devils on the eerie "Apocalypse Now Sessions," the gathering of the world's greatest percussionists as Planet Drum and the more multicultural pop-soul fusion of Mickey Hart's Mystery Box.
When Hart heard Vas, he invited Ellis and Ali to be part of Bembe Orisha, a dream come true for Ellis.
www.post-gazette.com /ae/20020920hartp7.asp   (760 words)

  
 MICKEY HART NET BOOKS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Mickey Hart, along with co-author and Professor of Ethnomusicology Fredric Lieberman, presents an original collection of quotes and commentary on the transformative power of music entitled Spirit into Sound: The Magic of Music.
Hart tells the compelling story of his quest to unlock the power, myths and legends of percussion.
Part autobiography and personal memoir, Hart vividly accounts how from the beginning of time humanity has celebrated, buried the dead, gone to war, married and worshipped to the sound of drums, gongs, and rattles.
mhart.com /Pages/books.html   (397 words)

  
 MusicSearcher.com: Mickey Hart | Spirit into Sound
My recommendation is to pass on this and stick with Hart classics such as At the Edge, Planet Drum, Suprlingua, or even the new "best of" collection that contains a bit of this and a bit of that.
My hope is that Mickey will release a few recordings from his latest musical ensemble, the Mickey Hart Band, featuring a guitarist, bassist, percussion players, vocalists, and former Dead-keyboard player, Vince Welnick.
In this album Mickey Hart has returned from his excursion into rock music with Mystery Box back to the drum beats that marked Planet Drum and On the Edge.
www.musicsearcher.com /Items/078221407120/Reviews   (508 words)

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