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| Home / College Guide / Daily Update: Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 |
| Posted on Wednesday, February 19 @ 00:00:27 PST |
We have no Saints to honor on this date; but in 1885 Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in the United States.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn had been published on December 10th, 1884, in Canada and England; the American publication was delayed because someone defaced an illustration on one of the plates, creating an obscene joke . Thirty-thousand copies of the book had been printed before the obscenity was discovered; a new plate was made to correct the illustration and repair the existing copies. The work has been popular with readers since its publication and is taken as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer . It has also been the continued object of study by serious literary critics. It was criticized upon release because its coarse language was deemed inappropriate for women and children; it became even more controversial in the 20th century because of its perceived use of racial stereotypes and because of its frequent use of what has become known as “the ‘n’ wordâ€. In 1955 CBS tried to avoid controversial material in a televised version of the book by deleting all mention of slavery and omitting the character of Jim entirely.
According to the American Library Association, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the fifth most frequently challenged book in the United States during the 1990s. A 2011 edition of the book, published by NewSouth Books, replaced “the ‘n’ word†with “slave†(although being incorrectly addressed to a freed man) and did not use the term “Injunâ€. The initiative to update the book was led by Mark Twain scholar Alan Gribben, who said the change was made to better express Twain’s ideas in the 21st century. Responses to this “updating†of the classic work included the publishing of The Hipster Huckleberry Finn which replaced “the ‘n’ word†with the word “hipsterâ€. The book’s description includes the statement “Thanks to editor Richard Grayson, the adventures of Huckleberry Finn are now neither offensive nor uncool.†In 2016 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was removed from a public school district in Virginia, along with the novel To Kill a Mockingbird , due to use of racial slurs. My personal objection to the novel is that it ends badly; once Tom Sawyer re-enters the story the novel devolves into a lazy plot and worse writing.
When I woke up to get ready for bed I was not feeling well at all, so I called in to work and went back to bed. I did not wake up until 8:05 am. I did my Book Devotional Reading, and Richard and I went to Ruby’s Café, where we ate lunch and I read the morning paper. Back home, I did my Internet Devotional Reading and said the Second Day of my Lenten Novena. I spent a low-impact day, doing not much of anything. I did start working on my April 2020 photos for my weblog, and at 4:30 pm I watched Jeopardy! . For dinner we had spaghetti with deer meat sauce and garlic bread. I did a couple of Advance Daily Update drafts for this weblog. Our #11 LSU Tigers (2-1, 0-0) are playing a Home College Baseball game with the Southern Jaguars (2-2, 0-0), and our LSU Tigers (18-7, 9-3) are playing a Home SEC College Basketball game with the #10 Kentucky Wildcats (20-5, 10-2).
We have no Saints to honor, but tomorrow is the anniversary both of when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to internment camps during World War II (1942) and of when President Gerald R. Ford rescinded Executive Order 9066 (1976).
I will do my laundry and the Weekly Computer Maintenance tomorrow. I will also try to be more productive. Our #6 LSU Lady Tigers (8-1, 0-0) will play a Home College Softball game with the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs (2-6, 0-0), and our Our #11 LSU Tigers will play an Away College Baseball game with the Nicholls State Colonels.
Today’s Parting Quote on this Tuesday evening is from Clyde Stubblefield, American musician (died 2017). Born in 1943 in Chattanooga, Tennessee , as a youngster his sense of rhythm was influenced by the industrial sounds of factories and trains around him. and he was inspired to pursue drumming after seeing drummers for the first time in a parade. He played professionally as a teenager. In early the 1960s he worked with guitarist Eddie Kirkland and toured with Otis Redding. In 1965 he joined James Brown’s band. Over the next six years the band had two drummers, Stubblefield and John “Jabo†Starks who had joined the band two weeks earlier, and whose style was influenced by the church music he grew up with in Mobile, Alabama. The two drummers had no formal training. Stubblefield’s recordings with James Brown are considered to be some of the standard-bearers for funk drumming, including the singles “Cold Sweatâ€, “There Was a Timeâ€, “I Got the Feelin’â€, “Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proudâ€, “Ain’t It Funky Nowâ€, “Mother Popcornâ€, “Get Up, Get into It, Get Involved†and the album Sex Machine .
His rhythm pattern on James Brown’s “Funky Drummer†is among the world’s most sampled musical segments. It has been used for decades by hip-hop groups and rappers such as Public Enemy, Run-DMC, N.W.A, Raekwon, LL Cool J, Beastie Boys and Prince, and has also been used in other genres. Though the sole creator of his patterns, Stubblefield was not credited for the use of the samples. He lived in Madison, Wisconsin, from 1971 onward. For over twenty years he played Monday nights with his band, The Clyde Stubblefield Band, in downtown Madison. The band featured his longtime friend and keyboard-organ player Steve “Doc†Skaggs, along with soul vocalists Charlie Brooks and Karri Daley, as well as a horn section and supporting band. Stubblefield worked with a variety of musicians in the Madison area such as keyboardist Steve Skaggs, guitarist Cris Plata, jazz violinist Randy Sabien, the country trio Common Faces and thejazz group NEO. He performed and recorded with members of The J.B.’s including Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker and “Jabo†Starks. The group released the album Bring the Funk on Down in 1999. From the early 1990s to 2015 Stubblefield performed on the nationally syndicated public radio show Whad’Ya Know? In 1990 he was named drummer of the year by Rolling Stone magazine.
Stubblefield’s first solo album, The Revenge of the Funky Drummer , was released in 1997. The album was produced by producer-songwriter Richard Mazda. Stubblefield collaborated frequently with “Jabo†Starks. As the Funkmasters, the Funkmasters, the duo released released a drumming instruction video in 1999 titled Soul of the Funky Drummers and an album in 2001 called Find the Groove . Stubblefield coped with health issues from the early 2000s onward including cancer. His wife Jody Hannon was a source of support in managing his health. In 2000 he was inducted into the Wisconsin Area Music Industry Hall of Fame. In 2002 Stubblefield released a twenty-six track break-beat album titled The Original Funky Drummer Breakbeat Album . Stubblefield’s third solo album The Original was released in 2003. In 2004 he received the lifetime achievement award at the Madison Area Music Awards. The Funkmasters released an album in 2006 called Come Get Summa This . In December 2007 they joined Bootsy Collins in Covington, Kentucky, for the first tribute concert in memory of James Brown. Stubblefield and Starks played on Funk for Your Ass , a tribute album by fellow James Brown orchestra alum Fred Wesley.
The album was released in 2008. Later that year an expansion to the EZdrummer software was released with samples recorded by Stubblefield and Starks. In 2009 Stubblefield was in need of a kidney transplant and underwent dialysis treatments. Musicians in the Madison area organized fundraiser events, donating the proceeds to supplement his dialysis treatment and subsequent medical bills. He was featured in the 2009 PBS documentary, Copyright Criminals , which addressed the creative and legal aspects of sampling in the music industry. In 2011 Stubblefield performed “Fight the Power†on the Jimmy Fallon show along with Chuck D and members of The Roots and Eclectic Method.The same year he retired from his Monday Night Madison shows due to health issues, leaving the band in the hands of his nephew Brett Stubblefield. In 2012 he gave an autobiographical talk and performed his favorite beats at the Madison Ruby conference in Madison, Wisconsin. In 2013 Stubblefield and Starks received the Yamaha Legacy Award. In 2014 Stubblefield was named the second best drummer of all time (after John Bonham of Led Zeppelin) by LA Weekly . In 2015 a scholarship fund for music education was started and named after Stubblefield.
Rolling Stone magazine in 2016 the magazine named Stubblefield and Starks the sixth best drummer of all time. Pop icon Prince, who considered Stubblefield a drumming idol, was a major financial supporter and had paid for about $80,000 of the drummer’s health care costs, it was disclosed in 2016, since Stubblefield had no health insurance. A set of Stubblefield’s autographed drum-sticks are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (died 2017): “What influenced me mainly was sounds. Train tracks. Washing machines. I just put patterns against natural sounds, and that’s what I do today. I could be walking down the street in time and put a drum pattern against it while I’m walking (…) That’s the same thing I’m doing now when I sit down behind the drums. I put a pattern behind what everyone else is doing.â€
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