The Amen Break is (in my understanding) one of the more important fragments of music in modern history. As there is a common, golden thread that began seventy years ago in Jamaica. Which runs all the way up into the modern day as Drum And Bass music and beyond.
The Amen Break is part of a special story, one of fusing human cultures from around the planet into a common sound. I encourage people to do a bit of research here, it's worth your time.
Thank you for the great article and excellent subject.
This is a thought I just finished having. Right alongside a bowl of canned soup, that (with the help of spices) turned out to be a five star meal. Food is medicine, as it is said.
I'm really excited to see another link to The Gutenberg Project. They do amazing work. And if their download stats are accurate, they must be one of the largest libraries of PDFs on the public Internet.
> excited to see another link to [Project Gutenberg] ... they ...
It is a bit different. They started it, they started it all. The Project started in 1971, when Michael S. Hart as a student was offered computer use and realized it was a good idea to digitize texts, for preservation and distribution.
Project Gutenberg is one of the foremost Cultural Preservation and Promotion Projects of the XX Century.
A while ago, I was helping a student collect 19th century texts for corpus analysis. Since the books were out of copyright, PDFs were downloadable from Google and the Internet Archive. Although the scanned versions from the two sources were equivalent, the OCRed versions were very different. The OCRed texts from Google had a very low error rate and could be easily corrected by hand. The ones from IA were unusable, with many extreme typos on every line.
They also have feeds for playlists but they are wonky (they only display a limited number of videos so won't contain new items if the new videos are added at the bottom) and not advertised.
