Oh Adelaide (with Ain Bailey), 2010, Video
- Medium
- Single-channel video with sound. 7 minutes 28 seconds.
Oh Adelaide is a single-channel video by Sonia Boyce and sound artist Ain Bailey, that incorporates found film footage from the internet of the late jazz singer and entertainer, Adelaide Hall (1901-1993). Through re-imagining the footage Hall is re-rendered as an ethereal figure on the stage in which she appears both in and outside of history – a sense that is underscored by Bailey’s immersive and haunting soundtrack comprised of re-worked audio tracks of Hall and other performers from the Devotional Collection: an ongoing project since 1999 that Boyce has been developing on Black women in the British music industry. Adelaide Hall is widely regarded as a pioneer of jazz scat singing: a wordless technique where the voice mimics a musical instrument.
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Related theme: Sound / Singing
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Drift
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1930s to 1960s – The Rivington Place Portfolio
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Related theme: Performance
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FEELING HER WAY
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In the Mix: Skunk Sputnik
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Ain't Misbehavin'
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In the Mix: Hippy Liberty
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In the Mix: Disciples Together
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P. P. Arnold / Just call me angel of the morning
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Devotional II
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Related theme: Participatory / Collaboration
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Drift
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Crop Over
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Exquisite Tension
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Devotional II
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