Chris Strachwitz

Christian Alexander Maria Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche und Camminetz (/ˈstrɑːkwɪts/;  Yuli 1, 1931 - Mayu 5, 2023) ya kasance dan asalin Jamus ne kuma mai samar da rikodin rikodin. Shi ne wanda ya kafa kuma shugaban Arhoolie Records, wanda ya kafa a cikin 1960 kuma wanda ya zama ɗaya daga cikin manyan lakabi da ke yin rikodin da kuma bayar da blues, Cajun, norteño, da sauran nau'ikan kiɗa na tushen daga Amurka da sauran wurare a duniya. Strachwitz ya raina mafi yawan kiɗa na kasuwanci a matsayin kiɗa na linzamin kwamfuta.

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Strachwitz a Berlin, Jamus. A shekara ta 1945, a karkashin sharuddan Yarjejeniyar Potsdam bayan Yaƙin Duniya na II, shi da iyalinsa sun kasance daga cikin miliyoyin mutanen da ke magana da Jamusanci da aka tilasta su koma yammacin Layin Oder-Neisse wanda ya zama iyakar gabashin Jamus. Iyalin Strachwitz sun zauna na ɗan lokaci tare da dangi a Braunschweig, a yankin Burtaniya na Allied-occupied Jamus, inda ya fara jin kiɗa mai juyawa da aka buga a Rediyon Sojoji.

A shekara ta 1947, iyalin suka yi hijira zuwa Amurka, suka fara zuwa Reno, Nevada, sannan zuwa Santa Barbara, California. Strachwitz ya halarci Makarantar Cate a kusa da Carpinteria . Ya zama mai sha'awar jazz bayan ya ga fim din New Orleans, tare da Billie Holiday da Louis Armstrong, kuma ya fara tattara rikodin jazz. Ya bayyana a cikin wata hira ta 2010:Sautin ya dame ni.... Zan ji duk wannan a rediyo, kuma kawai ya buge ni. Na yi tunanin wannan shine abu mafi ban mamaki da na taɓa ji.Bayan kammala karatunsa daga Cate a 1951, ya halarci Kwalejin Pomona da ke Claremont,  kuma ya fara ziyartar kulob din jazz a Los Angeles da kuma wasan kwaikwayo na rhythm da blues wanda ke nuna Lightnin 'Hopkins, Howlin 'Wolf da sauransu. Ya fara yin rikodin watsa shirye-shiryen rediyo da shirye-shirye na abokinsa, mawaƙin jazz Frank Demond, kafin ya shiga 1952 a UC Berkeley, inda ya yi rajistar masu wasan jazz da R & B a matsayin nishaɗi a wasannin kwallon kafa.

Strachwitz ya zama ɗan ƙasar Amurka kuma an rubuta shi cikin Cats="cx-link" data-linkid="106" href="./United_States_Army" id="mwWg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Army">Sojojin Amurka a shekara ta 1954, bayan Yaƙin Koriya, an ajiye shi a Salzburg, Austria, daga inda ya ci gaba da ganin wasan kwaikwayo na jazz. Bayan kammala aikinsa ya koma Berkeley, ya kammala karatunsa a fannin injiniya, lissafi da kimiyyar lissafi, sannan ya sami digiri a kimiyyar siyasa da digiri na gaba a makarantar sakandare a shekarar 1960. A lokaci guda, ya ci gaba da bunkasa ƙwarewarsa ta fasaha, yana koyo daga mai gabatar da shirye-shirye Bob Geddins kuma ta hanyar yin rikodin mawaƙin titin San Francisco Jesse Fuller, jazz saxophonist Sonny Simmons da sauransu. Ya kuma yi aiki a matsayin malamin makarantar sakandare a Los Gatos na tsawon shekaru uku daga 1959. 

## Rubuce-rubucen Arhoolie
A lokacin rani na shekara ta 1959, ya yi tafiya zuwa Houston, Texas, yana da niyyar ziyartar jaruminsa, Lightnin 'Hopkins . Kodayake bai iya yin rikodin Hopkins a lokacin ba saboda rashin kuɗi da kayan aiki,  ya yanke shawarar komawa yankin a shekara mai zuwa. Tare da kudaden da aka samu daga ciniki a cikin 78 rpm records, ya sayi sabbin kayan rikodin, ya kafa lakabin Arhoolie, kuma a cikin 1960 ya koma Texas inda, tare da taimakon "Mack" McCormick, ya rubuta Mance Lipscomb a karon farko. Kundin Lipscomb, *Texas Sharecropper da Songster*, ya zama saki na farko na Arhoolie a watan Nuwamba 1960, a cikin bugu na 250 kofe. Sunan "Arhoolie" McCormick ne ya ba da shawarar, wanda ya samo asali ne daga kalma don mai magana da filin. Strachwitz kuma ya rubuta "Black Ace" Turner, "Li'l Son" Jackson da Whistlin 'Alex Moore a wannan tafiya, kuma daga baya a cikin shekarar ya rubuta Big Joe Williams da Mercy Dee Walton a California.

Strachwitz kuma ya fara sake fitar da kayan tarihi, duka mawaƙa na R & B kamar Big Joe Turner da Lowell Fulson waɗanda suka yi rikodin ga tsohuwar lakabin Swingtime, da tsohuwar ƙasa da rikodin yamma a kan lakabin Old Timey, sun fara a 1962. Ya daina koyarwa a wannan shekarar kuma ya koma Berkeley, California">Berkeley, don ya ba da kansa ga bunkasa kasuwancin rikodin. Ya kuma ci gaba da tafiya don yin rikodin filin mawaƙa, musamman Mississippi Fred McDowell (wanda ya fara yin rikodin a 1964), Juke Boy Bonner, K. C. Douglas, da Clifton Chenier . Daga 1965, ya kuma dauki bakuncin shirin kiɗa na ranar Lahadi da yamma a gidan rediyo na Pacifica na KPFA-FM a Berkeley, California, wanda ya gudana har zuwa 1995.

A shekara ta 1965, abokinsa ED Denson ya gabatar da shi ga ƙungiyar gida, Country Joe da Kifi, waɗanda ke aiki a cikin zanga-zangar yaki da Vietnam a Berkeley. Strachwitz ya rubuta ƙungiyar yana raira waƙa "Ina jin kamar ina da kyau' don mutuwa", kuma ya sami rabon haƙƙin bugawa na waƙar. A ƙarshe, sarauta daga waƙar - musamman bayyanarta a cikin fim din Woodstock Festival da Kundin sauti - sun taimaka wajen tallafawa lakabin Arhoolie, kuma sun ba Strachwitz damar siyan gini a kan San Pablo Avenue a El Cerrito, California, a matsayin hedkwatar lakabin. Strachwitz ya kuma lashe kyautar sarauta ga Fred McDowell daga wasan kwaikwayon Rolling Stones na waƙarsa "You Gotta Move" a cikin kundin Sticky Fingers . 

A cikin shekarun 1970s, Strachwitz ya ci gaba da yin rikodin mawaƙa na blues, ciki har da Big Joe Duskin, Charlie Musselwhite, Big Mama Thornton, Elizabeth Cotten, da Robben Ford, da kuma Cajun da zydeco masu wasan kwaikwayo kamar Clifton Chenier, Lawrence Ardoin da John Delafose. Ya kuma ci gaba da samun haƙƙin sakin kayan tarihi irin su na Snooks Eaglin da Robert Pete Williams. A cikin 1980s da 1990s, ya ci gaba da bunkasa Arhoolie a matsayin mai rarraba ƙananan lakabin blues masu zaman kansu, da kuma mai shigo da jazz da blues a kan lakabin Turai.

## Mutuwa
Strachwitz ya mutu a ranar 5 ga Mayu, 2023, yana da shekaru 91. 

## Kyaututtuka da gado
A shekara ta 1993, Strachwitz ya sami lambar yabo ta rayuwa daga Blues Symposium saboda rawar da ya taka wajen adana blues,  kuma a 1999 an shigar da shi a matsayin memba mai zaman kansa na Blues Hall of Fame. 

In 1995 he formed the Arhoolie Foundation "to document, preserve, present and disseminate authentic traditional and regional vernacular music." The Foundation owns the Chris Strachwitz Frontera Collection, comprising about 44,000 commercially issued phonograph records of Mexican-American and Mexican vernacular material, issued between around 1906 and the 1990s, which are now  in the process of being digitized. In 2009, the collection was opened to the public at the Chicano Studies Research Center of the University of California, Los Angeles.

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