Academics often say that it is only while you are doing a piece of research that you find the kind of research that you would ideally like to do. In my case, I did research in New Orleans for over a decade before deciding that what I was doing was, in fact, research. .
Wavelength.
From 1980 until 1992, I was editor and co-publisher of Wavelength, a music magazine in New Orleans. 'Dedicated to New Orleans music', Wavelength specialised in extended interviews with members of the New Orleans musical community, along with historical anecdote, in-depth coverage of the city's many music festivals and cultural activities, as well as listings of musical events in the city. Its readership included subscribers across the United States and in several foreign countries.
Information scarce - In the young discipline of popular music studies, material on musicmaking in local communities is scarce. As Sara Cohen has said, 'What is particularly lacking in the literature is ethnographic data and microsociological detail.' That's particularly true of New Orleans, where even though there's massive amounts of books that mention the city and its music, they"re not scholarly or useful by any means. .
So outside academia useful - My work in New Orleans pointed out the possibility for a broader definition of research that could include the contribution of people other than professional academics, especially the often overlooked resource of the specialist press. .
Researchers are often limited, by funding or pressures to submit a thesis, to a short period of research. Since my work was not done through a traditional academic route, and not constrained by the usual institutional structure associated with research projects, I had the opportunity to observe, intimately and at leisure, one of music's most influential communities through time. .
I was also in a position to examine at first hand the interplay between the international music industry and a local music scene, as well as to observe the global network of music fans, journalists, and musical legends who were attracted to the city by its cultural practices.
The guitar's history can be traced back in time through monuments, pictures, poems and sculptors. ... Its history can be traced back over 4000 years. ... He developed music and guitars. ... Paganinni was also active, playing and writing for the guitar as well as the violin. ... The history of the guitar was difficult to track up until the 16th century. ...
HISTORY OF ROCK AND ROLL For many years, people have been listening to rock and roll music, and not knowing where it originated from. ... One cannot write a report on the history of Rock and Roll without writing about the show totally devoted to Rock and Roll. ... People thought that Clark was more concerned with exposing more local acts than national ones, due to the fact that artists from Philadelphia's record companies were very frequent guests on the show. Also it was found that Clark had invested in a local record pressing plant, and the records that were manufactured there ...
This argument was illustrated with reference of two different types of music: cock rock and teenybop. ... They believe that men dominate and control the production, reproduction and dissemination of rock music - and this is reflected in the music. ... Walser argues that for most of its early history, heavy metal was actively made as male through a series of quite particular practices, strategies and tactics. ... " "There are just two types of female making pop music today - those blessed with good looks, and those who would perhaps be better served by an undercover visit to the loc...
The result was music that was neither fully Country nor Pop. ... Although Urban Country came, went, and quickly became a forgettable chapter in country music history, the artists of this genre are not as forgotten. ... He began to play guitar as a child, and by age 10 was playing on the local radio station. ... As Owen and Cook were attending college, the band put its musical career on hold, but after graduation, Owen and Cook decided to become professional musicians and they started writing their own music... In 1968, she released her most famous single, "Stand By Your Man", which became ...
History of the Guitar The guitar's history can be traced back in time through monuments, pictures, poems and sculptors. ... Its history can be traced back over 4000 years. ... He developed music and guitars. ... Paganinni was also active, playing and writing for the guitar as well as the violin. ... The history of the guitar was difficult to track up until the 16th century. ...
While writing and teaching, James got to analyse the genre the were going into, and it wasn't anything like any L.A. bands. ... He rebelled against this uprising through his music. ... Going into more detail about the history of the NWOBHM, It was created in Britain (surprised?) ... Things got better from here, when local record store and promoter "Johnny Z" heard the demo tape no life till leather and went looking for Metallica. ... Found in all music shops 20 years later. ...
Thesis Statement: Bob Dylan's life affected his writing and contributed to the development of his music. Introduction: Bob Dylan was recognized by his poetry and song writing. ... Bob Dylan is unquestiably one of the most influential figures in the history of popular music. ... By the time he was ten years old he was writing poems and had taught himself to play guitar. ... His passion for music was so huge that he began skipping classes and also began to play his music at small local nightspots. ...
In a short essay entitled "Musica Practica,"" semiologist Roland Barthes wrote that "there are two musics (at least so I have always thought): the music one listens to, the music one plays."" ... believed that practical music was on the wane. ... At the time of Hebdige's writing, punk was still in its nascent, formative period. ... Compared to some of the other countries in Southeast Asia, the punk/HC movement in Malaysia is fairly well-developed "with its own storied history and noteworthy figures. ... "The local scene is become more diverse' and more open'."" ...
(Williams 5-9) All these things must have had a profound effect on Bach's writing, particular his earliest works. ... Their gavottes and bourees certainly would have provided young Bach a better example of a dance than a local organ could have.... Prince Leopold was was a Calvinist with a great interest in music. ... His parents were quite different than Bach's, for neither had any association with music - his father was a barber and surgeon, and his mother was the daughter of the local church pastor. Handel's father, Georg Handel, was in no was in no way a lover of music, and...