Music Info Sources and Services – LIS5937

Week 7 – on Musicophilia, chapters 15 and 23; Manual for the Performance Library, chapters 6 and 7

As much as I would like to find hope in the apparent palliative effects of music on Clive in the case written about in chapter 15, I cannot help finding Clive’s story tremendously sad.  Yes, of [...]

Week 6 – on Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, ch. 7 & 11

These two chapters followed an interesting trajectory, first in stripping away some of the mystery of musical performance and appreciation by rooting it in biological factors, then in reinflating the mystery through reflection on mechanisms for compensation [...]

Week 5 – on Russ Girsberger’s A Manual for the Performance Library, chapters 2 and 3 – 2/07/2011

Girsberger’s intention across the second and third chapters of his book seems to be to support his assertion from the first chapter, that traditional training and even experience as a librarian is not necessary to work [...]

Week 4 – on Steve Gordon’s The Future of the Music Business, chapters 7 & 8 – 2/04/2011

Reading Gordon’s assertion that the sale of ringtones is a billion-dollar industry was surprising, although it was interesting to note that more time was not spent on adding this to revenues from other forms of digital [...]