Music Info Sources and Services – LIS5937

Week 11 – on Soundtracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place, chapters 1 and 11

The exploration within the first chapter of Soundtracks of popular music as “providing a platform for the expression of marginalised [sic] voices,” was compelling, especially the notion that popular music might even capture some type of “resistance to the homogenizing forces of [...]

Week 10 – on The Future of the Music Business, chapters 19-20

The final chapters of Gordon’s book finally catch up to the present, with both the likely demise of the traditional music industry (revealed in an interview with the former president of Grokster, Wayne Rosso – at least as regards a substantial drop in revenue [...]

Week 9 – on The Future of the Music Business, chapters 14 – 16

Following on the practical applicability of the preceding few chapters, Gordon’s book shifts back to considerations of legal practicality and licensing for music distribution and copying through chapters 14 and 15, (especially 15 with the exploration of Creative Commons licensing).  One of the [...]

Week 8 – on Steve Gordon’s The Future of the Music Business, chapters 11 – 13

Last semester’s course, Information Architecture, was a true eye-opener in the midst of a program that has otherwise been useful but predictable; to put it simply, academic libraries have been my life for the past six years (and continue to [...]