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Music Info Sources and Services - week 14

Week 14 – on The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures by David Temperly

I have to admit to finding it simultaneously alienating and comforting to read of mathematical mappings of music, (which seems to be the stuff of Temperly’s work – though of course that’s a gross oversimplification to his efforts).  The ambiguity of response is [...]

Music Info Sources and Services - week 13

Week 13 – on Simon’s “Jamming in the Stacks,” Hakanen’s “Counting Down to Number One,” and Oliver’s “Music, History, Democracy”

One particular nugget I took away from Oliver’s rather scathing critique of the 1989 IASPM conference was his note that “meanings associated with music (by academics, at any rate) are not intrinsic to it, but are [...]

Music Info Sources and Services - week 12

Week 12 – On Music Is Your Business, chapter 1 and chapter 6

The value of this work as a primer to the music business is obvious – even the initial charts showing the variety of faces of the ‘fronts’ of music marketing are of value in acquainting musicians with the landscape, as well as providing [...]