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I had felt for a long time that for New Orleans musicians, their conversations about the music didn't correspond to the books that I read about the city - their motivations for playing, their complicated path to learning the music and the repetoire of the city, their relationship to the city and how they used music to express their individual and collective power .
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Popular music studies to disregard issues of ethnicity and class within African-American communities, as well as to reify recorded music at the expense of live performance, are factors that have led popular music discourse to banish to the cultural fringes the musical activities of contemporary New Orleans. .
At the same time, literature on the "globalisation" of music that has considered the pressures of international music industries on small countries, has not often dealt with the peculiar problems faced by a local community reacting under these same pressures without a national government working to protect its interests. .
My research proceeded on the principle that through looking at music and musical activities in this locality today (as opposed to looking at texts, and products), while reading all I could of the primary texts on the area, I could link history to oral histories and maybe get to some answers for such questions as:.
1 how New Orleans came to be a centre of innovative musical styles, .
2 how the city is represented and used by music historians, by the popular press, by the music industry and by the city itself for economic development and place marketing, .
3 and the manner by which tradition and cultural forms of expression are documented and passed down within the community, .
4 music's role in producing society, .
5 how this community has embraced change, duality and contradiction, promoting a versatility that perhaps has contributed to the survival and durability of their complex cultural activities in an urban setting.
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...
