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Grassroots Music Support: Wales Leading the Way in UK
As reported in a variety of sources this week, The Music Venue Trust (MVT) called on the UK Government for a £50 million financial injection to assist the grassroots music sector over the coming months, in addition to a three year VAT … Continue reading
Covid19 and the Music Industry: Reflections toward the end of June 2020
This is the 3rd blog I have written intending to take stock of the various impacts Covid 19 has had on the music sector. Related news this week included discussions around the initial guidelines proposed concerning musicians returning to work, with … Continue reading
Carl Orr: Guitarist Composer Teacher and Sting Sideman
Guitarist, composer and Sting sideman Carl Orr was kind enough to write a five-star review of my Sting book this week. It was great to see the book get a ‘thumbs up’ from Carl, who I respect. greatly as a musician and have … Continue reading
Posted in Musicology
Tagged Carl Orr, From Northern Skies to Fields of Gold, paul carr, Something Else, sting, The Last Ship
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Music Musings on Covid19: Part 2
This week’s news has featured a number of headlines related to Covid19, ranging from AEGs announcements of its intention to make some staff redundant, Travis McCready performing America’s first post lockdown gig, Eventbrite being sued as a result of its … Continue reading
Covid 19 and the Music Industry: News Update and Thoughts
Now into my third month of lockdown, I thought I would start up a regular blog which highlights some of the developments concerning covid 19 on the music industry. The impacts of the pandemic seem to be changing every week, … Continue reading
Posted in Covid-19, Music Industry
Tagged covid 19, lockdown, New Zealand, Wales, welsh music industry
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COVID-19 FREELANCERS AND THE LIVE MUSIC INDUSTRY: THE PERFECT STORM?
Earlier on in the week, I was asked to write a blog for my university’s Centre for the Study of Media and Culture in Small Nations. The subject was on the impact of Covid-19 on the music industry and yes … Continue reading
Rock Music Pedagogy in the UK and US: Ignorance or Elitism?
In this new reality that many of us find ourselves in, I have been experimenting with Panopto as a means of recording content for my students. So, please find below a synopsis of an essay I have written for the … Continue reading
Posted in Bloomsbury Rock, Musicology
Tagged EDECEL, music pedagogy, panopto, research, Rock Music, WJEC
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The Rock Instrumentarium
Well, we have spent the last few weeks going through all of the proof edits for the Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research, including an enormous bibliography and an even larger index of close to 9000 words. Despite the various … Continue reading
Posted in Bloomsbury Rock
Tagged Allan Moore, Bass, Bloomsbury, Drums, guitar, paul carr, Rock Music, Rock Music Research, Steve Waksman
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Rock Vocalities
Chapter four of the Bloomsbury Handbook on Rock Music…… In a chapter focusing on rock vocalities, Katherine Meizel points out how the ways in which rock vocalists sing vary not only between subgenres, but from performer to performer. Meizel highlights … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Bloomsbury Rock
Tagged authenticity, Katherine Meizel, Rock Vocalities, Rock Vocals, Subgenre
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The Definition of ‘Rock’ and Stylistic Overlaps
The third essay of the Bloomsbury Handbook of rock music Research is provided by Taylor Myers and Brad Osborn, who initially examine the music theory, musicological and cultural studies literature that has emerged relating to rock scholarship over the last … Continue reading
Posted in Musicology
Tagged Aborescent, Allan Moore, musicology, paul carr, Rhizomatic, rock analysis
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