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Showing posts with label Analysis. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Old music in the time of streaming

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Not this type of streaming.  "Truckee River, Tahoe"   by UnofficialSquaw.com   is licensed under  CC BY-NC-ND 2.0  A few week...
Saturday, January 20, 2018

Failure to critique hyper-masculinity in the Killers’ “The Man”

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One of the top-selling albums of 2017 was The Killers’ Wonderful Wonderful , which debuted no. 1 on the billboard charts in late September....
Monday, June 26, 2017

Parody and copyright, pt. 2: When the copyright owner holds all the chips

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Last March, I wrote about my experience posting a parody music video on YouTube. I got some encouragement from my readers to dispute EMI’s ...
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Sunday, March 19, 2017

What happens when you post a parody video on YouTube? Copyright, that’s what

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When fake lyrics are better than real lyrics More than six months ago, I posted a YouTube video that had been at least two years in the ...
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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Changing up TV theme songs

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Theme songs are important for TV—they signal the start of the show and brand it. The theme song can also channel the emotion of the show, bo...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Pop music as genre fiction

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Musical genre. We use musical genre labels all the time for important reasons: to try to make sense of the overwhelming selection available,...
Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Streaming music: ownership and beyond

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I've talked about music and streaming in the past on this blog , but I haven't come close to talking about all the important issues....
Sunday, March 29, 2015

Into the Woods and the disregard of “Show, Don’t Tell” in musicals

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This week, the movie version of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods came out on home video. First, I just want to say...
Monday, January 26, 2015

Secret of Mana: great melodies, varied repetition, and…Indonesian music?

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Last week, I critiqued a couple of video blogs about video game music . One of the truest things said from these video blogs was: “A great g...
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Monday, January 19, 2015

Why is classic video game music better?

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A couple of months ago, I wrote a post about video game music . Today, I’m going to tackle one of the questions that came up in that post: w...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Good idea: using musical examples ("All I Want For Christmas")

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I spend a fair amount of blog space pointing out bad music journalism—specifically, journalism that fails to use musical examples to back up...
Monday, December 8, 2014

Bad X-ray: failing to describe music of "Since U been gone"

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Every so often, NPR does a segment that analyzes a hit pop song to see how it ticks. This week, t he lens turned on Kelly Clarkson's ...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Mouth Music for the People: Capercaillie, Scots-Gaelic Culture as a National Symbol, and the Global Celtic Stage, Part 2

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This is part two of a two-part series. Read the first part here. Last week, I discussed the history of Scottish nationalism and the rise of ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Mouth Music for the People: Capercaillie, Scots-Gaelic Culture as a National Symbol, and the Global Celtic Stage, Part 1

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This blog post was originally given as a paper presentation at the Singing Storytellers Symposium, 11 October 2014, in Sydney, Nova Scotia, ...
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Monday, September 22, 2014

Clean Bandit, classical music's influence in pop, and Japaneseness in music

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Classical crossover? Last week I mentioned new artist Megan Trainor and her slow-ish rise on the Billboard charts. This week, I’d like t...
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