April 2012
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John Peel's Record Collection Goes Online →
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Between the massively influential BBC DJ’s vinyl vault and Alan Lomax’s archive, this is turning out to be an awesome year to hear music online.
A very awesome year, indeed! This is going to be a lot of great music:
Starting on Tuesday, the John Peel Centre for Creative Artswill begin uploading details of the late DJ’s cherished vinyl, unveiling 2,600 albums over the next six...
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Streaming Music Databases
As the semester comes to a close, we thought it’d be an apt time to remind you of our electronic resources. While we do have roughly 6,000 CDs in the Music Library, our database expands our collection of music exponentially.
With 8 streaming audio databases covering a huge variety of genres, you can almost certainly find what you’re looking for and listen to it in your dorm room (or...
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Calypso Calaloo
Our latest arrival is Calypso Calaloo: Early Carnival Music in Trinidad (1993, University of Florida Press), by Donald R. Hill. Despite its age, this book remains one of the best resources on calypso and Caribbean music.
Calaloo (or callaloo) is a kind of stew, which varies based on what region it’s made in. Similarly, calypso music is a “blend of unlikely ingredients” -...
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oral history of queercore! →
We mix our Riot Grrrl collection here with some queercore (Team Dresch!). This article is a good mix of interviews to form a history of queercore.
JODY BLEYLE: The queer bands were filled with feminists, and so was the Riot Grrrl scene. There was an enormous amount of overlap. Team Dresch never considered itself a Riot Grrrl band; it was a Queercore band. When people think of feminism in the...
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Bad Music
Today’s new book is all about music we call “bad” and why it receives that moniker. A collection of academic essays, Bad Music: The music we love to hate (2004, Routledge) contains articles on all forms of bad music and discussions as to why the Academy rejects the music it has over the years and why we feel guilty about listening to it when we needn’t.
What makes...
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Watchnypl:
Our fab exhibition at Library for the Performing Arts!
nyc-arts:
NYC-ARTS Curator’s Choice: Star Quality: The World of Noel Coward
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts presents a look at the exhibition “Star Quality: The World of Noel Coward.” The exhibition is part of a city-wide festival celebrating Coward’s life and career. It draws upon the Coward Archives as well as...
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Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound
Last week we posted about our new acquisition Noise/Music, and today’s title is related. Pink Noises: Women on electronic music and sound (2010, Duke University Press) is another great recommendation from SLC Reference Librarian Eamon Tewell.
Author and electronic musician Tara Rodgers interviewed twenty-four women who work in some way with electronic music - DJs, composers, electronic...
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“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines...”
– - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
On April 4, 1968, Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
(via nypl)
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Noise/Music: A History
We’ve been getting a bunch of new books to support our fantastic electronic music program, lately. One of the newest is Noise/Music: A History (2007, Continuum) by lecturer/musician/author Paul Hegarty (thanks for the recommendation, SLC Reference Librarian Eamon Tewell!)
For those of you who aren’t familiar with noise music, this book is a good introduction, historical overview,...
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