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Golden Age or Gilded Cage? | Also Sprach FraKathustra
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Golden Age or Gilded Cage? June 4, 2012 by FraKathustra. 8220;Invariably, the term Golden Age. Is bestowed retroactively, when the period in question has ended and is compared with what followed in the specific field discussed.”. 8220;A Golden Age. 8220;…like gold, genuineness, abstracted as the proportion of fine metal, becomes a fetish.”. I’ve been thinking about the “Golden Age” of various styles of music. When does the Golden Age occur, and why? The Golden Age then seems to occur in a homophonic sett...
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What Happened to the Generation Gap? | Also Sprach FraKathustra
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What Happened to the Generation Gap? May 16, 2012 by FraKathustra. One of my nieces, a precocious, bright, and interesting teenager visited recently. In the course of conversation at dinner one night, I made a joke using a quote from a Michael Jackson tune, and I was surprised that she got the joke and knew the reference. She then said how much she. Jackson’s greatest success came after the Jackson Five era, beginning with his solo album. 1979) and reaching its high point with. My niece isn’t anoma...
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Bite the Band that Feeds You: Justice for Jazz Artists? (Part I) | Also Sprach FraKathustra
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Bite the Band that Feeds You: Justice for Jazz Artists? January 13, 2013 by FraKathustra. I’ve been watching the development of the Justice for Jazz Artists. J4JA) movement for a couple of years now. If you haven’t heard of this organization, here’s their mission statement from their website:. Now’s The Time! Their tactics include picketing outside of the handful of full-time jazz clubs in New York City. Here’s a protest march (Occupy 52nd Street? At the Village Vanguard:. AB Spellman Jazz Masters Award.
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NoJazzFest for Old Men | Also Sprach FraKathustra
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NoJazzFest for Old Men. May 6, 2012 by FraKathustra. Bruce Springsteen, The Eagles, Foo Fighters, Florence and the Machine, Bonnie Rait, Ziggy Marley, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Cee-Lo,and Ne-Yo. Where. Did all of these artists perform? Exactly at the New Orleans Jazz Festival! Which, strangely enough, also enjoyed its “ biggest crowd ever. In addition, here are the other headliners that scrolled past on the homepage of the New Orleans Jazz Festival website:. Maze featuring Frankie Beverly. I think...
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Tiny Bubbles: A Growth Industry for Jazz? | Also Sprach FraKathustra
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Tiny Bubbles: A Growth Industry for Jazz? April 26, 2013 by FraKathustra. Photo by Jenn Rogers. With all of the discussions regarding the sad state of jazz. It would be surprising indeed to find that jazz has experienced a significant growth spurt in recent years, but it has. Unfortunately, that growth has not occurred in the clubs, concert halls, or other venues in which jazz musicians perform and hone their craft. The growth has occurred in one of the few areas. Source: National Association of Schools ...
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Bite The Hand That Bleeds You: Justice for Jazz Artists? (Part II) | Also Sprach FraKathustra
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Bite The Hand That Bleeds You: Justice for Jazz Artists? April 4, 2013 by FraKathustra. In my earlier post. About the Justice for Jazz Artists. J4JA) movement, I noted that J4JA hadn’t been specific about its demands. What does J4JA want these clubs to do in terms of remuneration and benefits? Of J4JA’s demands the organization is demanding that the Village Vanguard. Contribute approximately $19,000 annually to the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) and Employer’s Pension Fund.”. Will only pay out ac...
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Ghost of a Chance: A New Paradigm for Pop Music Success? | Also Sprach FraKathustra
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Ghost of a Chance: A New Paradigm for Pop Music Success? January 9, 2014 by FraKathustra. I’ve been in Europe since early August as a Fulbright Scholar. Most of that time has been in the beautiful city of Graz, which is in southeast Austria. I am teaching a course at the Jazz Institute. At the Kunstuniversität Graz. Graz University of the Arts). As part of this work, I was invited by a former Fulbright recipient, Professor Elisabeth Strempfl, to give a presentation at the Dreihacken Musik Gymnasium.
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Ghost Story: Something Wicked This Way Comes? | Also Sprach FraKathustra
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Ghost Story: Something Wicked This Way Comes? May 27, 2013 by FraKathustra. Ghost is a sextet (a fitting number, as you’ll soon see) that describes itself as a cross of death metal and pop music. There are certainly some elements of metal in their music, but nothing that even comes close to the skin-flaying assault of bands, for example, like Meshuggah. And Blue Oyster Cult. As well as more recent groups like Porcupine Tree. This set is a collection of four pitches containing two tritones, a half-step ap...
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Ghosts in the Machine, Part II: “The Machinery”. August 2, 2016 by FraKathustra. This is the second in a series of articles on jazz musicians in popular music and jazz and popular music as fields of study in higher education. Part II: The Machinery Jazz musicians have played an important role in the development of popular music from the 1960s until today (we should also remember that jazz actually […]. Continue reading →. Ghosts in the Machine, Part I: “Jazz Musicians and Popular Music”. I was truly shoc...
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The Contraction Continues: The Looming Arts Crisis in Higher Education | Also Sprach FraKathustra
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The Contraction Continues: The Looming Arts Crisis in Higher Education. August 27, 2012 by FraKathustra. Posted this sobering graph. At Digital Music News. That shows US Department of Labor/Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) statistics from 1999-2011 on music sales and music employment. Needless to say, the picture is not pretty. It seems that despite the RIAA’s extraordinary attempts. To curb piracy and file sharing ( including. How will this affect college and university music programs?