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Tag: 11.09.09
Music Instruction Moves Online
“Our digital culture and demand for instant gratification have made it easier than ever to at least try to learn music. The extent of online instruction varies, from household names like Norah Jones teaching you their songs through Apple’s GarageBand software to ongoing one-on-one classes from Trischka and Lofgren.”
Is There Such A Thing As A “Female” Poem?
“Do women genuinely write different poems from men and, if so, what could be said to characterise the ‘female’ poem?”
Military Historian Accuses Former UK Poet Laureate Of Plagiarism
Ben Shephard said that Andrew Motion’s poem An Equal Voice, a stitching together of the voices of several generations of shellshocked soldiers which was published in the Guardian on Saturday, draws heavily from his history of medical psychiatry A War of Nerves.
Is Older Music Crowding Out The New?
“Most students I know have an extremely broad appreciation of music. Far broader than I did. Obviously classic rock is very popular, but so too are all sorts of vintage and world music. But this also means that those of us who before would have been looking towards the current culture for inspiration are now often to be found, like my stepson, in various backwaters of older music.”
The Crowd-sourced Song
“I’ve Got Nothing is a song that’s been entirely crowdsourced. A youngster called Charlie McDonnell, together with three other teenagers, have created the project as part of BBC’s ChartJackers, an attempt to break into the UK music charts without…well, pretty much everything: money, producer, studio, even musicians.”
Libel Laws Lead Foreign Newspapers To Consider Abandoning UK
“Britain’s reputation for ‘libel tourism’ is driving American and foreign publishers to consider abandoning the sale of newspaper and magazines in Britain and may lead to them blocking access to websites, MPs have been warned.”
Our Common Offense: Living While Distracted
“Good intentions and police action may be no match for the encroachments of gadgetry and wirelessness. Life is and always has been full of distractions, yes; it may be that life itself is a distraction–from death. But our attention flits and wanders as never before. The consequences, outside the cockpit and the driver’s seat, are as yet unclear.”
The Logic Of The Amazon/Wal-Mart Book Wars
“Since wholesale book prices are traditionally around fifty per cent off the cover price, and these books are now marked down sixty per cent or more, Amazon and Wal-Mart are surely losing money every time they sell one of the discounted titles. The more they sell, the less they make. That doesn’t sound like good business.”