Vinyl as a music medium in the making of a significant comeback with the young while for many of us it never left. Many new and young artist are embracing vinyl and places like Vinyl Revival are helping to promote and celebrate that rebirth. What is and where is Vinyl Revival? Vinyl Revival is sort of the Renaissance man of music stores. It sells new and lightly used albums. It sells interesting music collectables. It hosts book signing , artist meet and greets, and what really makes it stand out is the fact it has a 40 seat concert and movie venue. Yes, a small music venue with a state of the art sound and projection system. Could it get any better, yes it can. The proprietor is Andrea Di Fabio and she loves all things music; listening to it, talking about it, collecting music stuff, and now establishing a place where the serious or anyone who wants to get immersed in music come and have some real fun. Vinyl Revival is located in the business district of Lansdowne, Pa. right next to the soon to be restored Lansdowne Theater! The business district is in middle of a fun...
Lloud Music in the Boston, MA area is a professional record label that has set the standard for the newest and freshest trends in the world of rap music and beyond. They are a new corporation of many diverse sounds and cultures developed by many years fo interaction. A lot of attention with this record label goes to the craft of mixing. The music industry is a fast moving, always evolving field so they keep their engineers and producers consistently ahead of the curve.
In the summer of 1969, a music festival called, “Woodstock”, took place for three straight days in Upstate, New York, with thirty-two musical acts playing, and 500,000 people from around the world coming to join this musical, peaceful movement. Woodstock started out being a small concert, created to locally promote peace in the world, by the power of music and its lyrics. Now, Woodstock is still being celebrated over 40 years later. The chaotic political climate that the ‘baby boomers’ were growing up in is most likely the reason for this event becoming of such an importance to the world. The violence of the Vietnam War, protests at Kent State and the Democratic Convention, and the assassinations contributed to an ‘out of control’ world. The fact that so many people came to Woodstock and were able to latch onto the ideals of peace, love, and community became a wonderful, joyous symbol to this generation. This three day music festival represented the ideal for baby boomers during a chaotic political time.
Motown is not only a nickname for a town, it is also a record label that really got the ball rolling for the crossover in the blending of music, the Civil Rights movement and even culture as we see it today. It may have had its downsides, but many can agree it worked out alright.
The movie represents a change in all of culture, including rock and roll. The mother of William represents the traditional type of mentality as it relates to rock and roll. At one time, rock and roll was considered ‘the Devil’s music’. The culture shift in rock n roll itself can be shown through capitalism. The big record companies wanted to expand the artist’s skillset in order to profit from more revenue. The pressure of the group as a whole suffered in this process.
Violeta Barrios was born in a small city near the Nicaraguan border with Costa Rica. Many would expect that coming from a Spanish-speaking country she would mostly enjoy Spanish records. However, because of her parents desire to master English she was sent abroad to study in San Antonio Texas, and then transferred to Blackstone College for Girls in Virginia. Violeta had seen her father play vinyl records in their house when she was little, but had no contact with it because she wasn’t interested. The first real experience she recalls is with her roommate in San Antonio. “Sarah,” she told me “had this fascination for vinyl records and possessed a large collection of them.” She was amazed at how her roommate had this ritual of pulling a record out of a sleeve and putting it on while focusing her attention on the act of listening for a side at a time, she really enjoyed the experience. We had a great relationship, and I started
Today I’d like to talk to you about this genre of music that was created in reaction to other forms of music, and hopefully influence you to check it out and maybe even buy a CD.
Motown, stands for more than just historic music. The label and it’s great legacy is a reflection that the hard work of dedicated individuals that have overcome incredible obstacles to achieve a great success. Detroit has only ever been known as the “Motor City”. Gordy felt like he was down home quality of the warm and he grew up with soulful people which gave him the idea to use the town in place of the city. This gave him the idea “Motown”, which was the perfect name for his new record label company. He was a man of vision, drive, talent, and determination. Gordy was also a producer, Innovative entrepreneur, and teacher as well. The great success of Motown records was and still able to contribute to all the talent he brought out in others.
Throughout Pittsburgh history, the area has produced many acclaimed musicians and music organizations that have created music that has been enjoyed across America. Pittsburgh is a city of music with a history in Jazz, Classical, Pop, Doo-Wop, Rock, and most currently Rap. Many of Pittsburgh’s old musicians are award winning performers and song writers who have sold millions of records. Their music can now be heard on movies, TV, and even Broadway shows. These famous artists would be nothing without their teachers, producers, music promoters, managers, and radio personalities. This essay will take a look back into the roots of Pittsburgh to examine its historical and cultural music background.
These articles depict the controversies of the hip hop industry and how that makes it difficult for one to succeed. Many of these complications and disputes may be invisible to the population, but these articles take the time to reveal them.
The time period of the story affects the setting of the A&P. The story takes place in a time when a town had but one grocery store and when all the locals knew each other. Updike provides details and gives clues that the story takes place around the early 1960s. Inside the A&P, there was an aisle that had, “records at discount of the Caribbean Six or Tony Martin Sings or some such gunk you wonder they waste the wax on…” (Updike 433). Tony Martin was an American pop singer that had a successful recording career. The height of Martin’s popularity was during the mid-1950s (“Martin, Tony”). Since the records were discounted and described as gunk, this suggests the A&P was still clinging on to older ideals and was reluctant to move forward. This paints a picture of an old-fashioned era and grocery store.
The wishful compulsion in the mixtape toward a collective musical totality is therefore perhaps fatally mixed with its tendency toward idealized versions of late twentieth-century history. The personal and cultural nostalgia that has come to characterize the mixtape and the restorative nostalgia that yearns to redeem earlier moments in individual and consumer history, are twin waves that erode the utopian potential of the mixtape, a form that otherwise counterpoises so provocatively the bought and the free, the personal and impersonal, the private and the collective, and the past and the future. Newer technological instantiations of the mixtape may only serve to seduce us through nostalgia into buying more deeply into capitalist phantasmagoria.
Motown of course, stands for more than just historic music. The label and it’s remarkable legacy is a reflection is the hard work of dedicated individuals overcoming incredible obstacles to achieve a great success. Because Detroit, has long been known as the “Motor City”, Gordy in tribute what he felt like was down-home quality of the warm, soulful people he grew up around, used town in place of city. Which gave him the contraction “Motown” and the perfect name for his company and new label “Motown”. A man of vision, drive, talent, and determination, Berry Gordy was also a producer, Innovative entrepreneur, and teacher. The great success of Motown records contributes all the embodies and all the talent he brought out in others. Under his leadership and through determination and support of the family Motown and artist, Gordy forged new grounds
None of these consolidations and buyouts has any interest for the millions of happy customers who simply enjoy the atmosphere and the music at HRCs all over the world. The corporate Web site calls the HRC experience a “truly global phenomenon.” About 130 HRCs are out there on the planet now, including in places like Shanghai and Kuala Kumpur. HRC claims to own over 70,000 pieces in its collection, including Bob Dylan’s motorcycle and Elvis Presley’s shotgun. The theme of HRC is of course rock music, but once inside a store the customer has a chance to explore the history of rock and roll, the roots of the music, some of the early pioneers whose names are not well known, and more. Staying true to its original motif and theme is one of the hallmarks of HRC. “C...
Remix Culture One of the biggest issues that arises with remix art is the issue of ‘Remix vs. Plagiarism.” When does a remixed work become an original work of art? Is the work considered original as soon as it is tweaked or when it is unrecognizable? Neither, a work is unique when its purpose and meaning transcends that of the original. Works like Montgomery Lee’s “Copyright Symphony” take a variety of images and use them to create music out of the embedded data in the photographs.
The story of subcultures in and through modern music has to start in the 1920’s America. In the wake of prohibition, popular nightclubs were closing down and music fell by the wayside. However, a strong underground scene reared its head during that time as well. Well-dressed men and flapper girls swarmed speakeasies in search of music, liquor and a good time. Mainstream America looked down on these rebels. They were often thought of as no good young people with loose morals and no respect for authority. Little did mainstream America know, however, exactly how important those few rebels were during the roaring Twenties and how their actions helped mold musical societies for the rest of the millennium.