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Microrhythms and Microsounds in African-American Popular Music

by Joe Bennett | Sep 4, 2018 | arp, IASPM, music production, Popular Music, Research

I always love to hear Anne speak. Alas, I live-blogged her entire hour-long keynote today, complete with examples, and due to a horrible WordPress browser fail (including no success with autosave reversions) I lost all the text and examples! So to recreate it from...

Constructing Narrative in the Contemporary Music Industries

by Joe Bennett | Jun 30, 2017 | Copyright, IASPM, Research

Kenny Barr (University of Glasgow, UK) Paying the Piper: Constructing Narrative in the Contemporary Music Industries ABSTRACT: In the 21st century the digitalisation of every facet of the production, dissemination and consumption of popular music presents an immensely...

Binaurality and stereophony in 60s/70s pop #iaspm2017

by Joe Bennett | Jun 30, 2017 | IASPM, musicology, Popular Music, Research

Franco Fabbri: Conservatorio di Parma, Università di Milano (Italy) Binaurality, stereophony, and popular music in the 1960s and 1970s ABSTRACT: Stereophonic headphones were first marketed in the USA in 1958. Binaural listening (via headphones) became one of the...

Global Folk drumming pedagogy (Sweden) #iaspm2017

by Joe Bennett | Jun 29, 2017 | IASPM, musicology, Research

Daniel Akira Stadnicki: 
University of Alberta, Canada Towards a ‘Global Folk’ Drumming Pedagogy?: Percussive Innovations and Legacies in Swedish Folk Music ABSTRACT: This paper explores the drumming and percussion techniques found in Nordic ‘global folk’ music (Hill,...

Two Sides of the Moon: the virtuosic & primitive in rock drumming #iaspm2017

by Joe Bennett | Jun 29, 2017 | IASPM, musicology, Popular Music, Research

Mandy Smith: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame/Case Western Reserve University Two Sides of the Moon: Mediating the Virtuosic and the Primitive in Rock Drumming ABSTRACT: In live performances, The Who’s drummer Keith Moon flails his arms wildly, dazzles the crowd with...

Popular song & literary scholarship (Brazil) #iaspm2017

by Joe Bennett | Jun 29, 2017 | IASPM, musicology, Popular Music, Research

Cláudia Neiva de Matos: Universidade Federal Fluminense Popular song and literary scholarship: interactions between criticism and artistic creation [ABSTRACT ONLY] ABSTRACT: Brazilian popular song and literature have long been intertwined. The 19th-century “modinhas”...
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