Rock Hill Music Club Records - Accession 535

The Rock Hill Music Club Records consist of correspondence, an annual report, numerous awards, news clippings, yearbooks, conventions programs, musical programs, scrapbook pages, presidents’ reports, and magazines relating to the Rock Hill, SC Music Club.

Rock Hill Music Club Records - Accession 932

The Rock Hill Music Club Records consists of correspondence, yearbooks, and programs of the meetings, convention programs, numerous awards, newspaper articles, sheet music, presidents’ reports, handbooks, constitutions, photographs, and scrapbooks pertaining to the Rock Hill, SC club.

God Bless come back : new experiments with nostalgia in Indonesian rock

This article discusses the production of an Indonesian rock past through a case study of the 1970s rock band God Bless, which has been gradually ‘coming back’ since the middle of the 2000s. In doing so, the article documents this comeback, analyses shifts in the band’s position vis-à-vis nationality, and places these shifts in the context of the industrial and aesthetic transformation of Indonesian popular music over the past decade or so. Furthermore, it considers how the range of nostalgic productions associated with the comeback might be understood not only in light of the scholarship on nostalgia, but also the political environment it inhabits.

Mediated music makers : Constructing author images in popular music

The subject of the thesis is the mediated construction of author images in popular music. In the study, the construction of images is treated as a process in which artists, the media and the members of the audience participate. The notions of presented, mediated and compiled author images are used in explaining the mediation process and the various authorial roles of the agents involved. In order to explore the issue more closely, I analyse the author images of a group of popular music artists representing the genres of rock, pop and electronic dance music. The analysed material consists mostly of written media texts through which the artists authorial roles and creative responsibilities are discussed. Theoretically speaking, the starting points for the examination lie in cultural studies and discourse analysis. Even though author images may be conceived as intertextual constructions, the artist is usually presented as a recognizable figure whose purpose is to give the music its public face. This study does not, then, deal with musical authors as such, but rather with their public images and mediated constructions. Because of the author-based functioning of popular music culture and the idea of the artist s individual creative power, the collective and social processes involved in the making of popular music are often superseded by the belief in a single, originating authorship. In addition to the collective practices of music making, the roles of the media and the marketing machinery complicate attempts to clarify the sharing of authorial contributions. As the case studies demonstrate, the differences between the examined author images are connected with a number of themes ranging from issues of auteurism and stardom to the use of masked imagery and the blending of authorial voices. Also the emergence of new music technologies has affected not only the ways in which music is made, but also how the artist s authorial status and artistic identity is understood. In the study at hand, the author images of auteurs, stars, DJs and sampling artists are discussed alongside such varied topics as collective authorship, evaluative hierarchies, visual promotion and generic conventions. Taken altogether, the examined case studies shed light on the functioning of popular music culture and the ways in which musical authorship is (re)defined.

A emergência da banda de rock Forfun: um estudo sobre estratégias comunicacionais, complexidade, tecnologia e redes

O advento das tecnologias digitais permitiu alterações significativas na maneira de produzir, divulgar e consumir música. As grandes gravadoras deixaram de ser os principais agentes articuladores da indústria da música, que está cada vez mais organizada em rede. A produção musical cresce de forma exponencial e está atomizada e espalhada por uma miríade de artistas de todos os níveis. Entretanto, só alguns se destacam em meio a essa galáxia de produtores de conteúdo e conseguem atingir algum grau de sustentabilidade. Estes são aqueles que conhecem as regras de funcionamento dessa rede, ainda que não saibam explicitá-las. O objetivo do presente trabalho é contribuir para a construção do enunciado dessas regras. Para tanto, consultou-se literatura sobre música e comunicação produzida por pesquisadores ligados aos Estudos Culturais, na qual se pôde identificar o grande número de variáveis envolvidas na questão, e por isso buscou-se uma articulação com a noção de sistemas complexos. Em função do tipo de objeto e da abordagem propostos, foi realizado um estudo de caso sobre a banda de rock Forfun, que possibilitou, a partir da comparação com outros casos de sustentabilidade, identificar linhas gerais de conduta e oportunidade que acabam por revelar certas regras

The role of formal structure in liking for popular music

The effect of restructuring the form of three unfamiliar pop/rock songs was investigated in two experiments. In the first experiment, listeners' judgements of the likely location of sections of novel popular songs were explored by requiring participants to place the eight sections (Intro - Verse 1 - Chorus 1 - Verse 2 - Chorus 2 - Bridge (solo) - Chorus 3 - Extro) of the songs into the locations they thought them most likely to occur within the song. Results revealed that participants were able to place the sections in approximately the right location with some accuracy, though they were unable to differentiate between choruses. In Experiment 2, three versions of each of the songs were presented in three different structures: intact (original form), medium restructured (the sections in a moderately changed order), and highly restructured (more severe restructuring). The results show that listeners' judgments of predictability and liking were largely uninfluenced by the restructuring of the songs, in line with findings for classical music. Moment-by-moment liking judgements of the songs demonstrated a change in liking judgements with repeated exposure, though the trend was downwards with repeated exposure rather than upwards. Detailed analysis of moment-by-moment judgements at the ends and beginnings of sections showed that listeners were able to respond quickly to intact songs, but not to restructured songs. The results suggest that concatenism prevails in listening to popular song at the expense of paying attention to larger structural features. © 2012 by the regents of the university of california all rights reserved.

Brooklyn, capitale du rock indépendant : médiations, réseaux et le train « L »

Brooklyn est depuis quelques années un épicentre de la musique indépendante aux États-Unis. En utilisant la démarche ethnographique, l’auteur s’intéresse au rôle des médiateurs dans la définition du réseau socio-musical de la scène « indie » de Brooklyn à New York. Il met en relief la façon dont historiquement, le quartier brooklynois de Williamsburg est devenu un lieu important d’établissement des Brooklyn est depuis quelques années un épicentre de la musique indépendante aux États-Unis. En utilisant la démarche ethnographique, l’auteur s’intéresse au rôle des médiateurs dans la définition du réseau socio-musical de la scène « indie » de Brooklyn à New York. Il met en relief la façon dont historiquement, le quartier brooklynois de Williamsburg est devenu un lieu important d’établissement des musiciens alternatifs. Il aborde la façon dont les hipsters, comme communauté, font appel à différentes pratiques pour contourner le rapport d’infériorité avec les étiquettes majors. Il s’intéresse aussi au « do it yourself » ainsi qu’au rôle de New York dans le milieu musical mondial. Finalement, il s’intéresse aux médias qui définissent et structurent le milieu de la musique indépendante de Brooklyn.

L'assimilation rock de la musique romantique par le groupe Muse

La version intégrale de ce mémoire est disponible uniquement pour consultation individuelle à la Bibliothèque de musique de l’Université de Montréal (www.bib.umontreal.ca/MU).

Music.

Para descubrir cómo se hace la música desde los instrumentos más primitivos a los más modernos. La primera parte proporciona una breve introducción de por qué los distintos instrumentos tienen un sonido diferente. Hay varios ejemplos que muestran cómo la onda de sonido de cada instrumento tiene su propio tipo de cambios de presión. Posteriormente, el libro explora, uno por uno, cada familia de instrumentos. Más tarde, examina música electrizante y la guitarra de rock. La última sección se centra en la 'música máquina', como los sintetizadores. Tiene glosario e índice alfabético.

Body music! body percussion! : didáctica de la percusión corporal.

Resumen basado en el de la revista. Resumen en inglés

(Joyful pop-rock) heaven (mandolin rock) LOOP

A short and uplifting composition (looped) that is joyful in tone. Heaven is a track that is predominantly played on a real electro-acoustic mandolin - a versatile and sweet sounding instrument that punches above its weight to create a modern pop rock sound. The other sounds are a sampled bass, drums and a synth pad.

Ambient cinematic guitar rock

A short instrumental that is ambient in style and would suit cinematic types of projects. Guitar, bass, drums and a synth pad feature in this composition.