Today the iconic North London Abbey Road zebra crossing used on the Beatles "Abbey Road" album cover has been declared a Grade II listed site by English Heritage. An English Heritage spokesman said: "It's a place of pilgrimage for fans from...
Thursday, 23 December 2010
Tuesday, 21 December 2010
Music in the Twentieth Century
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Coming soon to the Harrow library, two books by Alex Ross the music reviewer of the New Yorker.Listen to this (2010) and The rest is noise (2009) Ross writes that the aim of Listen to this is to "approach music not as a self-sufficient sphere...
Friday, 17 December 2010
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
New Keith Richards biography
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The new Keith Richards biography - "Life" is now available to borrow from the library.Watch the BBC2 Culture Show 60 minute special that was broadcast BBC Two, 7:00pm Thursday 28 Oct 2010 to mark the the publication.Find reviews of the biography in Factiva (available through Library Search)...
Monday, 15 November 2010
Music week subscription
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Music Week are offering a subscription to students of approx. 40% off standard price (on proof of your student card).£141 for print or £130.20 for online.If you are interested in taking up this offer go to www.subscription.co.uk/help and click...
Friday, 12 November 2010
Present your undergraduate Research
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Calling all Undergraduates, the first British Conference of Undergraduate Research will be taking place in Preston 19th-20th April 2011 - present your dissertation, or any other original piece of research - whatever your area of study.Visit...
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
New business models for the music business
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I've just discovered this article by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney in the Financial Times. The article discusses enrepreneurs who have been exploring innovative new business models for the music industry, as revenues from recorded music are drying up.A lot of content to the FT online is subscription...
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Billboard viral video
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I've added a feed to Billboard viral video - " daily dose of must-see music clips spreading across the we...
Friday, 8 October 2010
John Lennon's birthday
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Join Google and Yoko Ono in celebrating what would have been the 70th birthday of John Lennon this Saturday (9th October). Google has created it's most interactive Google doodle to date - a yoodle video doodle.Yoko Ono will commemorating the...
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Interested in Ethnomusicology?
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Many of you are being asked to research ethnomusicology.The Library as set up a trial to Photographic Youth Music Culture Archive for a month. From this site you will be able to find information on music subcultures that includes images, research essays from 1940 - 2010, video content and...
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Thursday, 29 July 2010
What does a Polyphonic Corsican sound like?
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Listen to the BBC Radio 3 archive of world music and find outTen years of on-location recordings from around the world - from the Appalacian mountains to the Tasrab music of Zanzibar are now available. Click on the interactive map to navigate...
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Paid for vs free
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A new report in Mintel - Consumer attitudes to pricing in media and music has identified that growth of single sales and overall decline in album sales go hand in hand, and constitute a cultural shift (amongst younger music listeners in particular)...
Monday, 14 June 2010
I'm in a rock and roll band - continued
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The voting's over on BBC2's I'm in a rock and roll band - the winner of best band is Led Zepplin, beating Queen and The Beatles.the Fantasy band consists of Freddie Murcury (singer), Jimmi Hendrix (guitarist), John Bonham (drummer), and Flea (bassist) .Watch videos of the bands and see the...
Mojo honours list 2010 - Jimmy Page
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Jimmy Page was inducted into the Mojo hall of Fame on June 10th - alumni include the Doors, Madness, Arthur Lee and Elton John.Mojo honours focus on "heritage acts" - reflected by the lifetime achivement award to Jean Michel Jarre and hero award to Marc Almond (30 years as a singer). Breakthrough...
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Ivor Novello Awards
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The 2010 Ivor Novello Award winners have been announced.The Novello's are judged and presented by the British songwriting and composing community . This year for the first time an award has gone to best original video game score which was won by Joris de Man for Killzone...
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Stoke Newington Literary Festival 4/ 5/ 6th June
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Fans of Edwyn Collins will be pleased to see that he is appearing at Stoke Newington Literary Festival on Saturday 6th June - he'll be playing a short set with his band as well as contributing to a discussion about the book Falling and Laughing written by his partner Grace Maxwell which chronicles...
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Blu-ray market
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A new report on DVD players from Mintel (March 2010) examines the home entertainment market and the take up of various formats including Blu-ray. To access Mintel try the new library collections search on the library home page and type in Mintel....
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Runnin' down a dream
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An epic portrait by Peter Bogdanovitch of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (almost 4 hours). Covers the early bands to the most recent album and includes detailed discussion about their battle with their record label. Bob Dylan, The Traveling Wilburys days, Johnny Cash, Stevie Nicks, George...
Never mind the boxset - the album post i-tunes
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Event: Thursday May 20thMusictank, chaired by Keith Harris will be examining just what the recordings industry can do to revive the album's flagging condition. From the sensible to the extreme the evening event will hear from those who believe that technology, design, and marketing can provide...
Friday, 14 May 2010
The phenomena of Glee
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Are you a Gleek? Like Marmite, you either love them or hate them but have a look at the cover article in Billboard 30 April 2010 for a great case study using the Glee phenomena to demonstrate how music is being marketed today. Find further...
Lena Horne Dies 9 May 2010
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Singer, actress and activist Lena Horne died last week at the age of 92. She was one of the first African Americans to cross over the music business colour divide and in the 1040s became the highest paid African American actress. She battled segregation and McCarthyism and became a civil right...
Thursday, 13 May 2010
I'm in a rock n roll band
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"I'm in a rock n roll band" is being aired on BBC2 at 9.45 on Saturday night . The six part series aims to break down the constituent parts of a great rock band. Catch up with it on BBC iplayer.Don't worry if you miss it, the library is recording it for the collection so that you can catch...
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Uk album purchases
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According to the BPI the UK still buy more music per person than almost anywhere else in the world, despite piracy and illegal file sharing. 10 million albums were bought digitally in 2008 and the UK is the world's third largest music market.In 2008 almost half of all album sales in the UK...
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