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Monday, 7 November 2011
Monday, 26 September 2011
Welcome to the University of Westminster
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Hello and welcome to the University of Westminster at the start of the 2011/12 Academic year. It's lovely to meet all of you in the library inductions and it's good to see familiar faces starting to come back.For those of you who haven't made...
Monday, 16 May 2011
Stereo Mike at Eurovision
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Congratulations to Westminster music staff member Mike Exarchos aka "Stero Mike". who has spent the weekend in Dusseldorf representing Greece in the Eurovision Final. The song "Watch my Dance" is a mix of traditional Greek folk music and contemporary...
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Jump the fence with Westminster music students
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Prepare yourself for 3 Nights of Eclectic Progress by BMUS Commercial Music Performance 2011 (University of Westminster). The event will be presented and hosted by Smoke Radio, The University of Westminster’s award winning student radio station.Jump the Fence is a pop-up festival with a large...
Friday, 8 April 2011
Monday, 28 March 2011
Highway to Hebdige: Why We All Should Read Dan Nelson's All Known Metal Bands (2008)
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Many thanks to Dr. Chris Kennett for this guest post: The idea of subcultures as homogeneous, internally consistent and spectacularly defined signifying practices has taken a knock over the last fifteen years or so. When Dick Hebdige and his...
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Alan Parson's Art and Science of Sound Recording
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Colm O'Rourke has asked the library to buy a copy of the Alan Parsons Art and Science of Recording 3 DVD box set, as he thought it would be especially useful for MA Audio Production students and anyone interested in sound recording (I'm always happy to accept suggestions for purchase and because...
Friday, 18 March 2011
Desert Island Discs - What would you choose?
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The BBC has released episodes of Desert Island Discs on it's archive.Listen to the choices of Neil Tennant, Vic Reeves, Yoko Ono, Randy Newman, George Michael and many more - which 8 tracks would you choose to listen to on the isla...
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Fame is the answer (Financial analysis made easy)
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A question from an MA Music Business Management studentand my reply which may help with your assignment. Q. What other business e-resources do we subscribe to other than Business Insight, Mintel, Factiva and Business Source Complete? I wonder...
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
radio recordings for music
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Image: J Fry / FreeDigitalPhotos.netWe've recently added some music-related recordings of BBC radio broadcasts to the library collection that may be of interest. These include:Why do we sing ( Radio 4 2/11/08)Leadbelly: a secret history of...
Friday, 25 February 2011
Automatic library loans renewal? - seeking your views
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The University of Westminster Library Services team are about to embark on a project to explore the feasibility of having automated library loans. This means that loans would be automatically renewed on behalf of users, unless there was a reservation.The...
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Grammy for music graduate
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Grammy awarded to BA Commercial music student Alexander Shuckburgh aka Shux for co-writing and co-producing "Empire State of Mind". More of the story h...
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with music | Video on TED.com
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Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with music Video on TED.comIn a 3 minute performance at the World Science Festival, musician Bobby McFerrin uses the Pentatonic scale to reveal the way our brain is wired.An example of one of the short videos from TED www.TED.com (a small non-profit group, devoted...
Friday, 18 February 2011
Follow up question
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As a follow up to last week's question from a student; another Music Business Management student has asked some further questions -Here are the questions and my replies, I hope that these are useful and of interest.Q.I checked your blog and...
Friday, 11 February 2011
Music marketing information
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An MA Music Business Management student has asked me the following question, I'm hoping the question and my response will be of interest. Q. I get my information usually from Factiva and Business Source Complete. I am wondering are there any...
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Help produce and record an album in one day with Un-Convention Factory
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Un-Convention Factory at the Roundhouse Saturday 26th February 10am-8pm.10 hours to help record, produce and release an album - The 6 bands involved will cover, or collaborate, on tracks from London Calling by The Clash. Accompanying the...
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Library Search glitch fixed
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The glitch in Library Search where e-resources were not opening in the Library Search frame for online access and were displying the picture of the griffin in the error message has now been fixed. E-resources will now open in a new window....
Thursday, 27 January 2011
New book - As heard on TV
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As Heard on TV:Popular music in advertising by Bethany Klein has arrived in the library(both print and electronic)Portions of the book have appeared before in the journals Media culture and Society and Popular Music and Society.The books and...
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
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90 Free Thursdays + Westminster University presents!***THURSDAY 27TH JANUARY 2011***@ 93 FEET EAST, 150 Brick Lane E1C 6QLFREE ENTRY ALL NIGHT!With Live performances from:THE LITTLE PICTURESPOISONETTE feat. Danny GagerBENEATH THE BEACH, BENEATH...
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Patti Smith talk - 25th January
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Tickets are still available for Intelligence Squared conversations with rock's poet laureate Patti Smith talking about her artistic coming-of-age in 1970s New York. Go to www.intelligencesquared.com/events for more detai...
New book in the library - She's so fine
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For those who are interested in gender and music a new book has just been added to the library She's so fine: reflections on whiteness, femininity, adolescence and class in 1960s music edited by Laurie Stras covers the topic of British and American women singers during the 50s and 60s. The...
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