TED talks, has started to produce some themed playlists - one of which is 10 talks about the beauty and difficulty of being creative
If you enjoyed that then you might also like - where do ideas come fr...
Friday, 23 November 2012
Monday, 12 November 2012
£100 Amazon vouchers could be yours...
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The University is undertaking some work to explore digital literacy skills and employability and we need your views. Please take a few minutes to complete our survey and have the chance to be entered into a prize draw for £100 Amazon...
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Looking for number and factoids for the British Music industry ? try BPI yearbook 2012 and the Official charts
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The new edition of the 2012 BPI Yearbook is now available - find it in the statistics collection at the number: 338.4762138932 BPI.
The yearbook provides facts, figures and analsis of recorded music in the UK - Topics covered include...
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Narrative trust - stylish academic writing
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I've had several conversations recently with academics and PHD researchers about how inaccessible some academic writing can be, after which I stumbled across a really interesting (and of course accessible) article in the Times...
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Friday, 31 August 2012
SONG BOOKS by John Cage @ Toynbee Studios
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New Work Network presents John Cage’s ‘Song Books’, performed by ex-members of the Scratch Orchestra, alongside a younger generation of performers and composers.
SONG BOOKS by John Cage @ Toynbee Stud...
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
The Live Music Exchange
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http://www.livemusicexchange.org
This free resource, is a web hub which links topical discussion with an ever-expanding searchable archive of resources such as reports, articles, conference papers and bibliographical information.
Useful...
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
New Development - Library subscribes to BOB - box of broadcasts
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Great news - the library has taken up a subscription to BOB - (Box of broadcasts).
BOB is a media archive and streaming service. It works a bit like BBCs' i-player, but it covers all of the TV channels and radio stations available...
Friday, 29 June 2012
Monday, 18 June 2012
Great use of Prezi
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Great Jazz Bassists and their Influence through the Ages on Pre...
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Friday, 25 May 2012
Summer vacation loans
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From Saturday 9 June 2012 three week loans and one week loans will be issued over the vacation period to be returned during the week beginning Monday 24 September 2012.
To ensure we have a wide range of books available for...
Hip-hop on trial - Intelligence Squared debate at the Barbican Tuesday 26th June
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Intelligence Squared is teaming up with Google for a never-before-seen global debate on hip-hop on Tuesday 26th June at Barbican Centre.
See celebrated civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, computer scientist and composer Jaron Lanier,...
Friday, 11 May 2012
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Pod Academy - podcasts of current academic research
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Wharfedale Isodynamic headphones Rank Radio Industrial Design Unit
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Listen to the podcast of the interview with Sujatha Fernandes (associate professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate...
Friday, 4 May 2012
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A special issue of the journal Popular Music on the topic of "music dance and ageing" is now available via Library Search. To access it , search for "Popular Music" in Library Search and you can read articles on topics such...
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
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Welcome back from the Easter break ready to finish off this semester's work.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrishimself/3510405692/
John Peel's record collection has gone online in The Space.
Today the first 100 As have been released,...
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
Taylor & Francis Online :: Popular Music and Society - Most Frequently Read Articles
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Follow the link to the most read articles from the journal Popular Music and Society
Taylor & Francis Online :: Popular Music and Society - Most Frequently Read Articles
Be inspired. Browse journal articles that range from the...
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Copyright exceptions will not deliver anticipated economic growth, licensing bodies say
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Copyright exceptions will not deliver anticipated economic growth, licensing bodies say
The Government's plans – driven by the UK's Intellectual Property Office (IPO) – threatens to "undermine" the success in the growth of licensing, PRS for Music said.
"Creators should not be forced to...
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
Tips for using e-books
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Banding together : how communities create genres in popular music / Jennifer C. Lena
Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? "Banding Together" explores this question and reveals the attributes...
new e-books added to the library collection
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We've just added the following music e-books to the library resources
Popular music and the state in the UK : culture, trade or industry? / Martin Cloonan
Martin Cloonan examines why politicians and policymakers in the UK have sought to intervene in popular music. The author traces the development...
Friday, 9 March 2012
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Diamond Times for NME
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Happy 60th Birthday to NME.
This year NME are also celebrating their Diamond Jubilee
The first issue was published 7th March 1952 when the Accordian Times was merged with Musical Express. Although the library at Harrow doesn't...
Monday, 13 February 2012
£1m distribution by PRS
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PRS (Performing Rights Society) for music has announced distribution of over £1m to small independent music companies. Distribution is the result of pan-European licensing through its Independent Music Publishers’ European Licensing (IMPEL)...
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Does copyright law restrict creativity?
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I went to a Tech City talk at the end of October on the topic of copyright law, which might be of interest.Feargal Sharkey, Ed Vaizey and Ian Hargreaves were speaking on the topic of“Intellectual Property and Copyright - intellectual property and copyright in a digital age. How do we balance...
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