New resource - Rock's Backpages

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We are now subscribing to Rock's Backpages - The online libarary of rock writing

Rock's backpages contains 18,000 + articles from a wide variety of music magazines and fanzines. Content includes interviews, reviews and features from the music press over the last 40 years, and 100+ audio interviews. Great primary source information.

Rock's backpages will be in Library Search shortly, but for the moment you can access it at http://www.rocksbackpages.com/index.html. it will recognise University of Westminster as subscribers on-site, click Login via the UK Federation WAYF for off-site access (we don’t appear in the home institution list).

Image of Bob Dylan is from Bridgeman Education which we also subscribe to

Enjoy!

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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 it into the Harrow Library yet (where I and the music resources are based), here's a picture of some of the new first floor library furniture. I hope you enjoy using this newly refurbished space.

Here's a link to my profile page with my contact details and access to a bookings calendar for when you need me to help using the library and library resources

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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 hip-hop

Catch up with Stero Mike's Eurovision performance and find out more about past Eurovision winners . Although Azerbaijan won this year, did you know that Greece won once in 2005?

There are several books in the library about Eurovision; find out more about the politics of Eurovision by reading "A song for Europe : popular music and politics in the Eurovision song contest " a collection of essays edited by Ivan Raykoff and Robert Deam Tobin.

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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 and eclectic line up, a celebration designed to showcase the diversity of today’s talent.

As students from Westminster University graduate into the real world they come to form part of the future of the music industry. Join us in celebrating performers who are breaking new ground and taking the world of popular music in new and exciting directions.



Entry fee will be £3 each night or £5 for students for ALL 3 nights (ID required).

The nearest tube station is OLD STREET/SHOREDITCH HIGH STREET.



Industry guest list on request, please contact:
jess.mcmahon@facultymusic.com or grace.wood@facultymusic.com

More information on student shows here

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Happy Easter

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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 Birmingham chums first mapped the socio-anthropological and ethnographic terrain of the spectacular subculture in Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979), a whole new area of research emerged at the junction-points of several disciplines (social psychology, semiotics, human geography, politics and ethnomusicology among them); and in those days, subcultures were defined by two opposite tropes: similarity of world-view within each subculture and defiant distance from hegemonic models of living in the wider world: you knew you were in a subculture because everyone outside the group was suspicious of you, and everyone inside realised that you and they were on the same wavelength, not least because of your similar taste patterns in clothes, private language, dance, political attitude and so on. However, by the time Sarah Thornton’s Club Cultures book hit the common-rooms in 1995, the simple us/them dialectic was being challenged by something altogether more complex, more fluid and less overtly political in its habitus. Since then, the tendency in the literature is to assume that subcultures nowadays are far more self-aware, far more post-modern, far more problematic, all round. Andy Bennett’s ‘neo-tribes’ concept, dating from an article published in 1999, takes this fluidity further: no subculture is as certain of its spectacular distance and internal homogeneity as they were in the days of Hebdige’s Mods, Punk and Skins, surely?

Carry on reading ...... click on the book review tab

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Monitoring - Alan Parsons' Art & Science of Sound Recording

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