Unlike those other art forms, popular music shadows almost every moment of our waking lives: we get dressed to it, dance to it, shop to it, drive to it; it fills our films and TV programs and the commercial spaces in between. And everybody (well, almost) listens to it. believer, agnostics, and atheists alike. And …
In order to answer the question of why music moves us emotionally, music theorists present long drawn out answers that, basically, say we need to understand the perception of music. A perspective theory is suggested. A perspective implies a frame of reference. This means that the perspective selects content an implicit meaning. This content is …
I was having lunch today with a songwriter and a computer entrepreneur here in Nashville. Both are successful in their fields and both came out of the turbulent sixties. Since they are transplants from the west coast like I am, we had a lot in common. We discussed the odds of really making it in today’s …
Wishing you all a happy valentines day – to all the beautiful and the “perfect” – to all the misplaced and distraught. which probably represents more of us than we would like to acknowledge……… “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or …
With our focus on last nights Grammys, it almost went unnoticed by the major press that we lost another great artist. Two days after announcing his retirement from touring due to exhaustion, legendary jazz artist Al Jarreau has died. (Anthony Anex / European Pressphoto Agency) Al Jarreau, the legendary jazz artist and seven-time Grammy winner, has …
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