music memes
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Reflections On Richard McGuire’s “Here”
“I had this motto that I was going to make the big things small and the small things big.” – Richard McGuire (quoted in The New Yorker, November 17, 2014). Richard McGuire’s Here is a graphic novel that presents a poetic mediation on place and time. The book focuses on a single room in a Continue reading
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On Information, Musical Memes And Earworms
For James Gleick, author of the recent book The Information, information has a life of its own independent of us. In a recent interview on On Point radio he says:: “We live in a world where information passes from machine to machine. We know that when it’s stored in material forms and when one machine talks to Continue reading
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Music Travels Cont’d
Nine-year old Willow Smith has an infectious pop hit circulating the Internet (a full album seems to be forthcoming). “Whip My Hair” is an intense affirmation song and is good repetitious fun: Here’s a cover of the song rendered on piano in a ragtime-jazz-ish style. I don’t know who the pianist is, but you can Continue reading
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Musical Memes: A Bassline Travels
In a recent (and fascinating) New York Times article on the resurgence of soul music among young and mostly white singers (“Can a Nerd Have Soul?“), we’re reintroduced to The Supremes’ 1960s Motown classic, “You Can’t Hurry Love.” Propelling that uptempo hit is James Jamerson’s 8-note bass line (with a rhythm kinda like: 1-2, 1-2, 1-2-3, Continue reading
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