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Michael Jackson's death has left a huge dent in Bollywood. The legendary king of Pop and a performer par excellence inspired numerous actors and musicians the world over, including Bollywood. Be it his trademark fashion sense, his groovy dance steps and his attitude-all of them caught the frenzy of Bollywood.
* People like Mithun Chakraborty and Govinda were the 'desi Michael Jacksons' in the early part of their careers thanks to their dance themed films which had moves that were lifted from MJ's videos. Michael Jackson in a way, had contributed to the career graphs of many Bollywood actors who emulated his style and moves.
* Michael Jackson's visit to Mumbai,in the year 1996 was met with a super reception. None of the international performer in India have been able to replicate and whip up the frenzy which Michael Jackson had created.
* Michael Jackson inspired Bollywood comedian Johnny Lever to create numerous parodies on the musical genius. In fact, Johnny Lever's best act is a take off on 'they don't really care about us' from MJ's album-History
* The video 'Thriller' which has won numerous awards and is easily the best music video ever(without special effects, mind you) inspired quite a few horror scenes and horror sequences in films, both Bollywood and Hollywood. Thriller went on to become the biggest ever music album with records that cannot be surpassed.
* The song 'They Don't Really Care About Us" with its thumping beats and procession based video inspired numerous songs and videos in Indian films. For example, A.R.Rahman's music and the video of 'Maro Maro' from the movie Boys (Telegu film) is a tribute to 'They Don't Really Care About Us"
* The song 'In the Closet' which is easily the sexiest song of Michael Jackson featuring Naomi Campbell was copied in the form of 'Ding Dong Bole' for a Tushar movie 'kuch toh Hai'
* The song 'The Way You Make Me Feel' was an absolute 'tapori' song that has been replicated in numerous Bollywood and South Indians songs with the same moves.
* Hrithik Roshan was the last big Bollywood star who had last met Michael Jackson. He had met him in the US while shooting for Kites. However Hrithik though mesmerized by MJ's aura, could make out that the man was frail by ill-health
About the Author:
V.S.ARUNRAJ, in his entertaining blog Bollywood Trends gives a low-down on the news, views, reviews, masala and trends of the biggest and the busiest film industry in the world-Bollywood
http://bollywoodtrends.net
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Music To The Ears
A whole new world of entertainment has opened up over recent years and the younger generation have embraced it with open arms.
From music downloads to video and picture editing and sharing, a new concept of circular entertainment has emerged. Personal videos are taken on phones and passed around with people adding their home made music and music downloads to it as well as pictures. Eventually, the finished product will come full circle within a group of friends.
This has caused more and more demand for original entertainment and music, other than just what is put out there by the powers that be from the music industry.
And original music is very much at the fingertips of anyone that wants it nowadays. Internet sites have been set up to enable potential musicians to get there music into the public domain with relative ease.
Find a good site, upload your own music, add mailing lists and message boards and also provide a medium for selling your CD's. Success can also be monitored by keeping a track of how many people are visiting your site.
Choose the right site and it will have a publishing company attached with a music editor who will listen to all uploaded music and pick out the best for featuring.
You can help your chances by regularly emailing the editor asking to be featured and also by constantly providing new music. Some of these publishing companies will do their best to get your music used in soundtracks and commercials. Record deals are also a possibility although their success in this area has been limited.
Copyright is not really an issue. While you're waiting to be discovered, the more people that hear your music, the better chance you have. If you are signed by a record label they will then look after your copyright issues but until then safeguard yourself by encoding your contact details into your Mp3 music so it can be traced back to you.
Long gone are the days of sending demo tapes into record producers in the vain hope that they would listen to them. The onus is now very much on the maker of the music to get him/herself heard. Control over your own musical destiny is a good thing. Even negative feedback will tell you where you are going wrong so the appropriate adjustments can be made.
So, how do music producers feel about this turn away from tangible music to cyber music sales? Unable to fight it, they have cashed in on it themselves. Music download sales totalled $300 million last year. That's three times the success of 2003.
The difficulty in the beginning was the pirate downloads that people were accessing for free - effectively stealing the music. Download prices were set at 65c per song from the US but reports state this price was set artificially low to stimulate demand.
It has had the effect of encouraging ever more people to carry out music downloads from reputable sites, and to pay for this privilege, which is a good thing.
However, now demand has reached such a level, music executives are now making noises about pushing the price up. This, they say, is due to demand. However, the general consensus is that it will push people back into piracy.
The top record labels have declined to comment on the price increase debate.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Shaun Parker
Expert musician Shaun Parker looks into the way music download can promote new musicians. To find out more please visit http://www.mbopmegastore.com
From music downloads to video and picture editing and sharing, a new concept of circular entertainment has emerged. Personal videos are taken on phones and passed around with people adding their home made music and music downloads to it as well as pictures. Eventually, the finished product will come full circle within a group of friends.
This has caused more and more demand for original entertainment and music, other than just what is put out there by the powers that be from the music industry.
And original music is very much at the fingertips of anyone that wants it nowadays. Internet sites have been set up to enable potential musicians to get there music into the public domain with relative ease.
Find a good site, upload your own music, add mailing lists and message boards and also provide a medium for selling your CD's. Success can also be monitored by keeping a track of how many people are visiting your site.
Choose the right site and it will have a publishing company attached with a music editor who will listen to all uploaded music and pick out the best for featuring.
You can help your chances by regularly emailing the editor asking to be featured and also by constantly providing new music. Some of these publishing companies will do their best to get your music used in soundtracks and commercials. Record deals are also a possibility although their success in this area has been limited.
Copyright is not really an issue. While you're waiting to be discovered, the more people that hear your music, the better chance you have. If you are signed by a record label they will then look after your copyright issues but until then safeguard yourself by encoding your contact details into your Mp3 music so it can be traced back to you.
Long gone are the days of sending demo tapes into record producers in the vain hope that they would listen to them. The onus is now very much on the maker of the music to get him/herself heard. Control over your own musical destiny is a good thing. Even negative feedback will tell you where you are going wrong so the appropriate adjustments can be made.
So, how do music producers feel about this turn away from tangible music to cyber music sales? Unable to fight it, they have cashed in on it themselves. Music download sales totalled $300 million last year. That's three times the success of 2003.
The difficulty in the beginning was the pirate downloads that people were accessing for free - effectively stealing the music. Download prices were set at 65c per song from the US but reports state this price was set artificially low to stimulate demand.
It has had the effect of encouraging ever more people to carry out music downloads from reputable sites, and to pay for this privilege, which is a good thing.
However, now demand has reached such a level, music executives are now making noises about pushing the price up. This, they say, is due to demand. However, the general consensus is that it will push people back into piracy.
The top record labels have declined to comment on the price increase debate.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Shaun Parker
Expert musician Shaun Parker looks into the way music download can promote new musicians. To find out more please visit http://www.mbopmegastore.com
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Music Choices On The Internet
The internet is filled with all sorts of information that a music lover would love to have. They might truly enjoy having the latest music selections on their handheld devices and know that they can enter any music site on the internet and download their music selections in a matter of minutes. The access to the world of music does not end with this task, but only serves to make accessing music more pleasurable.
Fans will truly be pleasured when they are able to hear the latest album of their favorite music group. Some people can only listen to bits and pieces of an album, but music listeners that use the internet are given pristine access to music clips, music videos and even interviews that their favorite artist participated in at some point in their career.
Fans are more in touch with the people that make the music because of the access that the internet affords them to those people. Fans can download album covers and use them as art on the walls of their home, and to help personalize the cover of a compact disk that they copied that is filled with their favorite music artist's product. They know that the online music stores give music artists the credit they deserve and all the royalties that come from each music download a fan makes on the internet.
The music choices that are available on the internet are not limited to only music files. Fans can search for audio books that were written to glorify the life of rock legends or the people that mastered hip hop music. Every piece of music has a story behind it. Music fans feel good about having access to the fine little details that go with creating music.
Music artists can share their thoughts and tell fans how their music careers got started. They can share their trials and tribulations that they experienced on the road during a world tour. A music artist can share some inner thoughts that run very deep and fans can learn how a music artist dealt with a drug addiction or a disabling disease. The choices in music on the internet run deep at times but are always retrievable when a fan uses an internet search engine.
People place more value in buying music from an internet music store because they get more for their money. A land-based music store can only offer a few posters and a music selection on compact disk. A music fan online can learn about the artist, buy the music and share it with friends by attaching it to an email. They can also use the music downloads to customize their music listening pleasure at any time.
About the Author:
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Jim Brown
James Brown writes about CD Jungle coupon codes, mbopmegastore coupon and itunes.apple.com on-line coupons.
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Fans will truly be pleasured when they are able to hear the latest album of their favorite music group. Some people can only listen to bits and pieces of an album, but music listeners that use the internet are given pristine access to music clips, music videos and even interviews that their favorite artist participated in at some point in their career.
Fans are more in touch with the people that make the music because of the access that the internet affords them to those people. Fans can download album covers and use them as art on the walls of their home, and to help personalize the cover of a compact disk that they copied that is filled with their favorite music artist's product. They know that the online music stores give music artists the credit they deserve and all the royalties that come from each music download a fan makes on the internet.
The music choices that are available on the internet are not limited to only music files. Fans can search for audio books that were written to glorify the life of rock legends or the people that mastered hip hop music. Every piece of music has a story behind it. Music fans feel good about having access to the fine little details that go with creating music.
Music artists can share their thoughts and tell fans how their music careers got started. They can share their trials and tribulations that they experienced on the road during a world tour. A music artist can share some inner thoughts that run very deep and fans can learn how a music artist dealt with a drug addiction or a disabling disease. The choices in music on the internet run deep at times but are always retrievable when a fan uses an internet search engine.
People place more value in buying music from an internet music store because they get more for their money. A land-based music store can only offer a few posters and a music selection on compact disk. A music fan online can learn about the artist, buy the music and share it with friends by attaching it to an email. They can also use the music downloads to customize their music listening pleasure at any time.
About the Author:
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Jim Brown
James Brown writes about CD Jungle coupon codes, mbopmegastore coupon and itunes.apple.com on-line coupons.
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Sunday, June 21, 2009
10 Easy Ways to Make Your Time on Twitter More Interactive
When it comes to Twitter, I always stress to clients that results don't happen overnight. This is not to discourage them from using it to enhance their marketing-but to help them understand the power of regular, personal interactions and the cumulative effect this can have on their business.
Each time you engage others on Twitter, you are planting seeds that can have potentially big payoffs in the future. Once I explain this concept, the next concern is usually that this will be a huge time investment. It's not-if you leverage your time by applying a few of the select strategies I discuss here.
1. Re-tweet: Re-posting others' interesting tweets is one of the simplest and most effective ways to be discovered and gain more followers. For the people that already are following you, it's a quick way to get on their radars.
2. Thought-provoking quote: People just love great quotes. You have a good chance of being re-tweeted with these. The ones you choose also help you share a slice of your personality.
3. Feedback on someone's link: Take a minute to visit a link someone has posted. They will often preface the link with what it's about. If it interests you, check it out and share your thoughts with the poster afterwards.
4. Answer a question: Know the answer? By all means, share your expertise. If the question pertains to your niche, that's even better.
5. Ask a question: By the same token, people like to share their own knowledge. Give them an opportunity.
6. Thank someone for their re-tweet or compliment: Gratitude is powerful and people appreciate and tend to remember when you've expressed it.
7. Respond to @ replies and direct messages: Try to respond to both the public and private messages you receive. It's just common courtesy. Plus, there are many people who unfortunately do not do it-so exceed others' expectations by making a habit of doing so.
8. Participate in #followfriday: FollowFriday is simply a fun event every Friday on Twitter where people recommend others to follow. They add the hash tag after they've given the Twitter usernames. If you have people in mind you think would be good to follow, tell others-there's a good chance those you've recommended will return the favor.
9. Use Blip.fm: If you're a music lover (who isn't?), try using Blip.fm. All you have to do is set up a free account on their site and you can start playing DJ. Choose the option to send the songs you've "blipped" to Twitter. Music really does bring people together. Of course, you don't want to fill up your entire Twitter stream with blips, but once in awhile share your musical tastes with others.
10. Post a poll: Do you need feedback on something? Yep, there's a hashtag for that: #poll. People love participating in these.
By choosing to put a few of these strategies in place each day, you'll build momentum, raise your profile and start to notice others engaging and re-tweeting you more. As in real life, it's about personality. Let that come through and it will pique others' curiosity, drive them to seek out more information about you, and eventually cause them to click through to your site.
Commit to implementing these techniques regularly-it essentially comes down to two things, interacting and providing value-and you will begin being perceived as an expert, see yourself getting recommended by others, and be well on your way to building your own "tribe" of raving fans.
Now, you can't say you don't know what to tweet about!
About the Author:
Christine Gallagher, MLS, MSIS, founder of CommunicateValue.com, teaches small business owners and professionals how to conquer the overwhelming aspects of online and social media marketing to increase business and maximize profits. For FREE tips on how to build profitable relationships, leverage technology and create your own successful online business, visit http://CommunicateValue.com
Each time you engage others on Twitter, you are planting seeds that can have potentially big payoffs in the future. Once I explain this concept, the next concern is usually that this will be a huge time investment. It's not-if you leverage your time by applying a few of the select strategies I discuss here.
1. Re-tweet: Re-posting others' interesting tweets is one of the simplest and most effective ways to be discovered and gain more followers. For the people that already are following you, it's a quick way to get on their radars.
2. Thought-provoking quote: People just love great quotes. You have a good chance of being re-tweeted with these. The ones you choose also help you share a slice of your personality.
3. Feedback on someone's link: Take a minute to visit a link someone has posted. They will often preface the link with what it's about. If it interests you, check it out and share your thoughts with the poster afterwards.
4. Answer a question: Know the answer? By all means, share your expertise. If the question pertains to your niche, that's even better.
5. Ask a question: By the same token, people like to share their own knowledge. Give them an opportunity.
6. Thank someone for their re-tweet or compliment: Gratitude is powerful and people appreciate and tend to remember when you've expressed it.
7. Respond to @ replies and direct messages: Try to respond to both the public and private messages you receive. It's just common courtesy. Plus, there are many people who unfortunately do not do it-so exceed others' expectations by making a habit of doing so.
8. Participate in #followfriday: FollowFriday is simply a fun event every Friday on Twitter where people recommend others to follow. They add the hash tag after they've given the Twitter usernames. If you have people in mind you think would be good to follow, tell others-there's a good chance those you've recommended will return the favor.
9. Use Blip.fm: If you're a music lover (who isn't?), try using Blip.fm. All you have to do is set up a free account on their site and you can start playing DJ. Choose the option to send the songs you've "blipped" to Twitter. Music really does bring people together. Of course, you don't want to fill up your entire Twitter stream with blips, but once in awhile share your musical tastes with others.
10. Post a poll: Do you need feedback on something? Yep, there's a hashtag for that: #poll. People love participating in these.
By choosing to put a few of these strategies in place each day, you'll build momentum, raise your profile and start to notice others engaging and re-tweeting you more. As in real life, it's about personality. Let that come through and it will pique others' curiosity, drive them to seek out more information about you, and eventually cause them to click through to your site.
Commit to implementing these techniques regularly-it essentially comes down to two things, interacting and providing value-and you will begin being perceived as an expert, see yourself getting recommended by others, and be well on your way to building your own "tribe" of raving fans.
Now, you can't say you don't know what to tweet about!
About the Author:
Christine Gallagher, MLS, MSIS, founder of CommunicateValue.com, teaches small business owners and professionals how to conquer the overwhelming aspects of online and social media marketing to increase business and maximize profits. For FREE tips on how to build profitable relationships, leverage technology and create your own successful online business, visit http://CommunicateValue.com
Monday, June 15, 2009
How Funky House Vinyl Records Help Keep The Soul In Music
If you have a few funky house vinyl records in your collection, which you probably should, then you'll know that funky house is a branch or sub genre of house music, incorporating the traditional four-to-the-floor drumbeat, as well as synthesized music, samples and a few vocals. House music in all its various forms has received a tremendously loyal following, and funky house has lifted the lid on the nightclubs, proving just as popular on the street. The chances are high that there's at least one funky house song on most people's iPods!
One of the things which surprises some people is the very fact that a sub genre of music which is still relatively new should appear on vinyl. In today's modern computer revolution where you can slip a compact disk containing a full album of music between the pages of a book, or carry tens of thousands of songs around with you in a device no larger than a box of matches, why should vinyl still be popular, still less used to record such new music?
If you're asking the question, then the chances are that you're either too young to have heard vinyl - in which case you are seriously missing out, or you have little interest in music, or at least the rendition of it. If you don't have the experience to appreciate music in vinyl form, then you have my sympathy! I'm a huge vinyl fan, and although I have stacks of CDs and my hard drive is bulging with MP3 files, I still keep my vinyl record collection, and yes, that does include a selection of new funky house vinyl records.
Let's be honest - is it about quality? I would say yes, but you may well argue and suggest that quality should be about perfection. Vinyl records can be scratchy, they hiss and pop, there are often background crackles, and they may even skip. On the other hand, CDs and MP3s are pure, clean and unblemished. They offer music in a purer, less distracting form, and provide the listener with a more accurate reproduction of the music.
Yes, that's all well and true - to a point. Though I would argue that quality is the same thing as perfection. In some cases, perfection and quality are the same thing, but when it comes to music reproduction, I'm not so sure. If you have a band playing music live, do you think it would sound the same as a dubbed, mixed, rehearsed, practiced, re-recorded, mixed and edited version that comes out of a studio? No, of course not. The live version may well be an entirely unique performance, but one which has soul. Too many recording studios use computers to wipe out the soul. It's as though all those ones and zeros scratch out the imperfections. The trouble is, those imperfections are often the soul of the music.
Who wants to listen to music and feel that they're in the room with the musicians if the music has no soul, because after the musicians performed it, the whole thing was edited and mixed by a computer anyway? Vinyl records let you feel more physically connected to the music. Try this sometimes - get a CD and a record of the same piece of music and hold them side by side. Notice how the CD looks exactly the same as every other CD in your collection?
Now notice how the record looks unique. The grooves create a pattern, becoming deeper as the volume increases, and lighter as it quietens. I once saw a guy who could look at a record and tell you immediately what the music was on it, just from the pattern of ridges and grooves. You can't do that with a CD, and don't even try looking at an MP3!
So when it comes to something new, like funky house vinyl records, it's important to appreciate why true fans of music and musical reproduction see this as a natural fusion of technology and soul. The combination of vinyl and modern, synthesized music is a way of helping keep the soul of the performer intact - a little like having an author's signature in your favourite book. Funky house music uses soulful voices and a traditional rhythm - let's keep the soul in music and hear it for vinyl.
Barnaby Milne is a musician, DJ and avid collector of music from the 70s to today, particularly funky house vinyl records and for funky house music vinyl is his top recommendation.
One of the things which surprises some people is the very fact that a sub genre of music which is still relatively new should appear on vinyl. In today's modern computer revolution where you can slip a compact disk containing a full album of music between the pages of a book, or carry tens of thousands of songs around with you in a device no larger than a box of matches, why should vinyl still be popular, still less used to record such new music?
If you're asking the question, then the chances are that you're either too young to have heard vinyl - in which case you are seriously missing out, or you have little interest in music, or at least the rendition of it. If you don't have the experience to appreciate music in vinyl form, then you have my sympathy! I'm a huge vinyl fan, and although I have stacks of CDs and my hard drive is bulging with MP3 files, I still keep my vinyl record collection, and yes, that does include a selection of new funky house vinyl records.
Let's be honest - is it about quality? I would say yes, but you may well argue and suggest that quality should be about perfection. Vinyl records can be scratchy, they hiss and pop, there are often background crackles, and they may even skip. On the other hand, CDs and MP3s are pure, clean and unblemished. They offer music in a purer, less distracting form, and provide the listener with a more accurate reproduction of the music.
Yes, that's all well and true - to a point. Though I would argue that quality is the same thing as perfection. In some cases, perfection and quality are the same thing, but when it comes to music reproduction, I'm not so sure. If you have a band playing music live, do you think it would sound the same as a dubbed, mixed, rehearsed, practiced, re-recorded, mixed and edited version that comes out of a studio? No, of course not. The live version may well be an entirely unique performance, but one which has soul. Too many recording studios use computers to wipe out the soul. It's as though all those ones and zeros scratch out the imperfections. The trouble is, those imperfections are often the soul of the music.
Who wants to listen to music and feel that they're in the room with the musicians if the music has no soul, because after the musicians performed it, the whole thing was edited and mixed by a computer anyway? Vinyl records let you feel more physically connected to the music. Try this sometimes - get a CD and a record of the same piece of music and hold them side by side. Notice how the CD looks exactly the same as every other CD in your collection?
Now notice how the record looks unique. The grooves create a pattern, becoming deeper as the volume increases, and lighter as it quietens. I once saw a guy who could look at a record and tell you immediately what the music was on it, just from the pattern of ridges and grooves. You can't do that with a CD, and don't even try looking at an MP3!
So when it comes to something new, like funky house vinyl records, it's important to appreciate why true fans of music and musical reproduction see this as a natural fusion of technology and soul. The combination of vinyl and modern, synthesized music is a way of helping keep the soul of the performer intact - a little like having an author's signature in your favourite book. Funky house music uses soulful voices and a traditional rhythm - let's keep the soul in music and hear it for vinyl.
Barnaby Milne is a musician, DJ and avid collector of music from the 70s to today, particularly funky house vinyl records and for funky house music vinyl is his top recommendation.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Social Media And The Pop Culture
Why would a popular musician or singing group put a social media page together? After all, aren't they busy enough without adding the interaction that seems to be required of a social media site?
In most cases these artists do not develop these pages as a result of having too much time on their hands. In fact, most of these artists do not have a significant amount of free time to devote to a social media site.
That being said the social media site becomes an incredible means of immediate connection with fans. The social media page contains audio streaming of popular songs, video streaming of current music videos, photo galleries and of course an online blog.
These tools provide a sense of immediate connection between fans and artist. Since the page development of social media sites is all online the artists can update their page from anywhere they can gain an Internet connection (often wi-fi hot zones).
Obviously there are those who have some help in getting everything online and keeping things updated, but the point is a majority of artists have gained a clear understanding that an online community provides an incredible mechanism for marketing to already motivated fans.
Links to a primary site can often result in additional product purchases. Even if the individuals have the most current audio products they may use a social media site as the first step in locating and purchasing items such as t-shirts, hats, sweat bands, posters, magnets and many other branded items from the artist.
A social media site allows these artists to let fans know of significant achievements, news or offer information on the pre-release sale of new audio projects.
Fans take the time to post replies, ask questions and send site-controlled messages to the artist.
In so many ways the world of social media has allowed the famous to be viewed as approachable and friendly. The mystery of the artist is less mysterious and concerts can be viewed by many concertgoers as something a bit like a gathering with friends.
In an odd way the use of social media levels the playing field of the famous and yet-to-be famous. This environment is an odd mixture of reality TV, entertainment report and fan site.
The success of pop culture as a historical phenomenon makes this up close and personal approach to artists and film stars something that is meaningful to fans.
Beyond the unusually profound cultural dynamics of social media, artists and actors understand that this genre provides marketing potential to a highly motivated group of individuals.
Marketing has always been about putting a product in front of people on a regular basis. Social media allows the famous to keep their projects (past, present and future) in front of fans.
The use of social media can render fan sites obsolete because the fans have access to the famous. In turn they also have access to each other.
The example of the famous using social media can provide a reason for individuals to provide a point of connection for their own group of family and friends in a one-stop shop of information and feedback.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Scott Lindsay
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In most cases these artists do not develop these pages as a result of having too much time on their hands. In fact, most of these artists do not have a significant amount of free time to devote to a social media site.
That being said the social media site becomes an incredible means of immediate connection with fans. The social media page contains audio streaming of popular songs, video streaming of current music videos, photo galleries and of course an online blog.
These tools provide a sense of immediate connection between fans and artist. Since the page development of social media sites is all online the artists can update their page from anywhere they can gain an Internet connection (often wi-fi hot zones).
Obviously there are those who have some help in getting everything online and keeping things updated, but the point is a majority of artists have gained a clear understanding that an online community provides an incredible mechanism for marketing to already motivated fans.
Links to a primary site can often result in additional product purchases. Even if the individuals have the most current audio products they may use a social media site as the first step in locating and purchasing items such as t-shirts, hats, sweat bands, posters, magnets and many other branded items from the artist.
A social media site allows these artists to let fans know of significant achievements, news or offer information on the pre-release sale of new audio projects.
Fans take the time to post replies, ask questions and send site-controlled messages to the artist.
In so many ways the world of social media has allowed the famous to be viewed as approachable and friendly. The mystery of the artist is less mysterious and concerts can be viewed by many concertgoers as something a bit like a gathering with friends.
In an odd way the use of social media levels the playing field of the famous and yet-to-be famous. This environment is an odd mixture of reality TV, entertainment report and fan site.
The success of pop culture as a historical phenomenon makes this up close and personal approach to artists and film stars something that is meaningful to fans.
Beyond the unusually profound cultural dynamics of social media, artists and actors understand that this genre provides marketing potential to a highly motivated group of individuals.
Marketing has always been about putting a product in front of people on a regular basis. Social media allows the famous to keep their projects (past, present and future) in front of fans.
The use of social media can render fan sites obsolete because the fans have access to the famous. In turn they also have access to each other.
The example of the famous using social media can provide a reason for individuals to provide a point of connection for their own group of family and friends in a one-stop shop of information and feedback.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Scott Lindsay
MAKE A WEBSITE in minutes with HighPowerSites.com or BUILD A WEBSITE with BuildAGreatSite.com. Start a HOME BUSINESS and RESELL EBOOKS at BooksWealth.com.
Hip Hop and Rap – Standing on the Very Peak of Popularity.
Hip hop and rap appeared, like many other musical innovations, in New York, particularly in the Bronx. Although it’s fairly common to associate this music with the black community as well as with the latino community, both the genre and the culture associated with it have, in time, spread all over the world. Hip hop performances have come to the point of varying greatly in style and content, and are often associated with actions known as “elements”, such as beat boxing, break dancing or DJing.
It’s very important to precisely distinguish hip hop and rap. It’s definitely not a mistake to refer to a particular artist by using either word, as the two concepts are interdependent and interconnected. However, although this area is under strong dispute, the basic difference between hip hop and rap is as follows.
Hip hop, before being internationally known as a musical genre, was a culture. It’s from the associated culture and background that it emerged, but it never quite became detached from it. Break-dance, for example, is definitely the best known dance associated to it. Its beginnings are quite controversial in their essence. Some claim that battling through dance was a form of minimizing street violence between gangs, while some deny this ever had anything to do with gang rivalry. Considering it’s an activity based primarily on dance (although highly athletic), it emerged from any limits of a subculture and became accepted worldwide. Graffiti is the oldest recorded element of all, and only in time did it gain in complexity and become associated with the movement.
Turntables have led to the development of DJing, another one of the elements which are powerfully associated with the hip hop culture. It’s a way of creating specific sounds using a turntable. The use of the term is extremely recent, perhaps even more recent than the practice itself: it appeared as late as 1994. A DJ used it in order to make the difference between touching the records in order to produce sounds and simply playing them, while someone else did the rapping.
Thus, hip hop and rap are not one and the same, but rap or rapping is one of the elements of the hip hop culture. It’s a combination between poetry, talking and song, deriving mainly from the works of West African poets. It also has roots in the dancehall of the 1970’s. The success of groups like Run DMC had a major contribution to making rap commercially popular in the mid 80’s. Things evolved rapidly over the years, leading to, among other things, the art of freestyling. This means delivering rhymes that have been written beforehand, but not necessarily with a well-defined backbone or making up rhymes on the spot.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Ken Wilson
We have the hottest songs and artists from the hip hop and rap industry. Come and check all them out as we certainly know what to give it to you. Are you ready to move? Let’s go. It’s time to dance and rhyme at the same time. Hip hop music is definitely the best.
It’s very important to precisely distinguish hip hop and rap. It’s definitely not a mistake to refer to a particular artist by using either word, as the two concepts are interdependent and interconnected. However, although this area is under strong dispute, the basic difference between hip hop and rap is as follows.
Hip hop, before being internationally known as a musical genre, was a culture. It’s from the associated culture and background that it emerged, but it never quite became detached from it. Break-dance, for example, is definitely the best known dance associated to it. Its beginnings are quite controversial in their essence. Some claim that battling through dance was a form of minimizing street violence between gangs, while some deny this ever had anything to do with gang rivalry. Considering it’s an activity based primarily on dance (although highly athletic), it emerged from any limits of a subculture and became accepted worldwide. Graffiti is the oldest recorded element of all, and only in time did it gain in complexity and become associated with the movement.
Turntables have led to the development of DJing, another one of the elements which are powerfully associated with the hip hop culture. It’s a way of creating specific sounds using a turntable. The use of the term is extremely recent, perhaps even more recent than the practice itself: it appeared as late as 1994. A DJ used it in order to make the difference between touching the records in order to produce sounds and simply playing them, while someone else did the rapping.
Thus, hip hop and rap are not one and the same, but rap or rapping is one of the elements of the hip hop culture. It’s a combination between poetry, talking and song, deriving mainly from the works of West African poets. It also has roots in the dancehall of the 1970’s. The success of groups like Run DMC had a major contribution to making rap commercially popular in the mid 80’s. Things evolved rapidly over the years, leading to, among other things, the art of freestyling. This means delivering rhymes that have been written beforehand, but not necessarily with a well-defined backbone or making up rhymes on the spot.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Ken Wilson
We have the hottest songs and artists from the hip hop and rap industry. Come and check all them out as we certainly know what to give it to you. Are you ready to move? Let’s go. It’s time to dance and rhyme at the same time. Hip hop music is definitely the best.
The Hip Hop Mixtape – Cool Music, Cool Sounds!.
The idea of creating the mixtape goes way back into the 70’s, when adequate equipment became accessible to the wide public. Basically, it was a specific collection of tunes recorded onto a compact audio cassette. This could happen on a various scale. For example, a friend could make you a mixtape of tracks from a particular genre (be it a series of pop hits or of underground hip hop songs) or with a particular meaning; similarly, a certain person could, sometimes against copyright laws, commercialize mixtapes of various content within certain communities for quick financial benefits.
The early ones had eight tracks and were theme related. Some were released before Christmas or at the beginning of January (having as title the year) and were successful from a commercial point of view. The mixtape was, in a way, the grandfather of the modern compilation, and although it always covered a wide variety of genres, hip hop was indubitably among the most popular, and it helped spread the practice (soon to be described as a form of art).
Typically, such a tape conveys the tastes of its creator to all its listeners. It can be a simple choice of favorite songs at a particular moment, as well as a mood-oriented or genre-oriented compilation. It could be a collection of the creator’s favorite hip hop tracks at that moment or of the best rock hits of all time. Also, in the 70’s and 80’s, it was extremely popular in the USA to offer mixtapes as gifts – therefore, their content could very well be an attempt at pleasing the musical tastes of the receiver. In hip hop oriented communities, for example, it was very common for a hip hop mixtape to circulate quickly.
Since consumer-available technology also evolved, it’s common nowadays for this to happen in the form of an audio CD or of an mp3 playlist. Implicitly, terms like “hip hop mixtape “, which were full of meaning, lost it for some, who argued that there was no longer a tape involved anywhere in the process, hence the charm was lost with the gain of facility. But although the CD is probably the most common form of making such a mix at home nowadays, the 70’s-created concept remains exactly the same, and putting a “hip hop mixtape” label on a CD is no sacrilege, as the hip hop content is essential for the listener.
Some more experienced users preferred to add special effects to the tape, which gave it higher quality as well as a more personal note. This included things like fading effects between one song and another so as not to brutally make the passing or even specific (sometimes hand-made) cover art. Also, thanks to the appearance of turntables, it became common for a hip hop mixtape to contain many more DJ effects and fine touches.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Ken Wilson
Remember the times when a hip hop mixtape was the coolest gift you could receive? Even if the times have changed and technology has advanced to a whole new level, hip hop music is just as popular if not even more. Listen to the music we provide and enjoy the great rhythm!
The early ones had eight tracks and were theme related. Some were released before Christmas or at the beginning of January (having as title the year) and were successful from a commercial point of view. The mixtape was, in a way, the grandfather of the modern compilation, and although it always covered a wide variety of genres, hip hop was indubitably among the most popular, and it helped spread the practice (soon to be described as a form of art).
Typically, such a tape conveys the tastes of its creator to all its listeners. It can be a simple choice of favorite songs at a particular moment, as well as a mood-oriented or genre-oriented compilation. It could be a collection of the creator’s favorite hip hop tracks at that moment or of the best rock hits of all time. Also, in the 70’s and 80’s, it was extremely popular in the USA to offer mixtapes as gifts – therefore, their content could very well be an attempt at pleasing the musical tastes of the receiver. In hip hop oriented communities, for example, it was very common for a hip hop mixtape to circulate quickly.
Since consumer-available technology also evolved, it’s common nowadays for this to happen in the form of an audio CD or of an mp3 playlist. Implicitly, terms like “hip hop mixtape “, which were full of meaning, lost it for some, who argued that there was no longer a tape involved anywhere in the process, hence the charm was lost with the gain of facility. But although the CD is probably the most common form of making such a mix at home nowadays, the 70’s-created concept remains exactly the same, and putting a “hip hop mixtape” label on a CD is no sacrilege, as the hip hop content is essential for the listener.
Some more experienced users preferred to add special effects to the tape, which gave it higher quality as well as a more personal note. This included things like fading effects between one song and another so as not to brutally make the passing or even specific (sometimes hand-made) cover art. Also, thanks to the appearance of turntables, it became common for a hip hop mixtape to contain many more DJ effects and fine touches.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Ken Wilson
Remember the times when a hip hop mixtape was the coolest gift you could receive? Even if the times have changed and technology has advanced to a whole new level, hip hop music is just as popular if not even more. Listen to the music we provide and enjoy the great rhythm!
Hip Hop – the Promotion of Violence or a Social Message?
Since its creation (in the 1970s in New York), hip hop has been accused of many things. One of the accusations was that it instigates at violence, promiscuity, misogyny and alcohol and drug use. Are the accusers right? It is true that many of the hip hop and rap artists promote an unreal image of successful male, desired by all women, who drives an expensive car, dresses in extravagant clothes and wears gold and platinum jewelry. Naked women and alcohol are a must in the hip hop videos. Or maybe it’s the other way around: the hip hopers talk in their songs about poverty and living on streets, but they are in fact very rich, which may seem like hypocrisy. What we must not forget, however, is that hip hop and rap music was created in ghettos by poor Afro-Americans. It is normal that the songs talked about ghetto life and poverty. Even if today’s hip hopers have changed, the message of the music has remained the same.
About the other accusations, it is true that hip hop and rap music is not very educational. The rappers talk about weapons, alcohol and drugs in a positive way. Teenagers could be influenced by such words. But that leads to another question: should hip-hop music, and music in general, be moralizing? The artists are free to express their message to the public, but the public is also free to listen to their music or not. It would not be fair to prohibit a genre of music because the lyrics can be promiscuous. After all, the teenagers can hear the same words and expressions at school or at the corner of the street.
Hip-hop and rap fans argue that that hip hop is the expression of a world which may seem tough, but is nevertheless real. To change the lyrics of the songs in order to eliminate the accusations of immorality would mean to fake the reality that you are trying to show. Therefore, people who don’t like hip hop music should simply not listen to it. Similarly, if they don’t want their children to be negatively influenced by rap music, they should forbid them to buy the records. Most hip-hop CDs include a warning about the content of the lyrics.
But do all hip hop songs talk about drug and violence? An example of rappers who don’t promote violence in their songs would be the French band Manau, who talk in their songs about old Breton habits (“Le tribu de Dana”). Another would be Mook E., from Israel, who preaches peace and tolerance in his songs. Famous rappers such as Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five or Public Enemy used hip hop and rap for social purposes, to protest against certain social realities.
In the end, it is always a question of perspective. Hip hop and rap has its admirers and its despisers, like any other kind of music. What makes hip-hop different from other genres of music is the culture that has evolved around it, including breakdancing and graffiti. The conclusion is that we should all try to be more tolerant. If you don’t like rap, it’s OK, but don’t believe that all the persons who like it are would-be gangsters and uneducated persons. You might be surprised to learn the truth.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Ken Wilson
Perhaps no other genre of music (except rock) has risen as many controversies as hip hop music. Although there are people who say rap promotes violence and promiscuity, hip hop and rap remain popular music genres, not only in the USA, but also in the whole world.
About the other accusations, it is true that hip hop and rap music is not very educational. The rappers talk about weapons, alcohol and drugs in a positive way. Teenagers could be influenced by such words. But that leads to another question: should hip-hop music, and music in general, be moralizing? The artists are free to express their message to the public, but the public is also free to listen to their music or not. It would not be fair to prohibit a genre of music because the lyrics can be promiscuous. After all, the teenagers can hear the same words and expressions at school or at the corner of the street.
Hip-hop and rap fans argue that that hip hop is the expression of a world which may seem tough, but is nevertheless real. To change the lyrics of the songs in order to eliminate the accusations of immorality would mean to fake the reality that you are trying to show. Therefore, people who don’t like hip hop music should simply not listen to it. Similarly, if they don’t want their children to be negatively influenced by rap music, they should forbid them to buy the records. Most hip-hop CDs include a warning about the content of the lyrics.
But do all hip hop songs talk about drug and violence? An example of rappers who don’t promote violence in their songs would be the French band Manau, who talk in their songs about old Breton habits (“Le tribu de Dana”). Another would be Mook E., from Israel, who preaches peace and tolerance in his songs. Famous rappers such as Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five or Public Enemy used hip hop and rap for social purposes, to protest against certain social realities.
In the end, it is always a question of perspective. Hip hop and rap has its admirers and its despisers, like any other kind of music. What makes hip-hop different from other genres of music is the culture that has evolved around it, including breakdancing and graffiti. The conclusion is that we should all try to be more tolerant. If you don’t like rap, it’s OK, but don’t believe that all the persons who like it are would-be gangsters and uneducated persons. You might be surprised to learn the truth.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Ken Wilson
Perhaps no other genre of music (except rock) has risen as many controversies as hip hop music. Although there are people who say rap promotes violence and promiscuity, hip hop and rap remain popular music genres, not only in the USA, but also in the whole world.
Authentic Music: A Dying Art Form?.
Music has gone through a number of major developments throughout its history. From the development of a notation system, to consistent pitch, through to the invention of the valve, music in its style and expression have evolved and changed significantly to the position today. In recent times, technology has had a major impact on the way we play and listen to music. The introduction of contemporary formats like mp3, and the rise of mp3 consumer electronics has expanded the scope of music across our society. Furthermore, music is now more portable and accessible than ever before. But is this a good thing for music as an art form, or is this another step towards the destruction of traditional performance and expression?
The expansion of music across our everyday lives in recent times is amazing. It is now practically impossible to go a whole day without hearing some form of music - whether on the car radio, at work, in the grocery store or on the streets. Music is everywhere, and this could well be thanks to the increasing popularity of music accessories like mp3 players. Undoubtedly, the mp3 player is bringing new and varied tastes in music to those who would otherwise have been more reserved about their selection. It is encouraging more and more youngsters to pick up an instrument and start to learn, with the ultimate aim of playing through the mp3 players of the world themselves one day. Surely this is fantastic for the development of music as an art form?
On the contrary, there are those who feel music is suffering as a result of modern technology. Dance and techno music, wholly created by computer is apparently destroying real talent in music. It is bringing in programmed sounds and rhythms and combining them with sampled music - nothing original at all. Worryingly this is popular, particularly amongst youth cultures which will inevitably have a knock on effect on music as an art form in the decades and centuries to come.
Either way, music is certainly a big part of our daily lives, whatever form it happens to take. Whether you see music as a spectator sport, or you love getting involved yourself, the art form will surely remain alive and well for many years, if not forever, given the connection of music with our emotions and thought patterns on a daily basis
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Author: Jonathon Hardcastle
Jonathon Hardcastle writes articles on many topics including Relationships, Family, and Arts
The expansion of music across our everyday lives in recent times is amazing. It is now practically impossible to go a whole day without hearing some form of music - whether on the car radio, at work, in the grocery store or on the streets. Music is everywhere, and this could well be thanks to the increasing popularity of music accessories like mp3 players. Undoubtedly, the mp3 player is bringing new and varied tastes in music to those who would otherwise have been more reserved about their selection. It is encouraging more and more youngsters to pick up an instrument and start to learn, with the ultimate aim of playing through the mp3 players of the world themselves one day. Surely this is fantastic for the development of music as an art form?
On the contrary, there are those who feel music is suffering as a result of modern technology. Dance and techno music, wholly created by computer is apparently destroying real talent in music. It is bringing in programmed sounds and rhythms and combining them with sampled music - nothing original at all. Worryingly this is popular, particularly amongst youth cultures which will inevitably have a knock on effect on music as an art form in the decades and centuries to come.
Either way, music is certainly a big part of our daily lives, whatever form it happens to take. Whether you see music as a spectator sport, or you love getting involved yourself, the art form will surely remain alive and well for many years, if not forever, given the connection of music with our emotions and thought patterns on a daily basis
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Jonathon Hardcastle
Jonathon Hardcastle writes articles on many topics including Relationships, Family, and Arts
The Importance Of Drums in Classical Music
The warp and woof of music are rhythm and melody, and the drums are the rhythm instruments par excellence. It is easier to recognize a song by its rhythm without melody than it is by its melody without rhythm, which shows what a basic part of music is rhythm.
Primitive music is more rhythm than it is melody, Some of this primitive music is tremendously expressive. Melody could add very little to the foreboding pulsations of the African war drums.
In fact, melody would detract more than it would add. There is something in the constantly recurring rhythmical beat of the drums which pulsates in the blood. There is something in the incessant and ominous boom of the drums which pounds in the brain.
Melody would relieve the tension, would break the spell. But the dread rhythm of the war drums, beating in the ears, booming in the brain, speaks a terrible message which could be spoken in no other way.
If it be a dirge, how little is melody missed when the drums begin their lament! With a rhythm peculiarly expressive of grief and sorrow, the drums beat out a mournful elegy which asks nothing of either words or melody.
By contrast, what can be gayer than the castanets and tambourines of Spain or the bongas and maracas of Cuba? The quickened rhythm, the joyous accents of these instruments sing a song of gaiety and happiness which melody could scarcely supplement.
What can the melody of the bugle add to the stirring rattle of the military drum, sounding assembly or commanding a charge? The weird, the mysterious, the terrible all can be portrayed with tremendous drama and reality by bare rhythm without melody.
It is no wonder that all peoples, from the most primitive and barbarous to the most educated and cultured, have been lovers of the drum and other percussion instruments.
In earliest history we learn that the Egyptians, Assyrians, Hebrews, Greeks and Romans all used instruments corresponding to our kettledrums, tenor drums, tambourines and cymbals. Of these, the most important soon came to be the kettledrums.
In early Europe they were used not only in military affairs, but in the court of Edward I as musical instruments. Later, in 1347, when Edward III celebrated his triumphal march into Calais, kettledrums helped make the music.
Chaucer often speaks of the "nakers" in his Canterbury Tales, and nakers is an Arabic word meaning "kettledrums." In a carving in Worcester Cathedral, believed to have been done in 1396, a pair of kettledrums is shown strapped to the waist of a player, one on each side.
These were small kettledrums, similar to those brought by the Moors into Spain and carried by the Crusaders from Arabia, but larger-size kettles were developed by the Germans, which are practically like our modern tympani. Henry VIII introduced these larger kettledrums into England in the first half of the sixteenth century.
The German historian of music, Virdung, writing in 1511, describes the kettledrums of his day. He even draws some pictures of them which look much like the modern kettledrums. About a hundred years later, Praetorius, another German historian of music, talks about the kettledrums; and so does the Frenchman Mersennus, writing in 1627.
These ancient kettledrums were hemispherical and had skin heads stretched across the top by hoops which were held in place and tightened by adjusting screws around the rim.
Kettledrums graduated from the army and the military band into the orchestra during the time of Lully and were used commonly by him and other French composers of the seventeenth century.
As early as 1713 kettledrums had become popular in Germany, for Johann Mattheson, of Hamburg, composer and musical authority, writing of the musical instruments of his day, says that kettledrums were often used in both church and opera.
These he says were used in pairs and were tuned a fourth apart, a practice which existed for many years. Handel knew about kettledrums, using them in his "Water Music." Bach also used them, as did Haydn and Mozart and all the other great masters who came later.
These early kettledrums, or tympani, as they are now called, were hand tuned and were pitched in C and G, the tonic and dominant of the key in which the music was written.
The large kettle was tuned to the G below the C, while the small kettle was tuned to the C, making them a fourth apart. The reason for this inversion was the limitations of the instruments.
If the tonic had been given to the large kettle and the dominant to the small kettle, the dominant would generally have been higher than the small kettle's compass. Therefore, the tonic was given to the small kettle, and the dominant an octave below was given to the large kettle.
Kettledrums were treated mostly as military instruments, for they were hardly ever allowed to play except with the trumpets, in marches, overtures and other such music. This is only another example of following custom.
Trumpeters and kettledrummers used to accompany royalty wherever it went and were used to signify rank, much as rank is signified today by cannons, a certain number for each rank.
Later, when trumpets were admitted to the orchestra, the kettledrums naturally followed; also, when the trumpets played, the early composers thought it appropriate that the kettledrums play, too.
It was Beethoven who freed the tympani from these shackles, not only those imposed by the custom of pairing the kettledrums with the trumpets, but also the universal tuning to G and C, a fourth apart.
In his First Symphony in 1800, Beethoven startled the tympani player and the audience by having the tympani play a sort of bass part to a melody of violins and flutes. Seven years later, in his Fourth Symphony, he elects the tympani to the great honor of stating a theme of two notes which was repeated by the other instruments.
The following year, in his great Fifth Symphony, the same symphony in which the piccolo, trombone and contrabassoon all make their debut in the symphony, Beethoven causes the tympani to make their debut as a solo instrument, creating for the tympani a solo effect in the scherzo movement.
In 1814, in his Eighth Symphony, he tries still another innovation by having the tympani play in unison with the bassoons. By this time the fatal tie between the Siamese twins had been broken and the tympani was no longer restricted to duets with the trumpet.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Malcolm Blake
Malcolm Blake is devoted to music, modern and classical. He aims to help people learning to play guitar and trying to learn tricky guitar chords.
Primitive music is more rhythm than it is melody, Some of this primitive music is tremendously expressive. Melody could add very little to the foreboding pulsations of the African war drums.
In fact, melody would detract more than it would add. There is something in the constantly recurring rhythmical beat of the drums which pulsates in the blood. There is something in the incessant and ominous boom of the drums which pounds in the brain.
Melody would relieve the tension, would break the spell. But the dread rhythm of the war drums, beating in the ears, booming in the brain, speaks a terrible message which could be spoken in no other way.
If it be a dirge, how little is melody missed when the drums begin their lament! With a rhythm peculiarly expressive of grief and sorrow, the drums beat out a mournful elegy which asks nothing of either words or melody.
By contrast, what can be gayer than the castanets and tambourines of Spain or the bongas and maracas of Cuba? The quickened rhythm, the joyous accents of these instruments sing a song of gaiety and happiness which melody could scarcely supplement.
What can the melody of the bugle add to the stirring rattle of the military drum, sounding assembly or commanding a charge? The weird, the mysterious, the terrible all can be portrayed with tremendous drama and reality by bare rhythm without melody.
It is no wonder that all peoples, from the most primitive and barbarous to the most educated and cultured, have been lovers of the drum and other percussion instruments.
In earliest history we learn that the Egyptians, Assyrians, Hebrews, Greeks and Romans all used instruments corresponding to our kettledrums, tenor drums, tambourines and cymbals. Of these, the most important soon came to be the kettledrums.
In early Europe they were used not only in military affairs, but in the court of Edward I as musical instruments. Later, in 1347, when Edward III celebrated his triumphal march into Calais, kettledrums helped make the music.
Chaucer often speaks of the "nakers" in his Canterbury Tales, and nakers is an Arabic word meaning "kettledrums." In a carving in Worcester Cathedral, believed to have been done in 1396, a pair of kettledrums is shown strapped to the waist of a player, one on each side.
These were small kettledrums, similar to those brought by the Moors into Spain and carried by the Crusaders from Arabia, but larger-size kettles were developed by the Germans, which are practically like our modern tympani. Henry VIII introduced these larger kettledrums into England in the first half of the sixteenth century.
The German historian of music, Virdung, writing in 1511, describes the kettledrums of his day. He even draws some pictures of them which look much like the modern kettledrums. About a hundred years later, Praetorius, another German historian of music, talks about the kettledrums; and so does the Frenchman Mersennus, writing in 1627.
These ancient kettledrums were hemispherical and had skin heads stretched across the top by hoops which were held in place and tightened by adjusting screws around the rim.
Kettledrums graduated from the army and the military band into the orchestra during the time of Lully and were used commonly by him and other French composers of the seventeenth century.
As early as 1713 kettledrums had become popular in Germany, for Johann Mattheson, of Hamburg, composer and musical authority, writing of the musical instruments of his day, says that kettledrums were often used in both church and opera.
These he says were used in pairs and were tuned a fourth apart, a practice which existed for many years. Handel knew about kettledrums, using them in his "Water Music." Bach also used them, as did Haydn and Mozart and all the other great masters who came later.
These early kettledrums, or tympani, as they are now called, were hand tuned and were pitched in C and G, the tonic and dominant of the key in which the music was written.
The large kettle was tuned to the G below the C, while the small kettle was tuned to the C, making them a fourth apart. The reason for this inversion was the limitations of the instruments.
If the tonic had been given to the large kettle and the dominant to the small kettle, the dominant would generally have been higher than the small kettle's compass. Therefore, the tonic was given to the small kettle, and the dominant an octave below was given to the large kettle.
Kettledrums were treated mostly as military instruments, for they were hardly ever allowed to play except with the trumpets, in marches, overtures and other such music. This is only another example of following custom.
Trumpeters and kettledrummers used to accompany royalty wherever it went and were used to signify rank, much as rank is signified today by cannons, a certain number for each rank.
Later, when trumpets were admitted to the orchestra, the kettledrums naturally followed; also, when the trumpets played, the early composers thought it appropriate that the kettledrums play, too.
It was Beethoven who freed the tympani from these shackles, not only those imposed by the custom of pairing the kettledrums with the trumpets, but also the universal tuning to G and C, a fourth apart.
In his First Symphony in 1800, Beethoven startled the tympani player and the audience by having the tympani play a sort of bass part to a melody of violins and flutes. Seven years later, in his Fourth Symphony, he elects the tympani to the great honor of stating a theme of two notes which was repeated by the other instruments.
The following year, in his great Fifth Symphony, the same symphony in which the piccolo, trombone and contrabassoon all make their debut in the symphony, Beethoven causes the tympani to make their debut as a solo instrument, creating for the tympani a solo effect in the scherzo movement.
In 1814, in his Eighth Symphony, he tries still another innovation by having the tympani play in unison with the bassoons. By this time the fatal tie between the Siamese twins had been broken and the tympani was no longer restricted to duets with the trumpet.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Malcolm Blake
Malcolm Blake is devoted to music, modern and classical. He aims to help people learning to play guitar and trying to learn tricky guitar chords.
Idolizing The Best Guitar Players
There are a vast amount of people, whether they are guitar players, or simply lovers of music, that have their very own guitar heroes. It is these heroes that may have inspired you with music and given you the motivation to learn how to play the guitar.
Listed below are some of the great guitar players who have compiled groundbreaking profiles in the history of guitar playing.
George Harrison
This famous guitarist was a member of the Beatles. He still remains to be idolized by many people for his skill of guitar playing, even after he left the Beatles to pursue a solo career. He is remembered for being a great man who played the guitar with a huge amount of emotion and feeling. He is also considered as being one of the greatest guitar players of all time in rock and roll.
John McLaughlin
This great guitarist is known for his rock and jazz music. Even though he had many roles in the music field, it was his guitar playing that excelled him and made him famous. He began playing the guitar at the age of 11 years, and he made a great breakthrough in the music industry with his guitar playing.
Robin Trower
This British guitarist became an idol in the 1970's. He became well known for his unique tone and feel along with a touch of the blues. "Bridge of Sighs" was one of his famous albums, which is considered to be the best among his many albums.
Randy Bachman
This guitarist was a member of two highly famous Canadian bands by the names of BTO and Guess Who. He is not one of the most well known guitarists, however, he has made remarkable contributions in the music industry and guitar playing. His talent for writing, as well as his guitar playing, is also second to none and has contributed with these in the success of the above named two bands.
Carlos Santana
This famous artist received his fame, not only for his voice, but also for his lead guitar playing. His music consists of a blend of Latin, African, blues and rock rhythms along with percussion. He has produced top quality albums and also won a great deal of awards in the music field. One of his albums which should be listened too, which is in the bracket of top selling music, is the "Best of Santana".
There still remains to be other guitar players who serve as deserving idols or role models when it comes to playing the guitar. The important thing about such guitar players, is that they make large contributions in influencing individuals to love and enjoy music through the guitar. They are role models to beginners and serve as inspiration as well as aspiring professional guitar players.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Kevin Sinclair
Kevin Sinclair is the publisher and editor of MusicianHome.com, a site that provides information and articles for musicians at all stages of their development.
Listed below are some of the great guitar players who have compiled groundbreaking profiles in the history of guitar playing.
George Harrison
This famous guitarist was a member of the Beatles. He still remains to be idolized by many people for his skill of guitar playing, even after he left the Beatles to pursue a solo career. He is remembered for being a great man who played the guitar with a huge amount of emotion and feeling. He is also considered as being one of the greatest guitar players of all time in rock and roll.
John McLaughlin
This great guitarist is known for his rock and jazz music. Even though he had many roles in the music field, it was his guitar playing that excelled him and made him famous. He began playing the guitar at the age of 11 years, and he made a great breakthrough in the music industry with his guitar playing.
Robin Trower
This British guitarist became an idol in the 1970's. He became well known for his unique tone and feel along with a touch of the blues. "Bridge of Sighs" was one of his famous albums, which is considered to be the best among his many albums.
Randy Bachman
This guitarist was a member of two highly famous Canadian bands by the names of BTO and Guess Who. He is not one of the most well known guitarists, however, he has made remarkable contributions in the music industry and guitar playing. His talent for writing, as well as his guitar playing, is also second to none and has contributed with these in the success of the above named two bands.
Carlos Santana
This famous artist received his fame, not only for his voice, but also for his lead guitar playing. His music consists of a blend of Latin, African, blues and rock rhythms along with percussion. He has produced top quality albums and also won a great deal of awards in the music field. One of his albums which should be listened too, which is in the bracket of top selling music, is the "Best of Santana".
There still remains to be other guitar players who serve as deserving idols or role models when it comes to playing the guitar. The important thing about such guitar players, is that they make large contributions in influencing individuals to love and enjoy music through the guitar. They are role models to beginners and serve as inspiration as well as aspiring professional guitar players.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Kevin Sinclair
Kevin Sinclair is the publisher and editor of MusicianHome.com, a site that provides information and articles for musicians at all stages of their development.
Cosmic Music
There is so much "out there", if we only knew. If we only knew that we too are "out there"- all of us. Johannes Kepler knew almost 350 years ago, what Walter Schempp and our modern day scientists just recently discovered. There's music coming from out there- from among the stars of the universe.
Dancing with the stars takes on a whole new paradigm here. It was actually two Nobel prize honorees (Hulse & Taylor) who in 1993 confirmed Kepler's "Harmonice munch" when they discovered what we now call binary pulsars. A binary pulsar is a pulsar with a binary companion: a white dwarf or neutron star. Binary pulsars are one of the few tools scientists have to detect evidence of gravitational waves; Einstein’s theory of general relativity predicts that two neutron stars would emit gravitational waves as they orbit a common center of mass, which would carry away orbital energy and cause the two stars to draw closer together.
Enough of the detail!
The electromagnetic waves that come to us in pulses (as first picked up by our most sensitive listening devices in Arecibo, Puerto Rico as radio waves) are the music from the stars that Kepler intuited centuries ago. A spiritual awakening is being birthed from a physics awakening.
Each of us carries a frequency that resonates with the universal orchestra. We are all a part of the grand symphony that is not only "out there" but "here" as well. In fact, there is no there, no here, no duality, no locality. With the advent of quantum physics, we're learning to live in a nonlocal world of oneness and we're very immature at comprehending what that means.
We're dancing to our egoic music and not the cosmic music. And it's killing us!
I sense that over the next 5 years or so, (can you say 2012?) we're going to truly hear the cosmic sounds and we'll be compelled to not only listen to it, but to dance with it as well. Are you ready to listen? Got your spiritual dancing shoes out?
Let the music be heard!
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Ernie Fitzpatrick
ernie@lrchouston.com
Dancing with the stars takes on a whole new paradigm here. It was actually two Nobel prize honorees (Hulse & Taylor) who in 1993 confirmed Kepler's "Harmonice munch" when they discovered what we now call binary pulsars. A binary pulsar is a pulsar with a binary companion: a white dwarf or neutron star. Binary pulsars are one of the few tools scientists have to detect evidence of gravitational waves; Einstein’s theory of general relativity predicts that two neutron stars would emit gravitational waves as they orbit a common center of mass, which would carry away orbital energy and cause the two stars to draw closer together.
Enough of the detail!
The electromagnetic waves that come to us in pulses (as first picked up by our most sensitive listening devices in Arecibo, Puerto Rico as radio waves) are the music from the stars that Kepler intuited centuries ago. A spiritual awakening is being birthed from a physics awakening.
Each of us carries a frequency that resonates with the universal orchestra. We are all a part of the grand symphony that is not only "out there" but "here" as well. In fact, there is no there, no here, no duality, no locality. With the advent of quantum physics, we're learning to live in a nonlocal world of oneness and we're very immature at comprehending what that means.
We're dancing to our egoic music and not the cosmic music. And it's killing us!
I sense that over the next 5 years or so, (can you say 2012?) we're going to truly hear the cosmic sounds and we'll be compelled to not only listen to it, but to dance with it as well. Are you ready to listen? Got your spiritual dancing shoes out?
Let the music be heard!
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Ernie Fitzpatrick
ernie@lrchouston.com
Guide To The Best Bands To See Live
There's nothing quite like going to see a live concert; you've bought your concert tickets, you've waited a while for the day to come round, and finally it arrives. All the excitement has built up and you are ready to explode. But the gig turns out a flop, and never quite meets with your high expectations.
So how can you ensure that no matter where you go, a top-class concert will always be delivered? What bands exist that no matter where or when they play, your concert ticket will deliver a memorable gig, packed with memories and experiences you can tell to your grandchildren?
There are five UK bands that deliver legendary performances to their audiences time and time again. Buy a concert ticket for one of these acts, and you will never come away disappointed.
Alice Cooper
An Alice Cooper concert transcends a mere musical concert. It's a show, an actual performance of not just top quality rock and roll music, but a horror, a stage play, and a human experience of immense proportions all rolled into one.
Alice Cooper will take you to the depths of the human soul, twist you round and drop you on your head, then sail you close to the dark side before delivering you redeemed, and free to live another day.
Cooper is a legend, which is why his concert tickets cost so much. Each show is as carefully crafted as a Cuban cigar, so you can be sure that any ticket for one of his concerts is the promise of a night to remember. www.alicecooper.com
The Rolling Stones
Legends in their own time with a back catalogue to pull from that most other modern bands can only envy, The Rolling Stones, despite being grandfathers most of them, are still rocking hard and leading the way in quality live musical entertainment.
Rumor has it they have a team of doctors watching various monitors backstage to ensure they stay fit (alive?) enough to perform - while performing! But even so, the lifestyle that made them so famous means that even the people hired to keep their hearts pumping are banned from the after-show party.
A Rolling Stones gig will either take you back down memory lane, or expose you to a time when rock and roll really was rock 'n' roll and it stood for something more than just a marketing angle. These guys really mean it. www.rollingstones.com
Madness
Still on the go after 28 years, this North London band never did much to change their act in any huge way, other than let it mature into a solid and skanking master showpiece. From playing in back street London pubs to 100,000 in London's Hyde Park, these guys will make every section of society move it's feet whether they want to or not.
Their legendary Madstock concerts sold out every time, and the first one in 1992 went down in history as the only concert ever to ever register on the Richter Scale. And it's all done with a backdrop of humorous cockney banter and a clear love for the music.
Madness never liked rehearsing, but their stage presence comes over with no pretension - just a simple rock-stomping beat, it is no wonder they still have followers of all ages, colours, creeds and sexes up and dancing madly on their feet. www.madness.co.uk
Jean Michel Jarre
Ever since his famous gig in London's Docklands, the UK public has been fascinated by Jarre's surreal and exciting on-stage wizardry. With some spectacular and confounding visual performances with light and sound, that have to be witnessed to be believed, Jarre now only plays to massive crowds at one-off events, yet his music is such that it works anywhere.
A Jarre concert is more than just a concert, it is a chance to witness a modern-day musical genius at work, with a selection of timeless tracks some of which you will recognise, but never knew were his. www.jeanmicheljarre.com
Queen
No list of top live bands would be complete without mentioning Queen.
So legendary were their concerts, people from all walks of life would go to see them even if hey disliked their music. The appeal and magnetic allure of Freddie Mercury is something more people should have had the pleasure of seeing, and as such tickets for his concerts sold like gold dust.
Mercury can never be replaced, and Queens' performances, pinnacled with their Live Aid concert at Wembley in 1985, gave them a new audience and fondness within the British psyche, that can never be matched.
It's one of the tragedies in life that people like Mercury leave us so young, but the rest of the band live on, and the music will never die. www.queenonline.com
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Bret Robson
This article was written by Bret Robson for Viagogo.co.uk, a leading European ticket hub. Viagogo connects buyers and sellers of tickets, concert tickets, theatre tickets and more. Viagogo also guarantees all the transactions, so if you are looking for tickets online, Viagogo is the place to go!
So how can you ensure that no matter where you go, a top-class concert will always be delivered? What bands exist that no matter where or when they play, your concert ticket will deliver a memorable gig, packed with memories and experiences you can tell to your grandchildren?
There are five UK bands that deliver legendary performances to their audiences time and time again. Buy a concert ticket for one of these acts, and you will never come away disappointed.
Alice Cooper
An Alice Cooper concert transcends a mere musical concert. It's a show, an actual performance of not just top quality rock and roll music, but a horror, a stage play, and a human experience of immense proportions all rolled into one.
Alice Cooper will take you to the depths of the human soul, twist you round and drop you on your head, then sail you close to the dark side before delivering you redeemed, and free to live another day.
Cooper is a legend, which is why his concert tickets cost so much. Each show is as carefully crafted as a Cuban cigar, so you can be sure that any ticket for one of his concerts is the promise of a night to remember. www.alicecooper.com
The Rolling Stones
Legends in their own time with a back catalogue to pull from that most other modern bands can only envy, The Rolling Stones, despite being grandfathers most of them, are still rocking hard and leading the way in quality live musical entertainment.
Rumor has it they have a team of doctors watching various monitors backstage to ensure they stay fit (alive?) enough to perform - while performing! But even so, the lifestyle that made them so famous means that even the people hired to keep their hearts pumping are banned from the after-show party.
A Rolling Stones gig will either take you back down memory lane, or expose you to a time when rock and roll really was rock 'n' roll and it stood for something more than just a marketing angle. These guys really mean it. www.rollingstones.com
Madness
Still on the go after 28 years, this North London band never did much to change their act in any huge way, other than let it mature into a solid and skanking master showpiece. From playing in back street London pubs to 100,000 in London's Hyde Park, these guys will make every section of society move it's feet whether they want to or not.
Their legendary Madstock concerts sold out every time, and the first one in 1992 went down in history as the only concert ever to ever register on the Richter Scale. And it's all done with a backdrop of humorous cockney banter and a clear love for the music.
Madness never liked rehearsing, but their stage presence comes over with no pretension - just a simple rock-stomping beat, it is no wonder they still have followers of all ages, colours, creeds and sexes up and dancing madly on their feet. www.madness.co.uk
Jean Michel Jarre
Ever since his famous gig in London's Docklands, the UK public has been fascinated by Jarre's surreal and exciting on-stage wizardry. With some spectacular and confounding visual performances with light and sound, that have to be witnessed to be believed, Jarre now only plays to massive crowds at one-off events, yet his music is such that it works anywhere.
A Jarre concert is more than just a concert, it is a chance to witness a modern-day musical genius at work, with a selection of timeless tracks some of which you will recognise, but never knew were his. www.jeanmicheljarre.com
Queen
No list of top live bands would be complete without mentioning Queen.
So legendary were their concerts, people from all walks of life would go to see them even if hey disliked their music. The appeal and magnetic allure of Freddie Mercury is something more people should have had the pleasure of seeing, and as such tickets for his concerts sold like gold dust.
Mercury can never be replaced, and Queens' performances, pinnacled with their Live Aid concert at Wembley in 1985, gave them a new audience and fondness within the British psyche, that can never be matched.
It's one of the tragedies in life that people like Mercury leave us so young, but the rest of the band live on, and the music will never die. www.queenonline.com
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Bret Robson
This article was written by Bret Robson for Viagogo.co.uk, a leading European ticket hub. Viagogo connects buyers and sellers of tickets, concert tickets, theatre tickets and more. Viagogo also guarantees all the transactions, so if you are looking for tickets online, Viagogo is the place to go!
Hip Hop – More Than Music, a Lifestyle
Hip hop is a cultural movement which originated from New York in the 1970s. Rapping, DJing, breakdancing and graffiti art are considered the main components of hip hop culture. Hip-hop music style consists of a rhytmic style of speaking (rap) over backing beats which are played by a DJ. Although rap is often confused with hip hop, it is not quite the same thing. Rapping is a vocal style which implies a performer speaking rhythmically to a beat and it is usually a component of hip-hop. Hip hop music was inspired from funk or disco songs, from which it borrowed the beats. Since 1979, it has entered the American mainstream and became a popular genre. In 1990s, a form called “gangsta rap” evolved. Today, hip-hop is in vogue not only in the USA, but also in the entire world.
The rise of hip hop was not arbitrary. It happened in the 1970s, when people were tired of dance and rock and needed a change. But that was not the only reason. There were also some social and political causes. Hip-hop’s popularity grew in the same time with the power of black and Latino gangs. Hip hop became a protest against middle-class white community from the poor black community living in “ghettos”. The lyrics spoke about the reality in ghettos which wasn’t exactly peachy. Consequently, hip-hopers used their music to express their feelings and frustrations. Of course, what begun as a poor class’s protest transformed into a million dollars industry, but that is another story.
Today, hip hop is listened to not only by Afro Americans, but also by white people. In fact, many successful hip hopers are white, an example being the notorious rapper Eminem. Hip-hop fans have their own way of dressing (with large clothes usually, baggie pants, bandanas, tattoos, sportswear and gold or platinum chains) and speaking. Consequently, we can say that hip-hop is more than just music and has turned into a life style for many. However, given the popularity of rap music, there are very many artists and the competition between them is fierce. The question is how can a young artist, at the beginning of his career, become popular and make himself a name? How can he obtain the attention of a producer who can help him to get into show business? The first step would be to record a hip hop mixtape and send it to several important music studios. The problem is that these studios receive thousands of records everyday. Many young artists, charmed by the mirage of easy success and fame, knock at the doors of music studios with a hip hop mixtape in their hands.
What every aspiring hip hoper must know is that there are web sites where you can post your songs in order for thousands of interested listeners to hear them. If you are lucky, you will receive an offer from one of the music studios and get to record your first album. The most important thing is to believe in your talent and not to give up easily. Send your hip hop mixtape to all the producers that you have heard of. Even if you don’t get any feedback at first, don’t lose hope. If you are talented, your hip hop mixtape will eventually be listened to by someone who realizes your potential. The road to success is not as easy as it may seem; it requires hard work, talent and maybe a bit of good luck, but in the end it will be all worth it.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Ken Wilson
Hip hop is one of the most popular music genres today. Invented in 1970s in New York, the hip-hop has roots in African-American and African music. Nowadays, many people listen to hip-hop because they identify themselves with its message. Every young artist who wants to make it into the rap industry must send a hip hop mixtape to producers and hope that someone will recognize their talent
The rise of hip hop was not arbitrary. It happened in the 1970s, when people were tired of dance and rock and needed a change. But that was not the only reason. There were also some social and political causes. Hip-hop’s popularity grew in the same time with the power of black and Latino gangs. Hip hop became a protest against middle-class white community from the poor black community living in “ghettos”. The lyrics spoke about the reality in ghettos which wasn’t exactly peachy. Consequently, hip-hopers used their music to express their feelings and frustrations. Of course, what begun as a poor class’s protest transformed into a million dollars industry, but that is another story.
Today, hip hop is listened to not only by Afro Americans, but also by white people. In fact, many successful hip hopers are white, an example being the notorious rapper Eminem. Hip-hop fans have their own way of dressing (with large clothes usually, baggie pants, bandanas, tattoos, sportswear and gold or platinum chains) and speaking. Consequently, we can say that hip-hop is more than just music and has turned into a life style for many. However, given the popularity of rap music, there are very many artists and the competition between them is fierce. The question is how can a young artist, at the beginning of his career, become popular and make himself a name? How can he obtain the attention of a producer who can help him to get into show business? The first step would be to record a hip hop mixtape and send it to several important music studios. The problem is that these studios receive thousands of records everyday. Many young artists, charmed by the mirage of easy success and fame, knock at the doors of music studios with a hip hop mixtape in their hands.
What every aspiring hip hoper must know is that there are web sites where you can post your songs in order for thousands of interested listeners to hear them. If you are lucky, you will receive an offer from one of the music studios and get to record your first album. The most important thing is to believe in your talent and not to give up easily. Send your hip hop mixtape to all the producers that you have heard of. Even if you don’t get any feedback at first, don’t lose hope. If you are talented, your hip hop mixtape will eventually be listened to by someone who realizes your potential. The road to success is not as easy as it may seem; it requires hard work, talent and maybe a bit of good luck, but in the end it will be all worth it.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/arts-culture.html
Author: Ken Wilson
Hip hop is one of the most popular music genres today. Invented in 1970s in New York, the hip-hop has roots in African-American and African music. Nowadays, many people listen to hip-hop because they identify themselves with its message. Every young artist who wants to make it into the rap industry must send a hip hop mixtape to producers and hope that someone will recognize their talent
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