Saturday, August 06, 2022
The Year in Music: 1958 | It will stand: It will stand - You take some music, music Sweet flowin' music. Some movin' and groovin'. Rock and roll will stand. (Showmen, 1961)
Under Appreciated Rock Guitarists
Under Appreciated Rock Guitarists: This website is a presentation of my Under-Appreciated Rock Band and Under-Appreciated Rock Artist posts that originally appeared on Facebook.
Friday, August 05, 2022
Monday, August 01, 2022
Play it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music - Google Books
Play it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music - Google Books: Covering—the musical practice of one artist recording or performing another composer's song—has always been an attribute of popular music. In 2009, the internet database Second Hand Songs estimated that there are 40,000 songs with at least one cover version. Some of the more common variations of this "appropriationist" method of musical quotation include traditional forms such as patriotic anthems, religious hymns such as Amazing Grace, Muzak's instrumental interpretations, Christmas classics, and children's songs. Novelty and comedy collections from parodists such as Weird Al Yankovic also align in the cover category, as does the "larcenous art" of sampling, and technological variations in dance remixes and mash-ups. Film and television soundtracks and advertisers increasingly rely on versions of familiar pop tunes to assist in marketing their narratives and products. The cover phenomenon in popular culture may be viewed as a postmodern manifestation in music as artists revisit, reinterpret and re-examine a significant cross section of musical styles, periods, genres, individual records, and other artists and their catalogues of works.The cover complex, with its multiple variation