February/March 2010
1 February 2010
The search for a sustainable business model for the producing and selling of music in the digital age persists, but it is crippled by a narrow view of the internet. Presenting this technology as either a threat to income, due to its ability to copy content...
1 February 2010
Cannes – The teenagers employed to demonstrate the joys of Rockband – complete with full stage, bass and lead guitars, mics and kit – must have been wondering why the game was suddenly becoming such hard work. Situated by the café...
1 February 2010
Yolanda Quartey from Bristol started singing at the age of five. After singing in jazz bands as a teenager, she became involved with the break-beats scene, working with Bugz in the Attic and Jazzanova. With a unique voice, she is lead singer of six-piece...
1 February 2010
Richard Wagner: Self-Promotion and the Making of a Brand byNicholas Vazsonyi (Cambridge University Press) examines the innovativeways in which Wagner made himself a celebrity, promoting himself usingevery means available: autobiography, journal articles, short...
1 February 2010
12 Points! Stavanger, 11–14 Feb – Dublin’s 12 Points! Festival, which each year brings together twelve exciting new jazz acts from Europe, hits the road in 2010, and from now on it will alternate between Dublin and other centres around Europe....
1 February 2010
Hard TimesKilliecrankie, Perthshire Highlands – It was during a production meeting for this issue that The Journal of Music learnt of the death of the folk singer Kate McGarrigle. It is perhaps fitting that McGarrigle, who was a musical companion to...
1 February 2010
Entrepreneur: Origin early 19th cent. (denoting the director of a musical institution): from French, entreprendre, ‘undertake’Gabriel Prokofiev – grandson of the Russian composer Sergei – founded the British label and club-night Nonclassical...
1 February 2010
Barra Ó Séaghdha discovers that music is a curious medicine
1 February 2010
Daithí Kearney, Castlemartyr, Co. Cork, writes:Niall Keegan (The Journal of Music, December/January) presents an interesting perspective on the role of language in the development of traditional music, but his view that discussion relating to ‘pure’...
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