Music journalism
Related: music - music criticism - journalism
People: Lester Bangs - Phil Cheeseman - John Corbett - Albert Goldman - Steven Harvey - Dave Marsh - Simon Reynolds - Jon Savage - David Toop - Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton - John McCready - Brian Chin John Peel - Peter Shapiro - Mark Sinker - David Toop
Definition
Music journalism is a specialized branch of entertainment journalism — especially criticism and reportage about music. Ranging from lengthy profiles of singers and bands to brief album reviews, music journalism is at least several decades old. Magazines such as Rolling Stone, Urb, New Musical Express, and The Source are well known for their musical journalism. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_journalism [Aug 2005]
People
On Disco: Scorned and ridiculed as feather-lite, escapist pap when it emerged in the mid-70s, and now reduced to a kitsch scenario of Afro wigs, polyester suits and drunken singalongs at office Chrstmas parties and bachelopr weekends, disco is just about the last place anyone would look for avant garde practice. [...] --Peter Shapiro in The Wire Feb 2003.
The mother copy of this document can be found on http://music.hyperreal.org/library/history_of_house.html
- recently compiled Disco Spectrum on BBE records, also wrote sleevenotes for the History Of Garage music on his own label ..
- Owner or manager of Network records and Six Nine records, wrote sleevenotes for Detroit Techno compilation. Wrote jazz funk records like "Six Nine Shuffle" in the seventies. Introduced Derrick May to the world.
- Interviewed Tee Scott in 1994 for Underground News. Also did an interview with Francois K, Vince Montana, Pal Joey in the same Underground News magazine.
- Stuart Baker runs Soul Jazz rds http://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com
- Roger Steffens: Reggae lover and connoisseur, also wrote an article on Fela Kuti
- Bart Platenga
- has written on dub and Serge Gainsbourg, ...
- Doug Watson
- Ian Scot Horst ...
- Jan Landuydt has written a great piece on techno
- http://www.normanjay.com Norman Jay's 'The Original Rare Groove Show' on Kiss FM - then still a pirate station reintroduced seventies funk tracks and plenty of obscure rarities, coining the term rare groove.
Magazines
- The Wire [1 magazine, Amazon US]
The Wire is the definitive source for infomation and thought regarding experimental, avant garde, or forward thinking music. My eyes and ears have been opened. The Wire has helped my musical tastes and knowledge evolve exponentially in the past 3 years. I consider the Wire to be akin to a scholarly journal...it's much more than you're average glossy Americanized-advertisment filled rags. This publication is a well needed antidote to today's profit driven, corporate controlled media garbage that we are constantly bombarded with. I know of nowhere else where Sun Ra, the Boredoms, Cannibal Ox, Miles Davis, Sonic Youth, the Grateful Dead, and Venetian Snares can peacefully co-exist with Kid 606, Merzbow, Albert Ayler, Tom Waits, John Cage, Autechre, and Bjork. I highly reccomend this magazine to anyone with discriminating tastses and intelligence. Well-written, and often including excellent CD's that you'll actually want to listen to, The Wire is definately worth the elevated import price, and a true journalistic treasure. --Matthew Jaworski for amazon.com
The Wire Magazine first appeared on news stands in 1982 and over the last 20 years it has developed from a quarterly fanzine specializing in avant garde jazz and modern composition into an award-winning and widely influential monthly that covers a vast array of underground, experimental and alternative music and culture. [...]