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[sp4cetiger]

As most of you know, I've been doing a survey of the history of music, reviewing various albums/genres along the way. While I have already invited people to add their own comments/summaries in BEA Reviews the History of Music, I think it would be even better if people actually signed up to write about specific sections ahead of time.

There are two ways you can approach this:

1) If you already know a lot about music from a particular time period, you can take this chance to show off your knowledge and promote some of your favorite albums.
2) Alternatively, you can use this as a chance to explore. You'll have plenty of time to prepare your write-up, so just pick a genre and year, listen to the relevant albums, and write about your favorites. There are no strict rules about content, but as a guideline, you should write a paragraph (or more) of text on at least three albums (see my summaries in the linked thread for examples).

For now, people can sign up to write about any year from 1974 - 1979. There are no preset genres that you have to pick from, but try to pick something that was particularly active in the time period in question. It's okay if there's overlap between the summaries of different contributors. For example, we could have

User A: protopunk in 1974
User B: glam rock in 1974

Both of those groupings might include Too Much Too Soon, the second album from the New York Dolls, and that's fine. Try your best to link the albums in your group together, using historical context, stylistic similarities, real-world interactions, etc. Your summaries don't have to be objective, but it is good to include some basic historical info to give the reader context.

Write-ups should be submitted to me by PM. There won't be a strict deadline, but I will start bugging you as soon as we reach the year you signed up for. Sign up for as many genre/year combos as you like, but if two users want to write about the same thing, preference will go to the user with the least on their plate already. And, of course, you can respond to the summaries in the history thread whenever you want, so even if it's not part of a "formal" summary, you can add your thoughts to the thread at the appropriate time.

When we've finished writing about a particular year, your contribution will be saved not only on the forum, but also in the notes of my chart for that year (with you credited, of course). So come on BEA, drop some knowledge on us!

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1974:
Mies: prog

1975:

1976:
meccalecca: Punk
noWaxJim: Jamaican music

1977:
meccalecca: Punk
noWaxJim: Jamaican music

1978:
noWaxJim: Post-punk
creator: art punk

1979:
noWaxJim: Jamaican music
benpaco: New wave
benpaco: Post-punk

[Jimmy Dread]

Here goes...

Reggae/dub/roots/Jamaican music in general - '76-'82
Punk - '76-'77
Post-punk - '77-'82
Indie-pop - '86-present
Shoegaze - '88-'92
Folk (shame I missed the '60s) - 2004-present

That enough for you... (!)
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[sp4cetiger]

[Jimmy Dread]

You got it... in fact I'll take reggae et al '76, '77 and '79, and post-punk '78 ta. Leave punk '76 to someone else, if not I'll grab it...
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[meccalecca]

I should be able to take Punk 76-77, focusing primarily on the CBGB scene but also elsewhere
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[benpaco]

I'd be happy to take Post Punk 1979, promise I know more than Unknown Pleasures. THAT SAID I'd happily turn this over to CellarDoor if he has any interest.

EDIT: I could take new wave 1979 too, actually.
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[sp4cetiger]

Thanks benpaco and mecca!

Note that a year's punk write-up could be split into two or more if others are interested in writing about it (e.g., British and American side). It's a big topic.

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