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Re: History of Music project

Facetious — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:27:58 GMT

Author: Facetious

Posted: 03/13/2012 10:27

Norman Bates wrote:

I'm not too interested in decade music history, it's already been done too often. I'd rather read something about how a genre is explored and how you can trace it back to older ones, influences and so on...

Yup, genres would be better than just decades. Great idea. *Applause*

Re: History of Music project

RoundTheBend — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:41:11 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 03/13/2012 02:41

Norman Bates wrote:

Thanks for the feedback. That is kinda what I was going for- how the influences of other musicians, made other music happen. Genres could indeed a better way to organize it, than by decade.

Re: History of Music project

Norman Bates — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:43:09 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 03/12/2012 21:43

I'm not too interested in decade music history, it's already been done too often. I'd rather read something about how a genre is explored and how you can trace it back to older ones, influences and so on...

Re: History of Music project

RoundTheBend — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:31:59 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 03/11/2012 22:31

Here are the links to view, if you are interested. Or you can just view something like "1950s in music" on wiki. At this stage I realize this is nothing special, and I am not expecting anyone to care, unless they are geeks about interesting things in music history. I wanted to synthesize facts important for my project, so here is my version so far:

1950s
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tYbQqcwhGlzlf1KxULl6wsU7XMv4p2A_Ct79ChPMNpQ/edit

1960s
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aysMs8yvFLaN0a3aVxEVBBXCmKNRuHsYPNbsEC2r0TA/edit

1970s
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OdOFFghrTlH1o_4HVDOyUoIwMU-YMm8tZrB3k86KBxE/edit

1980s
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y3bM4slonF2bjSmsQAakbOeScJiHfsVoSxy4lsQnyDo/edit

1990s
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vk9VT1XyuOdQ-zGo3dXuXYEjv5Js95Qgk_leq7yk0BQ/edit

Re: History of Music project

RoundTheBend — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:22:00 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 03/11/2012 22:22

Sorry Folks, only compiling facts right now. The end project is to work with a friend on making a documentary on each decade. Using archival footage and fair use stuff. But I don't see that happening anytime soon. It is much easier to gather facts and documentary like to gather the facts and let people decide their opinions on their own. I would probably just do it through YouTube. When I posted the history of why I like 57, 67, and 91, yes all copied from Wiki, I did it to recognize really what happened in those years. The project would amass to something way too big and loose focus if it wasn't more fact based. Maybe I'm wrong. In just gathering the facts, I had to split my collection of facts into each decade as google docs couldn't handle the full document. I haven't really seen a great documentary/book that covers the 50s-today in western culture. Sure there are music history books, but I haven't been able to find something that is comprehensive enough to my wants. It either limits it to American music only, or gives only a couple paragraph descriptions for things. I want to synthesize all of that information, but make it informative enough to be solid. I see audio/visual as the best way to do that. Especially since music is best experienced on an emotional level than a strictly cognitive written form.

I guess one could just read Wikipedia, but for me, that isn't as exciting. Wikipedia is probably one of the best sources for music though. You have some serious music geeks who create articles about stuff like the differences between thrash, groove, and death metal. That's cool and all, but it'd be cool to somehow synthesize all of that info into something that is more hands on and easily digestible, but at the same time not shallow.

Right now I only have time for facts. I am writing currently about DDR (east germany), propaganda, and the ideology being still ingrained in that society even today resulting in Ostalgie for my thesis.

Re: History of Music project

Facetious — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:34:27 GMT

Author: Facetious

Posted: 03/11/2012 15:34

Well, Seth only said that it was to give an "idea". Let's hope the actual piece is better. *Praying*

Re: History of Music project

Hayden — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:20:53 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 03/11/2012 15:20

Eggman/Walrus/Taxman wrote:

Hayden wrote:

It looks like your just copied wikipedia & BEA to make a few long paragraphs 😐

I don't really see the point of reading this...

You're referring to the Best Year in Music response? Yeah, I hope the real project has more actual info than what was shown in that post.

Yeah, that sould've been posted here instead 🤔

And, yeah, seth, that's kinda what I was hoping 😕 An actual written up piece of 'history of music'. That might've been cool.

Not just "these events happened, these albums were released, I liked these ones" 🫢 Sorry.

Re: History of Music project

Facetious — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:09:55 GMT

Author: Facetious

Posted: 03/11/2012 15:09

"Actual info" meaning that info written in your own words, from your own knowledge, from some research, rather than just Wikipedia and BEA.

Re: History of Music project

Facetious — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:08:04 GMT

Author: Facetious

Posted: 03/11/2012 15:08

Hayden wrote:

It looks like your just copied wikipedia & BEA to make a few long paragraphs 😐

I don't really see the point of reading this...

You're referring to the Best Year in Music response? Yeah, I hope the real project has more actual info than what was shown in that post.

Re: History of Music project

Hayden — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:25:45 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 03/11/2012 14:25

It looks like your just copied wikipedia & BEA to make a few long paragraphs 😐

I don't really see the point of reading this...

Re: History of Music project

Facetious — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:17:33 GMT

Author: Facetious

Posted: 03/11/2012 13:17

Interesting. I'd like having a look at the project. Might increase my knowledge or something too. And we could discuss the topic here in this thread. So I'd say, yes, definitely post it. 😁

Re: History of Music project

RoundTheBend — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:22:29 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 03/11/2012 09:22

An Idea of what I have done so far is shown in my Favorite Year in Music response, that I just posted.

Re: History of Music project

RoundTheBend — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:20:49 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 03/11/2012 09:20

Help is not the issue- just interesting discussion possibilities. Maybe someone here has something different to add to it. Or I could just post it for people to see it. That's kinda the point of this post- is this something people on this site want to do?

Re: History of Music project

Norman Bates — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:00:31 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 03/11/2012 09:00

Sure sounds interesting, but if you have 50-99 covered, what help do you need?

History of Music project

RoundTheBend — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 04:58:26 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 03/11/2012 08:58

Hello All,

I have been working on this history of music project and thought maybe it could be fun to play around with it here. I have been working on each decade starting with 1950 and ending with the 2000s. I have 50-99 covered ok, but wondered if anyone would like to play along.

Should I create a google doc? Post it here? What do you think? Something fun to work on together?