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Lomax Project
Alan Lomax was an American enthnomusicologist who was responsible for recording folk music, and spoken word records in the early 20th century. His work began in Haiti making recordings of the music there with his father, and then in 1937 he was made Assistant in Charge of the Archive of American Folk Song. He interviewed…
Final Project: Dave Grohl
I decided for my final project to do a Audio Visual Document about American musician Dave Grohl. I wanted to focus on his contribution to the rise of Grunge, and later Alternative Rock in popular music and how he has gone about conserving the recording techniques used on those classic records. He started his career…
African American Secular Music and How it Influenced Later Popular Music
spotify:playlist:0vtWI67WNd7aynq9iKN9Mi Included in this Spotify playlist are songs from different styles of African American secular music, and then songs that later grew to prominence in popular music throughout the twentieth century that were directly influenced, if not copied, from the songs that were written before them. I included example from the blues, boogie-woogie, and early…
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