Where can I learn about music history and music theory for free? [more inside]
posted on Jan 16, 2008 - 25 answers 
Where can I find a downloadable version of Michael Murphey's classic, "Temple of the Sun" to download? Of course I am willing to pay for the copyrighted, legal, etc. version. But I would rather not have to buy the entire Swans Against the Sun CD to get this one song.
Also, HUGE Bonus Points if you can lead me to similar(?) songs which might interest my sons (see inside for more on this challenge). [more inside]
posted on Jan 7, 2008 - 8 answers
Are there any reverse-chronological histories of culture? [more inside]
posted on Dec 18, 2007 - 3 answers
Please help me figure out how to obtain an electronic copy of an article titled "Why 1955? Explaining the Advent of Rock Music," by Richard A. Peterson. Google Books has a truncated version here, but I'd like the whole thing. [more inside]
posted on Oct 22, 2007 - 7 answers
Seeking recordings of American popular music from 1919 and therabouts. [more inside]
posted on Sep 4, 2007 - 16 answers
is there a documented case of a human civilization or culture that has/had no form of music ?
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posted on Jun 19, 2007 - 18 answers
I'm looking for sites related to American popular culture from the early 20th century: books, films, radio, magazines, music, dance, comic strips, celebrities — you name it. I'm particularly interested on the period between the wars, but open to great stuff from before (and during) World War I, as well. Little Nemo, Keystone Kops, the Lindy Hop, Enrico Caruso, Fatty Arbuckle, Al Jolson, Clara Bow, Flash Gordon, Alice blue, Teddy bears, etc. These are all the sorts of things I'm after, especially as they're represented on the web. Bonus points for sites with RSS feeds. [more inside]
posted on Nov 3, 2006 - 10 answers
What is Tony Judy talking about here:
[...]the European Sixties were always Eurocentric. Even the 'Hippy Revolution' never quite crossed the Atlantic. At most it washed up on the shores of Great Britain and Holland, leaving behind some sedimentary evidence in the form of a more developed drug culture than elsewhere -- and one spectacularly original long-playing record.
-- Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, page 398
No footnote, no endnote, nothing. Anyone have any theories about what album he's talking about?
posted on Jul 22, 2006 - 20 answers
I'm looking for books that in some way discuss the distribution of popular music, especially pre-phonograph (though a bit of that is fine). Accurate, but not necessarily academic- if it happens to be in a particular musician's biography or a novel of some sort, that's cool. [more inside]
posted on Jul 9, 2006 - 6 answers
What did the music of ancient Rome sound like? [more inside]
posted on May 13, 2006 - 8 answers
Need to identify the music from a Canadian Heritage minute. [more inside]
posted on May 4, 2006 - 1 answers
What is the origin of the term "Hip Hop"?
posted on Dec 20, 2005 - 12 answers
I'd like to find a list of the most remarquable songs or music pieces that were composed from 1900 to now. [more inside]
posted on Oct 13, 2005 - 18 answers
I want to make a mix CD based on educational songs that still sound good. Any subject - biology, chemistry, grammar, history, you name it. What songs should I add to my collection?
posted on May 14, 2005 - 45 answers
A few weeks I had to listen to a drunken guy drone on about hip-hop. There was one thing he said that caught my interest. He mentioned that there were tracks based on Robert Johnson samples. So what are the tracks and who does them?
posted on Aug 19, 2004 - 5 answers
In trance/techno music, where does the following pattern come from: A major bass hit on the first beat of the measure, then doubling to the first and third beat a couple measures later, then every beat, then eighth notes, sixteenth notes - usually accompanied by a melodic glissando climbing octaves or a vocal loop stuttering - until it releases (usually to a short pause) and then plunges into the full bass loop (and usually the chorus). Where'd this come from? What/who was the first song or DJ to use it?
posted on Jan 8, 2004 - 3 answers
