Notes On The Accounting of Musical Taste

Recently I gave a presentation on The Philosophy of Music. Putting aside the definitional and ontological questions for a moment, perhaps the most troubling from a reviewer’s point of view was an epistemological one; what sort of knowledge does musical and lyrical content give us?

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Punk rock links.

The legendary ABC After-School Special: Punk Syndrome: How Parents Can Avoid It. How to introduce Nirvana to your two-year-old. Will you make it big?

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Today’s links.

The inventor of karaoke tells his story. “To bear the awful singing of ordinary citizens, and enjoy it anyway.” “99 Red Balloons” played on

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Links, links, tra la la.

The Napster of the 1930s: bootleg lyric sheets. Dads at a One Direction concert. David Bowie, Brian Eno and Tony Visconti record “Warszawa.”

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