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  List of British pop musicians of the 1980s - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of British pop musicians of the 1930s
List of British pop musicians of the 1940s
Most of the top pop musicians of the 1980s were heard on Laser 558.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_British_pop_musicians_of_the_1980s   (204 words)

  
 NPR 100
Several listeners and musicians involved in the voting discuss the songs they chose and the reason behind their decisions.
The list included Billie Holiday, whose performance of this song lives on in the annals of great jazz and live-performance history.
Monk soon became known as a great jazz innovator, one of a small group of musicians who were part of the bebop revolution of the 1940s.
www.npr.org /programs/specials/vote/list100   (7430 words)

  
 Women-Related Arts and Humanities Email Lists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
FACES-L is "an international mailing list that connects women activists, artists, critics, theoreticians, technicians, journalists, researchers, programmers, networkers, web designers, and educators: women who share an interest in the media and communication arts." It is not a chat list but rather a cyber-resource though which women can share their projects, exhibitions, critical opinions, and texts.
FAH (Feminist Art History list) is a list for researchers, curators, art historians, faculty, students, and all those interested in discussing research issues and sharing resources of women artists throughout history.
List members may propose books to be read for group discussion, or simply post comments about whatever they are currently reading.
www-unix.umbc.edu /~korenman/wmst/f_arts.html   (4007 words)

  
 Pop Music in British Cinema Journal of Popular Film and Television - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Pop Music in British Cinema functions as a reference guide to enthusiasts of British popular culture trivia and traces the development of the music-film correlation.
Each essay is organized by cultural phenomena, such as the 1960s' "Swinging London," which Donnelly describes as the "catchphrase [that] reinforced the notion that London was the world's cultural center, not only for pop music, but for arts and fashion as much as lifestyles and social trends" (19).
This denial of the 1960s effect pointedly parallels Margaret Thatcher's attempt at a renewal of Britain and desire to erase the effects of the 1960s, or at least her desire to blame the decade for the problems faced in the 1980s.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0412/is_3_33/ai_n15944891   (872 words)

  
 The NPR 100
June 26 -- This pop standard from singer/songwriter James Taylor's 1970 debut album, Sweet Baby James, was the artist's poignant attempt to deal with a friend's recent suicide and his own struggle with drug abuse and mental illness.
Musicians and critics alike initially thought the piece a joke.
By May 1965, the song had pushed The Beatles out of the top spot on the pop charts for the first time in three months and at 63, Armstrong had become the oldest artist to produce a number one hit.
www.npr.org /programs/specials/vote/100list.html   (6980 words)

  
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Olaiya was one of the few highlife musicians to continue his career in western Nigeria after Igbo musicians returned to the east when the Nigerian civil war began in the late 1960s.
Munishi is a Tanzanian musician resident in Kenya.
Unaided by any form of written music, Chopi musicians regularly compose new songs and melodies for their dances until, as with Katini, at least a hundred or more compositions stand to their credit, the older ones being discarded and forgotten as they are replaced by the new.
www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu /courses/spring2006/236a/listening_notes.htm   (11911 words)

  
 Mailing Lists
This list is devoted to the discussion of Duran Duran, its members, spinoff acts, and the cultural phenomena that Duran Duran spearheaded in the early 80s to the present.
This mailing list is for the British computer music research community community to exchange information, conference/seminar announcements, job offers, and any other matters of interest at the national level.
The lists are also available in digest format, where you receive all of the postings for each day in one mail at the end of that day.
www.electronicmusic.com /datafiles/mailinglists/index.html   (1851 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Listen Up: Archives
The British rapper, recovering after being airlifted to a hospital, was going 100mph in a Formula Ford when Brian Johnson of AC/DC smashed into the back of her car at the Silverstone racetrack in central England.
This report may be premature, comes from a British source (although a good one), and is a bit sketchy, but Gwen Stefani may have a new album to add to the crush of star releases this fall.
Vance the imposter apparently went through life claiming to be the author of the 1960s hit song about a teen girl too self-conscious to leave the locker room in her tiny new two-piece.
blogs.usatoday.com /listenup/news/index.html   (9014 words)

  
 Popular Culture: from Baseball to Rock and Roll (John Bull and Uncle Sam)
In the 1960s, they exported their version to the United States with such success that American commentators spoke of a "British invasion," led by groups including the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
Although the dominance of American rock and roll music was the most conspicuous feature of the British pop culture scene in the years after World War II, the long tradition of British performers thriving in the United States continued both before and after war as did the favorable reception of their American counterparts in Britain.
In the 1950s British rock groups tended to imitate American groups and re-record their most popular songs, a trend that was in some instances reversed in the 1960s, when American groups copied British songs, especially those by the Beatles.
www.loc.gov /exhibits/british/brit-7.html   (3380 words)

  
 Theater and Performance
FOREVER PLAID Stuart Ross and James Raitt's nostalgic musical incorporates a plethora of 50s and 60s pop tunes ("Three Coins in the Fountain," "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing," etc) into its slim story of a long-dead male vocal group, the Four Plaids, who return as teen angels to give the ultimate comeback concert.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SURVIVAL DURING WARTIME The Exception and the Rule, Bertolt Brecht's "lehrstuck," or lesson-plays, is presented with a masked chorus and original music, along with selections from George Tabori's adaptation Brecht on Brecht, based on poems, monologues, and short scenes penned by the seminal 20th century German playwright.
Local musicians Kennedy Greenrod and Lisa Kaplan accompany the cast of eight.
www.chicagoreader.com /listings/static/listings.html   (10078 words)

  
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The Strawbs were one of the most successful British art-rock bands of the late 60s and early 70s; they had several hit singles in England and even placed four of their albums on the U.S. charts.
His influences are diverse, ranging from pop to computer technology and Kitaro (the last explaining a lot about his generally lush instrumental arrangements and exotic approach).
This is the sort of music one would expect from a couple (Pam and Philip Boulding) living a seemingly idyllic existence on a farm by the Puget Sound: hammered dulcimer-, harp- and whistle-based, and sounding rather traditional and folksy-new age in mood.
www.wku.edu /~smithch/sci/cdlist.htm   (13895 words)

  
 1960s Folk-Rock Lists
Pop Staples' style of guitar reverb was a big influence on Bruce Langhorne, who played guitar on numerous early folk-rock sessions by Bob Dylan, Richard and Mimi Fariña, Fred Neil, Gordon Lightfoot, and others.
This song was based on the British Isles traditional folk standard "She Moves Through the Fair," and on Led Zeppelin's debut album, another folky guitar showcase, "Black Mountainside," was similar to the arrangement of the traditional Irish folk song "Blackwater Side" heard on a 1966 Bert Jansch LP.
And also in the 1960s, it was reported that she was choreographing a "modern love psychedelic love ballet," with music by Donovan.
www.richieunterberger.com /turnlists.html   (13938 words)

  
 CMT.com : Jonathan King : Biography
Jonathan King is the sort of figure who is unique to British pop music of the 1960s and 1970s.
His music intersects commercial pop and comedy at several points, like a cross between Herman's Hermits, the Bee Gees, and Randy Newman, without ever getting more profound or complex than the first people on that list.
Christened Genesis, this band cut a few sides (including the progressive pop single "Silent Sun") for Decca under King's supervision, on which they sounded like a lighter-weight version of their older labelmates the Moody Blues.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/king_jonathan/bio.jhtml   (863 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Listen Up: Archives
Same drill: Listed alphabetically, then basted and served with my comments on the likelihood of their getting in and opinions as to whether they deserve it.
DONNA SUMMER, who fronted a rock band in the late 1960s (The Crow), has often stated that were it not for disco, she would have steered towards a career in rock music.
She had as her backup band in the early 70s a group of musicians who went on to become the Eagles.
blogs.usatoday.com /listenup/2006/11/a_few_scattered.html   (6405 words)

  
 CD Baby: POP: 60's Pop - music you will love.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The answer is LOLA DUTRONIC, a pure pop homage to the golden age of 60s /70s Europop
These three 1960s college classmates found that neither time nor regular careers could diminish the joy of music they had played together in bands at the University of North Carolina more than forty years ago.
Pop music patchwork: 60's British Invasion, 80's college radio, indie pop and more
www.cdbaby.com /style/126   (497 words)

  
 Rock/Pop Downloads - Download Rock/Pop Music - Download Rock/Pop MP3s
The threesome of Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, and legendary guitarist Eric Clapton forming the band Cream was a monumental effort of jazz, blues, and psychedelic rock during the British rock period of the late 1960s.
Each of Disraeli Gears' list of 11 tunes is original in format, containing it own unique brands of dashing blues-laden guitar riffs by Clapton, as well as thick basslines and smashing drum leads.
Add to that decent annotation, discography, and musician information, and this is an essential part of any soul or '60s collection and, indeed, until Motown began reissuing Martha & the Vandellas albums in 2002 in England, the only way to get a significant chunk of their music with good sound.
www.mp3.com /rock-pop/genre/13/essential/albums.html   (9046 words)

  
 British Invasion 1964-1967 from The Bomp Bookshelf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
"Pop icon Sandie Shaw puts her past into context and clarifies her place in the present as she tells with zest, humour and soul-searching honesty of her unprecedented rise to teenage fame and fortune, her plunge into poverty and anonymity, and her successful struggle to climb back again and make her real voice heard.
Unique to this book are the many rare photos of ultra-obscure bands, lists of chart entries, illustrated discographies by Pete Frame (also a map of the city with a guide to beat-related sites), repros of ads and flyers, and a really stunning alphabetical list of some 550 beat groups who were active in Liverpool.
Whitcomb, but there's no faulting Ian's ironic, observant document of the frenetic world of pop music in the '60s, in which he was briefly swept up and had his moment of glory before landing on his feet as a ragtime scholar.
www.bomp.com /BompbooksBritish.html   (7374 words)

  
 Bloomington
The music is accessible -- a rock 'n' roll/traditional folk/pop hybrid with British and American elements predominating - but hardly fits into today's increasingly rigid radio formats.
"When pop music and rock 'n' roll was strictly teenage music, then you were pretty much too old to be a practitioner when you got to be 24 or so," Thompson said.
Richard Thompson first made a name for himself in the late 1960s with the British folk-rock band Fairport Convention and has been recording and performing steadily since then.
www.rtlist.net /2leftfeet/review125.htm   (2061 words)

  
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This is intended to be a list of all known groups in the alt.music hierarchy, along with a short description of what the group is for.
At the end of the list, there are suggestions on how to create a newsgroup for your favourite musical artist, a pointer on how to create alt groups, and a pointer to how to find musical mailing lists.
Please consult the list of musical mailing lists and carefully consider the suggestions for creating a musical newsgroup before coming to alt.config to ask for a new alt.music group.
www.faqs.org /ftp/faqs/music/alt-newsgroup-list   (6598 words)

  
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There is comedy in it, but so burdened are the students by their heavy loads of alcoholism, depression, drug addiction and bisexual promiscuity that one yearns for them to be given respite by that cliche of the 1960s, the gratuitous run through meadows and woods.
I know there is not much activity on this list as = it is, but this kind of crap is obnoxious and wasted.
I know there is not much activity on this list as it >is, but this kind of crap is obnoxious and wasted.
www.xmission.com /pub/lists/movies/archive/v02.n390   (6676 words)

  
 Syracuse.com: Listen Up
Mayer's nominated for album of the year and best pop vocal album for "Continuum," best pop vocal performance for "Waiting on the World to Change," best solo rock performance for "Route 66" and best rock album for "Try!" which he released with the John Mayer Trio.
The title of the recording is "Bennett: The Mines of Sulpher." The chorus members listed in the nomination are Brian Anderson, Dorothy Byrne, Beth Clayton, Kristopher Irmiter, Brandon Jovanovich, James Maddalena, Michael Todd Simpson and Caroline Worra.
A possible clue on the covers: The musicians list Led Zeppelin, Black Crowes, Queens of the Stone Age and ZZ Top as influences.
www.syracuse.com /blogs/listenup   (2752 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Funk (Third Ear: the Essential Listening Companion Series): Books: Dave Thompson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Each biography is accompanied by a list of recordings (not just on CD and in fact mainly released as LPs and singles), many with succinct annotations.
A list of essential funk recordings is provided, and a general bibliography includes print sources and useful Internet sites.
There are too many bands and artist to cover in 370 pages (not 400 like it says on the amazon page), especially since a fourth of these pages are lists of singles and albums by the artists and long lists of covers by other bands.
www.amazon.com /Funk-Third-Ear-Essential-Listening/dp/0879306297   (1903 words)

  
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Comments on this list make me curious about the Blue Alley set, but I'll always remember a homemade cassette I had with one of the first Wynton albums on one side ("Think of One"?) and Charles Tolliver's "The Ringer" on the other.
He started getting into this Louis Armstrong philosophy rap as a way to separate his generic hard bop from everybody else's, which is as fraudulent as when "avant garde" musicians play in a 45 yr old style and claim to be "innovating".
I was interested in discovering more about the background of two different musicians recently, went to their Web sites (in their own names) printed on the backs of the CDs and nothing was to be seen.
mailman.xmission.com /pipermail/zorn-list/2003-April.txt   (17650 words)

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