Posts by Marcus Turner
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Found a small extract:
The complete version lasts about an hour.
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I suppose I like to think of myself as eclectic in my tastes. (Maybe everyone says that.) This piece, however, is pretty hard work. I challenge you to listen to it all the way through.
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Hard News: Friday is for all the things, in reply to BenWilson,
I think it's how we learn to sing. We hear American accents (which have long been prominent in popular music) and, consciously or otherwise, copy them. It's no longer "American", necessarily; simply part of the genre. I remember a series about popular music on TV years ago, in which one interviewee traced a lot of it back to the Appalachian influence in Country music which, itself, had a strong influence on early Rock and Roll.
I can remember singing teachers (and others) of the 60s and 70s being really disparaging about American accents. (Actually, I remember some people being pretty negative about the Kiwi accent(s) in singing. The word "the", for example, pronounced in a NZ accent, was anathema to one choir conductor. I think that was partly because of what it tended to do to the length of the sung note.)
A similar thing used to happen in theatre with English accents.
One of the best ways to learn is by imitation. In the early stages, we don't know which parts of what we're imitating are going to be most important to us. As we become more confident and experienced, we find our own "voice" (see "mojo" above).
If market forces are important to us, then we might tend to stay with an "American" pronunciation. It does seem to be easy to sell to the "world market" by comparison to other accents.
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And I just discovered the sabretoothed vampire. Where have I been?
http://culturepulp.typepad.com/culturepulp/the-sabretooth-vampire/
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This might not be your sort of music, but it’s a pretty impressive audience/performer interaction.
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This is sort of relevant, if you squint your eyes up, and there's a following wind. It's Australian, but much of it seems to apply to NZ too. It's sort of about equality and money. And written by the Treasurer.
http://www.themonthly.com.au/rising-influence-vested-interests-australia-001-cent-wayne-swan-4670
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Facts, the story, and getting in the way: http://harpers.org/archive/2012/02/0083770
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My Friday thing is to say that the Chaps are playing Meow in Wellington and the Wine Cellar in K Road next week. We're definitely not P Money* or the Chills but we help round out the complete Dunedin Sound experience. Lizards of the Cowboy Lounge. It would be fun to meet some PA folks.
* More like P Justbeforethegig
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OnPoint: Association of Community…, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
That's exactly what I thought of!
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Hard News: It was a munted year, in reply to Marcus Turner,
No. That's Marlborough...