In 2008, when the recording industry was successfully lobbying for an extension to the term of copyright to 95 years, I wrote about a spectacular unfairness tha| net.wars
This is chiefly aimed at anyone who saw me at the Old Songs Folk Festival this past weekend. (If you missed it, better luck next year!) The folk page on my website is here. There is a link on it to my page on open guitar tunings, which I intend to update with the extra … Continue reading ""| net.wars
Azeri folk music remains a living, breathing cannon; music-making within Azerbaijan and in Azeri transnational communities remains informed by traditional melodies, which are constantly being creatively reworked. Old folk melodies become vessels for new story-telling through experimentation with Western musical forms, and new lyrics appended to the folk melodies, sometimes in languages different than that of the traditional version altogether. View Post| Ajam Media Collective