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03/13/2008 03:33 PM
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Study shows music affects moods, students agree
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The Mozart effect is one that has been around for a long time. Studies suggest that when a child under age 3 is subject to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, their brain development is increased.Whether or not the stories and studies prove anything, the question remains: Does music have an effect on people?Psychology professor [...]
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03/13/2008 03:33 PM
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Keeping Music Real
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Music is a powerful thing. It evokes feelings and has the power to bring people together. Music is also a way for people to express themselves and share ideas, whether through poetic lyrics or throbbing anthems. But today, artists are not known for their music, but for how extravagant their outfits are and how many [...]
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03/13/2008 03:33 PM
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Rising rap star doesn't need RIAA
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You won’t hear up-and-coming rap star Flo Rida griping about fans pilfering his songs on P2P sites, or complain that technology is hurting the music industry. Don’t talk to him about so-called digital divides either.
As one of rap music’s fastest rising stars, Rida, 28, is new enough to music success that fans are still precious [...]
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03/13/2008 11:34 AM
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A lesson in sharing: the music of today plays the give-and-take game
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Now, more than ever, North American bands and music fans are becoming more open to music originating somewhere outside the continent. Sri Lankan-born M.I.A.’s unique sound rules the club scene, while the Afro-pop inspired Vampire Weekend have seen their debut album enter the Billboard Top 20. New York City’s Yeasayer have also recently garnered acclaim [...]
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03/13/2008 11:34 AM
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Two short notes on pop music
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“Romany Soup” is absolutely classic: haunting, hypnotic, melodic. Please do get started on Bolan. Please do. (And don’t you dare leave out “One Inch Rock”.)
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Iris Dement Biography |
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established herself as a straightforward singer/songwriter with the ability to touch the heart and soul of an audience.
Her songs, performed on piano and guitar, are punctuated by humorous anecdotes which intensify an audience's vulnerability to the gripping message of those songs. Iris was the last of fourteen children born to a church-centered family. Within the family and the church she learned to sing and play piano. Iris was three years old when the family moved from Paragould, Ark. to Orange County, Cal., where as a teen she discovered she was in conflict with much of what was being said in church and left. At 17 she quit high school, got a GED and went to work at K-Mart. This was the start of a string of unfulfilling jobs, but it was also those years and the time spent questioning herself that led her, at age 25, to embrace the dream she'd had since childhood--to "write songs and sing 'em for people".
She writes about life's inescapable beginnings and endings: its meaning, our social fabric and our shortcomings. Her three albums, marked by great songwriting, honest presentation and resonant vocals, have received wide critical acclaim. The song "Our Town" from her 1992 debut Infamous Angel was used to close the final episode of the television series Northern Exposure. "Let The Mystery Be", also from that album, was used in the motion picture Little Buddha. Her second album, My Life, a Grammy nominee in 1994, was followed by The Way I Should in 1996.
Iris has toured extensively in the United States and Europe to enthusiastic receptions. She has appeared in support of John Prine, Nanci Griffith, Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin and Tom Petty. Her television and radio appearances include The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Conan O'Brien Show, Austin City Limits and A Prairie Home Companion.
"And I discovered an artist on this tape I'd never heard before, Iris DeMent, who knocked me out! I gotta say this, I didn't come 58 years to have a girl knock me out as a singer. [Laughs] Girl singers are not my favorite thing in the world. But boy is she great! She's like a female Jimmie Rodgers or Lefty Frizzell or something"
Merle Haggard
quoted in Musician
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