Word: musicalities
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...groups work hard to develop that culture, not just through the music. All a cappella groups once started as KeyChange did, with a small group of students who created a niche for themselves and perpetuated this student-run ethic by organizing their own shows, booking gigs, making ads, and raising money for their own tours. All of this is in the interest of creating and improving a community that will last for generations of Harvard students...
...scan the iPod. Within it lies infinite personality indicators. What are his 25 most played? Is she a rater? How long did it take him to get the new TV on the Radio album? It’s like a fingerprint with nuance.There is no denying the link between music preference and personality. In a series of studies conducted in 2003, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin scientifically demonstrated the correlation not only between musical taste and personality, but also between artistic preferences and cognitive ability. According to the study, Joni Mitchell listeners are actually more likely...
...Songwriter—the belief that one needed to be both a vocalist and a lyricist in order to be great (or even good)—and the perception that Dalton was a mere cover artist, conventional folk musicians of the day appreciated the true poetry of her music...
...those anecdote- and detail-obsessed music enthusiasts—those who pride themselves on their familiarity with every Dylan bootleg in existence or every reference to Tupac’s untimely death on every album he ever released—elliptical statements like this can allow the listener to imagine whatever biography they deem most fitting for her. Given that so little is known about her, and no recorded interviews with her exist, there is little to check or discourage such extrapolations...
...that rivals Lady Day at her best. I realized that knowing the specifics of Karen Dalton’s life are not as essential as they might be for another artist, and filling in the gaps in my image of her was a potential waste of time, for her music is just that masterful—it contextualizes itself. It was then that I realized just how relevant, how modern her music is and will...