Skills and Support for Beginning Songwriters

Autor: Will Schmid
Rok vydání: 1979
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Zdroj: Music Educators Journal. 66:59-63
ISSN: 1945-0087
0027-4321
Popis: Marshall McLuhan once wrote that "students want roles, not goals." One of the roles that many students are interested in today is that of the songwriter. This interest is a natural outgrowth of the worship of such folk and pop heroes as Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, and so on. Milt Okun, editor of several volumes of pop songs of the sixties and seventies, has noted that the contemporary pop singer is usually also a composer, a contrast to the norm for the forties and fifties, when most pop singers sang other people's songs. The strength of this trend toward composing one's own material is such that even non
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