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Entertainment Cyberscope
by Jerry Flattum, CyberAstronomer[ Back To Portal Menu ]
Games
The Game market offers many new outlets for music creators. The Technology - Production Music section criss-crosses this area.
The game market is a driving force in the development of new technologies in both the visual and audio arenas. Computer chips, sound cards, video cards and acoustics (speakers) developed for the game realm benefit all other realms of digital multimedia. And, when the game world mergers with modeling and simulation efforts in the military and other industrial uses, new forms of entertainment are bound to emerge.
Video Games Organization
All Game Guide
Computer Games Online
Computer and Video Games
Boxerjam
Distant Corners
DotComix
Dragonscroll
EA.com
Final Fantasy Alpha
Gama Network (Includes Game Developer Magazine)
Game Music
GamePro
Gamers.com
Gamespot
Gamespot Video
Gamespy.com
I am Game.com
Lucas Arts (George Lukas)
Mind Sports Worldwide
Nintendo
Playstation
Sega
Shockwave
United Media Artists/Hexagon Interactive
Video Game Music Center
Virgin Interactive Entertainment
Zombie
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Genres - Music
Genres of music are not just musical styles but represent lifestyles as well. Musical genres are almost always blends of different styles, but genres also divide. Rap and country music do not cross each other's boundaries. Music lovers of one style of music are often critical of other styles. These preferences are not always based on the music itself, but a prejudice towards personalities, politics and life styles. Music is at once a bridge and a wall.
See History, Band and Artist Listings, Content Providers
Bluegrass
Alison Krauss and Union Station
Barbs Handy Links
Bill Monroe
Bluegrass Music World
Bluegrass Unlimited
Carter Family
Carter Family Memorial Music Center
Down from the Mountain
Dr. Ralph Stanley and His Clinch Mountain Boys
EmmylouHarris.com
Flatt and Scruggs Preservation Society
John Hartford
O Brother Where Art Thou - Soundtrack
O Brother Where Art Thou - Video.com
Planet Bluegrass
Tom T. Hall
Blues
Blue Highway
Blues Access
Blues Foundation
Blues Music Association
Blues News
Blues Revue Magazine
Blues World
BluesNet
BluesWeb
Chicago Blues Artists
CPL Chicago Blues Archives
Delta Blues Museum
Electric Blues
House of Blues
Rosebud Agency
Country
ACM
BMI 50th Anniversary History Book
CMT
Country.com
CountryStars.com
Gaylord
Music Business Conference - Nashville
Music Row in Nashville
Music Row Pluggers
Stacy's Music Row Report
Jazz
A Basic Classic Jazz Book Library
A History of South African Jazz and Pop Music
All About Jazz
All That Jazz
Blue Note Records
Central Entertainment Services
Contemporary Jazz
Downbeat
Great Jazz Songs at Musicroom.com
GroovyFunkyJazzy
InterJazz
Jazz and Smooth Jazz - Gavin
Jazz Songs List
Jazz Break
Jazz Corner
Jazz in France
Jazz Magazine
Jazz Nation
Jazz Now Magazine
Jazz Online
Jazz Profiles
Jazz Stuff
Jazzclass
JazzContemoraneo
Jazziz
JazzSteps
JazzWeb
Jenny's Jazz
Monterey Jazz Festival
Narada
New Orleans Music Jazz Festival
NPR Jazz
Pro Entertainment Network
Shanacie Entertainment
Smooth Jazz News
Smooth Jazz Vibes
Smooth Jazz
SmoothJaz.com
TeenOutReach.com - Jazz-Blues Songs
Yahoo Entertainment - Jazz
Mixed and Sub-Genres
Ambient, Electronic and Experimental
Ambient Visions
All Music Guide
Billboard Spotlight - Dance
Blues and Soul Online
Cajun French Music Association
Cajun Network
Cajun and Zydeco (music listening site; MIDI files)
Classical Music Organizations
Disco Music
DNCVR - Euro dance
Early 80's
Electronica Primer
Eurodance
Finland Rave
Folk Music
Folk Music Index
Grunge is Dead
Joba Records
NAV Online
New Gibralter Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock
Newagesound.com
Plastic Grunge
Progessive World
Rave List
Rave Network
RaveLinks
Rbpage.com
rec.music.progressive
Rocknworld.com
TRiP
Worldwide Internet Music Resources - Genres
Rap
Allhiphop.com
Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive
Rap Dictionary
Rap Top Sites
Rapmusic.com
Rapstation.com
Rapworld.com
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WORLD MUSIC
If you have access to the Internet, you have access to the world. There are no barriers. Listening to streaming Irish folk song channels broadcast from Ireland is as easy as listening to your favorite local Top 40 radio station. The richness of World Music comes alive on the Internet and where national boundaries are war zones in the physical world, the digital world offers a unity as simple as swapping a couple of mp3's.
Language is a barrier. It has nothing to do with prejudice or racism. It's simply a matter of translation. You will not understand Spanish Love songs if you don't speak Spanish (or Latin or Hispanic, whichever is politically correct). The fusion and influence of World Music on Pop/Rock depends on language far more than any unusual tuning methods or micro-tonal scales.
Pop/Rock is, in fact, already a fusion of World Music, something many genre fanatics often fail to acknowledge. In pop music, there is virtually no influence from Native American Indian music. Ironically, Asian countries are homes to many of the entertainment technology companies and the birthplace of karaoke, but the music of Asia remains a mystery to most Western ears. Hopefully an open exchange of world cultures will prevail over dominance and destruction of one culture by another. It would be a balance of preserving native languages while finding a common language at the same time.
The distribution of music is no longer limited by trucks, trains airplanes and ships. If there is a barrier, the barrier is choice, not access. Music is often referred to as a universal language but the prevalence of music in most cultures is not indicative of an immediate sharing of those cultures. The very nature of a "hit song" means competition and in the scramble for the top slot, a lot of World Music is ignored.
NOTE: In the Ethnomusicology realm, almost all major universities have excellent musicology-based resources online.
World Music - African
African music and World music
Arican Music Encyclopedia
Rumba on the River
World Music - Asian
Asia on RootsWorld
Asia Rising
Asian Contemporary Music Recource Center
Asian Music Circuit
Asian Music
Filipino Music Shop
Filipino Traditional Music, Modern Music
Journal of the Society for Asian Music
Made in the Philippines
MTVAsia
MyPhilippines
Philippines.com
Sonymusic.ph
Traditional Music in the Philippines
Warner Music Philippines
Yehey
World Music - Brazilian
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Guitar Tabs
Bossa Nova Guitar
Brazilian Music
Clube do Tom
Norte Magnetico
World Music - East Indian
123India
Bhangra Central
Bhangra.org
BollywoodMusic
Indian Music.com (Note: not a .com)
India, British Asian, Pakistani
Music India Online
Overture - Hindi Mp3
Planet-Bollywood
World Music - Latin
Caravan Music
Der Salsaholic
Descarga
Guide to Latin Music
International Latin Music Hall
Jazz Con Clave
LaMusica
LaRitmo
Latin American Music Center
Latin Music World
Picadillo
Ritmoteca
Salsaweb
World Music - Mix
Aboriginal Didgeridoo
Balalaika
Balint Sarosi
Centre for Ethnomusicology
Different Drums of Ireland
Ethnomusicology - University of Washington
GMN (Arts Network)
International Music Network
Joe Sixpack's Guide to World Music
Loeb Music Library (Harvard)
MusicBizBuzz
Narada
Riverdance
Romanian Riff (An article, Central European Economic Review
Society for Ethnomusicology
Where in the World
WOMAD
World Music Articles
World Music Genres
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History
The History Portal is predominantly music with a smattering of movie, art and entertainment history.
Creating art--in whatever form--is like traveling in a time machine where the search for roots is endlessly juxtaposed with a pioneering of the future. Sometimes it seems art evolves. Other times it seems to arrive out of nowhere like an alien invasion.
Many artists are born into a genre or style just by the immediate influence of their surroundings. Others make a choice. Some get stuck while others change. Almost every artist, musician and filmmaker has some sense of history growing up with past styles and genres before embracing one they can call their own. The drive to be contemporary often buries treasures of the past, treasures that sometimes only surface in the form of compilations or branded as nostalgic or "classic."
1930
1930s Music in Real Audio (The Beat, music of the 30s)
80's Music Central
A Big Bands Chronology
Academy Awards History - Britannica
American History Timeline - Smithsonian
American Masters - Women of Tin Pan Alley - PBS
American Masters - PBS
American Music Archives
American Popular Music Business in the 20th Century (a book, Oxford)
American Popular Music before 1900
An Illustrated Speculative Timeline of Future Technology and Social Change
Andrews Sisters
Antique Record Machines - Tim Gracyk
ArtMuseum.net
Athabasca University - A course on History of Pop Music
Audio Recording History and Development - Jones Telecommunications and Multimedia Encyclopedia
Big Band Database
Bing Crosby
Comets
Dean Martin
Elvis
EMI History
EMI History - 1987-1996
emplive.com (Virtual museum of rock and roll)
Film 100
Film Sound History Timeline - SMPTE
Golden Age of Jazz
Historic American Sheet Music - Duke University
History in Song
History in Song - Song from the Mines
History of Popular Music - Washington University
History of Rock and Roll
History of the Bitter End
HUP Popular Music-Culture - Harvard
In Search of Tin Pan Alley
Inventing Entertainment - American Memory, Library of Congress (The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies)
Jass and Tin Pan Alley - Tim Gracyk
Jass.com
Jones Telecommunications and Multimedia Encyclopedia
Leonard Feather Scrapbooks
Levy Sheet Music Collection
Lindy Cafe
Mainspring Discographies
Media History Project
Motion Picture and Television Reading Room (Library of Congress)
Movie History (About search engine)
Museum of Television and Radio
Music History Resources
Music for the Nation, American Music - Lib. of Congress
Music History - Popular Music (About.com)
Music History Resources
National Museum of American History - The Music Room
National Museum of American History - Edison's Timeline
Nipperhead
Nipperhead - Ephemera
Old Time Radio - Radio Days
Paul Whiteman - Tim Gracyk
Paul Whiteman
Phonograph - Jones Encyclopedia
Phonographs - Time Gracyk
Pop History Now
Popular Songs in American History
Recorded Sound Reference Center (Library of Congress)
Recording Industry and History - Univ. of Minnesota
Recording Technology History
Red Hot Jazz Archive
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock on the Net
Roots and Rhythm
Roughstocks History of Country Music
Sammy Davis, Jr. Association
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Sheet Music - 1870-1885
Solid - Links
Sunset Blvd
The Tech Museum of Innovation
Theater Tour - Broadway and Hollywood, Grace Market Research
Thomas A. Edison Papers - Rutgers University
Tin Pan Alley
Victrola Favorites
Virtual Museum of Computer History
Woodstock
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Hoover's Online
Hoover's Online is a major online business network providing snapshots, profiles and reviews of all companies and industries. Hoover's charges for Premium service but there is plenty of free info to search. What Hoover's decides to offer for free changes so if a link yields negative results, go to the homepage and try a keyword search: http://www.hoovers.com/
Adult Entertainment Industry
Advertising Industry
Gambling Industry
Movies and Music Industry
Toy and Game Industry
TV and Radio Industry
Leisure Sector Analysis
Media Sector Analysis
Media Sector Description
Telecommunications Sector Analysis
Telecommunications Sector Description
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Jerry Flattum is a songwriter (BMI), screenwriter, freelance writer, book writer and singer/keyboardist/arranger. Jerry has written Bridge On Fire: A Holistic Journey in Song Creation. Bridge On Fire is a comprehensive manual on songwriting from the technical, social, cultural and entertainment industry perspectives. The book will be published by Publish America in 2005 and available through major and other retail outlets. In 2002, Jerry wrote a full-length feature comedy, 7/11 Pair-O-Dice Road for Lear Entertainment (Las Vegas). Several screenplays are in-progress: The Acrobat; Watertown, South Dakota; Lars; Out of Context; Amazon Moon and others. He has written the story, music and lyrics for Time Travelers in the Celestial Age, a screen/stage musical loosely based on H.G. Well’s, The Time Machine. As a freelance writer, he has covered live shows for e-Vegas.net, the Las Vegas film scene for Callback, and written several articles for Musesmuse.com, Script Magazine and others. Jerry has worked as a singer/keyboardist in several bands throughout New York, the Twin Cities, and on the road. Prior business experience includes CBS, Harry Fox Agency, Samuel French Play Publishers and other indie ventures. He has a self-designed BS in Songwriting (graduating Phi Kappa Phi) and a Masters in Liberal Studies (U of MN). Jerry is a member of the Songwriters Guild of America, the Nashville Songwriters Association, and the International Songwriters Association. He is soon to become a member of the National Writers Union and plans are to join the Authors Guild and the Writers Guild of America. He is also launching JerryFlattum.com in October 2004, featuring original songs and other works. This site will interface with SongCatalog.com, an online service designed to connect songwriters with song buyers.
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