1. The old age: no musician, no music. As simple as that, unless you count singing in the bathroom as music. 2. The phonograph age: rich people could have professionally played music whenever they wanted to hear it. 3. The radio age: songs were heard by a wider audience. Ordinary people started to hear recorded music too.
On September 1, an email was sent out to a small group of people containing the mp3 file of the finished new Arabic song ‘Al Jeel Al Jadeed’. The next day, an opportunity was given to 50 volunteers to test-drive the song on their mp3-players before its release, after answering a few survey questions. This little article contains an analysis...
If you are a regular visitor to my website, a member of my Facebook page, or a follower on Twitter, you may have noticed that my Musical Intifada project has gone through a period of relative silence. Well – I am back now, and I want to clarify a few things about what you can expect in times to come....
The Musical Intifada does not have a section where emails from fans and visitors are routinely published. After all, this site is not a ‘magazine’. However, I received an email from a fan that I found so thought-provoking that I decided to publish some of the communication here, with permission of course. The sender calls herself ‘Genie’, which apparently is...
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