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The beginnings of a young, aspiring journalist
How Does Music Journalism Differ From Traditional Journalism?
Any career as a journalist is heavily associated with the strong smell of coffee and the fluorescent glow of a computer screen. But the activities that take place after that first coffee of the day differ between a music and a traditional journalist. So you’re a writer for NME. It’s 8am and you’ve already consumed […]
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How To Be A Good Writer
May 13, 2013
According to Simon Frith, music journalism is “not commercial, but ideological” (Frith, 1987). As a writer, when we’ve been given an album to review, we listen to it analytically then regurgitate the ideas, opinions and feelings that record has sparked within us. We then put pen to paper on how we have interpreted it. But […]
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Music, Media and Mythology
May 13, 2013
Music, Media and Mythology. ‘Sex, drugs and rock and roll’ became universally recognized when Ian Dury named a song after the phrase in 1977. The mantra led to the perception that promiscuity and substance abuse are inherent in the life of a rock star. This portrayal of icons through the media has become a theme […]
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Women And The Music Media
May 13, 2013
How women are portrayed in the music industry is a wide scale, controversial topic today. Anna Van Heeswijk from the Object campaign stated that “In many cases there is no marked difference between pornography and some of the pictures in the tabloids” (Leveson, 2012). In many cases, for women to be successful they have to […]
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The Role Of The Critic
May 13, 2013
The changing status of the music critic has become the centre of debate. The most predominant newspapers and magazines are finding their average circulation figures dropping – The NME and Q magazine are dropping by 20% every year (Anon, 2012). This is because everything musically orientated has moved online. Although paid-for magazines are becoming less […]
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Stooshe Interview – ‘We’re three girls from London who have been very, very lucky’
October 10, 2012
The 3-piece girl band, who have shot into the charts with debut single ‘Black Heart’, paid a visit to Southampton Solent university on 27th September to attend a talk with magazine and music journalism students. They discussed how they met, their songs and of course their recent rise to fame. The girls also revealed their fears in […]
Do comedians need profanity to be funny?
September 12, 2012
‘The utter bloody rudeness of the world today.’ – Lynne Truss Talk to the Hand. The excessive use of taboo language has slowly integrated itself into western, modern day society. It only takes being in the presence of secondary school adolescents to realize swearing has become the ‘norm’ for general conversation. The meaning of profane has […]
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Is Free Will an Illusion?
January 14, 2012
So I have an a-level philosophy exam in eleven days. One of the topics on the curriculum is free will and determinism, which I find fascinating, but simultaneously, equally as frightening. It’s one of the big questions that I think everyone will have found themselves asking at some point in life. Do we have freedom? […]
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Skrillex, the First and the Last
November 5, 2011
Sonny Moore, better known as Skrillex is one of the biggest artists in the new found genre of dubstep. He’s not your typical DJ as from 2004-2007 he was front man of the rock band From First to Last, until he decided to go solo in ’07. He has the appearance of your conventional ‘rocker’: dark hair, tunnels, […]
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