Tim Anderson’s Blog

Just an FYI, I have been asked to contribute to Antenna, the University of Wisconsin’s blog on media and have begun to contribute. I think this will help me begin to blog again and occasionally I will cross-post my selections given the two different audiences. This week I blogged about the Super Bowl as Ritual and hope you all will visit this and other posts I plan to put there.... read more »

Since the 2007 release of In Rainbows it’s become cliche’ to note that artists do not need labels. Often mocked by industry insiders who point out that “Radiohead isn’t Radiohead without the many years of EMI promotion.” That is no doubt true. Yet you cannot claim that major labels record companies have much to do with the success of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (CYHSY) or, more interestingly, in the case of Corey Smith. Radiohead, positioned as the popular purveyor of the avant garde, is seen as visionary, as is the work of CYHSY for similar stylistic reasons.... read more »

Let me begin that when it comes to pop music a lot that I listen to these days is old. I get excited when I find some new ukulele offerings on emusic, a new Richard “Groove” Holmes LP that has been ripped or an an odd musician/composer from the 60s or 70s that I somehow missed (this month it’s Piero Umiliani). I try to keep up, but for every Erykah Badu or Gogol Brodello that I love, there’s a Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (CYHSY) that I admire industrially, but musically I just cannot get that excited about. Still, I respect them and am rooting for them as is rest of the music industry.... read more »

I just finished my first semester teaching a music industry course since 2000 with the experience being simultaneously sobering and dizzying. First and foremost, I am privileged to be teaching in a city like Norfolk and at an institution like Old Dominion. Located as we are in the Hampton Roads region, home of Clipse, Pharrell, birthplace of Missy Elliott and Ella Fitzgerald, the area has no shortage of talent or ambition. A number of my students know producers, have budding music careers and are working with a variety of media sources.... read more »

This is my presentation for MIT6 - please reference this only with permission (contact Tim Anderson at tjanders@odu.edu or loganpoppy@gmail.com). Hope you all find it useful.

Podcast number four of the Lion’s Share is up and can be accessed here. It is about a 70 minute interview with Dr. James Schwoch of Northwestern University.... read more »

The latest episode of the Lion’s Share is up and can be accessed by clicking below

http://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/odu.edu.1952085705.01952085716.1986201659... read more »

Colleagues,

My interview with Kathleen Battles of Oakland University on her work on radio crime dramas is up at

http://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/odu.edu.1952085705.01...

Please download. And if you haven’t already please subscribe when you get to the iTunes page.

Take care

Tim J. Anderson
Old Dominion University

Dear Colleagues, Friends and Listeners,

After what has seemed to be months of haggling and work, I am proud to announce that The Lion’s Share first podcast, and interview with Dr. Derek Kompare about his work on CSI, is posted and is ready to be downloaded.... read more »