Building the youth music industry in South Wales, 1996–2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spike Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Career Pathways ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
South Wales ◽  
History Of ◽  
Youth Music ◽  
New Gateway

This article shines a light on the tailored and targeted popular music provision provided by Sonig, Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council’s (RCTCBC) long-standing music industry programme. Over a twenty-year period, Sonig has successfully engaged with young people in disenfranchised areas of South Wales, many of whom have never experienced a way of accessing the music industry. Through workshops, masterclasses, performance opportunities, mentoring, networking and signposting career pathways, Sonig has become a new gateway for young talent. Creating these pathways is key to an equality of access and furthermore, enabling young people to reach their creative potential, through developing confidence, self-esteem and raising their aspirations. This article tracks the history of Sonig and provides a focus on how its constant evolution has positively intervened in the lives of many young people living in Wales.

scholarly journals Alternative Conceptions of Modernity in the History of Iban Popular Music

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Connie Lim Keh Nie
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Alternative Conceptions ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
Indigenous Ethnic Group ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
History Of

This paper examines how modernity has historically shaped developments in the industry of Iban popular music. The Iban make up one third of the Sarawakian population and are the largest indigenous ethnic group in Sarawak, Malaysia. As with other ethnicities in the nationstate, modernity has presented challenges for socio-cultural development and lifestyle of Iban people. Historically, the Iban are a cultural group located geographically and politically on the periphery of the multi-cultural nation of Malaysia. Throughout much of the 20th century, the music industry has experienced a rapid embrace of modernity through the nation to the detriment of traditional practices in culture in order to adapt themselves in the era of modernization. Iban society had gone through a state of flux where people have gone through the process of readapting themselves in meeting the demanding challenges of Malaysian nationalism. Drawing upon Barendregt’s (2014) ‘alternative conceptions of modernity’ this paper examines how the Iban reference both a national as well as a local music industry particularly through their use of language as an expression of Iban. First the paper will examine changes in Iban society through political and economic modernization. Then I look at differential transformation within Iban music industry because of relative exposure to agents of change such as the influence through Christian missionary and education. This reflects how the Iban react and reflect in adaptation of modern demands of change as a result of the effects of historical processes on the social, cultural and physical environments.

scholarly journals Building an integrated history of musical numbers in Brazilian chanchadas

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-27
Author(s):  
Flávia Cesarino Costa
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Domestic Influences

This article discusses industrial and aesthetical aspects of the musical numbers in 1950s Brazilian chanchadas. The chanchadas were a body of films made between the 1930s and 60s, that combined a mixed style derived from domestic influences of radio and popular music routines and from local forms of comic theatrical revues. I propose an examination of the entertainment industry’s influence on the musical numbers chosen for these 1950s chanchadas. This intermedial approach is based on the strong links between cinema and other cultural practices. I will argue the need to take into account not only theatrical practices, but also the routines of carnival culture, as well as the music industry and radio performances, in order to reconsider longstanding historical accounts based on the specificity of film media.

Turkish popular music videos as a multimodal site of resistance

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyndon C.S. Way
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Music Videos ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Multimodal Analysis ◽  
Indigenous Music ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dominant Discourses ◽  
Western Democracies

AbstractCountercultural, alternative and subversive values share a history with some popular music, it being subjected to political scrutiny in both western democracies and less tolerant states. In Turkey, despite a thriving indigenous music industry, there has been a long history of censorship, arrests and even exiles due to popular music and its politics. Since 2002, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has governed Turkey, embracing free market policies, privatisation of state services and monopolies alongside conservative Islamic social and religious values. Many of AKP’s dominant discourses are articulated in Turkey’s media, due to intertwined relations. This paper asks how popular music videos can express subversion to AKP’s dominant discourses. A sample of Turkish videos is examined using a multimodal analysis of images, lyrics and music to reveal how these three modes and relations between them shape discourses of subversion. This is contextualised by examining AKP policies and a history of Turkish popular music. This study demonstrates how popular music videos can articulate discourses of subversion to dominant conservative ideologies that benefit those with power to the detriment of those without.

Towards a ladder of popular music support in Wales: The educational impact of Forté Project

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Talent Development ◽  
Career Pathways ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Educational Impact ◽  
The Arts ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Potential Alternative

Introduced in 2016, Forté Project is a publicly funded talent development initiative aimed at young popular musicians residing in the Arts Connect region of South Wales. Using a combination of survey data and interviews with participants, this article analyses Forté Project’s educational impact on musicians, where it emerges as both complementary of, and a potential alternative to, music industry career pathways provided by traditional forms of further and higher popular music education. Within the wider context of the current Wales-based ladder of publicly funded popular music support, this article also investigates how Forté Project might be improved and/or expanded to better serve the educational needs of emerging popular musicians based throughout Wales.

scholarly journals Social Confidence in Early Adulthood Among Young People With and Without a History of Language Impairment

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 1635-1647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Durkin ◽  
Umar Toseeb ◽  
Nicola Botting ◽  
Andrew Pickles ◽  
Gina Conti-Ramsden
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young People ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Language Ability ◽  
Social Self ◽  
History Of

Purpose The purposes of this study were to test the predictions that lower self-esteem and higher shyness in individuals with a history of language impairment (LI) would continue from adolescence into early adulthood and that those with LI would have lower social self-efficacy in early adulthood. Method Participants were young people with a history of LI and a comparison group of age-matched peers. Both groups were tested at ages 17 and 24 years. Participants completed measures of language ability, nonverbal IQ, shyness, global self-esteem, and (at age 24 years only) social self-efficacy. Results Young adults with LI scored lower than age-matched peers on self-esteem, higher on shyness, and lower on social self-efficacy (medium to large effect sizes). In line with expectations, in the group with LI, language ability in adolescence predicted shyness in young adulthood, which, in turn, was negatively associated with self-esteem. There was also a direct association between language ability in adolescence and self-esteem in young adulthood. Conclusions Young people with a history of LI are likely to be entering adulthood less socially confident than their peers. Interventions may be desirable for young adults with LI, and the present findings indicate social self-efficacy as a key area of social confidence that calls for practitioners' attention.

“The Atmosphere Was Entirely Good Humoured”

2021 ◽  
pp. 170-187
Author(s):  
Simon Frith
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Live Performance ◽  
Live Music ◽  
Rock N Roll ◽  
Music Venues ◽  
Youth Music

This chapter considers the use of cinemas as venues for live performance of pop music in 1950s and 1960s Britain. Following the “rock ‘n’ roll riots” that took place at showings of Blackboard Jungle and Rock Around the Clock, it is often assumed by music historians that cinemas were inappropriate settings for the new kinds of youth music that emerged in this period. In fact, this chapter argues, cinemas played a central role in the development of British popular music in this period. They provided both a space for young people and a space for the live performance of young people’s music; British teen pop music can therefore be understood as an aspect of cinema culture. The emergence of rock in the 1970s led to cinemas losing their central role as live music venues, though rock concert films continued to be significant for the rock economy.

scholarly journals Reconstructing the History of Motown Session Musicians: The Carol Kaye/James Jamerson Controversy

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-109
Author(s):  
BRIAN F. WRIGHT
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Skilled Professional ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractMotown Records churned out hit singles with remarkable efficiency, thanks largely to a stable of skilled professional session musicians. However, exactly who played on their most iconic recordings remains a mystery because, as was standard within the music industry, no Motown release in the 1960s credited these musicians for their work. These practices have led to conflicting accounts, the most famous of which concerns bassists James Jamerson and Carol Kaye. To this day, Kaye alleges that she played on numerous classic Motown recordings but has been purposefully omitted from Motown history. Conversely, Jamerson—who died more than thirty years ago—continues to be vehemently defended by acolytes such as biographer Allan Slutsky, who see Kaye's claims as blasphemous. Drawing on previously unexamined sources, this article reconstructs Kaye's involvement with Motown and, in so doing, reevaluates the merits of the Kaye/Jamerson controversy. Building on the work of Andrew Flory, I explore the role of session musicians in Motown's creative process and argue that critics and fans have propagated a problematic discourse in which Jamerson has been valorized and Kaye has been dismissed. Ultimately, Kaye's story not only provides a useful corrective to the historical record, it also demonstrates the need for further research into session musicians’ contributions to popular music.

Moving out from the state parental home: A comparison of leaving care policies in Victoria and New South Wales

2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Mendes ◽  
Badal Moslehuddin
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Unmet Needs ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Care Policies ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
History Of

Young people leaving care are arguably one of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in society. Compared to most young people, they face numerous barriers to accessing educational, employment and other developmental and transitional opportunities.Using information from interviews and a range of documents, this study compares the leaving care supports currently available in two Australian states, Victoria and New South Wales. Attention is drawn to the history of the leaving care debate in both states, the nature of the existing legislative and program supports for care leavers in each state, the key political and policy actors that have either helped or hindered the development of leaving care policies and services in each state, and the principal unmet needs of care leavers in each state.The findings suggest that NSW leads the way in terms of providing effective legislative and program supports to care leavers. The differences between Victoria and NSW are attributed to a number of factors including particularly the different relationships between the respective government bureaucracies and non-government child welfare sectors.

The state of rock: a history of Finland’s cultural policy and music export

Popular Music ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janne Mäkelä
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Rock Music ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Basis ◽  
High Level

AbstractThe Finnish government has historically been active in regulating the practices of popular music. At the same time, the music industry, rock media and musicians have traditionally insisted on markets free from state intervention. This article focuses on the history of the interrelationship between cultural policy and popular music, especially rock exports, in Finland. It argues that the high level of organised forms of culture and the lure of internationalism form the historical basis for the nation-state–popular music relationship in Finland. Following the demands for ‘competitive society’ in the 1990s and the international breakthroughs of Finnish pop and rock music performers after 2000, this relationship has intensified. Contemporary policy is in many ways healthier than in the past, yet it also raises crucial questions about hierarchies and identity relationships in popular music and society.

Reimagining the Wheel: The Implications of Cultural Diversity for Mainstream Theatre Programming in Australia

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSEPHINE FLEMING ◽  
ROBYN EWING ◽  
MICHAEL ANDERSON ◽  
HELEN KLIEVE
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
First Generation ◽  
New South ◽  
Cultural Relevance ◽  
Cultural Identification ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Australian Study ◽  
South Wales ◽  
History Of ◽  
Demographic Shifts

Profound demographic shifts in Australia's population are raising fundamental questions about how we reimagine the practices of our mainstream cultural institutions. The ability and the willingness of these institutions to reconceptualize their work in ways that encompass a diversity of traditions and tastes are critical. The paper draws on Pierre Bourdieu's notions of distinctions and taste to examine the influence of cultural identification on the choices that young people make about attending live theatre. The paper includes findings from a large Australian study, TheatreSpace, which examined why young people chose to engage or not to engage with theatre. In New South Wales nearly 40 per cent of the 726 young participants spoke a language other than English at home. Most were attending with their schools, many with no history of family attendance. This paper highlights significant issues about cultural relevance, accessibility and the often unintended challenges and confrontations that theatre can present to young first-generation Australians.

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