Unpopular Music History with The Anti-Academic Music Professor

There’s room for both styles! But it’s important that both types of musicians understand each other. Each musician has a different audience who they are most readily able to attract. Some of us have been conditioned to see that as limiting, but it’s actually incredibly freeing! You will be most inspired by a different musician than your friends– or if you have the same top inspiration, your top 5...

Music doesn’t just "happen". I mean it does, but not the music you listen to. I mean it does, but that’s not why you listen to it. Early independent recording started with word of mouth, until the opportunity arose to outsource audience-building to the growing recording industry. Much of what you listen to would never have crossed your ears if it weren’t for the connections it created to labels, s...