Rob Drew
Biographic Data
| ID | 4078807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rob Drew |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rob |
| FAMILY NAME | Drew |
| SIGNATURE | DREW R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saginaw Valley State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cassette in 1980s Indie Music Scenes
The cassette format took on three central functions within 1980s independent music (indie) in the United States: It served as a means of connection among musicians, facilitated the process of auditioning, and allowed formal distribution through cassette-only releases. In all these capacities, the cassette served simultaneously as an instrument of diffusion and as a token of intimacy and community, values essential to indie’s self-image. In turn, …
The space between
As an affectively charged medium of communication, the mix tape embodies a registry of human longings. In their accounts of exchanging mixes and their reflections on the meanings attached to them, mixers display the gamut of hopes and fears surrounding their relationships. While the mix tape often is represented as a token of unreserved intimacy, the practice of making and exchanging mixes can as easily be understood as a ritual of distance, one …
New Technologies and the Business of Music
This article offers a historical perspective on the music industry's response to new technologies by reviewing the home taping controversy of the early 1980s. In particular I analyze Congressional hearings on bills that sought to impose a royalty on blank tape and tape recorders. I argue that the home taping debate foreshadowed issues that continue to trouble the music industry: its unpreparedness for a new economy that valorizes consumer informa…
Going Home for All Tomorrow's Parties
In 2008 it was announced that All Tomorrow's Parties, an independent music festival originating in the United Kingdom, would make its first ever appearance in the Eastern United States at Kutsher's Country Club in Monticello, New York. As a diehard indie music fan who happens to have grown up in Monticello and spent a good part of my youth navigating Kutsher's in various roles, this particular harmonic convergence of Borscht Belt culture and indi…
Lethargy Begins at Home
The "publish or perish" imperative has become academe's version of global warming; no issue inspires so much vexation and so little action. The pressure on professors to publish early and often is sustained by numerous parties, yet some are more complicit than others. I have in mind a genus of scholar whom we might call the academic rate-buster, the high-output workhorses of academe. This article contends that the performance of professional ideo…
Mixed Blessings
This paper explores the appropriation of the trope of the mix tapes by commercial interests within the music industry for the purpose of selling music. I trace the phenomenon back to the rise of home mixing in the subsequent disaggregation of the single‐artist album as a result of digital distribution. I review several varieties of commercial mixes including personalized mixes, branded mixes, celebrity mixes, and user‐contributed mixes. While som…
Once More, With Irony’
Karaoke’s mimetic character can provide a conduit for personal growth and interpersonal empathy. Yet karaoke is not always understood this way, and one factor determining how it is understood is social class. Karaoke’s class markers have been clear, though very different, in Eastern and Western cultures. Whereas in Japan karaoke first became popular among the upper‐middle class, in the US it was popularized by the working and lower‐middle classes…
Old Habits and New Media
Mixed Blessings
This paper explores the appropriation of the trope of the mix tapes by commercial interests within the music industry for the purpose of selling music. I trace the phenomenon back to the rise of home mixing in the subsequent disaggregation of the single‐artist album as a result of digital distribution. I review several varieties of commercial mixes including personalized mixes, branded mixes, celebrity mixes, and user‐contributed mixes. While som…
Once More, With Irony’
Karaoke’s mimetic character can provide a conduit for personal growth and interpersonal empathy. Yet karaoke is not always understood this way, and one factor determining how it is understood is social class. Karaoke’s class markers have been clear, though very different, in Eastern and Western cultures. Whereas in Japan karaoke first became popular among the upper‐middle class, in the US it was popularized by the working and lower‐middle classes…
Going Home for All Tomorrow's Parties
In 2008 it was announced that All Tomorrow's Parties, an independent music festival originating in the United Kingdom, would make its first ever appearance in the Eastern United States at Kutsher's Country Club in Monticello, New York. As a diehard indie music fan who happens to have grown up in Monticello and spent a good part of my youth navigating Kutsher's in various roles, this particular harmonic convergence of Borscht Belt culture and indi…
Lethargy Begins at Home
The "publish or perish" imperative has become academe's version of global warming; no issue inspires so much vexation and so little action. The pressure on professors to publish early and often is sustained by numerous parties, yet some are more complicit than others. I have in mind a genus of scholar whom we might call the academic rate-buster, the high-output workhorses of academe. This article contends that the performance of professional ideo…
Old Habits and New Media
Lethargy Begins at Home
The "publish or perish" imperative has become academe's version of global warming; no issue inspires so much vexation and so little action. The pressure on professors to publish early and often is sustained by numerous parties, yet some are more complicit than others. I have in mind a genus of scholar whom we might call the academic rate-buster, the high-output workhorses of academe. This article contends that the performance of professional ideo…
Mixed Blessings
This paper explores the appropriation of the trope of the mix tapes by commercial interests within the music industry for the purpose of selling music. I trace the phenomenon back to the rise of home mixing in the subsequent disaggregation of the single‐artist album as a result of digital distribution. I review several varieties of commercial mixes including personalized mixes, branded mixes, celebrity mixes, and user‐contributed mixes. While som…
Once More, With Irony’
Karaoke’s mimetic character can provide a conduit for personal growth and interpersonal empathy. Yet karaoke is not always understood this way, and one factor determining how it is understood is social class. Karaoke’s class markers have been clear, though very different, in Eastern and Western cultures. Whereas in Japan karaoke first became popular among the upper‐middle class, in the US it was popularized by the working and lower‐middle classes…
Old Habits and New Media
Going Home for All Tomorrow's Parties
In 2008 it was announced that All Tomorrow's Parties, an independent music festival originating in the United Kingdom, would make its first ever appearance in the Eastern United States at Kutsher's Country Club in Monticello, New York. As a diehard indie music fan who happens to have grown up in Monticello and spent a good part of my youth navigating Kutsher's in various roles, this particular harmonic convergence of Borscht Belt culture and indi…
New Technologies and the Business of Music
This article offers a historical perspective on the music industry's response to new technologies by reviewing the home taping controversy of the early 1980s. In particular I analyze Congressional hearings on bills that sought to impose a royalty on blank tape and tape recorders. I argue that the home taping debate foreshadowed issues that continue to trouble the music industry: its unpreparedness for a new economy that valorizes consumer informa…
The space between
As an affectively charged medium of communication, the mix tape embodies a registry of human longings. In their accounts of exchanging mixes and their reflections on the meanings attached to them, mixers display the gamut of hopes and fears surrounding their relationships. While the mix tape often is represented as a token of unreserved intimacy, the practice of making and exchanging mixes can as easily be understood as a ritual of distance, one …
The Cassette in 1980s Indie Music Scenes
The cassette format took on three central functions within 1980s independent music (indie) in the United States: It served as a means of connection among musicians, facilitated the process of auditioning, and allowed formal distribution through cassette-only releases. In all these capacities, the cassette served simultaneously as an instrument of diffusion and as a token of intimacy and community, values essential to indie’s self-image. In turn, …
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