Music as a force for community
Merlin Snider with Pretty Good Acquaintances Goin Down the Road, February 4, 2012 I will post an essay about this performance (and some related books and lectures) next week. I had to spend this week trying out ways to embed my own video – rather that videos from services like YouTube. I still have not [...]
February 12, 2012
Tags: Deborah Snider, Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad, Merlin Snider, social justice, social justice history, social justice music, The Great Depression, Tom Corbett, union history Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels 
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Riffing on This Is Your Brain On Music, Part 1
Went to hear my favorite songwriter, Merlin Snider, the other night at Coffee Gallery Backstage in Pasadena. During the performance he mentioned that he was reading a great book, This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin. I was in the middle of that book myself! Guess that is a clue as to why [...]
August 15, 2010
Tags: CA, Coffee Gallery Backstage, Daniel Leviten, David Peat, Merlin Snider, music and brain, Pasadena, synchronicity, This Is Your Brain On Music Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary No Comments