August 2nds
On the other side of the year: Groundhog Day 8/2/1998 Interesting article in Pulse magazine about the connection between football fight songs in England and pop music, written by Boff, the guitar player for Chumbawamba. At one time, pop stars would have their songs lifted by footballers. Now it’s the pop groups that steal from the Terraces. 8/2/2002 New field of study: “Musics” (like physics). Title: “Musicists”. Most of music is really not music in the traditional sense, but has rhythm, tempo. “Musics” also deals with social context and politics, which often get ignored in the craft of music. [8/2/2024: In retrospect, what I thought was Musing is now Music relative to AI-generated music, which I think is the current form of Musing. Artists who are currently absorbed in it are Musicists in the domain of music, as Physicists are in the domain of physics]. [See Music Versus Musing ] 8/2/2005 Galena (Dowling House) 8/2/2009 ...
