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Annotated Bibliography Will the Social Media affect future Musicians?

King Lor Professor Malcolm Campbell English 1102 February 20th, 2012

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Annotated Bibliography Boehm, Carola. The discipline that never was: current developments in music technology in higher education in Britain. Journal of Music, Technology, and Education: Volume 1: Issue: 1 pp. 7-21. Web. 21 Feb. 2012. This source by Carola Boehm is informative. Music technology and education around the world is changing. In Britain it is taking a huge toll upon how students graduate and what they graduate with. A little less than half of students in Britain who are in a music degree end up graduating with a music technology degree (Boehm). These statistics are informative as it gives us an idea of how future musicians will be affected by this. Colleges in Britain are not as focused into music as one of their degrees and this makes it harder for musicians and students to achieve their dreams with less and less music degrees. Not only is it in Britain, it is also in the United States. But with less and less music degrees and graduates, Boehm says technology could save or give courage to musicians and to the colleges without much music degrees. Carola Boehm is a successful woman as she has degrees in musicology, computer science, and electrical engineering. She is the Head of Music and Principal Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton. Her credentials are high and believable as she is very informed of what shes talking about. This is an academic article within a book as it has a bibliography and works cited page. The intended audience is for everyone as it informs everyone of the situation of music and college. This is a useful source as it gives information of how schools are affected by music. This source also helps my research paper because of the numbers and graphs that are presented. These should help show evidence of what my research paper is

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going to revolve around. With technology growing, this helps colleges look at music as a bigger program. Music technology will only grow and so will the colleges without them. Greg, Kot. How $5 Could Save The Music Industry. Chicago Tribune. 20 Jan. 2008. Web. 20 Feb. 2012. The Music Industry is failing with free downloads and shareware products becomes more available to the public. This source by Kot Greg focuses on how music has been slowly decreasing in sales and how it could be saved. He states that five dollars could save the music industry by putting a license fee on every internet account. This obviously would be a huge boost in income for the music industry. But this online newspaper article also talks about the downfall of the music industry over the last couple of years. Just the year before 2008, music sales went down 14%, which continued a seven-year decline in music sales (Greg 1). The effects of how the five dollars could save the music industry are of great importance. But with the music industry falling more each year this is a letdown for those who are looking into the field of music. Kot Greg, since 1990, has been a music critic and covered the field of music. His credibility is great because he writes for one of the most popular newspapers in the United States. The intended audience of this article is to inform the public about how the Music Industry could be revived to its status back to in the late 1990s. Also give the audience a taste of what could happen if the music industry kept falling each year. This source differs from others because it gives numbers, statistical information thats useful for evidence. This source is helpful because it helps give reason as to why musicians may be affected by technology and social media. This source will be integrated into my research project because of the high profile status of the

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newspaper and also because of the statistical information of music sales over the course of years. Ingram, Mathew. Does Social Media Interfere With Creativity. Gigaom. 19 Jul. 2011. Web. 20 Feb. 2012. Creativity is a huge question mark when it comes to the social media and musicians. This blog/article by Mathew Ingram uses great sources as it has John Mayer and David Usher as evidence to showing how creativity deprives young musicians. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, all of these social media websites all can affect musicians. John Mayer was greatly affected by the social media as he stated, I realized about a year ago that I couldnt have a complete thought anymore. And I was a tweetaholic I stopped using twitter as an outlet and I started using twitter as the instrument to riff on, and it started to make my mind smaller and smaller and smaller. And I couldnt write a song. John Mayer was deprived of his creativity and focus because the social media became a concern to him. Mathew Ingram is the Senior Writer of GigaOm, where he covers the media in all forms. He is an award winning journalist. His credibility doesnt lack in much of anything because the sources are there and the evidence is there. This isnt a biased blog/article because of the fact that he has evidence. This evidence helps readers establish the connection to why he believes creativity is deprived because of the social media. He establishes a connection to those who have a fear of the social media on their music. This source also gives a differing opinion upon future musicians as it brings up the idea that creativity and originality is deprived because of the social media. This source is a great as it gives it from a different point of view. This helps establish a

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complexity to the paper because of how people view technology and music. This helps my research project also because of how he incorporated people like John Mayer and David Usher into the blog to help give better understanding of how creativity can deprive musicians now and in the future of creativity and/or originality. Peters, Jackie. The Effect Of Social Media On Music. Heavy Bag Media. Heavybag Media LLC. 8 June. 2008. Web. 21 Feb. 2012. When it comes to the social media and music, it has changed more than you could imagine. This article/blog by Jackie Peters talks about how the social media has affected the music industry and music altogether. There are now more ways to access music online via last.fm, iheartradio, and various other online radio sites (Peters 1). Music discovery is easier to establish with people being able to upload music onto YouTube and other various other websites. Collaborations as well become available to anyone because of how easy it is to record yourself at home and not at a studio. This source just gives the pros about how the social media can make a positive impact upon the music industry and musicians around the world. Jackie Peters is an author at Heavybag Media, which is a site where the authors can blog about a certain subject. The credibility here is questionable and not as credible as no sources are indicated in the article. But what is credible is the uploaded comments on this blog. These comments are positive feedbacks from people and they agree with how she has written about this subject. This source will be incorporated into my research paper because of the numbers and graphs given by the author. She uses a great amount of information with websites and link to these websites so that I can go to them. This is the pros of the social media on music and this is exactly

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what is needed to make my research paper more complex. It gives the social media effect upon music a different point of view.