Dr. Neil Wetzel
email: neil@neilwetzel.com
phone: 215-679-0416
What is a jazz musician to do? I mean, REALLY! Where will I work when all the gigs are gone?
There is a very good documentary originally produced and aired a few years ago on PBS that examined jazz and hip-hop. In comparing the two types of music, the producers focused on both types of music and how each was scorned by many at first but eventually became accepted by white, mainstream audiences. The video,… READ MORE »
The allure of the musical “Value Meal.”
Is musical taste derived from “free will” or are listeners programmed to like what is easy and available—conditioned to like what is spoon-fed by the media? Are music consumers falling for mass-produced musical products that are easily marketed and sold? Is pop music like a newspaper that needs to be written at a 6th grade… READ MORE »
NEIL WETZEL
