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Via David Bruce Murray, it looks like Chris Allman, of original Greater Vision fame (and more lately of this transfixing clip), has launched an ala carte co-writing and publishing business called, Write With Me.
DBM runs down the particulars of the service and raises some good questions about who owns what publishing rights in this sort […]

More evidence that our thinking about intellectual property online and digital content provision hasn’t quite caught up with the complications and paradoxes of e-commerce:

People who illegally download music from the internet also spend more money on music than anyone else, according to a new study. The survey, published today, […]

Stephen Shearon, a musicologist at Middle Tennessee State University and scholar of (among other things) southern gospel history, has collaborated with a MTSU colleague to produce a documentary on the southern gospel singing convention tradition, titled “I’ll Keep on Singing” (h/t, JS). I exchanged a few emails with Steve this afternoon and he confirmed that […]

I stumbled across this in some holiday reading (on my new iPod touch, using the Amazon/Kindle iPod/iPhone app, which is good and would be gooder if it had copy/paste functionality so I wouldn’t have to manually retype long passages like the one below). It’s from a Kazuo Ishiguro short story collection entitled Nocturnes. The first […]

So what’s been going on while I was away in the real world?

Calvin Hunt, who released his late work with sg producer Wayne Haun in recent years (and earned two Dove Award nominations for his 2008 album with Haun’s Vine Records), died the day after Christmas.  RIP.

In case you’ve got $789.89 laying about, there’s this […]

So I guess I ought to have an opinion about all the personnel changes that happened while I was away for the holidays. They were, evidently, very exciting (”!!!” according to the Singing News release about Gold City’s most recent upheaval). Fortunately, most of what can be said about these changes already has been thoroughly […]

In this season of quartet personnel changes (more on this in a moment) and all the euphemisms, evasions, and lacunae that pass for explanations of various departures and arrivals, I give you what is quite possibly the best reason any quartet man has ever given for leaving a group. Dear readers, Brad Smith, on departing […]

A reader objects to the premise of my course on Gospel Music and American Literature:
As the father of three kids in college, I am uber-sensitive to the cost/value of higher education, which therein begs the question in my mind: “why in the heck do kids go to college to take a course like […]

So I’m teaching a senior seminar this semester on Gospel Music and American Literature, which is … well, basically what it sounds like: we read literature that appropriates gospel  music in some way (texts include Bastard Out of Carolina, Just Above  My Head, Southern Baptist Sissies, and, of course, The Gospel Singer, as well as […]