The ideas and links on Matthew Waite's syllabus for his JOUR 491 news apps class are too good to lose, so I'm saving them here (abbreviated): Jan. 14, 2014 Introduction to news applications. Homework: -- Read: A fundamental way newspaper sites need to change by Adrian Holovaty --Read: A dao of web design by John... Continue Reading →
Whorehouse music, Texas style. No kidding
Piano scholar and player James Goodwin has a number of videos up on YouTube. This, he says, "is an improvisation in the piano blues style that developed in the barrelhouses and whorehouses of Texas in the 1920s and 1930s. Characteristic is the use of slurred notes in the right hand and pumping chords or stride... Continue Reading →
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