First post

Well, everyone, since my initial tap on your shoulder went out inadvertently a week or so ago, I have been scrambling like an improviser to rise to the occasion and make it work out! Given the accidental beginnings, I’m very happy that it’s gone as well as it has.

My main concern has been to speed up my learning curve on how to run and manage the site, simply on the terms of how it works as a computer program. I don’t want it to be spewing out every post to everyone, like your typical listserv, yet I do want the interested parties to have easy access not only to that which directly pertains to them and their work, but to any parts of the rest of the project they may find equally interesting. With this blog, and the RSS feed, you can stay in touch with it without getting bothered by or bogged down in it—as long as we all use those selective email buttons judiciously (ie., not as mass email buttons).

Many thanks to all who have responded so well, so far. I am having a lot more fun with this than if I were doing it all the usual way. I expect to be concentrating on one or two musicians and/or threads per week, and to be adding to this every Sunday. I’ll end each post with the following update blurbs:
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People who have checked in on New Old Music to date:

Jin Hi Kim, Andrew Raffo Dewar, Steven Pond, Hugo De Craen, Kris Wallsmith, John Szwed, Mei Han, Jason Stanyek, Ajay Heble, David Borgo, Mirjana Lausevic, Mark Slobin, Lewis Porter, Ted Gioia, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Paul Plimley, Jason Kao Hwang, Howard Silverman, Vijay Iyer, Gregory Acker, David Ake, Kevin Whitehead, Wu Man, William Parker, Dick Hebdige, Jason Robinson, Bill Dixon, Min Xiao-Fen

People who have posted there:

Jin Hi Kim, Andrew Raffo Dewar, Steven Pond, Hugo De Craen, Mei Han, Ajay Heble, David Borgo, Lewis Porter, Jason Kao Hwang, Vijay Iyer, David Ake, Min Xiao-Fen

Posted now in Files:

Links2Sources.doc
Links (in lieu of uploads)
Braxton'sGhostTrance.doc
To Andrew DeWar (on his Maya, AB's Ghost Trance)
fromDiss4book.doc
Possibly relevant bits from diss as yet unused...
Mei_Interview_final.pdf
Interview with Mei Han, published on the Musicworks
A_Dewar_SEM2006.pdf
Re: From Andrew DeWar (on his and Braxton's music...)
biblio.doc
Bibliography (ongoing)...
epigraphs.doc
Possible lede quotes (ongoing)...
fromCDnarr4book.doc
Review bits of relevant CDs
MusicStudies.doc
CDs to review (ongoing)
STNrevues.doc
WilliamParkerCitation.doc
AnnotatedSourceLinks.doc
Gen. notes; artists, colleagues, media, organizations, collections, links to
HeffleyPaper1.doc
paper on C. Taylor, S. Murray, A. Ayler early gigs at Montmartre; touches on "free jazz as folk music"
NewOldMusic1.mov: Heffley's talking head intro to project

Current To-Dos:

Posts to follow up in order
As posts come in with substantive responses and material, follow them up before doing other research
Mei Han post & material
Vijay Iyer material
Min Xiao-Fen post & material
Jin Hi Kim material
Steve Coleman material
Lewis Porter material
Andrew Raffo Dewar post & material

Post to Files
Things to put in Files section, for general access; do in order
Work on Ganelin CD reviews for STN
Notes on work of artists & colleagues
Past papers to cannibalize
Rough Draft of Intro to Book
Working Bibliography