Noah (from Polyphonic)

Review: “Century of Song” by Noah Lefevre I mentioned in a previous blog post about how YouTube is ever-present in my home. One of the YouTube channels my husband and I like to watch is Polyphonic, which covers music history, how contempor…

I read "Century of Song" by @polyphonic.nebula.tv and wrote a review...check out and let me know what you think!
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YouTube video by Polyphonic What's the Point of Music Biopics?

In this week's video, I take a look at Music Biopics, and ask the age old question... why the hell do we keep making these?

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For any Polyphonic fans in Ottawa, this Thursday I'll be doing a fireside chat downtown courtesy of Tech Thursday. Come down if you want to see me talk about the creator industry. The event starts at 4:30 PM, and there will be time for networking after, as well as book signings if you so desire.

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What do you think the best music biopic is?

There's such a disparity in process between writing & editing. It's easy to feel progress when editing - you can sit down for 8 hrs & make the video happen in real time. Meanwhile, writing is abstract - slowly gathering thoughts and running ideas through the back of your mind at all hours of the day

The most inspiring story in music is from 1984, when an R&B singer named Ray Parker Jr. got a call out of the blue saying, "We need a song that sounds EXACTLY like 'I Want a New Drug' by Huey Lewis, but it has to be about ghost cops arresting ghosts" and he sent them a finished track 48 hours later

Century of Song: 101 Songs that Shaped American Music Century of Song: 101 Songs that Shaped American Music: Lefevre, Noah: 9798890031235: Books - Amazon.ca

Here's your periodical reminder that I wrote a book last year. It's pretty neat and if you like what I do with my channel, I think you'd dig it a lot.

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Pre-dates modern music, but one that I've been considering exploring in a video Music Hall. Reigned supreme over British culture for half a century and then completely and utterly collapsed once American music crossed the pond in the 20th century. Mostly remembered now through McCartney's tributes

YouTube video by Polyphonic IDLES' New Vision of Masculinity

This one's kind of a big one for me

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Polyphonic — Bob Dylan's Unreleased Masterpiece The long and complex history of

Next month's video is up on Nebula now. This is one that I've been dreaming about for a long time. Very excited that I could finally make it happen.

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YouTube video by It's Boundo. Let's Get You Into Björk

My good friend and fellow music creator @boundo.bsky.social recently had to take down and re-upload a fantastic video for copyright reasons. If you could give some love and go learn about Björk, it would go a long way to helping a great indie creator.

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the pipeline of magic treehouse reading children to 14 hour history podcast listening adults is real and i'm living proof

Pop fans seem to have really taken to the term "recession pop" to describe the Katy/Gaga/Kesha/BEP era of pop and I don't like it. The connection between '09 pop music and the recession feels tenuous to me

YouTube video by Polyphonic Canadian Music is in Danger

Save the CBC.

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Riot Grrrl cover of Ladies of the Canyon send tweet

so Chelsea from White Lotus is a Bokononist right?

(to the tune of "paperback writer") haangerbaack walkerrr

music is bad

12tone is a fraud and a hack who stole my idea

Prime Minister Carney. What do you mean by the "Department of Sam Roberts Band". Mr. Carney what exactly is their mandate

My goal isn't gentrification, it's exploration of commonalities in contemporaneous music. Prog soul doesn't erase the existence of other categorizations, it just gives us a new lens to appreciate this art. I don't want to replace existing conversations, I want to add a new dimension & perspective.

Isaac Hayes' is explicitly breaking the forms of those structures. That's one of the key musical ideas behind Hot Buttered Soul, the idea that pop songs like "Walk on By" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" are deserving of expanded, ambitious arrangements that tend to be out of the purview of pop.

From its inception in the late '50s until the end of the '60s, the majority of soul music fit within pretty standard popular song forms, to the point that Motown famously had a formula for writing pop songs. This is not to disparage popular song forms btw, I think there's a lot of strength in them.