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Arts, Comedy, Music & Film

Music performance & songs

Music performance & songs sits within Arts, Comedy, Music & Film. Watch for the relationship between a finished performance, its craft, and the cultural context around it. This selection contains 239 catalog videos from 218 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include music video, electronic music, satire, parody, tom lehrer and bach. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include comedy, commentary, demo, documentary, explainer, interview, music, news, other and talk. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop”, listed under Landon Proctor, is cataloged as documentary. Nate Harrison's 2004 video history of the Amen Break, a six-second drum sample from a 1969 b-side that became the basis of hip-hop sampling, jungle and drum and bass. It is also…

“The Commodordion”, listed under lftkryo, is cataloged as demo. Linus Akesson demonstrates the Commodordion, a fully functional 8-bit accordion built around Commodore 64 hardware with bellows made of floppy disks. He performs Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag and tells the story…

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