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What notes are hiding between the keys on your piano? How 'situated' is your ear? And most importantly, what does the music from Battlestar Galactica have in common with Balinese Gamelan? In this episode of On That Note, we try and answer these questions and much more. Join host Graham MacDonald as he sits down with UBC professor and ethnomusicologist Michael Tenzer for a discussion about the different ways we hear, play, and define music (hint: it's all about context!) and how breaking out of our musical bubbles might help us communicate better.
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What is a ballad? You know one when you hear it, right? And yet ballads are weirdly difficult to pin down: Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" is a ballad, but so is Mötley Crüe's "Home Sweet Home." This slipperiness might go some way to explaining why they've maintained their hold on us for the past sixty years. From Elvis’s "Blue Moon" to Drake’s "Marvins Room," we can’t seem to shake our need for a good ballad. In this episode, we talk to UBC professor and music historian David Metzer about his new book, The Ballad in American Popular Music: From Elvis to Beyoncé. We discuss how we define ballads, how they change with the times, and why they continue to grab us.
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