A deck all about Brooklyn Music - Uploaded by Pedro Torres Ciliberto. http://pedrotorrescilibertoveneuzela.net The Brooklyn Academy of Music better known as Bam is known as the home to adventurous artists and audiences. This year, it celebrates its 150 year anniversary with a lineup as rich as its history. “Well I’d like to say that BAM is extremely old but always new.” Says Pedro Torres Ciliberto, a member of BAM’s board of trustees. Mr. Pedro Torres Ciliberto continues saying, “It’s pretty amazing because, how many institutions can survive for 150 years?” “It opened in 1861 during the American Civil War. The institution survived fire, flood, the great depression, and here it stands today as a thrilling and diverse performing arts center that showcases work from all over the wor

1. WHY DOESN’T THE
‘BROOKLYN SOUND’
SOUND LIKE BROOKLYN?
Aram Sinnreich
Rutgers University
School of Communication & Information
!
EMP Pop Conference
April 25, 2014

2. BROOKLYN’S MUSICAL LEGACY

3. SELLING THE ‘BROOKLYN SOUND’
NY Magazine, 2009
Vice Mag, 2012 NY Mag, 2013
Bklyn Mag, 2014 NY Times, 2014

4. IN SEARCH OF THE ‘BROOKLYN SOUND’
Grizzly Bear

5. IN SEARCH OF THE ‘BROOKLYN SOUND’
MGMT

6. IN SEARCH OF THE ‘BROOKLYN SOUND’
Dirty Projectors

7. IN SEARCH OF THE ‘BROOKLYN SOUND’
Parquet Courts

8. IN SEARCH OF THE ‘BROOKLYN SOUND’
Vampire Weekend

9. TRACKING INFLUENCES
Grizzly
Bear
Elliott Smith (Omaha)
Mercury Rev (Buffalo)
Neutral Milk Hotel (Athens)
MGMT
Flaming Lips (Oklahoma)
Sparks (LA)
David Bowie (UK)
Dirty
Projectors
Black Flag (Cali)
Brian Eno (UK)
Fela Kuti (Nigeria)
Vampire
Weekend
XTC (UK)
Peter Gabriel (UK)
Spoon (Austin)
Source:
Music Bloodline,
Rovi

10. THE GREAT MIGRATION
Ben Goldwasser,
MGMT
Ed Droste,
Grizzly Bear
Rostam Batmanglij,
Vampire Weekend
Andrew Savage,
Parquet Courts
Amber Coffman,
Dirty Projectors

11. THE BIGGER PICTURE: DEMOGRAPHICS
2000-2010:
Brooklyn's population grew by 39,000 people.
• White population grew by 38,774
• Asian population grew by 75,838.
• Black population shrank by -49,517
White growth
Asian growth
Black and Latino growth

12. THE BIGGER PICTURE: ECONOMICS
Rising rents, 2004-2012

13. RISING RENTS = SHRINKING BUDGETS

14. THE ‘BROOKLYN SOUND’ OR
THE ‘SEGREGATION SOUND’?

15. THE ‘BROOKLYN SOUND’ OR
THE ‘SEGREGATION SOUND’?
Rise of the
‘Brooklyn Sound’

16. WHAT DOES ‘RETRO’ MEAN?
Lee Fields/Expressions Antibalas Sharon Jones/Dap-Kings

17. THE BACKLASH

18. THANK YOU.
Aram Sinnreich
Rutgers University
School of Communication & Information
!
EMP Pop Conference
April 25, 2014
!
Twitter: @aram
sinn@rutgers.edu