Re: [ARSCLIST] Is there a good history of EMI out there ?

[Karl Miller <karl.miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Olhsson <olh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
   
  ***The problem I've seen over and over, at least in popular music, is people writing "history" from fan magazine rewrites of press releases. 
   
  This is also a problem with the "history" of classical music. Myths become "history." A friend of mine used to trace the history of errors by looking at older reference books. 
  
***I've been helping gather oral histories from recording engineers, musicians and producers for the past ten years. Hopefully the story of post WW2 popular music can be documented while the folks from the '50s and '60s are still alive to tell the real stories.

One of my musicology professors suggested that the real duty of the profession was to document the present. I am also reminded that the topic for her dissertation was, at first rejected. One of the composers to be discussed was still living...
   
  Karl