- Title
- Songwriting and studio practice: the systems model of creativity applied to 'writing records'
- Creator
- McIntyre, Phillip
- Relation
- 5th Annual Art of Record Production Conference (ARP 2009). Proceedings of the 5th Annual Art of Record Production Conference (Cardiff, Wales 13-15 November, 2009)
- Relation
- http://www.artofrecordproduction.com/content/view/226/114
- Publisher
- University of Glamorgan
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller claimed that ‘we don’t write songs, we write records’. This studio based approach to creating records has had, and continues to have, a number of implications for the role of songwriters. For example, at the more general level it can be seen that the move away from writing songs to writing records has contributed to the alteration, advent and development of a variety of musical styles. However, for those directly involved in studio practice, the reconfiguring of the traditional role of the songwriter in favour of the record writer has implications not only at the point of composition but also at the level of arrangement, production and, inevitably, copyright. Drawing on data from an extended ethnographic study of songwriting the author hopes that, by looking at these issues and changes through the lens of the systems model of creativity, a fresh perspective may be bought to the current understandings of studio practice and a contribution made to the musicological knowledge available to those engaged in researching the art of record production.
- Subject
- songwriters; record production; musical styles
- Identifier
- uon:8936
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/919648
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