What does it take to publish successful music writing today? How do you follow the music scene in the age of basement shows, MySpace and internet memes? Where do you begin to gain access to bands, and what is the value of publishing print magazines in an information universe of blogs, tumblrs and YouTube? The founders and editors of some of today’s most influential and interesting music journalism projects will answer these questions, and more, at Paley Library.

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George Miller is an assistant professor of journalism at Temple University and the founder of JUMP: The Philly Music Project, a magazine dedicated to music makers of all genres who hail from and create music exclusively in the City of Brotherly Love. He is a journalist, photojournalist and proud Philadelphian. Miller worked at the Philadelphia Daily News for more than 11 years, serving as a staff photographer, features writer, general assignment reporter and police beat writer.His words and images have appeared throughout the paper, in every section. Since leaving the paper in 2005, he has freelanced as a writer and photographer for numerous publications, on numerous subjects. The only common denominator in all his articles (and images) is that they are focused on the city and its citizens.

Alex Mulcahy, owner of Red Flag Media, Inc., grew up in Wilkes-Barre, PA. After finishing his English degree at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, he went to work for the independent record store, Gallery of Sound. He became interested in the store’s music publication, and eventually bid to take over the business. Mulcahy’s passion for music and writing helped the publication mature to the point that he began creating publications for independent record stores around the country.

One of Alex’s first employees, Alex Mudrain, was a fellow music buff, particularly of extreme music. Mulcahy encouraged him to expand his writing on the genre into a book, which became Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore. The success of Choosing Death led to the creation of Decibel Magazine in 2004, Red Flag Media’s first national newsstand publication. Since 2009, Mulcahy has delved into another of his passions with GRID Magazine, a free monthly publication devoted to sustainability issues and initiatives in the Greater Philadelphia area. In 2011, Red Flag Media relaunched the beloved independent music magazine, MAGNET.

November 10, 3:00 PM Temple University Libraries Third Annual GIS Day Geography matters! Join us for this annual program on the latest breakthroughs and applications for Geographic Information Systems. This year’s speakers include Stacy A. Irving, the Senior Director of Crime Prevention Services at the Center City District and Jerry Ratcliffe, a professor and the chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University.

Jerry Ratcliffe is a professor and the chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple, where he also directs the Center for Security and Crime Science. He is a former police officer with London’s Metropolitan Police (UK), has a Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham, and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Ratcliffe will present his work on “GIS, crime, and policing in the urban environment.” This talk will explore how GIS can address three important components of the geography of crime by exploring crime patterns, explaining criminal behavior, and evaluating the outcome of crime prevention and police activity to reduce crime. Ratcliffe will present examples from crime patterns in Philadelphia, PA and Camden, NJ.

Stacy A. Irving is the Senior Director of Crime Prevention Services at the Center City District. With more than thirty years of experience working with neighborhood and downtown business communities, Irving is internationally recognized for her unique crime prevention models, which combine crime reduction strategies, revitalization, emergency preparedness and police, business and community partnerships. Irving earned a MPA in Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Criminology from the University of Tampa. Irving will present her research on “Using GIS to Fight Crime and Grime in Center City Philadelphia” by providing an overview as of how the Center City District, a business improvement district located downtown Philadelphia, uses GIS to identify crime trends, track arrests, map CCTV cameras and subway entrances, address quality of life issues, and more.

Andrew Earles writes, speaks and promotes music nearly everywhere you turn. From his just-published book, Hüsker Dü: The Story of the Noise Punk Pioneers Who Launched Modern Rock, to his frequent appearances on WFMU’s The Best Show, to his writing in blogs, newspapers, magazines and zines fromTennessee’s The Memphis Flyer to ubiquitous hipster tattler Vice, Earles has a unique voice as critic, humorist and writer. Join prolific writer Andrew Earles as he talks about the challenges and techniques of writing histories, the methods and craft of music journalism, his influences and the process of writing and publishing.

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The music of the Mummers, jazz and gospel have this in common: all three are original, American musical forms created, celebrated and listened to in Philadelphia. Join Patricia Anne Masters of George Mason University, Carol Muller of the University of Pennsylvania and Diane Turner of Temple’s Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection in a program that celebrates the diversity of Philadelphia music and the creation of unique musical cultures around Mummers Day, jazz and West Philadelphia gospel.

Masters is a professor of sociology and anthropology at George Mason University, and author of The Philadelphia Mummers: Building Community Through Play (Temple University Press). She spent more than five years with the Mummers, observing their lives and rituals as she took part in their preparations and parades. Through the prism of their century-long history, she writes on how communities retain their identities and how they are affected by larger cultural trends.

Carol Muller is a professor of music at the University of Pennsylvania who has published widely on South African music. At Penn, she has run academically based community service projects linking music and spirituality in West Philadelphia. Her classes have studied traditions of gospel and Islamic music in the neighborhoods surrounding Penn. Musical Echoes: South African Women Thinking in Jazz (Duke 2011) with Sathima Bea Benjamin and Focus: South African Music (Routledge 2008) are some of the books Muller has authored and edited.

Diane Turner is a historian and the curator of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection. Her publications include My Name is Oney Judge and Feeding the Soul: Black Music, Black Thought. She has produced exhibitions at the African American Museum in Philadelphia, where she served as a curator, and the Rosenbach Museum and Library, where Look Again: African-American History is American History was the first exhibit of African and African American items in the museum’s history.

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Join WRTI’s Jim Cotter in Conversation with Larry Magid, one of the founders of Philly music-scene fixture, the Electric Factory and Electric Factory Concerts. A pioneer in the concert industry and a fixture on the Philadelphia concert scene for more than forty years, Larry Magid opened the Electric Factory in February 1968 with a show featuring the Chamber Brothers, who declared, “My soul’s been psychedelicized!” He has produced more than 15,000 concerts, orchestrated such Philadelphia milestones as Live Aid in 1985 and Live 8 in 2005, won two Tony Awards, and produced Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays—the largest grossing non-musical in Broadway history. At Paley Library, Magid will share the most memorable moments from his over four decades in the music business in conversation with WRTI’s Jim Cotter. After the program, he will sign copies My Soul’s Been Psychedelicized, a spectacular photographic history of the acts that have performed at the Factory and in Factory-produced concerts. The book includes concert posters, photographs, and promotional items featuring both rising stars and established performers, such as Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Bette Midler, Elvis Presley, Tina Turner, Pearl Jam and many, many more. Since 2002, Jim Cotter has been WRTI’s arts and culture reporter and then editor. And since 2003, he’s been the host and producer of Creatively Speaking! the much-acclaimed Saturday morning arts and culture program that has been the recipient of several awards and commendations including two Philadelphia A.I.R (Achievement In Radio) awards and an Excellence in Broadcasting award from the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters. Register on facebook Like us too! REVIEWS REVIEWS REVIEWS “Music buff and music historian alike will find a lot to be intrigued about with the coffee-table book dedicated to one of Philadelphia’s premier music venues…. [A]n entertaining read and a nice slab of visual music history.” Philadelphia Gay News “An entertaining new book…a profusely illustrated trip down memory lane.” The Philadelphia Daily News

Paley Library Lecture Hall Author Sara Marcus discusses researching and writing her extraordinary Girls to the Front, the first-ever published history of the seminal 1990s Riot Grrrl movement. She will address the culture, the music, and the art that have made an indelible impact on music and feminism today, the personalities that brought this movement to the forefront, and how the Riot Grrrl story lives on. The past few years have seen a resurgence of interest in Riot Grrrl, and a renewed appreciation for the music, art, and politics of this vital cultural movement.

Sara Marcus is a writer and musician living in Brooklyn, New York. Her prose and poetry have appeared in publications including Artforum, Bookforum, Slate, Salon, the San Francisco Chronicle, Death, and EOAGH. She is a founding editor of New Herring Press. Riot Grrrl roared into the spotlight in 1991: an uncompromising movement of girls with no patience for sexism and no intention of keeping quiet.

Young women everywhere were realizing that the equality they’d been promised was still elusive. In response, thousands of riot grrrls published zines, founded local groups, and organized national conventions, while fiercely prophetic punk bands such as Bratmobile, Heavens to Betsy, Huggy Bear, and Bikini Kill helped spread the word across the US and to Canada, Europe, and beyond. Register on Facebook! Like us, too!

REVIEWS, REVIEWS, REVIEWS Girls to the Front is the first meticulously researched book about Riot Grrrl… I think this book is pretty on. Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill and LeTigre A historical rockument of the revolutionary 90s counterculture Riot Grrrl movement. . . . A rousing inspiration for a new generation of empowered rebel girls to strap on guitars and stick it to The Man. Vanity Fair Feminism seems to change every five years. It’s hard to grasp the movement. But you don’t have to live a lifetime to get the idea and energy of it, and Sara Marcus’s book channels what it is to make it your own. Girls to the Front is not just a keeper of the flame but brings you to your own fire.

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Paley Library Lecture Hall This is BP with the GM! That’s legendary jazz broadcaster Bob Perkins (BP), bringing you the Great Music (GM) that is called jazz straight from Paley Library Lecture Hall this September. Talk with legendary radio broadcaster Bob Perkins and jazz musicians Orrin Evans, Terell Stafford and Dawn Warren Evans on the status of jazz music today. Is it alive and well? What affects the way jazz is produced, distributed and listened to today? That goes for both new music and classic jazz. Don’t miss Philly’s most renowned jazz broadcaster in conversation with other scholars and jazz musicians at Temple University Libraries.

Bob Perkins was born and raised in South Philadelphia. His career as a radio broadcaster began in 1964 in Detroit, and he returned to Philly five years later. In his 46 years of broadcasting, Perkins has amassed dozens of awards and much recognition, including a Kal Rudman Milestone in Radio Award and a Mellon Jazz Community Service Award in recognition of keeping America’s indigenous art form alive through his columns on jazz and his hosting of jazz music programs on radio. In 2003, Bob was inducted into the Philadelphia Broadcast Hall of Fame.

Dawn Warren Evans is an artist of varied tastes and musical interests; she has jammed with Roy Hargrove and Joshua Redman, sang with reggae, R&B, and rap bands and written and recorded in various genres. She also has extensive training in classical piano. Her professional debut took place in Paris where her ability to sing in French, Swahili, Woloff, and Lingala made her a sought after performer. Dawn continues to perform as a vocalist and is the founder of Imani Records. She has also been managing, booking and promoting jazz artists for 10 years.

A 2010 Pew Fellow in the Arts, pianist Orrin Evans is a gifted improviser, noted composer, and seasoned bandleader. He has worked alongside jazz veterans such as saxophonist Bobby Watson and drummer Ralph Peterson. In addition to collaborations with artists ranging from hip-hop stars Common and Mos Def to noted poet Sonia Sanchez, Evans is the founder of Imani Records and 88 Keys Productions.

Terell Stafford is one of today’s most celebrated jazz trumpeters. He is the Director of Jazz Studies and Chair of Instrumental Studies at Temple University and a member of the GRAMMY-winning Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, drummer Matt Wilson’s group, “Arts and Crafts,” and drummer Alvin Queen’s group, “Alvin Queen and the Organics.” Stafford has recorded six albums as a leader, including the critically acclaimed This Side of Strayhorn, and is heard on over 90 albums as a sideman. Stafford also serves as a clinician for the prestigious Vail Foundation in Colorado and Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington Program. He has also served as a member of the faculty for the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies and is a board member of the Jazz Education Network.

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