Not the Sound of Silence Footnoting the Pop/Rock Sounds of the Library :: Essays Papers

Not the Sound of Silence Footnoting the Pop/Rock Sounds of the Library bandage in the University of Arizonas Music Library evaluating their reference parade for a class project, I came across the following book and annotated it for my pathfinderGreen, J. (2002). The Thematic Guide to universal Music, Nashville Professional Desk References. This massive guide categorizes music by lyrical theme(s) and/or cry titles. For instance, there are listings of songs by days of the week, womens first label and cities around the world. The perennial themes of love, romance and relationships are broken down into 25 sub-categories. Paging through it spurred me to wonder about songs written about or songs referring to libraries or librarians. While there were song listings galore referring to books (e.g., Book of Love by the Monotones and Little Red Book by Burt Bacharach/ Hal David), librarians and libraries were not even a category, subcategory or even crossed-referenced This void gave me the impetus to do my own brief exploration and survey, drawing upon the vast resources of the web, friends, and my record collection, of the brief instances where the music world danced in program depository library land. Tori Amos-Tales of a Librarian Classmate and Health Science librarian Virginia Sanchez filled me in on this one. I looked it up on Allmusic.com and found it was a collection of her hit songs. The record reviewer MacKenzie Wilson even writes, Tales of a Librarian A Tori Amos Collection is not only one of the most intriguing titles for a hits compilation, moreover the package itself captures only the best from Amos years spent with Atlantic.BiblioTech editor Lori Ito Hardenbergh recently mentioned that songs on this album are even organized according to the Dewey Decimal compartmentalization (DDC) system Check out the following link from Library Journal, which succinctly provides an abstract to her recorded tales http//www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA341766 The Libra rians A now defunct power-pop band from Oakland, CA who used librarian stereotypes as part their shtick. For example, their band logo includes an illustration of a pair of black-framed glasses with one shattered lens. A photograph of the analogous motif appears on the back cover of their lone CD (properly clogging the used CD racks of the Bay Area). While they do have a song titled Peace & Quiet, I would have bestowed them all with Superstar Reader awards if they recorded a concept album where every song had a library theme.