Ilan is a British film composer who has established himself as an exciting young talent in the world of film music. Born in London into a musical family, Ilan grew up playing violin and later took up playing guitar in bands. He studied Music and English literature at Leeds University, during which time he also worked with film composer Ed Shearmur learning first-hand the technique of film composition. After graduating, he went on to work with other film composers such as Michael Kamen and Hans Zimmer. At this time Ilan began scoring his own projects, and his talent for creating cinematic music on a limited budget soon gained him recognition within the film industry.
Music Graduation: July 20
In a ground-breaking text, one of the standby instruments of latterday music-making earns a timely reassessment Guitarist and ethnomusicologist Dr. Kevin Dawe contemplates one of the great music-making instruments of the age in his latest volume, The New Guitarscape in Critical Theory, Cultural Practice and Musical Performance.
Recently published by Ashgate, the book sees Dawe continue a narrative of discussion that he embarked on in his earlier co-edited publication, Guitar Cultures, a collaboration with Andy Bennett in 2001.
But the new title brings the place of the guitar into a contemporary setting and casts an eye forward, too, as it grapples with the music and the meanings linked to this ubiquitous electric and acoustic, musical medium.
Among those who are considered in this wide-ranging account are key players such as Robert Fripp, Kamala Shankar, Newton Faulkner, Lionel Loueke, Sharon Isbin, Steve Vai, Bob Brozman, Kaki King, Fred Frith, John 5 and Jennifer Batten.
Kevin Dawe argues for ‘a re-assessment of guitar studies in the light of more recent musical, social, cultural and technological developments that have taken place around the instrument’.
Further, the author stresses the need for an up-to-date reading of the instrument particularly in the light of its and cross-cultural contexts and applications in the early 21st-century.
Date Published: 8 June 2010
Keywords: Kevin Dawe, guitar, Ashgate
Keywords: Kevin Dawe, guitar, Ashgate
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