14/08/2025
To the many who may have stumbled onto this facebook thing, thank you - I haven't added much in recent years since I started my own substack where all of the New Music America articles are paywall free (just ignore the subscription prompt) and for all 12 New Music America festivals, I created an individual post for each day. All of which can be found here and you're invited to take out a free subscription if you're interested in the "Secret History of Music of the Eighties".
There are other items since I pretty well exhausted all my NMA core materials after the first year. The current posts (I try to get four or five out a week) feature a serialization of "Rosenberg 3.1.1 Not Violin Music", an art-book project I created with Australian mega-fiddler Jon Rose, as well as the "rebroadcasts" of the 123 radio programs I created for the local student provider in Victoria during 2018 and 2019, which not only include the audio for each program, but a full transcription of my announcer raps. And links to the tracks played, so that's a good amount of things that you can get with a paid subscription as well.
The new posts though are free for thirty days (for now) which you would get with the "free subscriber" status; paid subscriptions get you to all of the paywalled articles as well and so far as of this writing, there are 745 posts.
Oh, and that's a picture of me at New Music America in 1985.
- Alex Shapiro. With thanks, and let me explain as I would like to present the Index of Indexes - links to all (free) 12 indexes for each NMA now that I've completed the '86 one!
