Man of many talents John Klaess joins to talk musical higher learning, primary research, career ending injuries, staying on the musical horse, and career switching while remembering where you came from. John’s book is Breaks in the Air: The Birth of Rap Radio in New York City. You can find some of the archival shows he used for the book on YouTube.
0m 51s Mixing up rapper eras. It’s an honest mistake that could happen to anyone.
1m 57s Pop music conferences are a thing that people go to. While there, they meticulously analyze pop music.
4m 13s Paths to doing music for life.
9m 4s Always reference Waylon Jennings if you want to make fast friends around these here parts.
9m 50s Encyclopedic knowledge and oneupmanship in musical academia.
17m 5s Changing relationships with music when you study it.
21m 24s Hyperbolic classic country skill worship.
25m 0s Genre hopping as you get better at your own genre.
29m 15s “Did rap influence radio or did radio influence rap?”
38m 30s Finding new music in modern times.