Web 2.0

Web 2.0 can be seen as an improved software in a sense that with 2.0 it is n improved version of web 1.0.web 2.0 brings with it new features which has made the web more user friendly and open sourced.
Bryan Alexander says the three main concepts of web 2.0 are,

Social software-blogs, podcasting, videoblogs.
Micro content
Openness

Alexander also says ” taken together, this set of concepts informs a way of making, sharing, and consuming digital documents” that pinpoint to an emergent group of practices that are crucially more important than any label can account for.
Leading sites, which propelled web 2.0, have been sites like flickr, You tube, Wikipedia and blogging sites.
These sites gave users control on what content was put up and formed online communities.

Powerpoint Presentation on grime"s growth

Urban Classic Live Grime

Urban Classic was a meeting of musical cultures that brought together some of the biggest names in UK black music with the BBC Concert Orchestra in a ground-breaking live event.

Grime producer DaVinChe and jazz musician Jason Yarde joined forces with conductor Charles Hazlewood, who lead a 36-piece BBC Concert Orchestra alongside several UK grime artists, to create a 70-minute musical suite of grime, hip hop and classical music.

The music was performed live for an audience on Thursday 16 February 2006 at Hackney Empire and was broadcast on 1Xtra Live on Saturday 18 FebruaryUrban Classic was a meeting of musical cultures that brought together some of the biggest names in UK black music with the BBC Concert Orchestra in a groundbreaking live event.

Grime producer DaVinChe and jazz musician Jason Yarde joined forces with conductor Charles Hazlewood, who lead a 36-piece BBC Concert Orchestra alongside several UK grime artists, to create a 70-minute musical suite of grime, hip hop and classical music.

The music was performed live for an audience on Thursday 16 February 2006 at Hackney Empire and was broadcast on 1Xtra Live on Saturday 18 February

-BBC 1Xtra


http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/events/urbanclassic/features/event.shtml

The growth of grime

Grime music has now become widely known though out the world manly thanks to the Internet, with grime acts touring and spreading the music afar. Guys like Kano and Dizzee have help make that step form the estates to overseas.




the independent- article on grime development

Grindie music: what happens when indie and grime collide

Beccy Lindon on the latest sound clash to gain ground in the capital
Published: 29 March 2007

Genre-crossing collaborations can be a real hit and miss affair and the rock and rap fusion teeters on the edge of genius and heinous. The Americans have been mixing things up musically since Run DMC and Aerosmith in 1986, but the UK urban and indie scene have traditionally remained poles apart.

Then in 2006, London producer Statik turned out a couple of quality grime re-workings of Bloc Party and The Rakes tracks and everyone started hopping up and down in excitement. Statik promptly jumped on the positive feedback by coining the term "grindie" and releasing a mixtape where he threw grime MCs over Larrikin Love and Ladyfuzz tracks and had Pete Doherty handling the shout-outs. Statik declared that grindie was a new "movement" but there was something slightly incoherent and synthetic about the sound. In a time when music fans are searching for unprocessed singer-songwriters like Lily Allen and Mika, the cut-and-paste nature of grindie felt slightly uncomfortable.

Fast forward to 2007 and a new brand of grindie has slowly begun to emerge. Bands and artists who are genuinely influenced by both genres are giving birth to an energetic hybrid of grime and punk and the indie kids are eating it up.

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article2401665.ece






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