Barbara Flaska

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Barbara Flaska / PopMatters Music Editor

Barbara Flaska Editor, CD Reviews
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Barbara Flaska
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Barbara Flaska graduated from UC Berkeley during that epoch-staging and paradigm-shifting era of yesteryear.She worked for one of the first independent record companies before continuing on to work in concert productions and other music-related endeavors.She also participates in the great conversation at rockcritics.com, a place where you find rock critics talking to, with, and about each other.She believes that music and art are important to people's everyday lives and well-being.Check out Barbara's blog.

Interview by By Barbara Flaska
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Barbara: With the success of the online version of All Music Guide, you're recognized as one of the bona fide Internet pioneers, most assuredly when it comes to getting music content online.
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Barbara: Who were some of your early music influences, and when did you catch the music bug?
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Barbara: When did you start writing about music, and where did you publish your first article?
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Barbara: When, and perhaps why, did you think of assembling such a huge ongoing resource as All Music Guide?
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Barbara: Did you face any memorable challenges trying to explain the AMG database concept to other people?
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Barbara: Are you still actively hands-on with AMG?
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Barbara: It's fair to assume that nearly every music journalist connected to an ISP has visited your big electric library for reference at one time or another.
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Barbara: About how many readers do you have per month at AMG on average?
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Barbara: With AMG, you must have dealt with thousands of freelancers.
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Barbara: What are some of the frustrations and joys of being an editor?What makes a "good editor"?
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Barbara: When you're reading other people's work, what do you look for in writing about music?What makes a "good" article?
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Barbara: Once AMG got too big for any single person to easily handle alone, how did you go about rounding up the writers to continue adding to the massive content?
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Barbara: What every writer wants to know: How many writers are associated with AMG currently?
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Barbara: What are some of the ways AMG earns the money to pay all those writers?
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Barbara: Do you think that the Internet has changed music criticism and journalism in any way, and if so for the better or the worse?
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Barbara: Will there ever be a way for music magazines to become economically viable if published only on the Internet?
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Barbara: Care to predict where the Internet, music, and writing about music might intersect next?
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Barbara: You've no doubt read many thousands of articles, just through dealing with AMG.
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Barbara: Any other projects you can't wait to get started on?Tell me more about your long-time interest in classic posters.
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Barbara Flaska is Music Editor at PopMatters.com.

Barbara Flaska, a music editor at PopMatters.com, will be providing cultural commentary on some Friday evenings during Marty Kaplan's show, So What Else Is News?.This Friday, Barbara will sound off on singer/songwriter Essra Mohawk, who's been making music for more than 40 years.You can get a taste of Barbara's musical tastes over at Flaskaland, her blog.

Liu Fang on pipa & Farhan Sabbagh on mazhar, an open framed drum, take off on a supercharged dance blast called "Night of the Bonfire" that will burn the soles straight off your shoes. ... " by Barbara Flaska, PopMatters Music Editor,, 11 February 2004 .

Liu Fang on pipa & Farhan Sabbagh on mazhar, an open framed drum, take off on a supercharged dance blast called "Night of the Bonfire" that will burn the soles straight off your shoes. ... " by Barbara Flaska, PopMatters Music Editor,, 11 February 2004 .

Two websites that I greatly enjoy are dedicated to music writing- rockcritics.com, which is something of a repository for the work of rock critics both great and small, and flaskaland, which is run by Barbara Flaska of PopMatters (both are linked to under my recommended links).

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Pop Matters - 25 February 2004 - Barbara Flaska (full review here >) Vayo (he is publicly known by only his first name) is a tango singer in Montevideo, and his Al Filo de La Noche is an ambitious offering of 21 vocal tangos the likes of which you may not hear anywhere else. Vayo's tango is another distinct form popular in Uruguay, perhaps a little closer to the original which is often heavier and sadder in delivery and modeled from classical music. Now that the prospective listener has become acquainted with the existence of this sub-genre, Vayo's rich baritone with his operatic inflections and dramatic flourishes now sounds apropos. The content he selects and mood he creates are undeniably "tango", singing as he does of the longing for intimacy as inspired by the tango and poetic tales serenading its nocturnal lives.