E sì, quelli sono dei bisonti colorati, per restare in tema.

come il fuso tra Philadelphia e l'Italia
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“Your typical music distributor has a very narrow-minded business model, it’s someone who takes an absolutely finished track and then delivers it to an online store. We have a much broader platform that people use for unfinished tracks, for collaborations, for parts of tracks, for being able to push things to places like Facebook or digital distributor outlets. It’s really built for the creator themselves to be able to do all these things. They can upload their own tracks, they can control their own statistics of what’s been played and who’s had access to it.”E sta prendendo piede. In un mondo dove è impossibile fermare il leak e il dowload illegale via torrent, P2P, rapidshare e quant'altro, gli artisti e le etichette più lungimiranti (Rabid, Subpop, Atlantic, Kaki King, Caribou per fare qualche nome) scelgono Soundcloud per far conoscere la propria musica. Al contrario di Myspace, la parte "social" del sito è fatta benissimo: puoi "seguire" gli utenti che ti interessano stile feed-reader, puoi commentare le tracce in specifici punti, puoi mandare le tue tracce in giro, puoi embeddare (sorry puristi della Lingua Italiana) il tutto nel tuo blog-sito vattelappesca tramite una delle migliori API che abbia visto, e soprattutto la funzione "search" ha un senso. C'è anche la mobile version, ma che lo dico a fare.
1958 heralded the rise of Italian doo-wop groups. This Italian-American sub-group took over a large portion of the genre (but certainly not all of it), from 1959 to 1964, when doo-wop "ended." Though some African-Americans moved toward their new creation, "soul music," this alone cannot explain the Italian genre dominance. Like African-Americans, the Italians also hailed from the inner city and urban areas. For example, Dion DiMucci and the Belmonts hailed from the Belmont section of the Bronx. And, like African-Americans, the Italians were generally very religious. They mostly attended Catholic churches, which gave them much singing experience. By the late 1950s, Italian street corner doo-wop groups were seen in urban cities like New York, especially the Bronx and Brooklyn. Some of the Italian groups who had national chart hits included Dion and the Belmonts in 1958 with "A Teenager In Love," The Capris with "There's A Moon Out Tonight" in 1960, The Four Seasons with Frankie Valli, The Elegants, The Mystics, The Duprees, Vito & the Salutations, Johnny Maestro, and the Del Satins. Other Italian groups included Dino and the Diplomats, The Four Js, Billy and the Essentials, and Randy and the Rainbows, who charted with their 1963 smash, "Denise."Perché agli italoamericani piacevano così tanto le vocal harmonies di tradizone nera? Perché erano così bravi a comporle ed eseguirle? Le radici musicali del belpaese (in questo caso, la melodica napoletana ed in generale le musiche tradizionali del sud) possono aver avuto un'influenza in questo trend culturale?