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Pop music history is filled with musicians who are too quirky and unusual to appeal to a the usual mass listening audience, so it's about time It's About Time may refer to:

Television
  • It's About Time (TV series), a 1966 American television show.
Theater
  • It's About Time (musical), a 1951 Broadway production.
 they received their own allocates in a title such as Lost In The Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide To The Music You Missed by Kim Cooper & David Smay, Editors (0415969980, $19.95). These musicians don't fit into neat categories but had their own strong influence on the pop music world--and there are a few notables, too, chose lesser-known works are profiled. Music trivia fans who enjoy the offbeat off·beat  
n. Music
An unaccented beat in a measure.

adj. Slang
Not conforming to an ordinary type or pattern; unconventional: offbeat humor.
 and odd get all the stories behind these selected notables-but-not-greats. Highly recommended. William Duckworth's Virtual Music (041596-6752, $24.95) could have been featured in our Computer Corner area but is reviewed here for its strong study of how music came to the Web as a blend of interactive sound bytes Sound Bytes is the title of a two hour weekly program that airs on WHAM, a Rochester, NY radio station. As of the initial writing of this article in March of 2007, it can be heard Sundays starting at 11AM Eastern time. , and how it moved into cell phones and now iTunes. This history covers everything from file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing.  and the creation of one of the first interactive works of music and art on the web by composer/musician Duckworth to the possibilities of nanotechnology and controversial new musics developing in the online world only. An intriguing survey of the science and musics of sound in a new environment.
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Title Annotation:Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed; Virtual Music
Publication:The Bookwatch
Article Type:Book review
Date:Dec 1, 2005
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