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jon_chaissonSo the Walk in Silence project trudges along, but I'm happy that it's at least in a moving status! Due to busy weekends and other writing things going on, I haven't put too much work into it lately, but I'm continuing to read the books and find out more information when and where I can.
At this point it's still wobbling between a chronology of record releases and whatnot, a memoir of my listening habits at the time and what my mindset was, and a history of how radio (both commercial and college kind) evolved at the time. The first two are relatively easy as I have my stupidly huge mp3 collection, my old writings, and an ever-growing spreadsheet of dated events. The third is proving interesting.
I've gathered a handful of music scene books, band bios/autobios, and textbooks about the history of radio. It's actually pretty fascinating stuff, reading all this and putting it together, especially if you're a music nerd like I am. What I'm missing at this point is the voice of those (aside from myself) who listened to the stuff I did (and still do). I've put that plan into motion just recently by sending an email to the Emerson Alumni people who run the periodic updates, mainly asking if people are interested in being interviewed for this. For now I'm just focusing on the listeners and the college deejays. The interesting outcome of this 'open audition' email has already worked wonders--the woman who compiles the alumni email updates responded back stating it'll be going out tomorrow, and that she knows someone from NYC who might be a good contact, and that she'd be interested herself. So far, so good!
I'm hoping I'll have something a little more solid by the time I go to SFWC, because I'm thinking of trying to sell this book idea to a few agents and publishers while there. In particular I'm thinking of St. Martin's Press, who's put out a lot of good music books that I'm actually using for reference, but I'm of course open to anyone else who might be interested as well.
At this point it's still wobbling between a chronology of record releases and whatnot, a memoir of my listening habits at the time and what my mindset was, and a history of how radio (both commercial and college kind) evolved at the time. The first two are relatively easy as I have my stupidly huge mp3 collection, my old writings, and an ever-growing spreadsheet of dated events. The third is proving interesting.
I've gathered a handful of music scene books, band bios/autobios, and textbooks about the history of radio. It's actually pretty fascinating stuff, reading all this and putting it together, especially if you're a music nerd like I am. What I'm missing at this point is the voice of those (aside from myself) who listened to the stuff I did (and still do). I've put that plan into motion just recently by sending an email to the Emerson Alumni people who run the periodic updates, mainly asking if people are interested in being interviewed for this. For now I'm just focusing on the listeners and the college deejays. The interesting outcome of this 'open audition' email has already worked wonders--the woman who compiles the alumni email updates responded back stating it'll be going out tomorrow, and that she knows someone from NYC who might be a good contact, and that she'd be interested herself. So far, so good!
I'm hoping I'll have something a little more solid by the time I go to SFWC, because I'm thinking of trying to sell this book idea to a few agents and publishers while there. In particular I'm thinking of St. Martin's Press, who's put out a lot of good music books that I'm actually using for reference, but I'm of course open to anyone else who might be interested as well.
