This is a Blog that I have decided to revive. The author Christopher Small revived an Elizabethan term "Musicking" to address the dynamic state of music making. After all, we have acting, painting, dancing, etc. Why not return to the use of musicking to describe the social action that is central to making culture ("culturing"?).
Musicing was established as a Blog more than 5 years ago. I am revising as Musicking to return to the original spelling of the term. I started this Blog when the Web and Technology entered a user friendly modality that changed web surfers from consumers to interactive participants. This was known as Web 2.0. My past Blog entries do not
At this time it appears we have entered a new phase which might be described as Internet 3.0. This includes the social media and the use of instant communication in the form of Twitter and other means of communication and building of networks, such as FaceBook. Now the Internet is a means of self instruction and self inquiry, and a medium for exchange and sharing.
