Cool Songwriting Opportunity For You Or Your Band - Deadline Extended

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Enter ISC With Your MySpace Songs

Final Deadline: December 2, 2009

The 2009 International Songwriting Competition (ISC) is well underway, with 55 celebrity and industry professional judges, 21 categories to enter your songs into, and over $150,000 in cash and prizes including a Grand Prize of $25,000 cash and $20,000 in musical equipment and services! This is the largest cash Grand Prize of any major songwriting competition in the world, and the most prestigious judges!

ISC accepts original songs from musicians, artists, groups, and songwriters at every level from amateur to professional. There are many ways to enter (through the mail, online, etc), but for those of you with songs on MySpace, all you have to do is click here for details. It's easy to enter. You don't even need to send your songs - ISC will go to your MySpace page and listen to the songs you enter!

Each year ISC is privileged to assemble an outstanding judging panel, and the 2009 competition is no exception. ISC'S panel of judges consists of highly respected recording artists and some of the most influential executives in the music industry including Presidents of record labels such as Epic, Universal Republic, Sire, and Nettwerk Music Group!

ISC 2009 Judges include:

Recording Artists: Kings of Leon; Tom Waits; Steve Winwood; Timbaland, Loretta Lynn; Rob Thomas (Matchbox 20); McCoy Tyner; Journey; Robbie Williams; Adele; Alejandro Sanz; Jeff Beck; Darryl McDaniels (Run DMC); Gary Lightbody (Snow Patrol); Jeffrey Steele; James Cotton; Craig Morgan; Chris Hillman (The Byrds); John Scofield; Black Francis (The Pixies); DJ Tiesto; Toots Hibbert (Toots & The Maytals); Sasha; John Digweed; Youssou N'Dour; Robert Earl Keen; Baaba Maal; Mario; Ray Wylie Hubbard; Jeremy Camp; Matt Thiessen (Relient K); "Weird Al" Yankovic; and Sandra Bernhard

Industry Executives: Seymour Stein (Chairman/CEO, Sire Records); Monte Lipman (President, Universal Republic Records); Amanda Ghost (President, Epic Records); Ric Arboit (President, Nettwerk Music Group); Amy Doyle (Sr. VP of Music and Talent, MTV); Angel Carrasco (Sr. VP of A&R, Latin America Sony BMG and President, Discos 605); Rick Krim (Executive VP Talent and Programming, VH1); Kim Buie (VP of A&R, Lost Highway); Mitchell Cohen (VP of A&R, Verve Music Group); Bruce Iglauer (Founder/President, Alligator Records); Dan Storper (President, Putumayo World Music); Lisa Ramsey Perkins (Sr. Director, A&R, Sony Nashville); Steve Lillywhite (Producer); Douglas C. Cohn (Sr. VP, Music Marketing & Talent, Nickelodeon); Cory Robbins (Founder/President, Robbins Entertainment); Brian Malouf (VP A&R, Walt Disney Records); and Dr. Demento (Radio Host of The Dr. Demento Show)

Entrants may submit songs in any of the following categories: Pop/Top 40, AAA (Adult Album Alternative), R&B/Hip-Hop, Adult Contemporary (AC), Rock, Country, Folk/Singer-Songwriter, Americana, Blues, Jazz, Gospel/Christian, Latin Music, Instrumental, Dance/Electronica, Comedy/Novelty, World Music, Children's Music, Lyrics Only, Teen, Performance, and Music Video. Entrants may submit as many songs as they wish - in the same category or in multiple categories.

Please go to www.songwritingcompetition.com for an entry form or more details.

ISC Sponsors: Gibson, ASCAP, Berklee College Of Music, Disc Makers, D'Addario, Shure, Thayers, George Stein, Esq., Onlinegigs, SongU.com, Jam Hub, The Music Business Registry, Tanager AudioWorks, Shari's Berries, Independent Mastering, Indie Venue Bible, Music Submit, Celebrity Access, FanCue and Alphabet Arm Design

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About Freedom Verse Cafe

Freedom Verse Café (FVC) was created as a venue for spoken word artist in the winter of 2008 from a previous venue called "Mic Check" which began its broadcast in June of 2007. Since this venue's inception, it has gone through evolutionary processes to better accomplish its premise of promoting the art of spoken-word poetry and the artists who perform it in a major capacity, but we have also expanded to blending poetry with jazz and soul to create the ultimate experience of spoken word/poetry.

Freedom Verse is geared to promote the artists—who hit the stages, spoken-word venues, and publish their works anywhere that they can—while entertaining and educating listeners all over the world. In FVC we focus on imparting those who audience the genre of spoken-word poetry to its history, disciplines, and its potential impact on mainstream culture. This venue hopes to touch its patrons mentally and spiritually. In this we learn to appreciate the creativity, relevancy, and intentions of the artists.

FVC promotes using online broadcasting and digital downloads of mix-tapes that focuses on providing a positive form of entertainment and educational programming in poetry, jazz, and soul of artist who are destined to change the world.

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Spoken Word poetry is a very newly revived form of poetry that has been around since the 90’s. Spoken word is a transformation from an art that began deep in the heart of what was known as the beat poet era of the ‘40s and ‘60s. These were poets who challenged mainstream politics and culture to incite mental revolutions against what I would dub as “idle conformity or assimilation” by government rule; speaking out against oppression, racism, and war. In most cases this was the only form of thought expression albeit a dangerous one regardless of the first amendment that is designed to protect all of our citizens. Spoken word as a genre has always been seen as non-musical selections like famous speeches and orations, but never as a poetic art deserving of it's on section. Even today this still is the case when you walk into a record shop or shop on iTunes you won’t find a legitimate genre for this beautiful and ageless art form. Poets today are working diligently and hard to change this mindset.

Today, Spoken Word poetry is a very general category of poetry that is meant to be both performed and to make a powerful statement. Unlike some of the Beat poets who focused mostly on the corruption of government, economic and social status, and world awareness, Spoken Word has taken a major turn which some like myself observe with a watchful eye. Spoken word has gone from just being a revolting art, but has become more interested in voicing the thoughts of love, life and still that resounding need for revolutionary thought.

All Spoken Word poetry is meant to be read aloud, but not all poetry that is read aloud is Spoken Word. Spoken word has a select few elements that are best known for identifying its class of poetry. I like to call this technique “R3” for Rhythm, Repetition, and Rhyme; these are key element that the artist generally focuses on when performing this style of poetry also called performance poetry.

This is an important part about spoken word poetry, as I often see this as a common mistake amongst new poets who don’t study the art or its history and are elated to lay their vocals down on a nice melodic track and will dub it “Spoken Word”; spoken word poetry is sometimes performed with music, and sometimes without music. If a poet uses background music, it is only to enhance or compliment the poetry and to add a rhythm. The poetry itself is center stage and not the music, this is the case in any good piece of work.

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