Music scholarship — like the art form itself — is a field that's been taking a hard, introspective look at how it can do better.

WQXR

The makers of this ancient instrument were near to closure. But could it get a new lease of life?

The Guardian

The year was 1957, and jazz was about to enter its most tumultuous period. The next decade would witness the rise of modal jazz, free jazz, soul jazz, fusion jazz, and a host of other subsidiary and conflicting styles. Balliett was ready to match this profusive music with his own prodigious gifts.

City Journal

Montado originalmente con el objetivo de recolectar fondos para el viaje de graduación del curso de un colegio, la cita realizada en octubre de 1970, fue uno de los hitos que ha quedado en los anales de la música chilena.

La Tercera

Quelques jours après les journées du Matrimoine, organisées dans plusieurs villes de France, il semble que cette sensibilisation à l'héritage culturel laissé par des femmes et complètement oublié de nos jours, porte ses fruits.

France Inter

He popularized Persian classical music for a new generation and built a global following, only to be blacklisted by Iran for supporting antigovernment protests.

The New York Times

New study reports a fall of 81 per cent in revenues for the sector with the outlook bleak for a 2021 recovery.

Music Radar

If the concert business is indeed having its “Napster moment” right now, one wonders if the music companies making the most cash mid-pandemic – a.k.a the major rightsholders – will be tempted to more heavily invest in the live space, which has born the brunt of Covid-19’s unforgiving impact.

Music Business Worldwide

"Je pensais juste racheter mes droits mais j'ai réalisé que ce serait penser trop petit. Je vais racheter Universal. Le groupe ne vaut que 33 milliards".

Le Mouv'

En los últimos meses, Twitch ha tenido problemas con los avisos de eliminación de DMCA (ley de derecho de autor) y el uso de música sin licencia en la plataforma.

HD Tecnología

The combination a slowing premium growth rate and falling ARPU has driven Spotify’s YoY revenue growth rate down from 57% in 2017 to 33% TTM.

Forbes

La musique est un besoin vital, selon Emmanuel Bigand, professeur chercheur en neurosciences cognitives à l'Université de Bourgogne. Avec la neuroscientifique Barbara Tillman, il publie ces jours-ci l'ouvrage « La symphonie neuronale - Pourquoi la musique est indispensable au cerveau ».

France Musique

The landscape of digital arts and music classes is rapidly changing in the midst of at-home and remote learning.

The Quadrangle

UK charity Youth Music has published a new report, Reshape Music, which explores the challenges facing disabled musicians ‘in education and beyond’. It’s the result of interviews with hundreds of musicians, music educators and retailers.

MusicAlly

The new #MusicSaves campaign from the Save The Music Foundation has spread virally on TikTok, earning more than 174.3 million cumulative views through crowdsourced contributions from thousands of music-loving creators.

Forbes

La formación musical ha generado un reciente interés en el campo de la educación y la psicología con el aumento de la investigación desde la neurociencia, la cual demuestra sus efectos positivos en el desarrollo tanto a nivel cognitivo como de rendimiento académico.

RCUB

As they fight to be elected — or keep their seats of power — politicians this year are finding vastly different receptions to their musical strategies.

The Know

The past several decades have seen the world of American classical music reckoning with its racist and sexist history; as it has with many other areas of culture, that process has greatly accelerated over the past year.

Slate

As ever, rap at its most politically conscious becomes a mouthpiece for the voiceless, the marginal, those who contribute most productively in society but are rarely heard.

Oxford University Press

En l’espace de deux mois et demi, un compte Instagram créé pour répertorier les agressions sexistes et sexuelles au sein de la profession a récolté plus de 300 témoignages.

Le Monde

Las artistas Linn da Quebrada y Jup do Bairro esquivan el racismo y la transfobia a ritmo de funk brasileiro junto a la productora y DJ Badsista.

El País

The Turkish authorities have frequently targeted Grup Yorum for singing about political injustice and inequality.

Freemuse

From livestreaming platforms sharing their revenues with roadies, to immersive weekend-long gigs over high-end speakers, new music companies are innovating out of a crisis.

The Guardian

How COVID-19 Has Amplified Emerging Forms Of Music Consumption.

Forbes

With an endless amount of gear out there, setting up your first home studio can seem like a daunting task. But it doesn’t have to be.

Pitchfork

Parmi les nouvelles fonctionnalités de l'assistant virtuel de Google, baptisé Google Assistant, un outil permet de retrouver l'air d'une musique en vous écoutant la chanter.

Actu

La app de videos virales impulsa artistas y hits con cifras astronómicas. ¿Tendrá el poder para también sostenerlos en el tiempo?

La Nación

Genes of the coronavirus are like biological book chapters; they hold all the words that describe the virus and how it might function. These “words” are made from strings of chemical letters scientists refer to as G, A, U and C.

The Conversation

New initiatives such as Girl & Repertoire and Swim are helping young people – particularly women – overturn the myth of the tortured artist.

The Guardian

La très rare faculté qu'ont certaines personnes d'identifier une note de musique et d'en connaître instantanément la hauteur se développe pendant l'enfance et relève d'une combinaison de deux facteurs essentiels : une prédisposition génétique et une formation musicale très hâtive.

Radio Canada

Según recoge Polygon, algunos jóvenes y adolescentes han comenzado a usar la música de Mario Kart como un herramienta para terminar más rápido las tareas que dejaron para última hora.

La Tercera

Too much Grateful Dead? The music you loved in high school? We asked a Music Therapist why our listening habits have been so weird.

Vice

The idea that listening to Mozart may have beneficial effects on mental health arose from early findings in the 1990s. There have been several studies since, but many involved small numbers of people, or have been of variable quality, leading to mixed evidence overall.

EurekAlert