To hear Pharoah Sanders tell it, he spent his six-decade career reaching for something that was always just beyond him. From the ecstatic flights of his playing, and the sometimes explicitly religious iconography he employed to contextualize it, it is clear that the something he sought had a spiritual dimension.

Pitchfork

Latino musical diversity is much more than indigenous, vernacular and regional music. Explorations of the Latino musical identity have delved into jazz, rock and beyond.

El País

Folk music traditions in Saudi Arabia are diverse and complex, combining distinctive tones, rhythms and melodies with poetry, percussion, and dances that have been passed down through generations.

Arab News

Aux Comores, impossible de ne pas connaître le talent de ce musicien qui vibre et qui, à presque 65 ans, collabore tous azimuts et espère rencontrer le succès international pour enfin vivre de son art.

Pan African Music

Es admirada la cultura y el arte que nos dejaron los antiguos griegos. Pero ¿cómo era la música en la antigua Grecia?

Ok Diario

Smart phone usage is key to music listeners in parts of East Asia, but only a minority of users are committed subscribers to streaming services. That apparent contradiction may explain the rise of mini-subscriptions in the region.

Variety

Anghami joins hands with Danish telco HALLO and Virgin Mobile Kuwait to provide unlimited access and downloads of songs, podcasts and other audio content.

ZAWYA

The rapper claimed that the music video for "Likkle Miss Remix" was age-restricted intentionally to keep her from getting views.

Gizmodo

With ticket prices for performing arts rising, could fresh approaches like pay-what-you-can increase access and foster more adventurous programming?

The New York Times

Pendant des années, YouTube a été considéré comme la bête noire des artistes et des maisons de disque. Mais cette époque semble être révolue. La plateforme a annoncé avoir reversé 6 milliards de dollars à l’industrie musicale entre juin 2021 et 2022.

La Dépêche

Back in 2020, Mumbai-based harpist/singer-songwriter Nush Lewis – who also runs music education platform OffSet – conducted a video interview series to help promote music educators. 

Rolling Stone India

Newly emerging methods for music education in 2022 are demonstrating that no discipline ever exhausts itself and that we alone are responsible for driving innovation forward.

Soundsphere

No matter the genre of singing, or where we’re from, our vocal exercises are meaningful.

Smithsonian Mag

Jouer de la musique pour bien vieillir ! Des chercheurs ont découvert un lien entre l'apprentissage d'un instrument pendant la jeunesse et de meilleures capacités cognitives durant la vieillesse.

Pourquoi Docteur

El poder que tiene la música para influir en nuestras emociones es algo que todos hemos experimentado en nuestra propia piel, y que además está ampliamente avalado por la ciencia.

Open Innovation

The UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development – MONDIACULT 2022 will be convened by UNESCO forty years after the first Mondiacult World Conference on Cultural Policies held in Mexico City (Mexico) in 1982. In our restless effort to bring the voice of our members and the #FiveMusicRights to the table of decision makers at the highest political level, the International Music Council's team will be in Mexico to follow the conference and represent the global music ecosystem.

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A song’s journey from a Trump video to online forums and back to Trump rallies shows the melding of the MAGA and QAnon movements.

The Washington Post

The Omani hit song “Amatiyah” is promoting Omani culture and heritage to a global audience.

AGSIW

A few weeks ago, Thailand’s Creative Economy Agency launched a strategy, aimed at competing with and over time, overtaking Korea’s K-Pop as a global cultural phenomenon.

Forbes

Il y a la grande Histoire. Il y a la grande Musique. Et parfois, les deux se rencontrent, se racontent et s’inspirent. Aujourd’hui, on va s’arrêter sur une période sombre – très sombre – de notre histoire mais au cœur de laquelle certains élans créateurs ont tout de même pu voir le jour et faire naître quelques étincelles.

RTBF

We trace the influence of breaks in music-making from the birth of hip-hop through breakbeat hardcore, rave, jungle and DnB.

Music Radar

Music has forever been moved by technology — from the invention of the phonograph, to Bob Dylan pivoting from acoustic to electric guitar, to the ubiquity of streaming platforms and, most recently, an ambitious attempt at crossing AI with commercial music.

Grid

Services such as Spotify and Apple Music give us access to the entire history of popular songs. But has that access made us lazy listeners? And could TikTok or TV really help us rediscover our passion for discovery?

The Guardian

Deezer vient d’annoncer l’arrivée d’une grande nouveauté sur SongCatcher, son service proche de Shazam, pour retrouver un son. Une nouvelle fonctionnalité pour identifier un titre musical de la plus simple des manières arrive. 

Presse Citron

Si la radio permitió un medio de difusión musical que no existía hasta el momento, el aparato que generó una verdadera revolución fue el tocadiscos.

Onda Cero

Unwanted musical instruments aren’t the biggest waste disposal problem facing the world, but they’re an issue worth making a noise about.

Arts Hub

I once developed a bad case of music-looping after recording an album of jolly 1920s syncopated piano music. The resulting sleeplessness got so bad that I consulted a psychotherapist.

The Guardian

Ils sont capables de reproduire un son juste après l’avoir écouté et passent parfois pour des génies musicaux. Les détenteurs de l’oreille absolue représentent une infime partie de la population.

Elle

Nuestra personalidad tiende a impactar más nuestros gustos musicales durante la adolescencia.

El Universo

It would have been unimaginable in our 20s, but these days more and more friends are disengaging from a passion we once shared. Surely this is premature?

The Guardian