As record stores close and streaming algorithms dominate, the identities that music fandom supplies are in flux.

The New Yorker

A new museum two decades in the making is telling the interconnected story of Black musical genres through the lens of American history.

AP News

The series has discussed topics such as Ghana’s traditional folkloric sounds, the influence of palmwine music, the impact of American big band jazz on Ghana’s highlife dance bands, the explosion of Afro-funk/Afro-soul and Afrobeat, and the evolution of borga highlife.

Music in Africa

Cette fille de Virginie a commencé à refondre radicalement les codes et l’audience de la musique de Nashville, mais elle avait déjà plusieurs fois échappé à la mort...

France Musique

Califato 3/4, María José Llergo o Foyone representan una promoción de renovadores del folclore que no ven con malos ojos que artistas de fuera tomen elementos del sur.

El Confidencial

The battle against digital music piracy is by no means over. Though streaming services stopped the early-noughties piracy frenzy that near-enough destroyed the music industry, stream-ripping and illegal music downloads are still rife across the internet.

Routenote

While the industry has grown about one-third from its 2014 nadir of about US$15bn, in inflation-adjusted terms the recorded music industry is still half the US$40bn it was at its peak in 2001.

FN Arena

Spotify unveiled plans to launch in 85 new markets over the next few days, areas that represent more than 1 billion potential new listeners, according the company.

Variety

Après Warner Music, les français Universal et Believe vont entrer en Bourse cette année. Un retour en grâce du secteur, porté par le streaming. Mais à quel prix ?

L'Express

Habrá quien piense que el mundo se ha vuelto loco, otra vez. Los síntomas detectados incluyen la venta hace unos días de un collage digital del artista Beeple por 58,5 millones de euros.

La Vanguardia

There are various examples of music educators who embraced the inevitable changes during the lockdown and transformed them into a highly enriching learning (and teaching) experience.

BW Education

Behind every great composer and musician is support of a teacher. While some went on to have illustrious composing careers of their own, others have been overlooked in the history of music. Here, we name five teachers we think you should know about.

Classical Music

Dans un contexte morose, de nombreux Français ont mis à profit le confinement et le couvre-feu pour apprendre la musique ou ressortir leur instrument.

L'Union

Varios profesores de la reconocida universidad argumentan que la cátedra es muy «colonizadora» y hace apología a la «supremacía blanca».

La Abeja

The Labour Party has issued a plea to the government to secure visa-free tour access to the European Union for UK-based musicians and artists facing a mountain of bureaucracy as a result of Brexit.

Politics Home

It was the era of rising Black Consciousness in South Africa, and the apartheid regime maintained tight control of its ethnically divided state radio stations to prevent the broadcast of “subversive” music.

Mail & Guardian

Puccini’s opera revealed misunderstandings and stereotypes on both sides of the East-West divide.

History Today

Père du tango moderne, Astor Piazzolla a donné au tango ses lettres de noblesse. Mais la révolution musicale à la renommée internationale de son « tango nuevo » incarne également de façon moins évidente le renouvellement social et politique de l’Argentine.

France Musique

Los ídolos musicales de la juventud encarnan una serie de valores que divide a las audiencias, las redes sociales son el altavoz donde la polarización se traslada al pop hasta difuminar las diferencias entre Bad Bunny y Obama: ¿quién es el artista y quién el activista?

El Mundo

Voice synthesizes, modulation & recognition, digital speech synthesis, etc., are no more unique technology processes.

Korea Tech Desk

A Lego guitar and a “war tuba” are among the highlights of this year’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition.

The New York Times

How a man’s hobby wound up attracting tens of thousands of readers a day, including some important musicians.

Haeretz

Ce support emblématique a de nouveau la cote, et cela devrait tourner à l'avantage d'artistes moins connus.

Slate

Cuesta más recomendar música para los oyentes de hip-hop o hard rock.

La Sexta

Satire, as Philip Roth once described it, is a moral outrage turned into comic art.

VAN

In a strange marriage of arts and science, The San Francisco Opera costume department teamed up with doctors from UCSF to create a mask that will allow the company's singers to safely rehearse together -- while greatly diminishing the chances of spreading COVID-19.

NBC

Music provided Woolf (and other modernists including James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and Katherine Mansfield) with a vocabulary to imagine and describe their creative practice and formal innovations.

The Conversation

En rassemblant des spectateurs testés préalablement et porteurs de masques, les promoteurs veulent découvrir comment « vivre avec le Covid et organiser des concerts de façon totalement sûre ».

Le Monde

La comunicación entre los circuitos auditivos y de recompensa del cerebro es la razón por la que las personas encuentran la música gratificante, según una nueva investigación publicada en la revista 'JNeurosci'.

Europa Press