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Professor Emeritus Kwabena Nketia's Original Compositions Now Resonate With His Passing and Life
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- Monday, 06 May 2019
Because Professor Kwabena Nketia was not just a composer but also an ethnomusicologist par excellence, who allowed knowledge and pre-compositional resources he acquired from his ethnographic research to shape his composition of intercultural African art music works, we may also call him an epitome of a creative ethnomusicologist.
Sublime Frequencies’ Vision of What World Music Means Today
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- Sunday, 28 April 2019
In June, 1987, four men met at the Empress of Russia, a pub in London, and reinvented world music. Scholars and archivists had been documenting non-Western musical traditions for at least a century, as had, later, record labels such as Folkways and Nonesuch.
DJs of the Future Don't Spin Records—They Write Code
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- Sunday, 28 April 2019
"Live-coding" parties such as this—where revelers show up as much for the if-thens and variables as the beer and snacks—are a recent phenomenon in underground electronic music culture.
The Middle Eastern Heritage of Opera
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- Sunday, 28 April 2019
For centuries, opera’s origin story has been dated to Medici-ruled Renaissance Florence where the Camerata spent much of the late 16th century philosophizing on art and ideas, hitting on the notion of Ancient Greece as a model for a more perfect union.
Une brève histoire de la Musique Assistée par Ordinateur
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- Sunday, 28 April 2019
L’informatique et les machines électroniques ont ouvert à la musique des territoires immenses depuis le début du XXème siècle. Si aujourd’hui, la Musique Assistée par Ordinateur (MAO) a rendu des groupes mythiques, l’intelligence artificielle pourrait participer à faire entrer la musique dans une nouvelle ère : celle des biens de consommation.
The woman pioneer who composed landmark operas in India
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- Tuesday, 16 April 2019
Shanno Khurana created ‘Sohni Mahiwal’, ‘Jahanara’ and more in the 1960s and ’70s, a time when classical vocal music was staunchly insular.
Against Chill: Apathetic Music to Make Spreadsheets To
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- Tuesday, 16 April 2019
The music wasn’t for anything. It merely existed to facilitate and sustain a mood, which in turn might enable a task: studying, folding laundry, making spreadsheets, idly browsing the Internet. Spotify presently classifies chill as a genre, and there are an incredible number of playlists devoted to insuring a chill experience.
The electric guitar wasn't built for rock musicians
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- Tuesday, 16 April 2019
The birth of the electric guitar created a new genre of music — rock ‘n’ roll. But the inventors who developed the solid-body electric guitar, Leo Fender and Les Paul, could hardly have imagined the chain of events that the instrument would spark.
2009 Created The Blueprint For Pop Music As We Know It
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- Tuesday, 16 April 2019
2009 was one of the most, if not the most, influential year for pop music this millennium.
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