Music the artform and artists
Top SA house songs of 2021
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- Tuesday, 13 April 2021
Despite the dominance of amapiano, South African house music remains popular in the country, with top artists like Black Coffee, Master KG, Prince Kaybee and Themba pushing the dance genre forward.
L’afrobeat, une pulsation nigériane devenue planétaire
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- Tuesday, 13 April 2021
Si la musique est l’arme du futur, selon Fela, alors celle inventée par le chanteur nigérian au début des années 1970 a la puissance de feu d’une arme automatique. Symbole d’une lutte frontale contre les injustices et pour les droits, l’afrobeat n’a pas seulement séduit les populations d’Afrique, il est aussi devenu un genre pratiqué sur tous les continents.
20 grandes discos de pop y rock que cumplen 40 años
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- Tuesday, 13 April 2021
Con el final de las bandas de los sesenta y setenta llegó la diversidad: irrumpieron los sintetizadores, el ‘heavy metal’, los nuevos románticos y el punk se aceleró más. Bienvenidos a 1981.
Genre Is Disappearing. What Comes Next?
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- Tuesday, 30 March 2021
As record stores close and streaming algorithms dominate, the identities that music fandom supplies are in flux.
New museum traces history of Black music across genres
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- Tuesday, 30 March 2021
A new museum two decades in the making is telling the interconnected story of Black musical genres through the lens of American history.
Highlife Music Deconstructed: Exploring Ghana’s iconic sound
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- Tuesday, 30 March 2021
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.
Patsy Cline, reine de la country music
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- Tuesday, 30 March 2021
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...
Ni Rosalía, ni C.Tangana: la música andaluza ya viene revolucionada de casa
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- Tuesday, 30 March 2021
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.
Innovative music takes off in Maritime Southeast Asia
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- Tuesday, 16 March 2021
The emergence of bands like Margasatwa indicates that Southeast Asian artists are starting to break away from the globalizing shackles that Anglo-American popular music has placed on the region's music development since the 1960s.
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