Music the artform and artists
The '90s Was The Last Great Decade For Film Soundtracks
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- Tuesday, 10 May 2022
From "Waiting to Exhale" to "Clueless," the decade brought us consistently popular albums associated with movies. And then that stopped.
Look back in bhangra: Panjabi MC on becoming a pop icon
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- Tuesday, 10 May 2022
His Knight Rider-sampling dancefloor banger put dhol drums into hip-hop and Asian beats on the BBC. Now 49, the star takes us back to ‘his own little lab’ in Coventry.
La musique Chaabi : vox populi algérienne
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- Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Le Chaabi est un genre musical algérien né au XX siècle á la Casbah d’Alger, l’emblématique médina historique de la capitale.
Cuando la música del Caribe y los afro aparecieron en la Radio Nacional
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- Tuesday, 10 May 2022
En el pasado, rara vez los afros la tuvieron fácil. Pero la radio pública, poco a poco les abrió camino.
The New Vietnamese Experimental Vanguard Was Raised Online
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- Tuesday, 26 April 2022
Just as Soulseek influenced music enthusiasts across Asia in the 2000s, the diverse music communities on the Web have given rise to a new vanguard of young musicians in Vietnam today.
The music of Syrian exile
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- Tuesday, 26 April 2022
Eleven years of war in Syria has destroyed lives, homes, and uprooted millions. But even in exile, culture – art, music, literature – survives, and often even thrives.
Pop Music’s Nostalgia Obsession
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- Tuesday, 26 April 2022
What explains our love of throwback sounds right now? Are we comfort-listening through hard times? Or is the industry just finally able to see (and monetize) a type of listening we’ve always done?
Kinyatrap : à Kigali, le son abrasif de la nouvelle scène rap
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- Tuesday, 26 April 2022
À Kigali, une nouvelle génération d’artistes s'applique à donner une touche rwandaise à la scène rap et hip-hop africaine. Le genre qu’ils ont inventé a déjà un nom, la « kinyatrap ».
La música ambiental, una invitación a suspender el tiempo
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- Tuesday, 26 April 2022
La música ambiental siempre ha contenido una especie de conocimiento subterráneo.
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