Music the artform and artists
Here Is the Wild as Hell Story Behind ‘Lambada,’ a Cultural Shift Forgotten in Time
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- Tuesday, 15 September 2020
In 2020, “Lambada” seems like little more than a bleep in pop culture history; it’s hard to picture the massive worldwide phenomenon it was.
5 Ghanaian female artists to watch
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- Tuesday, 15 September 2020
Ghana is constantly bubbling with an ever-growing list of gifted female acts staking their claim as successors to the country’s current pop pillars.
Start Here: Your Guide To Getting Into K-Pop
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- Tuesday, 15 September 2020
If Top 40 in America wanted solo singers so soft every breath was caught on mic over a mid-tempo chorus, K-pop appeared to offer a genre-less alternative: constant stimulation, euphoria delivered in eight to 10 melodies and fantastical harmonies in a single track.
Stevie Wonder : un chanteur engagé et une légende de la soul musique
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- Tuesday, 15 September 2020
Comment Stevie Wonder a-t-il révolutionné la musique noire et l'industrie du disque ?
La historia detrás de la canción "más Bob Dylan" de los Beatles
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- Tuesday, 15 September 2020
Lennon reconoció la influencia de Dylan en la balada «You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away».
Lost in Music: An Oral History of Disco
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- Tuesday, 04 August 2020
“Every night was a different club, one after another, and there were really no barriers: blacks and whites, gays and straights... ”
50 punk albums every music fan should own
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- Tuesday, 04 August 2020
It can surely only be a matter of time before the question "what is punk?" enters the lexicon of philosophical head-scratchers. It’s a sound, for sure, as anyone who has heard the Ramones' first album will know.
Vienna, city of paradox
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- Tuesday, 04 August 2020
How did the city of elegant classicism give birth to an explosive modernism, threatening to destroy its very traditions?
Beats Undercover: how drummers are finding new ways to make music in lockdown
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- Tuesday, 04 August 2020
From shoebox bass drums, playing with cotton buds and livestreamed collaborations, Christine Hannigan discovers how a new generation of musicians are using tech, innovation and determination to survive and thrive in lockdown.
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