Music the artform and artists
How to Think About Music History
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- Wednesday, 09 November 2022
The important thing to remember, if you are sorting through the rich world of classical music, is that style periods are much less real than the music they describe. The job of labels should be to give us some orientation in our listening, but ultimately the music must stand on its own.
La musique ambient, un pont entre deux mondes
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- Tuesday, 08 November 2022
Une nouvelle scène, ou plutôt une constellation d’artistes affiliés au genre de l’ambient music, émerge en France depuis 2020, à contre-courant de la vague chill qui triomphe sur les plateformes de streaming.
Los reivindicativos orígenes del K-Pop
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- Tuesday, 08 November 2022
El K-Pop es, indiscutiblemente, uno de los géneros musicales que más seguidores ha ganado en los últimos años alrededor del mundo. Pero pocos saben en qué circunstancias surgió dentro de su país de origen, Corea del Sur.
How Italian opera influenced Mexican ranchera
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- Tuesday, 25 October 2022
During the 19th century, Italian opera was very popular in Mexico. Italian companies traveled there to perform operas by Donizetti and Bellini as well as the latest works by other composers. The influence of Italian opera helped to create Mexico's ranchera genre.
The music, life and legacy of Loretta Lynn
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- Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Today, we’re diving into the legacy Loretta Lynn has left behind, in Nashville and beyond. We’re discussing how she created her own image in the music industry, and the tension between how she addressed gender and class in her songs and her explicit rejection of the label “feminist.”
How Sampa The Great Took Over the World
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- Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Yet Sampa’s been fighting for her art ever since the unruly desire to become a rapper first gripped her. “In Zambia, in our household, music as a career is just not a thing,” she says.
Rencontre avec Brian Eno: le visionnaire de la world music
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- Tuesday, 25 October 2022
"Sors de ce corps, Jezebel, au nom de Jésus, sors, esprit de destruction et de chagrin". La voix d’un vrai exorciste, à la fin des années soixante-dix, captée sur les ondes d’un transistor et enregistré sur une cassette audio par David Byrne, du groupe américain les Talking Heads, en mille neuf cent soixante-dix-neuf. Avec son collaborateur l’Anglais Brian Eno, il a eu l’idée de plaquer cette voix sur une matière sonore d’un genre particulier.
La historia de vida de Charly García
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- Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Dueño de una carrera extensa e impresionante, el máximo referente del rock argentino nació un día como hoy pero de 1951 en Buenos Aires.
Now the Middle East nations get K-pop fever
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- Wednesday, 12 October 2022
South Korean idols such as AleXa are tapping into this phenomenon by collaborating with Arab artists and performing in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
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