Music the artform and artists
La cumbia, phénomène interplanétaire venu de Colombie
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- Tuesday, 20 July 2021
Difficile de résister à cette musique et danse née en Colombie à l’intersection de multiples influences, qui s’est réinventée depuis les années 1990.
Furia y descontrol: la noche en que los rockeros prendieron fuego un estadio para vengarse de la música disco
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- Tuesday, 20 July 2021
En julio de 1979, unos 44.000 fanáticos del rock se reunieron en una cancha de béisbol para una explosión de vinilos que se llamó “Disco Demolition Night” y terminó en graves disturbios.
Raffaella Carrà, an Iconic Italian Pop Star
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- Tuesday, 06 July 2021
Italian singer, actor, dancer and TV host Raffaella Carrà — who over the course of a 60-year career became a national pop culture sensation, sold millions of records across Europe, and found TV success in Spain and Latin America — has died.
Five Things You Didn’t Know About the Latin American Electronic Music Scene
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- Tuesday, 06 July 2021
Latin American electronic music is a powerful genre that has been taking over international clubs and festivals for more than two decades.
Women in Egyptian music
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- Tuesday, 06 July 2021
Music industries are often a mirror of the society they exist in, and just as Egyptian society is a patriarchal and male-dominated one, the Egyptian music scene is not much different.
Qui était Louis Armstrong ?
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- Tuesday, 06 July 2021
On associe naturellement le nom de Louis Armstrong au jazz, style musical qu’il a bouleversé et popularisé.
Los versos libres del rap que nacen en la calle
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- Tuesday, 06 July 2021
El tono es siempre alto en estos duelos. Se gritan burradas, se insultan, mientan a la madre, a la hermana, a la abuela. Pero también a Neruda, a Cervantes, a Rousseau, a Montesquieu.
The magnificent Mabi Thobejane, master South African drummer
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- Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Mabi was raised in the township of Mamelodi near the capital city Pretoria, where he absorbed the rural, neo-traditional, urban folk and Sepedi jive drum and dance-song forms that commingled in the streets and backyards.
Sawt to nagazi: seven traditional music genres from the Arabian Gulf
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- Tuesday, 22 June 2021
For such a fast-moving, future-focused region, the Gulf has a long and storied musical history. The genres, some of which date back to the 16th century, exemplify the best attributes of the region.
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