Music the artform and artists
A Guide to Northern Mexico’s Thriving Psych Scene
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- Tuesday, 01 May 2018
Historically, northern Mexico has the distinction of being the most fertile region in the country in terms of music, so it’s no surprise that some of the best psych bands currently playing come from there.
A Wunderkind at 100
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- Tuesday, 01 May 2018
Leonard Bernstein prophesied an American classical music; his disillusionment and disappointments mirrored the nation’s.
Four radical and radically original pieces of music that blew up the modernist status quo in 1968
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- Tuesday, 01 May 2018
It all somehow happened around the same time. And to a significant, if little acknowledged extent, the Bay Area was the stimulus for much of its mind-set.
‘We Don’t Perform for People, We Perform for the Gods’
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- Tuesday, 01 May 2018
A community has formed around Chinese opera in Thailand, preserving one of the oldest dramatic art forms in the world.
Nigeria : à Lagos, les musiciens virent leur Kuti
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- Tuesday, 01 May 2018
La mégalopole fourmille de nouveaux talents qui chantent leur désir de réussite, tels Wizkid et Davido. Une afropop moins revendicative que libératrice, aux aspirations contestataires bien éloignées de celles de Fela Kuti, leur illustre prédécesseur militant.
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
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- Tuesday, 17 April 2018
How a Russian Jewish lullaby turned into the anthem of the forgotten men and women of our country
The Lost Classics
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- Tuesday, 17 April 2018
A great deal is known about Greek instruments. Some archaeological remains have been found, mostly of pipes, and occasionally even of lyres.
Making opera a living art form, not a museum art form
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- Tuesday, 17 April 2018
That term “a living art form” translates into three things: new works, new artists and new audiences.
Saudi Arabias Bootleg Music Shops
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- Tuesday, 17 April 2018
Saudi’s cassette shops had a distinctive smell, of scorched plastic and desert dust.
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