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The 1918 Pandemic’s Impact on Music? Surprisingly Little
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- Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Unlike the existential threat posed by the coronavirus outbreak, cultural life returned swiftly to normal after the flu.
Move over K-pop: Korean youth turn to old-time trot music
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- Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Young pop stars in South Korea, struck with nostalgia, are performing covers of old-timey trot music on competition shows like “Mister Trot,” which have viewers vote for their favorite acts in an “American Idol”-style format.
Google Doodle Celebrates Musical Instrument From Zimbabwe
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- Tuesday, 26 May 2020
The Google Doodle begins with an animation of a young girl walking with her mother, stopping to listen to an elderly man play the mbira. Google users are then invited to learn to play a virtual mbira, by hovering their mouse over the keys, as they play a traditional song called "Nhemamusasa."
Voilà pourquoi la musique d’ascenseur est indispensable à votre déconfinement
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- Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Souvent sous estimée, la musique dite d'ascenseur peut vous aider à relativiser cette période bizarre.
¿Por qué en los malos momentos nos aferramos a la música que nos resulta más familiar?
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- Tuesday, 26 May 2020
¿Ha habido un cambio en la música que escuchamos y en por qué la escuchamos durante la pandemia del coronavirus?
Neuroscience reveals how rhythm helps us walk, talk — and even love
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- Tuesday, 12 May 2020
From heartbeats heard in the womb to rhythmic patterns of thought: 'rhythm is life'.
How pandemics have inspired art, music and literature
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- Tuesday, 12 May 2020
Certain themes recur over the centuries. The art inspired by covid-19 may be no different.
Musique ou langage ? Le cerveau divisé…
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- Tuesday, 12 May 2020
Le cerveau humain ne mobilise pas ses hémisphères de façon équivalente lorsqu’il s’agit de reconnaître une mélodie ou de comprendre une phrase à l’oral.
Can music boost your immune system?
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- Tuesday, 28 April 2020
Sound like quackery? It’s not. Numerous studies, including a 2019 review in the journal Annual Research & Review in Biology, have found that both performing and listening to music can have a significant impact on the immune system.
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