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The Disappearing Accent in Pop Music
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- Tuesday, 07 January 2014
Why do pop music vocalists generally seem to sing without an accent?
How the MTV generation turned movies into long music videos
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- Tuesday, 07 January 2014
All kinds of "social ills" have been blamed on MTV – elongating the period we consider "youth" for example, as well as homogenising it – but a charge much less contestable is simply its influence on the way film and TV looks.
Wish You Had Perfect Pitch? Researchers Find Epilepsy Drug May Help Adults Develop Rare Skill
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- Tuesday, 07 January 2014
Perfect pitch, also called absolute pitch, is the ability to accurately name any pitch you hear. People with perfect pitch can sing any note of the chromatic scale without hearing reference pitches first.
Why One Record Label Pays People To Download Music
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- Tuesday, 07 January 2014
As record labels continue to grapple with how to make money from music when there's an internet, one label called Care Of Editions has devised a weird solution we couldn't help being curious about.
Nudists at the Opera
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- Tuesday, 07 January 2014
In a more recent posting on this thread, someone asked about renting opera glasses. This was the official response from the opera company: "Unfortunately, for hygienic reasons, we have no opera glasses on hire."
What's the point of pop-up opera?
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- Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Opera's resilience is nowhere more evident that in its current habit of popping up in pub theatres, abandoned warehouses and back gardens, staged and performed by people doing it for love rather than the minimum wage (if that).
Why Do We Always Compromise Quality In the Name of Convenience?
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- Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Consumers want their music whenever, wherever and the digital age has given us the power to make that happen.
Why there's nothing wrong with being bored by opera
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- Friday, 06 December 2013
Do you find opera tedious? Do bits of Shakespeare send you to sleep? Well, you're not alone. David Hare, Julian Barnes and John Eliot Gardiner talk to John Crace about the importance of being bored.
8 Surprising Ways Music Affects and Benefits our Brains
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- Friday, 06 December 2013
Since music is such a big part of our lives, I thought it would be interesting and useful to have a look at some of the ways we react to it without even realizing.
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