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How music can fight prejudice
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- Tuesday, 29 May 2018
New research from Portugal finds youngsters feel more positively toward members of an ethnic minority if they have learned songs from their culture.
Why Are Pop Stars Trying to Be Performance Artists?
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- Tuesday, 29 May 2018
In the past several decades, performance art—or at least the evocation of “performance art”—has somewhat unexpectedly wormed its way into popular music.
Restaurant : La musique influence nos choix de plats
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- Tuesday, 29 May 2018
Il ressort d'une étude internationale que la musique diffusée dans les restaurants aurait une influence sur les commandes des clients.
How music helps the heart find its beat
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- Thursday, 10 May 2018
"Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation," wrote scientist Oliver Sacks.
When Critics Could Kill
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- Thursday, 10 May 2018
What was it like when a review could end a career? Most musicians still don’t want to talk about it.
Paul McCartney tops 2018 Sunday Times list of richest musicians
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- Thursday, 10 May 2018
In second and third place are Lord Lloyd Webber and U2 with wealth figures of £740m and £569m respectively.
Researchers Are Livestreaming the Sound of the Bottom of the Sea
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- Thursday, 10 May 2018
This underwater microphone is blasting the chatter of whales, sea lions, dolphins, and more.
La musique adoucit la relation parent-enfant
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- Thursday, 10 May 2018
Selon une enquête de l’université d’Arizona, les relations avec les parents à l’âge adulte sont meilleures si on a partagé des expériences musicales avec eux.
10 of the weirdest song titles, and the stories behind them
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- Tuesday, 01 May 2018
Finding the perfect title for a song is a finickety art, one that relies upon summing up the essence of the thing in a pithy phrase that also marks it out from anything else, like Hey Jude or Wichita Lineman.
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