Music the artform and artists
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.
The controversial music that is the sound of global youth
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- Monday, 21 June 2021
In the last decade, drill music has become ever more popular while inspiring debates over its links to violence. Now the rap sound is flourishing in many continents.