Music the artform and artists
5 Music Rights - More than Ever!
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- Tuesday, 26 May 2020
How can we make sure that these rights continue to be respected during and in the aftermath of crisis? Which challenges can be identified for each Right? What needs to be done to overcome them?
The IMC debate is our reply to UNESCO’s invitation to start a dialogue about the matter in our field and our community and we hope you will join us on IMC Facebook page on May 27th at 11:30 CEST.
Dad rock: Rediscovering one of Palestine’s first rock bands
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- Tuesday, 26 May 2020
“Their lyrics were absolutely political,” replies Ashrawi. “But rather than chanting slogans, they preferred the imagery that poems conjured.”
3,000 Interviews. 50 Years. Listen to the History of American Music
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- Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Vivian Perlis founded Yale’s Oral History of American Music in 1968. Today, the project continues her mission to record the voices of American composers.
Rain on rooftops, crunching gravel: the strange appeal of 'slow audio'
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- Tuesday, 26 May 2020
First there was slow TV – now radio and podcasts are getting in on the act with ambient recordings of forest walks and bird calls.
Little Richard’s Music Was Dangerous, but So Is Freedom
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- Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Little Richard is a button on the top of my bedroom-scale battery-powered guitar amplifier. Click and the soft trebly jangle of the strings becomes a roar of noise and possibility. He invented this, the electric guitar as we know it, without even touching an electric guitar.
Mory Kanté, un «griot électrique»
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- Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Le Guinéen, qui a marié son séculaire héritage aux musiques noires américaines, a connu un succès fulgurant avec «Yeke Yeke». Il est mort ce vendredi.
Del tango al rock, diez canciones inspiradas en Buenos Aires
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- Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Desde la década del 20, cuando Carlos Gardel grabó el tango escrito por Manuel Romero titulado directamente con su nombre hasta hoy, son muchos los artistas argentinos y extranjeros que le rindieron tributo a una ciudad bella, cambiante, cosmopolita y siempre llena de historias que merecen ser contadas.
From Xenakis’s UPIC to Graphic Notation Today
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- Tuesday, 12 May 2020
In the late 70s, an interdisciplinary team led by the composer Iannis Xenakis developed the compositional tool UPIC out of an effort to transform drawings into synthesized sound.
Where to Start With Afrobeat Pioneer Tony Allen, One of the Greatest Drummers Ever
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- Tuesday, 12 May 2020
Allen introduced the mind-blowing polyrhythms that would define Afrobeat music as much as Fela’s saxophone or outsized personality.
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