Music the artform and artists
How our African ancestors made sound in the Stone Age
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- Tuesday, 03 September 2019
There’s been very little research on the role of sound production during the Stone Age. That’s very surprising since we know that the latter part of this period was an important one for the development of complex cognition, symbolic expression and social dynamics among human ancestors.
Le Brésil, la Musique et le Monde
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- Tuesday, 03 September 2019
Au début des années 70, Tom Jobim vit alors entre les Etats-Unis et le Brésil. Quant à Gilberto Gil et Caetano Veloso ils sont encore en exil à Londres. Plusieurs amis brésiliens de passage leur rendent visite. Dont Roberto Carlos qui bouleverse Caetano.
Alan Lomax and the Search for the Origins of Music
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- Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Ethnomusicology was initially the creation of a small number of men and women, mostly European and North American, who were trying to make sense of the growing number of recordings of music from non-Western cultures that were being made in the field, first on wax cylinders and then on shellac records at the dawn of the 20th century.
‘People who love life and music’ — dance parties return to Baghdad
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- Tuesday, 20 August 2019
It was a heady mix of Baghdad’s burgeoning subcultures: bikers, gamers, EDM enthusiasts. What most had in common was they’d never been to a party like this in Iraq.
10 of Canto-pop's original stars
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- Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Canto-pop is not just loved by Hongkongers but also throughout Chinese-speaking communities worldwide since the sound began to take off in the 1970s.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the Opera Composer Who Went Hollywood
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- Tuesday, 20 August 2019
His melodic gift rivalled Puccini’s—but his reputation suffered when he began writing movie scores. Now the classical world is giving him a fresh listen.
Au Botswana, la musique metal séduit un large public
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- Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Ne vous fiez pas à leur look ! S'ils portent vestes cloutées à franges et chapeaux de cow boy, ce ne sont pas des amateurs de musique country, mais bien des purs "métalleux". Ils se sont retrouvés au Botswana pour participer au 10e Overthrust Winter Metal Festival...
'So flawed and problematic': why the term 'world music' is dead
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- Tuesday, 06 August 2019
Artists, record labels and even this month’s Womad festival agree that the term is outdated. Is there a better way to market music from across the globe?
"Only about the music"
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- Tuesday, 06 August 2019
Southeast Asia's underground is in a golden era.