Music the artform and artists
Pete Seeger’s centennial
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- Tuesday, 28 May 2019
Pete Seeger was a giant, and barely a singer-songwriter has touched a guitar who doesn't owe him a musical debt.
5 festivals africains de reggae
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- Tuesday, 28 May 2019
Style militant et engagé, le reggae, importé de la Jamaïque, a su se faire une place dans les coeurs des mélomanes africains.
Professor Emeritus Kwabena Nketia's Original Compositions Now Resonate With His Passing and Life
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- Monday, 06 May 2019
Because Professor Kwabena Nketia was not just a composer but also an ethnomusicologist par excellence, who allowed knowledge and pre-compositional resources he acquired from his ethnographic research to shape his composition of intercultural African art music works, we may also call him an epitome of a creative ethnomusicologist.
Sublime Frequencies’ Vision of What World Music Means Today
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- Sunday, 28 April 2019
In June, 1987, four men met at the Empress of Russia, a pub in London, and reinvented world music. Scholars and archivists had been documenting non-Western musical traditions for at least a century, as had, later, record labels such as Folkways and Nonesuch.
DJs of the Future Don't Spin Records—They Write Code
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- Sunday, 28 April 2019
"Live-coding" parties such as this—where revelers show up as much for the if-thens and variables as the beer and snacks—are a recent phenomenon in underground electronic music culture.
The Middle Eastern Heritage of Opera
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- Sunday, 28 April 2019
For centuries, opera’s origin story has been dated to Medici-ruled Renaissance Florence where the Camerata spent much of the late 16th century philosophizing on art and ideas, hitting on the notion of Ancient Greece as a model for a more perfect union.
Une brève histoire de la Musique Assistée par Ordinateur
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- Sunday, 28 April 2019
L’informatique et les machines électroniques ont ouvert à la musique des territoires immenses depuis le début du XXème siècle. Si aujourd’hui, la Musique Assistée par Ordinateur (MAO) a rendu des groupes mythiques, l’intelligence artificielle pourrait participer à faire entrer la musique dans une nouvelle ère : celle des biens de consommation.
The woman pioneer who composed landmark operas in India
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- Tuesday, 16 April 2019
Shanno Khurana created ‘Sohni Mahiwal’, ‘Jahanara’ and more in the 1960s and ’70s, a time when classical vocal music was staunchly insular.
Against Chill: Apathetic Music to Make Spreadsheets To
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- Tuesday, 16 April 2019
The music wasn’t for anything. It merely existed to facilitate and sustain a mood, which in turn might enable a task: studying, folding laundry, making spreadsheets, idly browsing the Internet. Spotify presently classifies chill as a genre, and there are an incredible number of playlists devoted to insuring a chill experience.
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