Music the artform and artists
Musical pleasures
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- Tuesday, 18 September 2018
We know music is pleasurable, the question is why? Many answers have been proposed: perhaps none are quite right.
Experimental Labels From Latin America You Should Be Listening To
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- Tuesday, 18 September 2018
No surprise that Latin America has been home to sound experimentalists for many years. Pre-Columbian cultures used tonalities, instruments, and textures that may seem noisy to our ears now, and much of it was incorporated into early and mid-20th century composition styles throughout the region.
Giant Steps
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- Tuesday, 18 September 2018
Listening to jazz is a bit of a lost art in our ADD age, where we are constantly checking and updating our social media profiles, posting pictures and texts, commenting, liking, tweeting and retweeting, perpetuating a discourse that is everywhere and nowhere.
How to listen to new music
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- Tuesday, 18 September 2018
You know it when you hear it in a scary movie or sandwiched between Mozart and Beethoven at a concert: contemporary classical music, or "new music" for short.
La valorisation des instruments de musique traditionnels africains est un enjeu crucial
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- Tuesday, 18 September 2018
Même si de plus en plus la collecte, la préservation et la valorisation des instruments de musique traditionnels sont intégrées dans les politiques culturelles des pays africains, il n'est que rarement mis au cœur des projets visant à valoriser la culture africaine alors qu'elle est centrale.
Bland on Blonde: why the old rock music canon is finished
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- Tuesday, 04 September 2018
The 1970s brought about the idea that rock was important – and needed a canon of greatest albums to match. But in a digital age, is definitive musical excellence a ridiculous notion?
Plácido Domingo, Opera Superstar, Achieves the Unthinkable
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- Tuesday, 04 September 2018
The great tenor Enrico Caruso sang about 60 roles; the storied diva Maria Callas, roughly 50. Renée Fleming, the most famous soprano today, says she has sung about 55.
John Coltrane and the End of Jazz
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- Tuesday, 04 September 2018
No jazz musician incarnates the legend of late style more than the saxophonist John Coltrane.
Smithsonian Folkways: 70 Years of Peerless Sounds
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- Tuesday, 04 September 2018
In 1846, the Smithsonian Institution was founded for one purpose, laid down by donor James Smithson in his last will and testament: for “the increase and diffusion of knowledge.”
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