Music the artform and artists
Swedish "sound icon" honoured with lifetime achievement award
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- Tuesday, 24 July 2018
Bernard Löhr is an idol and role model for many professionals in the industry, and his productions have inspired millions of people, not least many children and young people who learned to know ABBA, Chess and other musicals, thus enjoying Swedish music and "the Swedish sound ”.
Streaming services are seeing a jazz renaissance amongst younger fans
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- Tuesday, 24 July 2018
An explosion of young musicians are exploring the sound and a new movement is hitting the high notes with both listeners and players.
‘World music’: a defunct label in a globalised world of sounds
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- Tuesday, 24 July 2018
In the early 1960s, the American ethnomusicologist Robert E Brown coined the term “world music” to describe the music of artists he was working with from Asia, Africa and Indonesia. But it was during the Western industry boom of the 1980s that the term took off as a way of cataloguing and marketing non-Western, traditional and vernacular music.
It Was Russia’s Most Popular Opera. Then It Disappeared.
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- Tuesday, 24 July 2018
Anton Rubinstein’s 1871 opera, “Demon,” is a tried-and-true 19th-century plot with a religious twist: A fallen angel seeks redemption through a woman’s love. In Russia, it was the most popular opera of its day. Then it disappeared.
Le clavecin : baroque ou rock’n’roll ?
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- Tuesday, 24 July 2018
Instrument de prédilection des compositeurs jusqu’au XVIIIe siècle, le clavecin semble encore enfermé dans son âge d’or. Et pourtant, il n’a jamais été aussi vivant.
Bomba: The Enduring Anthem of Puerto Rico
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- Wednesday, 11 July 2018
The resurgence of a traditional Afro-Puerto Rican musical genre owes something to formal experimentation. But some traditionalists fear that its roots are at risk.
What a star he would be today
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- Monday, 09 July 2018
Thirty years after his death, the creator of the classic Pride anthem You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) is the subject of academic symposia. Not bad for a drag queen who was ‘just trying to get on to the radio’.
The Royal Remixing Stars of Nigeria’s Fuji Music Scene
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- Monday, 09 July 2018
The genre has had a vibrant life since being born from songs that woke up Muslims during Ramadan.
The Changing Sound of Male Rage in Rock Music
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- Monday, 09 July 2018
Linkin Park introduced new ways of expressing male angst into the mainstream—an evolution that continues today.