Music the artform and artists
Classical Music Needs a New Name
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- Tuesday, 26 January 2016
In his Young People’s Concerts, circa 1958-‘72, Leonard Bernstein lamented the limits and imperfections of the term Classical Music. We use it, he said, “to describe music that isn’t jazz or popular songs or folk music, just because there isn’t any other word that seems to describe it better.”
Early-Music Ensembles: Praised as Pure, but Seeking More
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- Tuesday, 26 January 2016
The lexicon of praise for female singers of early music can be narrow, with purity a recurrent concept.
Europe's new music talents receive the 2016 European Border Breakers Awards
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- Tuesday, 26 January 2016
The EBBA awards promote Europe's emerging talents in pop, rock and dance music by supporting wider circulation of their works around Europe.
The fierce young women of jazz
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- Tuesday, 26 January 2016
These talented women with the desire to lead are bending the rules of previous generations of jazz artists, charting courses inspired by independent rock acts, drawing musical inspiration from revered singer-songwriters and century-old song traditions, and also seeking guidance and camaraderie from other women – both as mentors and bandmates.
Le Reggae en Afrique
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- Tuesday, 26 January 2016
Bien qu'originaire des Caraïbes, le reggae a été largement adopté dans toute l'Afrique. Depuis ses origines dans les années 70, le reggae est devenu une musique grand public dans les années 80.
Can talking about music add to our understanding of it?
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- Tuesday, 26 January 2016
Words and music have been at odds for a long time. They have quarrelled for centuries. But they have not always quarrelled over the same things. Song came first.
David Bowie: 15 surprising facts about the king of glam rock
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- Tuesday, 12 January 2016
4. He couldn’t stand The Little Drummer Boy
The rise and fall of Urban Grooves in Zimbabwe
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- Tuesday, 12 January 2016
The Zimbabwean music genre known as Urban Grooves first became popular around the year 2000, when the government made a deliberate policy of promoting local arts by enforcing a 75% threshold for broadcasting local content on national media.
Five Seismic Moments in New Music
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- Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Cage, Eno, Reich and more the focus of week-long BBC series.
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