Music the artform and artists
Buried Country: The little-known history of Aboriginal country music
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- Tuesday, 12 January 2016
American hip-hop and blues have been popular within the Australian music scene for decades but there is a little-known, homegrown musical culture that also draws on dispossession, rebellion and heartache — Aboriginal country music.
Bowie, Lemmy, Boulez, Delpech, ainsi s’en va le 20ème siècle
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- Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Quatre disparitions en l’espace de 15 jours résonnent d’une tonalité mélancolique, suintant d’une teinte nostalgique, rappelant qu’un monde n’est plus et ne reviendra plus.
10 cities join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in the field of Music
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- Tuesday, 15 December 2015
UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, has announced the designation of 47 cities from 33 countries as new members of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. The results of this year’s Call bears witness to the Network’s enhanced diversity and geographical representation with 22 cities from countries not previously represented.
10 of them are in the field of music:
Traditional music in Zimbabwe
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- Tuesday, 15 December 2015
Zimbabwe has a rich, diverse cultural heritage and her music and dance are intertwined. Implied is that the two are inseparable - there is no music without dance.
Frank Sinatra: A Hundred Years On, the Voice Resonates Still
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- Tuesday, 15 December 2015
Before Michael Jackson, before Bob Dylan, before Elvis Presley, there was Sinatra, the first modern pop superstar.
Better Swede symphony: how a new generation is redefining Scandipop
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- Tuesday, 15 December 2015
When it comes to inventive pop music, there must be something in the Swedish water.
Star Wars : la musique de John Williams, formidable porte d'entrée à la musique classique
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- Tuesday, 15 December 2015
Les musiques de John Williams, et surtout celles de Star Wars ont cette particularité d'être identifiables immédiatement, dès la première note.
100 Years Of Billy Strayhorn, Emotional Architect Of Song
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- Tuesday, 01 December 2015
When Strayhorn wrote "Lush Life" in 1936, he could only dream of the Paris nightlife described in the lyrics.
Why landscape music is more important than ever
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- Monday, 30 November 2015
While some composers may approach their music as a platform through which to advocate for specific environmental and conservation causes, others are driven to express purely aesthetic responses to nature.
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