Music the artform and artists
John Williams Beats His Own Record as Most Oscar-Nominated Living Person
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- Tuesday, 31 January 2023
The legendary composer received his 53rd Academy Award nomination for his work on Steven Spielberg's 'The Fabelmans' on Tuesday.
Chinese musician works to revive the gehu instrument
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- Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Yuxin Wu, a second-generation gehu player at the Berklee College of Music, is on a mission to revive the Chinese string instrument with its unique vibrational sound.
Tom Verlaine, ex-leader de Television et figure de la scène punk-rock
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- Monday, 30 January 2023
Le chanteur et guitariste qui émergea dans l’underground new-yorkais à la fin des années 1970 est mort à 73 ans.
"Hyperpop": ¿El futuro de la música pop?
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- Monday, 30 January 2023
El hyperpop en un subgénero de la música pop que se caracteriza por un uso maximalista de elementos electrónicos para generar melodías pegadizas y sonidos agradables para el oído.
A Black Composer’s Legacy Flourishes 500 Years After His Birth
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- Tuesday, 17 January 2023
The reputation of Vicente Lusitano, one of the earliest known composers of African descent active in Europe, was thwarted for centuries.
Hip hop in Sudan
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- Tuesday, 17 January 2023
At the start of the 1960s, Sudanese musicians began incorporating Western influences in their compositions. Brass instruments, accordions, electric guitars, violins, synths and pianos, accentuated by drum kits, produced a hybrid sound of jazz and blues that was widely loved.
Dread Broadcasting Corporation: The pirate that changed British radio
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- Tuesday, 17 January 2023
In 1981 Rita Marley’s brother Leroy Anderson aka Lepke launched the Dread Broadcasting Corporation (DBC), Europe’s first dedicated black music station.
Comment le rappeur Wegz a redéfini la musique en Égypte
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- Tuesday, 17 January 2023
L'artiste le plus streamé du monde arabe a activement participé à la popularisation du style hip-hop dans le pays des pharaons.
Cultura rave: algo más que drogas y musicón
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- Tuesday, 17 January 2023
Más allá de las mediáticas fiestas de fin de año y de las anécdotas que las rodean, el movimiento ‘free party’ tiene unos valores y una historia que se iniciaron a finales de los ochenta.
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