Music the artform and artists
The cosmic sound of Cape Verde in 1980s
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- Monday, 05 September 2016
A long title for a compilation with a fascinating story.
Tracing The People's Republic Of Beethoven
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- Monday, 05 September 2016
Imagine you're a teenager in Beijing in the 1960s and '70s, during the Cultural Revolution. Everything that's deemed Western and bourgeois is banned — so listening to a 78 rpm recording of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, powerfully transformative as it might be, is off limits.
On the Genius of Juan Gabriel, the Musical Architect of Modern Mexico
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- Monday, 05 September 2016
He was a Latin American icon, at one time the highest-paid Spanish-language singer on Earth, a highly prolific artist who composed over 1,800 songs, put out 35 albums, and had his work performed by more than 800 artists in virtually all of the world’s languages.
What Really Is 'African Music'?
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- Monday, 05 September 2016
The debate has been raging for a while now, with legendary African artistes accusing their youthful peers of "blindly copying the West" in their craft. Many others have accused contemporary artistes of not being "African enough" by not sticking with an African sound.
Make Your Own Latin Music Scene
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- Tuesday, 23 August 2016
What do you do when established record companies won't even listen to your work? For starters, you have to seek and establish alternative ways to reach listeners.
The lost geniuses of library music
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- Tuesday, 23 August 2016
They were asked to provide jingles for adverts and schools TV - instead they invented a new world of sound. Jude Rogers on electronic music's secret pioneers.
You Are What You Hear
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- Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Music be the food of love, spirit, patriotism, and dozens of other isms, all hungry for the mysterious sustenance that musical vibrations provide.
Got a Classic Piece? Here Comes the Sequel.
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- Tuesday, 23 August 2016
“Composers have always wanted to fondle the pieces that they love,” John Adams, of “Nixon in China” fame, said in a recent interview.
Algérie: Création d'un comité de recueil de la poésie "Melhoun" et de chants sur la Révolution algérienne
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- Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Dans une allocution à la clôture du colloque national sur la poésie (qacida) révolutionnaire, le ministre a fait savoir qu'à ce jour, plus de 15.000 heures de témoignages ont été enregistrées.
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