Brazil met Hollywood on his album with Antônio Carlos Jobim. Recording studios are more than just the...
Music
‘Like watching your girlfriend kiss someone else.’ There can be no tougher DJ gig than the Conservative...
For thousands of years, music has been an essential part of the human experience. Introduction The short...
‘Imitatio’ describes a practice or a methodology of composing poetry. Introduction Over the course of six decades,...
Stoicism can easily be misread as pessimistic because of its relentless focus on mortality and fragility. Introduction...
What does the future sound like? In the early 20th century, one answer rang out from Luigi...
Exploring identities of individuals across four creative domains in the present day: contemporary art, fashion, film, and...
What archaeology tells us about the music and sounds made by Africa’s ancestors. Introduction Music has been...
The music industry has transformed itself by launching several online music streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music,...
Inside the Sunset Boulevard building that busted racial barriers. As you listen to Ella Fitzgerald sing “Take...
Typically oral transmission refers to the basic action of passing information, in this case music, through oral...
The music was a multicultural refuge for 1980s L.A. Music always has the potential to be a...
Lakeside left their mark on a Black music renaissance. In 1972, the ten members of the Dayton,...
Texts and images produced throughout the medieval world reveal that harp music could elicit powerful responses. Infernal...
Little Richard honed his craft as a teenage drag queen. We see the influence of gay contemporaries...
The legendary founder of music in Chinese mythology was Ling Lun, who made bamboo pipes tuned to...
Spirituals were created out of the experience of enslaved people in the U.S. They were songs of...
Lyrics ranged from broad satire to sincere political expression, demonstrating just how effective a messenger music can...
Perhaps the hybrid origins of the Burmese piano and sandaya might point a way forward for Myanmar....
Iran’s traditional music carries messages of beauty, joy, sorrow and love to the world. Introduction Weaving through...
The perpetually contemporary Williams, as Ellington famously described her, mastered the language of swing. By Natalie Weiner...
For the ancient Greeks, music was viewed as quite literally a gift from the gods. By Mark...
Harper’s songs were lyrics composed in ancient Egypt to be sung at funeral feasts and inscribed on...
Both during slavery and after, the power structures of American society confined many black women to the...
The notes and staves we see today didn’t spring fully formed from one person’s mind. Imagine a...
In the great reformer’s eyes, if you didn’t love a rousing tune you deserved only “the music...
Transformed in the 1950s from a sharecropper shack that was built probably in the 1920s, Poor Monkey’s...
Acoustical science fundamentally transformed the ways that Victorians conceptualized the relations between aesthetics and the body. This...
Alcohol played a central role in early modern life, occupying much of the time of both law...
Examining the important role of music in ancient Greek cult practices. By Dr. Jana Kubatzki Research Associate in...