An ethnomusicologist traces the origins of the practice, from early 20th century ‘air conductors’ to Joe Cocker’s air riffing at Woodstock to the rise of international competitions.
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Live performances account for more than 40 percent of their income, while profits from streaming and record sales amount to only 5 percent of their earnings.
Is there something in the way theatre is organised that makes abuse of power so depressingly commonplace?
This year has got off to an awful start. Thank God for the Adelaide Festival, a blaze of hope, skill and fun. Here are our critics’ highlights of a beautifully crafted program.
From The Monkees to Mariah Carey, lip-syncers have been getting mocked for decades.
In an image-saturated world, it can feel like we are beyond being moved. But five exhibitions in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province in 2016 managed to capture memory and ego in exactly the right proportions.
A trombonist is forced to play the cymbals, while a pair of marching girls dance out his frustrations. A full brass band slips from classical, to jazz, to folk and cabaret. En Avant, Marche! is a strange show, but worth your time.
There’s a time and place for a smartphone and some artists and sports stars want you to stop using them when they’re performing. Just enjoy the live event instead.
We may think of buskers as romantic free spirits. But when Melbourne and Sydney buskers were asked what they thought about council regulations, their answers were surprising.
Music is ubiquitous in our lives, but where are the spaces for boundary-pushing experimentation?
Performers and audiences alike are undermined by graphic depictions of violence, like Michieletto’s Guillaume Tell.
The violence of the Royal Opera House’s production of William Tell should shock us - but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
Transgender artist Antony Hegarty has successfully used her notoriety to publicly address issues close to her, including transgender politics, ecological consciousness and indigenous spirituality.
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Professor of Media and Communications, Monash University
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Professor of Law, University of Wollongong
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Professor, Director of Research, Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
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Professor emerita of the Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor of Music, Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University
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South African visual artist and senior lecturer of Art History and Visual Culture at Rhodes University, Rhodes University
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Lecturer in Dramaturgy, University of Leeds
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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PhD Candidate in Queer Performance, University of Tasmania
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Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music, University of Minnesota
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Lead Academic Tutor, Theatre Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Professor in Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW
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Research Affiliate, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, Vanderbilt University
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Department Chair and Professor of Sociology, UMass Amherst