These were hot, dimly lit, crowded, smoke and sweat-filled spaces where the music ricocheted off surfaces and fed directly back into the dancing bodies.
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The mayor of San Juan has said Bad Bunny does a better job of promoting Puerto Rico than the island’s official destination marketing organization.
My experience taught me there is a way to embrace AI’s capabilities without losing the human touch in music.
Playing an early gig at a coffee house, the Dead were described by the host as ‘just a panic to watch’.
Pro-Canada songs spreading across social media, including some by Canadian celebrities, reveal a range of reactions to Donald Trump’s tariffs and annexation threats.
For those of us who are into our misery music, The Bends is a beautiful place to wallow.
Five years ago, at the start of 2020, I was looking forward to the publication of my book, Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City and eagerly anticipating a long-awaited holiday to Jamaica. But…
Central Cee has been one of the most prolific artists of the last year.
New exhibition The Face Magazine: Culture Shift explores the publication’s continuing legacy in the digital age.
Humans have latched onto rhythms and tunes for millennia. Does all this music have an evolutionary purpose or is it just “evolutionary cheesecake”?
Group singing was once a major key to Australia’s national happiness. Why are we only now paying attention to the powers it has?
Roberta Flack has passed away at 88. In her performances she reached a deep soulful place, both classically and contemporarily informed.
Naming the pitch of a tone is difficult for most trained musicians.
We have always hidden our feelings in songs but this new AI tool can help you be more forthright this Valentines Day.
This year, go old school instead of just sending over another Spotify link.
The songs we love are very personal, whether they’re meaningful, pleasure-inducing or bangers. How do you choose what you should listen to?
The rapper has mastered the delicate balance between commercial success and politically charged music. How far will he push the envelope on one of the world’s biggest stages?
Whistler’s paintings were first compared to music in 1863 when the French critic Paul Manz described his haunting portrait, The White Girl as a ‘symphony in white’.
A lyrical back and forth between Taylor Swift and Matty Healy is just the latest entry in a rich history of public pop beefs.
Beyoncé winning the best country album Grammy with Cowboy Carter forces us to face our fixation with ‘genre’ – and rightly so.
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Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
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Reader in Music, Politics and Society, Newcastle University
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Associate Professor, Music Industry, RMIT University
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Head of School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University
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Piano Performance Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Music, Southern Cross University
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Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Music, Australian Catholic University
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Academic in the School of Education and Creative Arts, University of Southern Queensland
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Lecturer in Music Industry and Popular Culture, RMIT University
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Professor of Appalachian Studies and Bluegrass, Old-Time and Roots Music Studies, East Tennessee State University
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Professor of Music, Culture and Society, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Religious Studies, Michigan State University
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Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow in Music Industries and Cultural Economy, RMIT University