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An abundance of 60s and 70s sounds come together in harmony, rather than in clashing cacophony.
The album is an important art form and Eilish is bold in trying to bring it back by releasing no singles and forcing fans to listen through.
GQ magazine and its obviously gendered remit doesn’t seem like an obvious home for Pitchfork. Nearly 44% of its readers are women.
Though it makes for dense reading in places, the attention to detail will delight those in or closely connected to music journalism.
Seeing these performances was an empowering reminder that women in their 50s are still out there, oozing with vibrant creativity, worthiness and relevance.
Zulu spirituality and the legacy of the ancestors, personal and musical, are the concerns of the saxophonist and composer.
In this new Australian work, sound, image and physical body are decoupled, and gradually splintered like the many facets of our online presence.
The album Follow the Sun shows how South African jazz draws from diversity to speak fluidly across borders.
From legendary punk band The Saints to a current tour with drummer Jim White, Ed Kuepper has been making music for almost 50 years.
A series of four live-streamed concerts from Arnhem Land offers a welcome break from bad news and a way for Indigenous musicians to share their talents with the world.
XXX Neon Sign – a piano work about working in a Brisbane porn shop – is a new work of ‘composed theatre’, where the performer and the performance are inextricably linked.
An Australian Chamber Orchestra concert features works by Jonny Greenwood, Sufjan Stevens and The Nationals’ Bryce Dessner, along with those of modern Polish composers.
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Research associate, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Monash University
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PhD candidate in music, Adelaide University
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Principal Lecturer, School of Art and Media, University of Brighton, University of Brighton
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Reader in Music, Politics and Society, Newcastle University
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Senior Lecturer in Musicology, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor Music Composition, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Inaugural Director, Indigenous Knowledge Institute, The University of Melbourne
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BA Journalism Course Leader, Centre for Broadcasting and Journalism, School of Arts & Humanities, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer, Music Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, University of Westminster
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Professor of South Asian Music and History, King's College London
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Postdoctoral Researcher in English Literature, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications, De Montfort University
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Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature, University of Reading