When they hear the music, some people want to dance. Other shoppers want to flee.
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Unlike vision or touch, sound is much more difficult to control or avoid; music in particular spills across thresholds and intrudes into situations where it is unwelcome.
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It was popular music that enabled Chávez to link his political movement with grassroots activism.
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With Justin Bieber’s impending Australian tour, it’s time to reassess his creative artistry, musicianship and recorded output.
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Former James Brown drummer Clyde Stubblefield playing in 2005.
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The recently deceased funk drummer Clyde Stubblefield created arguably the most sampled drum track in the history of popular music – but he rarely got the credit, or the payment, he deserved.
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The Earth’s magnetic field acts like a giant instrument playing magnetic music.
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Turns out learning a musical instrument really could benefit your child, in more ways than you might think.
Is the system broken?
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After winning his Grammy in 1996, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder said, ‘I don’t think this means anything.’ Was he right?
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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Sacred music joins people in a collective expression - whether of joy, sorrow or protest.
SIlly sounds or smooth jazz?
Researchers teamed up with artist Imogen Heap to discover what music makes babies laugh.
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No film could be more perfectly circular, more self-congratulatory and more suited to the time.
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Musicians have largely greeted Trump with the sound of silence – and in doing so, they check the normalisation of the current administration.
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We all need a little trip to La La Land.
Dan Sultan played a defiant version of Midnight Oil’s The Dead Heart at 1967: Music in the Key of Yes.
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From My Island Home to Treaty, Indigenous musical luminaries gathered in Sydney on Tuesday to sing classic songs marking the fiftieth anniversary of the 1967 referendum.
On New Year’s Eve, Mariah Carey was at a loss for words.
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From The Monkees to Mariah Carey, lip-syncers have been getting mocked for decades.
Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in La La Land.
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Musicals are back in vogue, with La La Land cleaning up at the Golden Globes. The film is, among other things, an homage to the classic musicals of old. So what are the must see movies of the genre?
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Spending a year living life as David Bowie gave me a better understanding of the pop icon’s mind and work.
A Bowie mural in Brixton, London.
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Amid the tribute concerts and outpourings of sadness on the anniversary of Bowie’s death, we should be wary of mythologising him.
Turns out children don’t necessarily become smarter just because they have learned how to play the piano or sing in a choir.
Members of the band MP4 present Jeremy Corbyn and Tracy Brabin MP with copies of the Jo Cox charity single. Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire/PA Images
MPs and rock songs may seem like odd bedfellows, but the charity single marks a longstanding shift in how music mobilises the masses.