Johnny Hallyday in concert in May 2014.
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Johnny Hallyday was more than a music icon, he was a cultural symbol for the French lower and the middle classes. In his death he reconciled the country with the term popular culture.
Miles Davis circa 1970.
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Miles Davis’s 1971 album A Tribute to Jack Johnson sits uneasily within both jazz and rock genres, but its indefinable nature should be celebrated.
Hurricane Maria, September 2017.
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A meteorologist and a music technologist team up to turn the data from tropical storms into musical graphs.
Charles Manson leaves a Los Angeles courtroom in March 1970.
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Desperate to achieve fame by any means necessary, Manson was ahead of his time: Today, the delirious pursuit of fame has gone mainstream.
Kasey Chambers was one of the six women who won awards at the ARIAs this year. Women had no nominations at all in Best Group, Dance, Adult Contemporary or Hard Rock/Heavy Metal.
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Why, in 2017, are women still falling behind in the ARIA awards: in nominations, winners, and performances?
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Johann Sebastian Bach was 30 when he became head of music in Anhalt-Cöthen, in what is now Germany. Here he started an uncharted experiment in classical music: solo works for string instruments.
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New research claims to have found a link between types of chords and the lyrics they are typically paired with.
Music and work don’t always mix.
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Listening to your favourite album might not be the best idea if you’ve got something to do.
Using federal funding to hire a student composer for the summer is an innovative idea to help support young creative talent.
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The Canada Summer Jobs program allowed the Kingston Chamber Choir to hire a student to write an original composition. Other arts organizations should follow suit to employ students in creative fields.
Babies start their musical development in the womb.
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There a number of ways you can use music to shape your child’s brain for success, from 16 weeks gestation right up until they start school.
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Self-expression from the streets.
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In the great reformer’s eyes, if you didn’t love a rousing tune you deserved only “the music of the pigs”.
George Michael in the music video for Father Figure.
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George Michael’s posthumous documentary Freedom reveals the star’s tension between pop-stardom and privacy.
The Pulitzer Prize winning emcee Kendrick Lamar recently asked a white fan to refrain from rapping the n-word. A video recording of the incident has reignited a controversy that gained wide attention last year. In this 2016 file photo, Kendrick Lamar performs in New York.
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At one of his shows, rapper Kendrick Lamar asked a white fan to refrain from rapping the n-word. A video of the incident has reignited a controversy: can white people ever rap the n-word?
Stormzy performing at Glastonbury Festival, 2017.
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Grime could provoke the most disruptive cultural transformation of the British music industry in decades.
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Being a member of a community choir has similar health and social benefits as being part of a football team.
Taylor Mac performs in The Inauguration at the Melbourne Festival.
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Taylor Mac’s 90-minute version of a 24-hour history of pop music is a hit, determined to forge a renewed sense community with the audience.
Heidi Mellington, performing here with Anthony Smith in Dizzygothica in 2007, has spoken about the importance of a supportive local music scene for emerging artists.
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Depite new technologies for music dissimination, EDM artists located in cities have access to resources not available in non-metropolitan areas.
Paddy McAlloon, in his more recent guise as a pop eccentric in dress as well as attitude.
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The great eccentric characters of the past have given us great art, literature and music – and they should be welcomed today.
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There is a gender gap in the music and sound industry. Inspiring young girls about careers in these fields has never been more important.