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A review of some of the top arts and culture stories from the past year.
The hard numbers of sales, downloads, streams, and billboard charts seem to do all the work for us. But do these measures tell us anything meaningful about music’s nature and value in 2015?
Under David Willcocks, the Nine Lessons and Carols became world famous.
The carol ‘Silent Night’ has been translated into 140 languages and renditions have been sung by everyone, from Bing Crosby to Chewbacca. This is the story behind its success.
Where next for one of the best-known soundtracks in history?
His vocal chords haemorrhaged, he was dropped by Columbia records: in 1951, Sinatra’s career as America’s top pop singer seemed over.
In his roles, Frank Sinatra often embodied the outsider, the man excluded from America’s suburban success story.
Live music has been targeted by terrorism … but it also offers an antidote to it.
Jazz evolved from the fringes of American society into one of the most influential, and enduring, musical movements of the 20th century. How did it get from what it was to what it is now?
A Latin song takes centre stage at graduation ceremonies around the world, including in South Africa. Isn’t it time the continent used its own methods to celebrate major events?
Partial to Jeff Buckley? You’re probably an empathiser…
Californian rap and jazz poetry may sound like an odd mix – but both are rooted in historic inequalities
Adele has joined Taylor Swift’s ranks in the war against the streaming culture of Spotify and Apple Music.
Music is ubiquitous in our lives, but where are the spaces for boundary-pushing experimentation?
Composer Max Richter – with his epic, eight-hour-long piece Sleep – aims to be an auditory sandman.
Sam Smith’s Writing’s on the Wall confronts the last taboo of the canon: Bond’s hypermasculinity.
Victorian Opera this week stages The Seven Deadly Sins, the final collaboration between Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. First staged in 1933, it is a masterpiece by two of the most revolutionary artists of Weimar Germany.
Technological advances in music production have all but obliterated the need for popular music to be transcribed into musical notation. So why is musical literacy still important?
Award-winning documentary film On the Banks of the Tigris explores the influence of Iraqi Jewish musicians in the cultural life of Iraq and paints a portrait of a country that was once a thriving multicultural centre.
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Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle 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, Music Industry, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
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Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Music, Southern Cross University
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Professor of Music, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer in Music, Newcastle University
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Monash University
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Deputy Head of School, Senior Lecturer in Piano and Musicology, School of Music, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Music, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Music, City, University of London
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Practice, Queensland University of Technology
