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I was 17 and just starting to get into songwriting when I first heard Sinéad O'Connor. Her music cut through everything else.
Rapper Beautiful The Artist performs in the music video for the dip hop song ‘DEAFinitely Lit.’
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Dip hop artists move across the stage, hands flying through the air, as audiences pulse to the rhythm of a blasting bass beat.
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This year, 32 years after Latvia’s independence, the festival boasted over 40,000 participants including almost 3,000 from Latvia’s diaspora.
Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga in 2015.
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The jazz singer saw renewed success late in life on the back of collaborations with an eclectic array of artists.
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Since her rise to stardom, Lizzo has faced constant negative criticism about her body. She has responded by saying ‘I’m a body icon, and I’m embracing that more and more every day’.
Elton John performs during Glastonbury Festival in Worthy Farm, Somerset, England on June 25, 2023.
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As we seek to reconnect after several summers without large, in-person gatherings, we reflect on the significant and often transformational role that music festivals play in our communities.
Busta Rhymes and P. Daddy’s song “Pass the Courvoisier” was a major hit in 2001, and reportedly led to a significant rise in the brand’s US sales.
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Legend has it that African Americans soldiers brought back a love of cognac after service in Europe in World War II. It’s a lovely story, but the history goes back much further.
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The country’s creative and critical music culture will be substantially diminished if the university funding crisis hits any harder.
Families playing the Đông Sơn drum during Re:tuning, a 2022 performance event at the Sydney Opera House, James Nguyen and Victoria Pham.
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Hụi is a constant, seemingly invisible feature of diasporic life for many Vietnamese-Australians. We’re using it to buy back our cultural heritage.
Music therapy is well-placed to provide support in addressing trauma and promoting wellbeing.
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Music therapy offers a flexible and accessible way of supporting wellbeing and addressing traumatic experiences.
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Evolutionary geneticist Jenny Graves loves classical choral music, but grew tired of its biblical themes. So she set out to write an alternative based in science.
Teenagers enjoying a reggae sound system at the 1981 Notting Hill Carnival.
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The arrival of Windrush brought new forms of music to Britain.
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Taylor Swift will be performing three shows in Sydney and two in Melbourne – and tickets will be in high demand.
Self portrait.
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Engineer and producer Tony Cohen made an astonishing contribution to Australian recorded music in the 70s and 80s – working with acts like The Saints, Nick Cave’s various bands, and the Go-Betweens.
MC Solaar, a pioneer of French rap.
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Hip-hop traveled far after being birthed by Black Americans in US cities. The journey hasn’t always been smooth.
Reggae, dancehall, and identity: how Jamaican music transformed British society.
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Nights out dancing! How African and Caribbean music and dance have shaped British culture.
Chinese boy band TFBoys performing in Nanjing City.
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In social media posts during the pandemic, fans posit their idols as loyal to the nation, the people and the party state.
Rapper Offset apologized over a homophobic slur.
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Greater representation in rap from LGBTQ artists comes as mainstream artists atone for past lyrics.
Puerto Rican singer Residente performs in Havana in 2010. His back reads, ‘We receive flowers and bullets in the very same heart.’
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Latino artists have been forging their own paths in hip-hop for decades, giving voice to young peoples’ pain, faith and demands for change.
While the Roy siblings are shielded by their wealth, the show’s music chips away at their armor.
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Composer Nicholas Britell festoons earnest Romantic music with sounds that gleefully desecrate it, underscoring the show’s emotional core: a lust for power joined by immense self-loathing.