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Beyoncé’s country-inspired album has caused a stir because the country music scene has a history of racial segregation that has erased its Black roots and gatekept it from Black artists.
Listening to El Medioni’s work is a deep dive into the history of north African Jews over the last 150 years, long pre-dating his birth.
All-female rock bands like The Beaches are both a breath of fresh air and also heirs to a tradition of women in rock that includes early Black female guitarists and the 1990s riot grrrl movement.
Fuji music is a way of life for millions of Yoruba people. It’s the prism through which they understand their world.
This Town echoes the ways in which music is forged by its social context, while shaping and defining the lives of the people who make it.
You’d be surprised by how many of your favourite hits are about God or Jesus in one way or another.
The theatre, dance and music works at this year’s festival have helped fulfil a three-pronged vision from some two decades ago.
For some musical artists, TikTok has become a beacon in an otherwise dismal digital streaming landscape.
In the past, adolescents’ musical palettes were dominated by the Top-40 artists, creating a widely shared – if perhaps narrow – repertoire of musical knowledge.
Live Aid showed charities how much celebrity involvement could raise the profile of particular causes – but also the kind of problems that associations like this can bring.
Composer Jerskin Fendrix’s first-time film score is a hoot.
Across the program, I was struck by how it was often more in the act of putting on and performing the work, rather than their spoken content, that expressed political responses to our times.
Zimmer creates a sound world full of texture, personality and new timbral possibilities.
Though composers after Schoenberg used his technique to create atmospheric music in film, Schoenberg’s own ‘Accompaniment to a Film Scene’ was written for concert performance.
Using a variety of instruments and playing live music on the film set are all part of how composer Jerskin Fendrix generated brilliant sonic accompaniment for ‘Poor Things.’
Composer and conductor John Williams has shown for more than 60 years how music can take movies to new heights.
Social and literary realism have long detailed people’s everyday lives – and they have been a staple in popular music for decades.
Research suggests that music therapy can help support people before and after a loved one’s death.
Artificial intelligence helped produce the Beatles’ 2023 hit “Now and Then.” But despite the sophisticated technology, the song reveals our obsession with the past and our anxieties about the future.
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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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Associate Professor, Music Industry, RMIT University
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Piano Performance Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
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Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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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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Lecturer in Music, Queensland University of Technology
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Deputy Head of School, Senior Lecturer in Piano and Musicology, School of Music, Australian National University
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Professor of Music, City, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Music, Newcastle University
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