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More than just a musical accolade, UNESCO has recognised the social and political importance of Jamaican music.
Many school music teachers aren’t trained recorder players. And cheap and badly made recorders are often sold in discount stores. But this an instrument with a fine musical pedigree.
Few classical musicians can fill out an 8,000 seat hall. But then few classical musicians are like André Rieu.
Christians go to fewer gigs, are less likely to listen to heavy metal, and prefer classical music. The reason likely comes down to morality.
For decades, Bangladesh had a very vibrant – and highly political – rock scene. But the genre is struggling to survive the country’s crackdown on dissent and increasing Islamic conservatism.
For every £1 invested in a north Wales community music programme, researchers saw as much as £6.69 created in social value.
Learning music in the early years of schooling can help children learn to read.
Born Farrokh Bulsara, Mercury came from a Parsi family that practiced Zoroastrianism, a religion that influenced Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Indigenous New Caledonians, who will vote in an independence referendum next week, have been struggling since French colonisation in 1853. Through songs, they have chronicled past traumas and resistance heroes.
Bombarding people with scientific information has little effect. Something else is needed to jolt us out of our current climate trajectory.
Fifty years ago, Sly and the Family Stone sang ‘We got to live together, I am no better and neither are you.’ The words ring just as true today.
A few musicians metaphorically took to the streets. But most fled for cover.
Leonard Cohen’s final (posthumous) book was released in Australia this week. Another new book sheds light on Cohen’s life on Hydra in the 1960s and the relationships he forged with Antipodeans seeking liberation there.
Some of Australia’s finest songwriters joined members of the Go-Betweens to mark the 30th anniversary of a seminal album.
Seven Australian composers feature in an epic communal piece of music honouring the Australians who died on the Western Front. It will have its premiere in Canberra, this Saturday.
Music is an underutilised tool when it comes to steering curricula away from strictly Western and colonial models.
Children feel less frustrated and are allowed to be creative and expressive in spaces where they make choices.
Individual creators get too small a share of copyright’s rewards. What Bryan Adams is proposing in Canada could also work in Australia to help authors get paid and keep works available to the public.
How can a band so slavishly derivative – and sometimes downright plagiaristic – be also considered radically innovative and influential?
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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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Professor of Music, Australian Catholic 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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Professor of Music, City, University of London
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