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The four-day, non-stop dance party has been banned and unbanned twice in four years.
Despite controversy at home and a decade late, the Grammy win proves how much the world loves South Africa’s biggest house music star.
Daft Punk’s anonymity was really a stroke of genius.
Hailed as a genius at the mixing desk, Weatherall’s eclectic knowledge and skill came to define a musical era.
Most people have strong opinions on what makes a song good or bad. But is anyone actually right?
Depite new technologies for music dissimination, EDM artists located in cities have access to resources not available in non-metropolitan areas.
When the classroom is your dance floor.
On the same day that London’s legendary Fabric closed permanently, Berlin’s infamous techno club Berghain was granted a tax break.
One of popular music’s most influential artists, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, turned 80 this year. It is a good time to acknowledge his work as irreducibly complex, deeply layered, subtle and nuanced.
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in Popular Music, Goldsmiths, University of London
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