How AI is shaping the music listening habits of Gen Z
admin For 4 years, we’ve been instructing a class on music and the ideas. We’ve requested the students at first of each semester to complete a quick, informal survey on their…
As the US government and record labels go after TikTok, musicians get the squeeze
For lots of the 12 months, TikTok has been on the defensive. On March 13, 2024, the House of Representatives voted to approve a bill that may drive the short-form…
Revolutionary work of art has spawned two centuries of joy, goodwill and propaganda
In early 1824, 30 members of Vienna’s music neighborhood despatched a letter to Ludwig van Beethoven petitioning the good composer to rethink his plans to premiere his latest work in…
George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is a story of jazz, race and the fraught notion of America’s melting pot
February 12, 1924, was a frigid day in New York Metropolis. Nonetheless that didn’t stop an intrepid group of concertgoers from gathering in midtown Manhattan’s Aeolian Hall for “An Experiment…
Could Elvis’ Graceland hold a key to bridging America’s cultural divide?
Virtually 50 years have handed since Elvis Presley died; save for an annual August observance to commemorate the anniversary of the singer’s dying, most days produce little details about Presley…
Putting a spiritual spin on my love affair with vinyl
I am a vinyl report aficionado. My father, moreover a musician, not too way back gave me his vinyl assortment, and it made me mirror: Why, no matter restricted use…
The virtuoso guitarist brought Appalachian music to a worldwide audience and influenced generations of musicians
Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson was born on March 3, 1923, in Stony Fork, North Carolina, throughout the Blue Ridge Mountains, nevertheless his music is as influential now – larger than…
The biblical character who goes ‘down the rabbit hole’ into an alternate reality − just like Alice in Wonderland
The Bible’s Book of Job opens on an uncommon day inside the land of Uz, the place an individual fastidiously performs spiritual rituals to protect his kids. This routine has…
What White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf can learn from the last team to lose 120 games
Unhealthy press has engulfed Jerry Reinsdorf. As proprietor of the Chicago White Sox, Reinsdorf heads a franchise with basically essentially the most single-season losses in baseball historic previous. The White…
a ‘sad girl novel’ that lacks emotional depth
In Adelaide, the debut novel by Genevieve Wheeler, a vivacious American lady residing in London (the eponymous Adelaide) falls head over heels for the enigmatic Rory Hughes. By turns charming…