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council.gov.ru/Wikimedia Commons In a sign of the times for Vladimir Putin’s twisted Russian regime, a regional governor has been backed by the State Duma after saying the “descendants of African-American slaves” are to blame for the country’s
Lizzo recently opened up about the racial stereotypes in the pop industry and how the wedge between pop music and race music is used to segregate Black artists. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Lizzo said, “Genre’s racist inherently. I think if people did any research they would see that there was race music and then there was […]
Yale faculty members Daphne Brooks and Braxton Shelley recently won top prizes from professional musical societies for their groundbreaking music scholarship. Brooks was awarded the Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society in recognition of her 2021 book “Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound” (Harvard University […]
It’s been an exciting 12 months in the world of music software. We’ve seen major updates to some of the biggest titles, more virtual instrument releases than ever before, and the growth of AI, making previously difficult music production tasks easy for everyone to do. For this Black Friday wishlist we’ve picked ten highlights across […]
Classical music has for too long occupied a tacitly-acknowledged white space, seemingly hostile to voices from outside its European origins. So how do we decolonize classical music? George E. Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of Music at Columbia University, has some ideas. The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music will host a residency of Lewis […]
It’s official: Rihanna is making her long-awaited return to music with “Lift Me Up,” the lead single on Marvel’s blockbuster sequel “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” The song, a tribute to the . . .
Jake Blount has built a career out of understanding the banjo’s connection to Black American folk music. In this video, he walks us through the instrument’s history — from West Africa to enslaved people in the US to the early record industry — to explain how Black folk music has evolved. For example: The early […]
Listen to this article here A few weeks back, I was heading to the airport in an Uber and a song with rappers Megan Thee Stallion and Future came on the radio. Half asleep, I wasn’t paying attention to the lyrics until I heard Future repeat, “Adderall, adderall, adderall” in a verse. FYI, adderall is […]
Creeslough’s welcome sign, picked out in gold lettering on a black background, proudly announces that the village is the “home of Bridie Gallagher, the Girl from Donegal”, a popular entertainer in the ’50s and ’60s known as Ireland’s first international pop star. But in the last 24 hours, this village of just 400 people, in […]
In late August, the town of Wadebridge in north Cornwall is teeming with Morris dancers, and pub gardens are alive with song. The occasion is the Cornwall folk festival, and in the late summer haze, everyone gets very merry. Nevertheless, “merry” isn’t the right word for Angeline Morrison’s performance on Friday night. Standing alone, alternating […]