Tag: music
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Well you know, I just thought I was doing something natural, but right from the start, my songs were divisive for some reason. They divided people. I never knew why. Some got angered, others loved them. Didn’t know why my songs had detractors and supporters. A strange environment to have to throw your songs into,…
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Toby W. Rush’s “Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People” covers a massive range of topics like pitch, rhythm, scales, intervals, and harmonics. The online book itself is more arranged as a collection of high-quality PDFs that offer diagrams, notes, and tips for everything music theory related. There’s around 50 PDFs to go over, but…
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Thackray sang in a lugubrious baritone voice,[5] accompanying himself on a nylon-strung guitar in a style that was part classical, part jazz.[6] His witty lyrics and clipped delivery, combined with his strong Yorkshire accent and the northern setting of many of his songs, led to him being described as the “North Country Noël Coward”, a…
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AU Review: Your appearance in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2008 was interesting, in that you represented France and sang mainly in English and inhaled helium on stage. Looking back on that, how do you remember the time? Sebastien Tellier: It was fun to be in Serbia with a lot of crazy people. I never…
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This edited volume presents an original analysis of the role of sound in Latin American and Caribbean societies, from the late nineteenth century to the present. The contributors examine the importance of sound in the purveyance of power, gender roles, race, community, religion, and populism. They also demonstrate how sound is essential to the formation…
Sameer Padania 