music

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/23/2022
  

  Is Old Music Killing New Music?

  by Ted Gioia

  The growth in sales in music is coming overwhelmingly from old songs. Can the music industry sustain new performers if money keeps flowing to old catalogues? 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/20/2022
  

  Another Hendrix Legacy Lawsuit: Family Seeks to Block Royalty Claim by Heirs of Bandmates

  Lawyers for the Hendrix family argued that a suit for back royalties by the heirs of Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell were invalid because of waivers signed by the guitarist's British bandmates soon after his 1970 death. 

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• SOURCE: Teen Vogue
  12/31/2021
  

  The DC Punk Scene Relied on the Local Latinx Community

  by Mike Amezcua

  "A big piece is missing from the stories told about punk and hardcore in the 1980s: Primarily, that marginalized spaces and communities in urban America gave a stage to the predominantly white subculture."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/10/2021
  

  The Beatles Ignited a Culture War and Changed the World

  by Randall J. Stephens

  While Peter Jackson's "Get Back" documentary focuses on the last phases of the band's work together, it's important to think about how the group's emergence changed American culture, especially around sex and gender. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/13/2021
  

  James Brown Estate to be Sold, After 15 Years of Infighting

  The sale of Brown's lucrative song catalog clears the way for some of the future proceeds to benefit scholarships for poor children in Georgia and South Carolina, a cause Brown had long championed. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12/12/2021
  

  Vicente 'Chente' Fernández, 'El Rey' of Ranchera Music, has Died at 81

  "Fernandez became an important icon for Mexican immigrants to the U.S. and around the world – who found that his music transported them to the ranches and towns they'd reluctantly left behind in search of opportunity abroad."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  12/4/2021
  

  New Orleans Urged to Rename Lee Boulevard after Music Legend Allen Toussaint

  “The City of New Orleans should prioritize celebrating our culture bearers, our diversity, and everything that makes our city special, not those who worked to tear us apart and represent a horrible history of racism that we are still dealing with today,” said City Councilor Jared Brossett.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  10/14/2021
  

  The Most Important Band of the 80s Broke Up a Decade Before

  "For all the reams that have been written about the band in recent decades, nothing has so succinctly dissected the Velvet Underground's dark magic as Haynes’ new documentary."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/28/2021
  

  Bob Moore, Key Pillar of the "Nashville Sound", dies at 88`

  "Over 40 years Mr. Moore elevated the bass in country music from a subordinate timekeeper to an instrument capable of considerable tonal and emotional reach."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/26/2021
  

  How the Drive-By Truckers Hacked the Music Industry

  by Stephen Deusner

  Through lineup changes, record label hassles, and fans upset with their political lyrics, the Truckers have used the internet and social media to build support and survive for decades. Their story is a history of the changing business and a map for younger acts. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/15/2021
  

  The 70s are Back, But Not How You Think

  by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff

  "In the coronavirus era, disco themes resonate. People long for community and wonder if leaders have our backs. Social media offers some of the trappings that defined disco — from the clothes to the allure of being seen in a new way."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/8/2021
  

  Phil Schaap, Grammy-Winning Jazz D.J. and Historian, Dies at 70

  “They say I’m a history teacher,” he said in a video interview for the National Endowment for the Arts, which this year named him a Jazz Master, the country’s highest official honor for a living jazz figure, but he viewed his role differently. “I teach listening.” 

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  8/30/2021
  

  Why Hip Hop Conquered the World: The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip Hop and Rap Drops

  The new anthology "tells the story of American history from 1979 to 2013 through the eyes of the young Black Americans who changed it profoundly."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/27/2021
  

  When Europe Gave its Ears to Black American Composers

  by Kira Thurman

  In the wake of World War II many Black American classical composers found welcoming audiences in Europe, but their experiences should not overshadow the ways European cultural institutions have marginalized domestic Black artists.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/31/2021
  

  "Respect" Highlights the Other Black Women Artists who Helped Aretha Franklin Become the Queen of Soul

  by Fredara M. Hadley

  "Black women, even female Black entertainers, are rarely accorded that sense of control over their own lives. But as Aretha Franklin’s longevity in music and life demonstrated, the possibilities are endless when Black women are the center of their own universe."

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8/24/2021
  

  Charlie Watts Put Some Jazz in Rock and Roll

  by Victor Coelho

  "In an era when rock drummers were larger-than-life showmen with big kits and egos to match, Charlie Watts remained the quiet man behind a modest drum set. But Watts wasn’t your typical rock drummer."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/13/2021
  

  Reassessing Gladys Knight's Talent and Impact

  "The scholar Mark Anthony Neal has written that Knight was “the female voice of the Black working class in the 1970s”—more grounded than either the divine Aretha Franklin or the glamorous Diana Ross—and the group’s sensibilities were also working-class."

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• SOURCE: Radio Open Source
  7/15/2021
  

  Daphne Brooks on Truth-Telling Music

  African American Studies scholar Daphne Brooks tells the back stories of Black women in music and the cultural impact of their songs. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  6/28/2021
  

  Country Music's Next Big Question: Where are Latino Artists?

  by Amanda Marie Martinez

  “My dream is for the cowboys and the vaqueros — who were the first cowboys — to all be in one place, to bring those two worlds together.”

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• 6/20/2021
  

  "Juke": Bluesman Bobby Rush on the Roots of Rock and Roll

  by Bobby Rush with Herb Powell

  Blues musician Bobby Rush's new autobiography chronicles his life and career, and the way that the appropriation of Black music into American popular culture often left Black entertainers behind. Read here how he remembers the roots of rock and roll.