June/July 2010
1 June 2010
The direct impact the new digital culture is having on music, in terms of access, dissemination and copyright, is well documented, but the indirect impact less so. If, as Benedict Schlepper-Connolly suggests, digital platforms will transform the status of...
1 June 2010
A new generation of musicians and singers is pulling the English folk scene alongside its Irish and Scottish neighbours, pointing to a new era of collaboration – and perhaps even the healing of old wounds, writes Toner Quinn
1 June 2010
The author of A Clockwork Orange may have been better known as a novelist, but Anthony Burgess was also a prolific composer whose music is only now being explored. Paul Phillips discusses the work of an artist who wrote novels in sonata form.
1 June 2010
The digital medium will set radio free, but will it change the essence of radio, asks Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
1 June 2010
What have music impresarios Sergey Diaghilev, Malcolm McLaren and Simon Cowell got in common? – and what sets them apart? asks Peter Rosser.
1 June 2010
In the early part of the twentieth century, a young musician named Natalie Curtis began drawing attention to the music of Native Americans and African Americans, publishing collections, organising concerts and advocating their traditions as the basis for a new American music. Michelle Wick Patterson explores her legacy.
1 June 2010
There is a long line of theories claiming that we have reached the end of art, but they are forgetting something, writes Joanna Demers
1 June 2010
Kevin Stevens travels to Ethiopia to find a tradition that has flourished against the odds.
1 June 2010
The melody of ‘Danny Boy’ has its origins in the middle of the nineteenth century in the North of Ireland. An old harper’s melody was collected and embellished to make the air that we know today, but by who? Brendan Drummond explores some of the contemporary theories and uncovers a new European twist to the tale.
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