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The Music of Black Lives Matter
Following is a timeline of writings on the relationship between music and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. This timeline is selective–sourced from various scholarly writings and music journalism currently included in RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. We encourage the … Continue reading
Filed under Black studies
Vinko Dvořák and Croatian musical life
The acoustic physicist Vinko Dvořák was a gifted violinist and a tireless promoter of music in Croatia. As a member of the board of the Hrvatski Glazbeni Zavod between 1913 and 1919, he took an active part in organizing and … Continue reading
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Filed under Acoustics, Romantic era, Science
The first musical comedy
The earliest known secular stage play with music, Adam de la Halle’s Le jeu de Robin et de Marion, has been touted as the first musical comedy. Of the two extant sources, the Paris version is by far the rowdier … Continue reading
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Filed under Dramatic arts, Humor, Middle Ages
Enescu and makam
Georges Enescu’s use of elements of Romanian traditional music is well known; his most popular works today, the Rhapsodies roumaines, attest to his enthusiasm for his homeland’s music. Less known is his interest in the Turkish melodic type makam (pl. makamlar) … Continue reading
Filed under 20th- and 21st-century music, Opera
The dark side of the rainbow
Fifty years ago today Pink Floyd’s album The dark side of the moon soared to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run; it has since sold over 45 million copies worldwide, making it the … Continue reading
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Filed under Curiosities, Film music, Popular music
Piatigorsky’s youthful adventure
Already a cello prodigy with a full scholarship to the Moscow Conservatory, the ten-year-old Gregor Piatigorsky found himself stranded in Astrahan’ due to one of his father’s failed enterprises. Tall enough to pass as a teenager, he found a temporary … Continue reading
Filed under Curiosities, Performers, Romantic era
Moroccan insult contests
A performance that occurred almost daily in a public square in Marrakech in the early 1980s traded on ethnic identity for fun and profit. The performance began with an Arab duo singing in Arabic; as a crowd began to gather … Continue reading
Filed under Africa, Curiosities, Humor
Women and gramophones
A letter published in the June 1925 issue of Gramophone noted the magazine’s general absence of women correspondents: “are the sweet little things too shy, or what?” A response published in August of that year dismissed the idea of women … Continue reading
Filed under Curiosities, Mass media, Reception, Women's studies
