If your dad, as mine once did, blasts Bob Marley’s “Buffalo Soldier”—a song about being “stolen from Africa” and then fighting for your life—to summon a carefree vibe every time you drive to the beach, then you’ll have some context for this question: Why do humans, when faced with oppression, make music that the unoppressed […]
Music computer hasn’t always been this easy. Just ask Judith Shatin. Forty years ago, you might have found her, a Ph.D. student in composition at Princeton University, slithering under the cover of night into the Engineering department with a stack of primitive punch cards, feeding them through a digital convertor, and then making her way […]
Forty years ago, you might have found Judith Shatin, a Ph.D. student in composition at Princeton University, slithering under the cover of night
Belmont business owners encouraged to air their concerns about weighty noise restrictions separately
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Music jammed in a garage or broadcast from New York, plus new shows and a tip on how to sell out local venues.
The church of rock and roll was built on the remains of just about every other church that came before it. But somehow, the great rock tradition of mining the music of alien cultures—from slave music to traditional Appalachian music—has mostly kept north of the border. That’s why Simon & Garfunkel’s “El Condor Pasa,” a […]
Hamner looks forward to V-Day Clybourne Park gets cut from Live Arts’ season