We live in confounding and perplexing times. A relatively peaceful international order this past year has suddenly become upended by at least two recent…
Global Musical Diversities in London, Songlines’ Cultural Activism
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IndiEarth xChange 2016, Chennai: Weekend conference and festival of world music and indie acts
The annual IndiEarth xChange conference and festival wrapped up in Chennai recently with a weekend of world music and indie performances at The Park Hotel.…
Timbal Drumming, Endurance Vs. Speed
There is a great difference between a drum set drummer playing timbales and an actual timbalero when he plays the timbales. Most drum set drummers…
2016 Christmas Music Guide
Perhaps you’ve just ventured to the darkest part of the attic or basement, plucked out those dusty boxes from under the bags of horded, hideous…
The Charango, a Peculiar Instrument
One of the most popular Andean musical instruments is a small guitar with five double strings that looks like a Spanish bandurria. If looked at…
A Nobel Prize?
The victory in Bob Dylan’s winning a Nobel Prize is for songwriting. Dylan is nowhere near one of the greatest songwriters. However, this may finally…
Singer’s Warsaw Festival 2016: An annual celebration of music and culture in Warsaw
Yiddish culture returns by way of pre-war films and contemporary performances, workshops of dance and song, Jewish paper cutting, ceramics, and Hebrew calligraphy ……
Opinionated Piano: Jason Moran, Sullivan Fortner, Aaron Diehl
The piano. It is unique: the piano is melodic like no other instrument is and plays us heavy loud and even sometimes fast, producing sounds that momentarily…
I’ve Grown Accustomed To Your Face
Listening to Spotify shuffle Cassandra Wilson songs, I stumbled upon a song that I believe spoke to me in a political way: “I’ve Grown Accustomed To His…
Artist Profiles: Rasbawa
Beninese singer-songwriter Rasbawa is the son of a businessman and a traditional music singer. Very early, he became interested in music. While in Abidjan (Ivory…