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The African imagination in music
In The African Imagination in Music, noted music scholar Kofi Agawy offers a fresh introduction to the vast, immensely rich and diverse set of repertoires that comprise the sound worlds of Sub-Saharan African music. Agawu introduces readers to the basic elements of African music and to the values upon which they are built. He then explores the key dimensions and resources of African music, including the place of music in society, musical instruments, the relationship between language and music, rhythm, melody, form, harmony and finally, appropriations of African music by musicians around the world. Written in an accessible styles, The African Imagination in Music is poised to renew interest in Black African music, and to engender discussion of its creative underpinnings by Africanists, ethnomusicologists, music theorists and musicologists. -- from back cover.
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Understanding the Influence of Genre-Specific Music Using Network Analysis and Machine Learning Algorithms
This study analyzes a network of musical influence using machine learning and network analysis techniques. A directed network model is used to represent the influence relations between artists as nodes and edges. Network properties and centrality measures are analyzed to identify influential patterns. In addition, influence within and outside the genre is quantified using in-genre and out-genre weights. Regression analysis is performed to determine the impact of musical attributes on influence. We find that speechiness, acousticness, and valence are the top features of the most influential artists. We also introduce the IRDI, an algorithm that provides an innovative approach to quantify an artist’s influence by capturing the degree of dominance among their followers. This approach underscores influential artists who drive the evolution of music, setting trends and significantly inspiring a new generation of artists. The independent cascade model is further employed to open up the temporal dynamics of influence propagation across the entire musical network, highlighting how initial seeds of influence can contagiously spread through the network. This multidisciplinary approach provides a nuanced understanding of musical influence that refines existing methods and sheds light on influential trends and dynamics.
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Bridge and Tunnel Boys
Born four months apart, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel both released their debut albums in the early 1970s, quickly becoming two of the most successful rock stars of their generation. While their critical receptions have been very different, surprising parallels emerge when we look at the arcs of their careers and the musical influences that have inspired them.Bridge and Tunnel Boys compares the life and work of Long Islander Joel and Asbury Park, New Jersey, native Springsteen, considering how each man forged a distinctive sound that derived from his unique position on the periphery of the Big Apple. Locating their music within a longer tradition of the New York metropolitan sound, dating back to the early 1900s, cultural historian Jim Cullen explores how each man drew from the city's diverse racial and ethnic influences. His study explains how, despite frequently releasing songs that questioned the American dream, Springsteen and Joel were able to appeal to wide audiences during both the national uncertainty of the 1970s and the triumphalism of the Reagan era. By placing these two New York-area icons in a new context, Bridge and Tunnel Boys allows us to hear their most beloved songs with new appreciation.
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Interview with Composer Arthur Gottschalk
[...]there was plenty of classical music and big band swing at home for me to grow up on. From my first day there I played in ensembles (especially the jazz band) and took composition lessons, studying with George Cacioppo. After moving to Texas to assume my teaching position at Rice, I continued to score film and television, from feature films to \"industrials\" and advertising work. [...]when I left the pre-med program and entered the music school, it was always with an eye towards becoming an academician, teaching music composition and related subjects.
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GOLDEN SUNSET An Interview with Karl Leister
In this wide-ranging interview by Robert Taylor, German clarinet legend Karl Leister discusses the influence of his father, playing in the Berlin Philharmonic under von Karajan, his favorite clarinet repertoire, and much more. With the prodding of my friends Bill Blayney and Pat Takahashi-Blayney, the three of us set out for Berlin to visit my old friend and talk about his 74-year career as a musician. After the Second World War we were living in Neukólln (suburb of Berlin). [...]I started at 12 years old. 1 dont know which actual instrument. [...]1 went to фе music school and I played for Heinrich Geuzer.
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Wisdom of the Crowd
In works such as again {after ecclesiastes) (2005), the little match girl passion (2007/2008),1 battle hymns (2009), statement to the court (2010), love fail (2012/2016), the national anthems (2014), and teach your children (2019), amongst many others, Lang has made numerous important contributions to the twenty-first-century choral and vocal ensemble repertoire, particularly through his emphasis on contemporary social issues through his choice of texts.2 Outside of choral music, Lang is best known as one of the co-founders of the New York-based new music organization Bang on a Can, a composer of rhythmically intricate post-minimalist instrumental music, a professor at the Yale School of Music, and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Over the past eight years in pieces such as crowd out (2014), the public domain (2016), memorial ground (2016), the mile long opera (2018), and harmony and understanding (2018)/' Lang has created a small but unique body of choral works that invite large-scale public participation, community engagement, and site-specific performance, often requiring new inter-organizational civic partnerships and recruiting one thousand or more participants in order to bring the performance into being. In our conversation, Lang spoke about his inspiration for these works, the challenges of creating music that invites open participation from people with varied musical backgrounds, how that challenge has impacted his own compositional choices, and what embracing participation and community engagement as central to a compositional practice might mean for the training of choral and classical music composers today. Lang: I had a sense of the whole thing, having produced lots of concerts ever since I was in high school and now in my adult life with Bang on a Can. [...]London was unbelievable because it had children's choirs and a choir for people experiencing homelessness and the choir from Deutsche Bank and people from all walks of life.
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Firas Zreik: The Paco de Lucia of the Qanun
In March, 27-year-old Firas Zreik released his first full-length album, \"Salute,\" which is also the name of the album's first song, described by Zreik as the most \"bombastic,\" with a \"very intense solo.\" The album combines classical Arabic music with jazz. Its musical ideas, its energy and its clarity are reminiscent of saxophonist Kenny Garrett. The record features eight original compositions written before and during COVID-19, in the United States and in Palestine. Producing an album during COVID-19 was challenging, but Zreik is thrilled with the journey. He finished the album during what he describes as \"one of the most horrible times for both humanity and live music.\" Zreik's creative process involves synesthesia.
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Rejuvenating France’s Choir School Tradition
Since its founding, La Maîtrise de Toulouse has become one of France's leading youth choral organizations. The proof [is] yes...\"), La Depeche du Midi (\".the Maîtrise of the Toulouse Conservatoire signed a masterpiece.\"), American Record Guide (\"There's probably nothing this choir couldn't sing, and spectacularly well.\"), and the Choral Journal (\"Once again, La Maîtrise de Tou- louse and Mark Opstad have demonstrated their superb musicianship and precision.. Through this dialogue, music educators gain insights into the workings of a successful international youth choral organization and learn of the methods Opstad employed in bringing a cherished choral tradition to a foreign audience. Later, when I was at Oxford, I found out about a scholarship program where the French government funds about ten or twenty leading students to go to England, and the British government sends about ten or fifteen to France.
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