Marvin Gaye’s 1983 performance of the national anthem transforms the song into a soulful elegy, a bittersweet reflection on freedom and its possibilities.
Kimberly Juanita Brown | Feb 6
Instructional records promoted the transformation of the body and, perhaps more importantly, the mind.
Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder | Oct 23, 2024
“Baltimore” is a love song to a city, tainted by both Simone’s personal experience there and its social and economic struggles.
Alex Coles | Feb 2, 2024
The evolution of beat perception likely unfolded gradually among primates, reaching its pinnacle in humans.
Henkjan Honing | Dec 14, 2023
Carmel Raz explores how historical links between nerves and vibration have shaped modern neural sciences.
Carmel Raz | Jun 2, 2023
Hip-hop DJ culture provides a rich site for exploring how culture and industry can converge and collaborate, as well as how they need each other to move forward.
André Sirois | Sep 22, 2022
Not content with writing the music of his time, Richard Wagner proposed that his job as a composer was to write the music of the future.
David Huron | Aug 12, 2022
Harry Belafonte’s best-selling album “Calypso!” propelled the genre into mainstream American consciousness, but its celebration of Jamaica launched a fundamental misunderstanding that obscured calypso’s origins and colonialist history.
Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder | Mar 11, 2022
An interview with one of the most creative guitarists of our time, excerpted from Joel Harrison's book 'Guitar Talk: Conversations with Visionary Players.'
Joel Harrison | Aug 24, 2021
For nearly two decades, French sound artist Yannick Dauby has journeyed all over Taiwan capturing the songs of frogs.
Tobias Fischer | Jul 1, 2021
