Exploring Polyphony: The Multiple Voices of the Motet
When music combines multiple human voices, melodies, and rhythms, it can gain a powerful expressiveness that is complex, rich, and misterious. Contemporary West...
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A Conversation with Youth Musicians from Boston’s Boys & Girls Clubs
One of my favorite things about co-hosting a radio show is to have diverse guests and engage in dynamic conversations. Interviews ON AIR have a special feeling ...
The New Music Industry: Transformations, Challenges, and Opportunities
During the past two decades the music industry has experimented deep transformations as a result of the massive adoption of digital technologies and the evoluti...
Sampling the Hip Hop Movement in Bogotá: the Serenata Rap 2014
Hundreds of Bogotanian youths congregated last Sunday August 31 at the Parque el Sol, a green public area located in the neighborhood of Puente Aranda, in order...
The Changing Practices of the Hip Hop DJ
Since its beginnings the art of DJ-ing has evolved dynamically along with the evolution of audio technologies such as speakers, mixers, storage devices, and mus...
Supporting Hip-Hop in Austin: the First Weird City Festival campaign
Remixing the famous motto of the city of Austin, the first hip-hop festival in town has been announced. The Weird City Fest will happen in September 2014 and th...
Norteño Accordion Sound
The sound of the accordion in Norteño music accompanies songs from an ample repertoire. Rancheras, corridos, baladas, polkas, cumbias, huapangos, and chotis all...