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<em>1973: Rock at the Crossroads,</em> Andrew Grant Jackson
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'1973: Rock At The Crossroads' Acts As A Mirror For One Moment In Time

Dec 05, 2019
Via popular music, Andrew Grant Jackson paints a vivid portrait of a year that was the last gasp of an age of possibility, when idealism gave way to economic recession and cynical disillusionment.
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Music
Brent Holmes
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Kings of the Norf

Nov 01, 2019

Often dissed and dismissed, North Las Vegas has an export it’s proud of: a distinct brand of hip-hop.

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Book Reviews
<em>God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop,</em> by Kathy Iandoli
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A Righteous Fire Burns At The Heart Of Women-In-Hip-Hop's 'God Save The Queens'

Oct 24, 2019
Kathy Iandoli goes far beyond hoisting her heroes upon a pedestal; in rendering them as conflicted, complicated artists struggling against sexism and patriarchy, she wields an illuminating fury.
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Goats and Soda
KOKOKO!, a band from the Democratic Republic of Congo, performs at an NPR Tiny Desk Concert that will be posted at a future date.
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Congo's KOKOKO! Makes Joyful Dance Music From Instruments Made Of Junk

Oct 19, 2019
The band couldn't afford instruments. So they made their own out of scavenged items, like kitchen pots and air-conditioner parts. On their U.S. tour, they stopped by NPR's Tiny Desk.
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Code Switch
Elena Hinestrosa and her ensemble, Integración Pacífica, perform at one of Petronio Alvarez Music Festival's educational panels.
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Colombia's Big Summer Music Festival Is All About Blackness

Sep 05, 2019
The Petronio Alvarez festival is the big event of the summer — five days of music and food and fashion. More than 100,000 people travel to celebrate Afro-Colombian culture.
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LV Phil
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2019 Culture Guide: Music

Sep 01, 2019

Plenty of musical events of any genre to sing to your heart and soul. 

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Music
The Instrument of Hope is lacquered in black except for the shiny brass parts, which are clear lacquered. They include the lead pipe, which is made from bullets set end to end and drilled out so that air can flow through to make it a playable instrument.
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A Trumpet Made Of Bullets And The Kids Who Inspired It Take Hope Around The Country

Aug 25, 2019
The Instrument of Hope, a trumpet made partly of bullets and inspired by the survivors of the 2018 Parkland, Fla., mass shooting, is touring the country to promote healing.
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KNPR's State of Nevada
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NV89 Celebrates Pride Month With Music

Jun 20, 2019

Heterophobia is one of several bands in Nevada that features at least one openly lesb

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Shots - Health News
An MRI scan of a person listening to music shows brain areas that respond. (This scan wasn't part of the research comparing humans and monkeys.)
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A Musical Brain May Help Us Understand Language And Appreciate Tchaikovsky

Jun 10, 2019
Compared with monkeys, humans have a brain that is extremely sensitive to a sound's pitch. And that may reflect our exposure to speech and music.
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Vegas Abounds With New Music From Acts New And Old

Jun 07, 2019

Las Vegas act Good Coffee hasn't been releasing music much longer than a year.

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Documentary On Ambitious Local Band Centers Around Immigration

May 22, 2019

“This is My Home” isn't just the name of a song by Las Vegas duo

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Book Reviews
Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer-member of the Soviet delegation to the Cultural and Scientific conference for World Peace, plays the second movement of his Fifth Symphony at Madison Square Garden in New York City on March 27, 1949.
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'How Shostakovich Changed My Mind' Touches On The Music-Body Connection

May 17, 2019
BBC music broadcaster Stephen Johnson's remarkably diverse aesthetic and personal sensitivity are on full display in his new book on the Russian composer's music — and his own personal struggles.
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See/Hear/Do
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Sunset sounds for a big-sky state of mind

May 10, 2019

The perfect tunes (and tales) for your Arizona road trip

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KNPR's State of Nevada
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Remembering The Candelabra: 100 Years Of Liberace

May 10, 2019

May 16 marks the 100th birthday of Liberace, the flamboyant entertainer whose shows on the Strip were almost as legendary as the man himself. 

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KNPR's State of Nevada
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Vegas Musicians Score Some Golden Knights Action

May 08, 2019

There are a few places in Las Vegas where you can hear the city's rising musical talent -- and one of those spots is T-Mobile Arena.

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New Music—And Development—Abounds From Nevada Musicians

Apr 22, 2019

Record-label signings, innovative videos, national exposure and brand new releases—musical artists from Las Vegas to Reno have already seen noteworthy accomplishments in just the first four months

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'Wicked,' 'Book of Mormon' Highlight Smith Center's 2019-2020 Broadway Season

Apr 11, 2019

"Wicked" is one of the most beloved Broadway musicals of the 21st century. So is "The Book of Mormon."

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Jazz Bands From UNLV And Green Valley High To Compete At Monterey

Apr 04, 2019

This weekend, UNLV's esteemed jazz studies program makes its 10th consecutive appearance at the Monterey Next Gen jazz fest, the competitive complement to the legendary Monterey Jazz Fest.

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Jeffrey Matthews
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The Hot Seat

Apr 01, 2019

This is a talk about a speech — specifically, Colin Powell’s 2003 address to the U.N. Security Council, in which he insisted that Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction.”

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Research News
University of the Arts in Bern student, Simon Walker, checks a small music speaker placed directly bellow a wheel of Emmental.
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Need A Can't-Miss Wheel Of Cheese? Try Playing It Some Hip-Hop

Mar 24, 2019
Researchers exposed cheese to different genres of music for 24 hours a day over six months to find out that hip-hop might create the tastiest cheese.
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Technology
Members of the rock group Four O'clock Heroes, performing in 2011, used MySpace to promote their work. The social network may have lost millions of media files uploaded by users.
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MySpace Says It Lost Years Of User-Uploaded Music

Mar 18, 2019
Millions of music and other media files may have been lost, the company acknowledges. The news comes after some users reported difficulty accessing their music files over the past year.
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All Songs Considered
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Tiny Tech Tips: Why You Need Earplugs At Concerts

Mar 12, 2019
It may be the last thing on your mind when you're seeing an artist, but sound pressure levels at a live show can seriously impact long-term hearing. Tiny Desk engineer Josh Rogosin is here to help.
NPR
Hidden Brain
A young Maya Shankar.
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Fresh Starts: Tales Of Renewal For A New Year

Dec 27, 2018
The turn of the year is a time when we set the old aside and welcomed the new into our lives. When one chapter ends, another begins.
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Goats and Soda
Students at the Dhow Countries Music Academy, dedicated to preserving the music known as "taarab," play on a balcony overlooking Zanzibar's port.
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The Hot New Musical Trend In Zanzibar Is From The '80s — The 1880s

Sep 29, 2018
The traditional music known as taarab was fading away — until a school began giving lessons to aspiring musicians.
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World
O.S. Arun is a Carnatic singer famous for adapting outside songs to the local Indian classical music style. This summer, Arun became the target of a fierce social media campaign by Hindu traditionalists, angry that he planned to give a concert of Christi
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India's Carnatic Singers Face Backlash For Performing Non-Hindu Songs

Sep 18, 2018
Some fans of Carnatic singing, a type of South Indian classical music rooted in Hinduism, are angry with performers who've adapted and performed Christian songs.
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