Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Global Influence Versus Local Inspiration in Classical Music: An Instance from the Turn of the Twentieth Century

BY TOM C. OWENS As the United States stood poised to take a more prominent political and cultural role as a world power at the turn of the twentieth century, debate raged over the formation and character of distinctively American artistic forms and traditions. Within the art or classical music tradition, this conversation was particularly [...]

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Posted by on July 6th, 2009 No Comments

Hip-Hop and Urban Islam in Europe

BY PETER MANDAVILLE This is real life, engraved on my pages: families dying from starvation whilst the government’s worried about immigration. — Blind Alphabetz, ‘Concrete Landz’ Like everyone today, Young British Muslims are carrying around iPods full of the latest tunes. Despite the recent phenomenal popularity of a pop-oriented variant of nasheed devotional music—a key [...]

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Posted by on July 6th, 2009 No Comments