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Critical Mass is a treasure trove of sparkling, spiky prose and a fascinating portrait of our lives and cultural times over the past decades. In an age where a great deal of back scratching and softball pitching pass for criticism, James Wolcott’s fearless essays and reviews offer a bracing taste of the real critical thing.

From the triumphant “Main Title” in Star Wars to the ominous bass line of Jaws, John Williams has penned some of the most unforgettable film scores—while netting more than fifty Academy Award nominations. This updated and revised edition of Emilio Audissino’s groundbreaking volume takes stock of Williams’s creative process and achievements in music composition, including the most recent sequels in the film franchises that made him famous. Audissino details his lasting impact and cements his legacy as one of the most important composers in movie history.

LaSemo fête ses 20 ans.À travers ce podcast inédit, Festival LaSemo ouvre les coulisses d’une aventure humaine, culturelle et durable devenue l’un des festivals les plus emblématiques de Belgique.Chaque mois, Samuel Chappel, fondateur et directeur du festival, raconte l’histoire vraie de LaSemo : les débuts audacieux, les réussites, les doutes, les rencontres humaines, les émotions et les défis qui ont permis de construire un événement rassemblant aujourd’hui plus de 50 000 personnes chaque année.Bien plus qu’un podcast sur un festival de musique, cette série explore :l...

When Dave Hickey was 12, he rode the surfer's dream: the perfect wave. And, like so many things in life we long for, it didn't quite turn out - he shot the pier and dashed himself against the rocks of Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach, which just about killed him. Fortunately, for Hickey and for us, he survived, and continues to battle, decades into a career as one of America's foremost critical iconoclasts, a trusted, even cherished no-nonsense voice commenting on the all-too-often nonsensical worlds of art and culture.

This enlightening book reframes the history of hip-hop—and this time, women are given credit for all their trailblazing achievements that have left an undeniable impact on music. FIRST THINGS FIRST, hip-hop is not just the music, and women have played a big role in shaping the way it looks...

Known as opera’s “disrupter-in-residence,” director Yuval Sharon has never adhered to the art form’s conventions. In his many productions in both the United States and Europe, he constantly challenges the perception of opera as aloof by urging, among other things: performing operas in “non-places,” such as parking lots; encouraging the use of amplification; and shuffling the traditional structure of classic works, like performing Puccini’s La bohème in reverse order, ending not with the tubercular heroine Mimi’s death but with her first falling in love.

Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR and GQ Joining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of...

Jonathan Taplin’s extraordinary journey has put him at the crest of every major cultural wave in the past half century. His is a lifetime marked not only by good timing but by impeccable instincts - from the folk scene of Woodstock, to Hollywood’s rebellious film movement and beyond, Taplin is not just a witness but a lifelong producer, the right-hand man to some of the greatest talents of both pop culture and the underground. The Magic Years is both a rock memoir and a work of cultural criticism from a key player who watched a nation turn from idealism to nihilism.

The story of the music that accompanies the cinematic adventures of Ian Fleming's intrepid Agent 007 is one of surprising real-life drama. In The Music of James Bond, author Jon Burlingame throws open studio and courtroom doors alike to reveal the full and extraordinary history of the sounds of James Bond, spicing the story with a wealth of fascinating and previously undisclosed tales.

In this audio-original production, author Richard Fawkes traces the development of the musical, highlighting composers and lyricists including Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim. Presented by the vivacious singer Kim Criswell, star of Cats, and including nearly 100 famous musical extracts.

In this enlightening and entertaining book, experience the evolution of country music, from the 1970s Appalachian hillbilly chitlin' circuit to the 1980s country music boom that paved the way for modern Americana. In a dim clearing off a county road in Kentucky sits a sagging outdoor stage...

This describes Africa as the mother of all great music. Every good music comes from AFRICA

Lenny Vaughn rips into the festival sets that became folklore — Jimi's burning Strat at Monterey, Beyoncé's Coachella sermon, Radiohead's muddy apocalypse at Glastonbury. Each episode dissects one legendary performance that rewrote the rulebook, told with whiskey-soaked wisdom and stubborn reverence for music that stops time. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

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Music and Desire explores how music can be an intimate space where both listeners and musicians express desire through their physical and imagined bodies. Desire is both tabooed and empowering. Through desire, music can inspire us to be real with who we are, in flesh and feelings. So I can continue to seduce you with my voice: buymeacoffee.com/icysixren

Join us as we speak to members of the band from our Musical Director to our volunteers about what it is like being part of a Brass Band, how they got started, favourite pieces, rehearsals, concerts and more!We look forward to welcoming you to our monthly Podcast!Use the link to support us and buy us a coffee:Harworth Brass PodcastTo send your audio clips, please use websitemanager@harworthbrass.co.uk

Trey Knowles' album "Wisdom Calls" is a powerful musical journey from darkness and destruction into light and life. Centered on the transformative power of wisdom, the album portrays wisdom as a guiding force that offers protection, blessing, and direction, shielding listeners from harm and leading them toward purpose and clarity. Trey Knowles - "Wisdom Call" Album Release 5/30/2025

From Hamilton to Dear Evan Hansen, from Hadestown to Six, Broadway’s last decade redefined what a musical could be. Broadway Now dives into the shows that shook theater, blending hip-hop with history, pop with politics, and myth with modernity. Each episode tells the story of one musical — its origins, creators, cultural impact, and why audiences around the world still can’t stop singing along.

Opus Magnimous tells the history of our universe by introducing people who made important discoveries or inventions that enable us to understand the cosmos better. Events and discoveries are each represented with original music composed by Harris Shilakowsky, violinist and composer, and explained and explored.

The history of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials told through music and story-telling in a format recalling an old time radio drama with a modern experimental prog-rock twist. Witch Hunt borrows freely from original sources of information from the time of the trials such as letters, books, poems, transcriptions of the trials themselves, as well as melodies from the Puritan hymn books. The music is highly original art-rock ranging from soft ambient soundscapes to heavy power riffs with many other stops along the way. The narrator provides a story teller voice that weaves a historical thread ...