Showing results for title "Origins" in Music

Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of the world's leading experts in natural sound, and he's spent his life discovering and recording nature's rich chorus. Searching far beyond our modern world's honking horns and buzzing machinery, he has sought out the truly wild places that remain, where natural soundscapes exist virtually unchanged from when the earliest humans first inhabited the earth.

Jazz is more than a musical genre. It is a movement, an escape, and a form of rebellion—one whose mystery you can uncover through the fascinating musicians that shaped its history. Jazz doesn’t easily fit into any category owing to its diverse roots, incredible flexibility, and passion for improvisation. It is, therefore, ironic, yet somehow understandable, that this mysterious genre, so different even from other Black-inspired music, should be so well-loved by millions of people across the globe

Hosted by renowned MC and founding father of hip hop Grandmaster Caz, A&E’s Origins of Hip-Hop reveals the true stories of the people and places that ignited a global culture. Each episode, Caz sits down with hip hop legends like Busy Bee, Grand Wizzard Theodore, and Sha Rock to hear how it all happened straight from the source. From the legendary OJ Car Service bumping the first “mixtapes” to hip hop as therapy for the people of The Bronx, Caz and his guests uncover the lesser-told stories that made hip hop what it is today. These are their stories and the stories to be told for ...

An illustrated study of crying provides insights into why humans shed emotional tears and the role they've played throughout our existence. Visual artist and author Pepita Sandwich joins us to discuss her new book, titled The Art of Crying: The Healing Power of Tears.*This segment is guest-hosted by Kousha Navidar.

The Origin and Nature of Folk Music: As Exemplified in the Welsh National Melodies was originally published in 1911. Kenneth Morris was a fantasy writer and Theosophist from Wales. In this short piece, he looks at the bardic poetry and chants of Ireland, Wales and England, called a "hwyl".

Rumba Evolution is a captivating informative journey of how a type of music unwillingly left Africa in slave ships, went to Cuba, and then to the rest of the world before returning home to Africa as Congolese rumba music and becoming a global phenomenon. Rumba Evolution is an informative voyage to explore rumba’s origins, spread, transformation, and influences, and how it became one of the most popular genres in the world.

Back in the ‘60s and early ‘70s I lived in a suburb in Maryland just over the line from Washington, DC. As it happened when we moved there in 1964, the neighborhood was largely white. Around 1969 I started forming Rock Bands with my friends. We listened to top 40 and played the songs we liked, and could play. I was only 15 at the time and was too young to play in clubs, but that would come later.When we first moved in only about 5% of the neighborhood was non-white. Over the next 7 years the neighborhood became almost completely black. Now, I had no problem with this except that crime ...

How Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me” Gave Voice to Outsiders Long before amassing legions of devotees as the defining voice of her generation, Taylor Swift found breakout success in 2008 with her sophomore single “You Belong With Me”. The deceptively simple lyrics, catchy hooks, and playful storyline music video all coalesced into winning pop formula topping charts that summer. But beneath that glossy production, Swift’s earnest performance tapped into resonant experiences of outsider yearning and unrequited pining familiar to many young listeners entering adolescence. In ...

Stories from fellow golfers or those from the world of golf of how they became involved, and ultimately fell in love, with the game of golf.

Qui aurait pensé faire appel aux grands noms de la philosophie occidentale pour analyser les oeuvres artistiques du hip-hop, décortiquer les textes de chansons, les graffitis au mur, le travail des DJ et l'art des danseurs urbains? Le professeur de philosophie et spécialiste du rap Jérémie McEwen, bien sûr. Dans ce livre, il bâtit des ponts entre la philosophie occidentale traditionnelle et le hip-hop américain afin de mieux comprendre les racines de ce mouvement culturel mondial.

A show for anyone who has ever listened to, played, improvised or written music and wanted to know more about these mysterious sounds. Are they 'auditory cheesecake' as cognitive scientist Steven Pinker claims, or actually a fundamental part of what has made us into modern humans? As fun as it is thoughtful, this show aims to help you hear and appreciate music in a new way.http://www.stevepretty.com/mailing-list Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted by Atlanta native, Grammy nominated & The Source Award Winning Rapper Bonecrusher, "An Origin Story" takes listeners on a journey that highlights the building blocks of Atlanta's music scene that has dominated the charts & pushed pop culture forward for the last 30 years.

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Rugby League Great and Australian Coach Mal Meninga joins the show ahead of the first match of the State of Origin, hear what he has to say when asked if WA should get its own NRL team…See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.