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Definitely Maybe, the album that launched the band, celebrates its 30th birthday on August 29.
Oasis will be reuniting for performances throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland in 2025.
Next time you see someone at the back of the orchestra with their many percussion instruments, take a moment to thank these masters of rhythm and timbre as part of the music you love.
We recently ran a roundtable to find out how the climate emergency is impacting events, and what is needed to adapt.
The show charts the journey of a group of young men aged between 19 and 23 through a strict, 100-day training process, leading to their debut as a band called Dear Alice.
Students can play to their strengths in this anthropology course designed to teach them how to present research findings in ways other than a peer-reviewed paper.
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has now announced it was an error to cancel a performance by Jayson Gillham. Indeed, classical music has often been tied to politics.
A musicologist explains how an oft-forgotten opera, pop and jazz singer from New York City launched the country music industry a century ago.
Even though I’ve seen these films many times, and listened to their soundtracks countless times too, I am still willing to pay to revisit them with a live orchestra.
The Auckland Philharmonia’s performance of the opera Tristan und Isolde raises the inevitable ‘Wagner question’. But cancel culture is not the answer.
Rather than offering authenticity and inviting her fans into her life, Katy Perry’s latest single reproduces and in fact exaggerates the same persona that fuelled her earlier success.
The six-time platinum-selling artist invites fans into an imagined future that celebrates Blackness and queerness.
Music, like other facets of culture, provides a window into the histories and heritage of different regions and peoples.
Founder and driving force of the brilliant and influential Dunedin band The Chills, Martin Phillipps defined a sense of time and place in New Zealand’s southernmost city.
For decades, presidents and presidential aspirants have tried (with varying degrees of success) to use music and musicians to connect with voters.
Musicians often face suspicions when they openly support charity causes. However, if they do this regularly, advocacy could enhance their popularity and music sales.
The global reach of Taylor Swift’s creations demonstrate not only the gothic genre’s pervasiveness but its renewed cultural relevance.
Christian and Jewish themes influenced the world of art around one of jazz’s greatest singers.
The return on government investments in arts and events should be measured over a decade, not a month.
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Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University
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Associate Professor, Music Industry, RMIT University
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Head of School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University
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Piano Performance Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
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Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Music, Southern Cross University
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Senior Lecturer in Music, Newcastle University
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Monash University
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Deputy Head of School, Senior Lecturer in Piano and Musicology, School of Music, Australian National University
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Professor of Music, City, University of London
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Lecturer in Music, Queensland University of Technology
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Practice, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Music, Australian Catholic University
