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Ravi Shankar and the Concert for Bangladesh
In 1971 the turmoil and atrocities associated with the Bangladesh Liberation War led to a massive refugee crisis, with at least seven million displace…
Personality and alcohol consumption by genre
A 2017 study compared the personality traits of Croatian classical and heavy metal musicians with norms for the Croatian population, and data on alcoh…
ECD’s legacy
The Japanese rap pioneer and activist ECD (Ishida Yoshinori, 石田義則) was neither the earliest nor most commercially successful rapper, and he wo…
Psychedelia and children’s literature
In contrast to their American counterparts, English musicians in the late 1960s found psychedelic inspiration in their childhood reading lists, which,…
Sondheim and “Company”
Stephen Sondheim’s Company is considered to be one of the first concept musicals, moving in a different direction from the book musicals of creative…