music history
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How Ameen Sayani’s Binaca Geetmala took film songs to listeners in Jhumri Talaiya and beyond
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50 years of hip-hop: How the music became a global cultural movement
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Nineteenth-century US thought blacks can’t sing as well as whites. Elizabeth Greenfield changed that
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How the songs of enslaved Africans in the US were transformed into gospel music
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How a war provided the soundtrack for subversive Afrikaans rock
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Strings attached: A short history of the Western classical guitar in India
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Ali Ben Sou Alle: Was this 19th century Frenchman the Pied Piper of Mysore?
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In French opera ‘Padmavati’, sweetness, dread, and lots of sighing and twirling
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Watch: The mystery of why air horns are used in hip hop is finally solved (or not)
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The harmonium was born in Europe – so how did it become synonymous with Indian music?
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How courtesans paved the way for women in Indian showbiz
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After 61 years, Mumbai's own music store Rhythm House says goodbye with this bittersweet video
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Stand by for an up-to-date chronicle of India's independent music scene
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Not all variations of the world's most annoying ringtone are unbearable