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music history

  • How Ameen Sayani’s Binaca Geetmala took film songs to listeners in Jhumri Talaiya and beyond

    How Ameen Sayani’s Binaca Geetmala took film songs to listeners in Jhumri Talaiya and beyond

    Apr 10, 2024 · 11:30 am
  • 50 years of hip-hop: How the music became a global cultural movement

    50 years of hip-hop: How the music became a global cultural movement

    Aug 19, 2023 · 11:30 pm
  • Nineteenth-century US thought blacks can’t sing as well as whites. Elizabeth Greenfield changed that

    Nineteenth-century US thought blacks can’t sing as well as whites. Elizabeth Greenfield changed that

    Feb 05, 2023 · 09:30 pm
  • How the songs of enslaved Africans in the US were transformed into gospel music

    How the songs of enslaved Africans in the US were transformed into gospel music

    Mar 03, 2018 · 11:30 pm
  • How a war provided the soundtrack for subversive Afrikaans rock

    How a war provided the soundtrack for subversive Afrikaans rock

    Jul 21, 2017 · 09:30 pm
  • Strings attached: A short history of the Western classical guitar in India

    Strings attached: A short history of the Western classical guitar in India

    Jul 16, 2017 · 11:30 am
  • Ali Ben Sou Alle: Was this 19th century Frenchman the Pied Piper of Mysore?

    Ali Ben Sou Alle: Was this 19th century Frenchman the Pied Piper of Mysore?

    Jun 05, 2017 · 11:30 am
  • In French opera ‘Padmavati’, sweetness, dread, and lots of sighing and twirling

    In French opera ‘Padmavati’, sweetness, dread, and lots of sighing and twirling

    Feb 12, 2017 · 01:30 pm
  • Watch: The mystery of  why air horns are used in hip hop is finally solved (or not)

    Watch: The mystery of why air horns are used in hip hop is finally solved (or not)

    Jan 15, 2017 · 08:00 pm
  • The harmonium was born in Europe – so how did it become synonymous with Indian music?

    The harmonium was born in Europe – so how did it become synonymous with Indian music?

    Aug 19, 2016 · 11:30 am
  • How courtesans paved the way for women in Indian showbiz

    How courtesans paved the way for women in Indian showbiz

    Jul 12, 2016 · 11:30 am
  • After 61 years, Mumbai's own music store Rhythm House says goodbye with this bittersweet video

    After 61 years, Mumbai's own music store Rhythm House says goodbye with this bittersweet video

    Mar 12, 2016 · 12:17 pm
  • Stand by for an up-to-date chronicle of India's independent music scene

    Stand by for an up-to-date chronicle of India's independent music scene

    Oct 14, 2015 · 05:30 pm
  • Not all variations of the world's most annoying ringtone are unbearable

    Not all variations of the world's most annoying ringtone are unbearable

    Apr 30, 2014 · 05:50 am