Art and Culture

Good Morning, Every hour in Veracruz, the clock tower plays the original “La Bamba,” three centuries older than Ritchie Valens’ hit. Son jarocho, the genre behind it, was dismissed in the 1970s as “the music of drunken people”; now…
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Weeks into his new position as Jefferson County Public Schools’ Chief Academic Officer, Nathan Balasubramanian ordered his subordinates to cancel a student theatre production over his own…
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Over the last decade, I have met hundreds of American K-pop fans as a K-pop ethnographer. My first question is always the same: “Why do you like K-pop?” The question carries an assumption: “If K-pop is merely a copy of American pop, as…
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Basically, “the heroes are still winning, but it’s costing them a whole lot more.” But why? – The New York Times Source link
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But in Europe, Nelsons also works with the Leipzig orchestra’s direct competitors, including the legendary Vienna Philharmonic.“I, for my side, could be a little bit angry with him,” Schulz said in an interview. But far from it; Schulz…
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Jarana players join a mass jam session at a Veracruz fandango while the dancers pound out rhythms with their heels…
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“When I look at that footage, I look distorted. I was gone for a few seconds. Sometimes in acting or painting or writing, you just subliminally lose yourself. You do not know where you are. … What was that?” – The New York…
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So much for free speech.The studio releasing Alex Gibney’s new Elon Musk documentary Musk is finding itself unable to buy an ad on the biggest social platforms.YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram and Facebook owner Meta are all declining…
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There’s a particular thrill in discovering new, interesting spaces in your own city – but even as a Melbourne local and a longtime art lover I find it near impossible to keep up with the independent openings happening in my city.That’s…
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“Drake made and inscribed ambitious stoneware jars while enslaved in South Carolina in the 1800s, despite punishing conditions and anti-literacy laws that prevented teaching enslaved persons to read.” – The New York Times…
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