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OpenLearn Ireland
Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited
How are blues lyrics similar to crime fiction? Which books influenced musician Rory Gallagher’s music? Follow Dr Lauren O’Hagan’s investigation. Then see if you can tell blues lyrics apart from detective stories!
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OpenLearn Ireland
Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms
What are online fandoms? What are the benefits of joining one – and how to make it happen? Read and watch this personal exploration of online music fandoms by Dr. Lauren O'Hagan.
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Languages
The Unsung Women Who Shaped the Blues
Blues is a musical genre often associated with male pioneers. However, women were also a huge part of this development. This article shines a light on three women who helped shape the blues: Mamie Smith, Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith.
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Languages
Dancing to the rhythm of cultures
Spain exhibits a vast array of traditional dances all over the country. This article looks at the Flamenco, religious dances and more...
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History & The Arts
Introduction to music theory 1: form
In this free course, you will learn how to identify musical form through close engagement with recorded of music, and studying examples of folk, popular, and classical music from several world traditions. You will explore a number of methods of representing form, including alphabetical designations (e.g., AABA), genre-specific terminology (e.g.,...
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History & The Arts
Music as a Source of Unity: When Rory Gallagher Came to Belfast
Learn about the significance of live music as a unifying force between diverse communities in 1970s Belfast.
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Education & Development
Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
What does Hip Hop in Delhi tell us about local life and culture? This article delves into the ethnographic fieldwork.
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History & The Arts
Wales and music: a conversation with Huw Stephens
Music has come to play a significant role in Welsh identity. It has been and remains central to the way many Welsh people think about themselves collectively as a nation, and the way in which the Welsh are perceived outside Wales.
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History & The Arts
Sut daeth jazz i Gymru
Mae Jen Wilson yn archwilio'r cysylltiadau hanesyddol rhwng cerddoriaeth Affricanaidd-Americanaidd y 1850au a thwf jazz yn niwylliant poblogaidd Cymru.
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History & The Arts
How jazz came to Wales
Jen Wilson explores the historical links between the emerging African American music of the 1850s and the rise of jazz in Welsh popular culture.
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History & The Arts
Musicians, loops and the longest piece ever
Dr Robert Samuels explores looping in music and demonstrates how technology can make musical use of the sound of a dog eating a carrot.
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History & The Arts
Sgwrs Agored - Wales: Music Nation
O werin i roc, mae cerddoriaeth wedi bod wrth wraidd diwylliant a chymuned Cymru erioed. Yn y Sgwrs Agored hon, mae'r DJ a’r cyflwynydd, Huw Stephens, yn trafod hanes a diwylliant cerddorol Cymru ag academyddion Y Brifysgol Agored.