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The history of Western classical and popular music spans from ancient oral traditions to modern digital eras, divided into several key chronological periods.
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The First Makeup That Hid Michael Jackson's Vitiligo Made Him Darker. Then They Reversed Everything. (opens the original)
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Live from NeverlandOn 10 February 1993, Oprah Winfrey sat down with Michael Jackson at Neverland for a live, ninety-minute interview that became one of the most watched in television history. Around the midpoint, she asked the question half the planet had been asking for years. Was he bleaching his skin?He said no. He told her he had a skin disorder that destroyed the pigmentation of his skin, that he couldn’t help it, and that he used makeup to even it out because it made him blotchy. Then he s
One of Music's Greatest Masterpieces Went Silent for Nearly 100 Years. It Wasn't the Only One. (opens the original)
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Tickets for a dead manBerlin, 11 March 1829. The hall of the Singakademie is sold out, and people are still arriving. By some accounts, around a thousand of them are turned away at the door.On the podium stands a twenty-year-old named Felix Mendelssohn. The piece he is about to conduct was written by a Leipzig church musician who had been dead for 79 years. It had been performed a handful of times in its composer’s lifetime and then went quiet. It had never been printed. Almost nobody in the roo
A List of Things People Blamed on Jazz (opens the original)
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An introduction to Jazz in 25 records (opens the original)
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The following list offers an excellent starting point for any music enthusiast seeking exploration1. Miles Davis – Kind of Blue<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="900" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WmzT!,w_1456,c_limit,f
An introduction to Latin Jazz in 25 albums (opens the original)
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1. Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto (1964)<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="900" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NicI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amaz
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