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October 20, 2016

Curating The Week: New Age Music, Sahel Sounds, Black Lives Matter Music

• An article about the resurgence of New Age Music. “Interest in mindfulness practices such as yoga and meditation have become more popular with younger audiences…Vintage new age music from the 1970s and 1980s continues its process of rediscovery, possibly without the baggage that originally surrounded it the first time around.” •The trailer for the Continue reading

black lives matter, Curating The Week, new age music, sahel sounds

Thomas Brett is a musician and writer who holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from New York University. He is the author of Principles of Electronic Music Production and The Creative Electronic Music Producer, a book described by Sound On Sound magazine as “a deep philosophical analysis of the various creative inspirations, ideas and processes involved in producing electronic music.” His essays have appeared in the journals Popular Music and Popular Music and Society, as well as edited collections by Routledge, Oxford, and Cambridge University presses. Thomas has played percussion on Broadway since 1997 and writes about music at brettworks.com.

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Curating The Week: New Age Music, Sahel Sounds, Black Lives Matter Music