Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s time to bring back Hee Haw and its successful brand of comedy and country music to a whole new generation of TV viewers
Tag: Music
Charley Pride knocked down country music’s racial barriers
Reading Time: 4 minutes Audiences took a while to warm up to a black country musician. He wasn’t promoted in this fashion and photos didn’t accompany his early singles
Sound engineer for Prince to talk about brilliant partnership
Reading Time: 4 minutes Now a professor of music psychology, Susan Rogers will also discuss music and psychology in two virtual presentations for the U of A’s music department
Choir director aims to find out if singing spreads COVID-19
Reading Time: 3 minutes U of A vocal acoustics expert recruiting singers and infectious disease specialists to assess risk of transmission
Was Beethoven Black?
Reading Time: 4 minutes A Twitter meme reveals more about race and music than the composer’s origins. Social media trend is a new twist on a century-old question
Exposing the roots of racism through song
Reading Time: 4 minutes As an artist and an academic, Arsh Khaira explores the power of music to overcome divisions
Celebrating the human spirit can change the world
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Specials helped calm racial tensions and drew broad attention to the unjust imprisonment of Nelson Mandela
Calling Elvis: When the King came home from the army
Reading Time: 4 minutes Two years older, Elvis had filled out and the lean and hungry look was gone. And if rock ’n’ roll wasn’t abandoned, the changes were substantial
Talking to my elders about coping with anxiety
Reading Time: 4 minutes When crisis strikes, I instinctively wonder if there are any parallels and guidance I can take from my elders’ lives
Keith Richards was wrong – the message does matter
Reading Time: 3 minutes There are many great teachers who instruct us on how to achieve true happiness and success. You’re just not likely to find them in popular culture