Music History

How Ameen Sayani’s Binaca Geetmala took film songs to listeners in Jhumri Talaiya and beyond

The legendary radio broadcaster’s long-running programme on Radio Ceylon seeped into the lives of its audience, films and jokes while celebrating the ordinary.

Isabel Huacuja Alonso
· Apr 10, 2024 · 11:30 am
50 years of hip-hop: How the music became a global cultural movement

Aspiring hip-hop artists learn from each other and the ethos of ‘each one teach one’ – adapted from an African American proverb – applies across the culture.

Adam de Paor-Evans, The Conversation
· Aug 19, 2023 · 11:30 pm
Nineteenth-century US thought blacks can’t sing as well as whites. Elizabeth Greenfield changed that

Greenfield forced critics and audiences to reconcile their ears with their racism.

Adam Gustafson, The Conversation
· Feb 05, 2023 · 09:30 pm

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