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  Hip-Hop Geography

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2002

  Since its birth in the South Bronx neighbourhood in New York in the late ‘70s, vibrant hip-hop scenes have evolved internationally, infused...

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  Rock Geography

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  Music is a community proposition, and often like-sounding bands emerge from common geography. A great city scene is built on the foundation...

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  Metal

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2002

  As countless aggressive bands both in the underground and above it continue to combine disparate elements of "metal" in an attempt to dispr...

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  Funk

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  In 1967 James Brown's arranger, Pee Wee Ellis, fused Latin rhythms with Brown's already unusual rhythmic notions to create "Cold Sweat," a...

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  Minimalism

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2002

  Minimalism is one of the more challenging directions to go in music because there is no room to colour or cloud ineptness — a composer's sk...

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  Industrial

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

  Early on, music labelled "industrial" referred to a non-musical approach to its creation; pioneers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Klaus Shu...

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  Trance

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2001

  Though itself an offshoot of techno, over the past decade trance has become one of dance music's base genres. Long the favoured whipping bo...

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  African Hybrids

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2001

  "African music" is obviously a generalization of a complex subject. Within a continent of over 50 countries, there exist many more nations,...