Projects tagged
Music & Sound
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Open Plan: Andrea Fraser at the Whitney
Read more: Open Plan: Andrea Fraser at the WhitneyThe average crow takes less than two hours to travel from Sing Sing maximum-security prison to the Whitney Museum of American Art, institutions separated by just 32 miles of land along New York’s Hudson river. Yet few humans journey between…
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Rap Against Rape
Read more: Rap Against RapeUnder the moniker BomBaebs, Pankhuri Awasthi and Uppekha Jain rap about rape, cultural stereotypes, religious biases, and hypocrisy surrounding sexism and gender biases in India. They open the video with a disclaimer, warning that “This video doesn’t have any explicit…
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Rebel Music: Native America
Read more: Rebel Music: Native AmericaFrank Waln, a 25 year old Native American hip hop artist, tours the country and Canada performing and teaching motivational workshops to students across the country. He took to rap at a young age when he found a cd (Eminem’s…
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Hamilton
Read more: Hamilton‘‘HAMILTON,’’ the new musical biography of Alexander Hamilton created by and starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, kicks off with a doozy of a question. The houselights rise on Aaron Burr, the third vice president of the United States and, infamously, the killer…
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Krewe of Dead Pelicans
Read more: Krewe of Dead PelicansIn May 2010, as oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster continued to spread in the Gulf of Mexico, growing outrage from residents in New Orleans at the response by government agents and corporate executives, opened up new horizons of political…
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Lady Gaga Delivers Emotional Performance of ‘Til It Happens to You’ at the 2016 Oscars
Read more: Lady Gaga Delivers Emotional Performance of ‘Til It Happens to You’ at the 2016 Oscarshttp://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/lady-gaga-performs-til-it-h… External sources: http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/lady-gaga-performs-til-it-happens-t…
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Latino Punk Festival NYC
Read more: Latino Punk Festival NYCPromoted as a DIY festival with no corporate sponsorship, the 2015 Latino Punk festival in Brooklyn, NY featured bands from all over the Americas. With an emphasis on local bands supporting each other and nurturing local scenes, this festival functions…
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Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls
Read more: Willie Mae Rock Camp for GirlsWillie Mae Rock Camp for Girls is a non-profit music and mentoring program that empowers girls and women through music education, volunteerism, and activities that foster self-respect, leadership skills, creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration. The organization brings together girls and…
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Mercury Poisoning by Unilever in Kodaikanal
Read more: Mercury Poisoning by Unilever in KodaikanalGlobal corporation Unilever dumped toxic and contaminated waste behind its thermometer factory located in Kodaikanal, a city in the South Indian state Tamil Nadu. In 2001, once word spread about this breach in environmental precautions, Unilever closed its factory. However,…
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Piano Stairs – A New Reason for Choosing Staircases
Read more: Piano Stairs – A New Reason for Choosing Staircases“Piano Stairs” is an interactive playful musical stairway installation created into the Odenplan underground station of Stockholm to make people use stairs more often than elevator. The project was part of a Wolkswagen initiative called “The fun theory” whose main…