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The Saint Who Played Sax

Matt Soniak

Music lovers are known to put their favorite artists on pedestals and bestow them with lofty titles. Springsteen is the Boss. Elvis is the King. Aretha is the Queen.

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A Song of the South, Born in the North

Matt Soniak

While “Dixie” (you know, “Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton/Old times there are not forgotten…”) might seem as inseparable from the South as collard greens and barbecue, the song was actually wri

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Parrots and Horses Reveal their Musical Preferences

Jill Harness

From classical and country to dub step and smooth jazz, humans have some drastically different opinions on music.

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Music History #18: "Shipbuilding"

Bill DeMain

Stuck for suitable words to his tune, Clive Langer played it for his friend Elvis Costello. Within a few days, Costello had written a poetic and emotional lyric about the Falklands War.

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See What Beatboxing Looks Like from Inside the Vocal Tract

Erin McCarthy

When University of Southern California researchers Michael Proctor, Shrikanth Narayanan and Krishna Nayak wanted to know what beatboxing looked like from inside the vocal tract, they decided to do som

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The Late Movies: Guess The Theme 85

Mark Arminio

It's Thursday, it's late, it's time once again for the game that's sweeping the nation: GUESS THE THEME! All the clips below, in this case songs, have something in common.

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Happy Birthday, Django Reinhardt

Chris Higgins

Django Reinhardt invented "hot jazz," and with Stéphane Grappelli made an indelible mark on jazz music worldwide.

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