Music

Music and crime in the Caribbean: Bad news for Buju Banton

Buju Banton is found guilty(2)

anna_nicole: A different kind of diva in Covent Garden

An opera based on the life of Anna Nicole Smith pushes the frontiers of the art form(1)

Miami's concert hall: From the New World

Something else to look at on Miami Beach(1)

Live music: Pricing the piper

An economics lesson for the concert business(8)

Music videos: From cash cow to cachet

The fall and rise of the music video(6)

Anthology of rap: What is this thing called rap?

In praise of the vernacular poets in a maligned anthology(3)

The Rolling Stones and important anniversaries...: Waiting on the Stones...

Are there important anniversaries that we have overlooked? At least one reader in Camarillo, California, thinks so.(0)

International: Authorised anniversary

Prepare for a celebration of biblical proportions(0)

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Keith Richards: A library chat

An evening with a reflective raconteur(7)

London Film Festival: Tales of three cities

Films about wheelchair bound folk singers and Islamic punk rockers(0)

The end of Technics: Scratching a dirge

Panasonic calls time on an iconic piece of musical hardware(2)

Music criticism: From classics to pop

Essays by the New Yorker's music critic(2)

Mulatu Astatke and Ethiopian jazz: Mulatu Astatke, the father of Ethiopian jazz

Meeting Mulatu Astatke, the father of Ethiopian jazz(2)

Dizzy Gillespie: Happy birthday Diz

Could that man swing(4)

Israel and Palestine: We built this city on rock'n'roll

Secular Jewish settlers in the West Bank want fun but face hard times(68)

Nigeria's music scene: A celebration of frustration

THIS is the week of Felabration, an annual music festival in honour of Fela Kuti, Nigeria’s most famous musician and a scourge of the establishment. Gigs and debates are taking place at the New Afrika Shrine, a huge and sweaty nightclub in Lagos, Nigeria’s mega-city of 15m.(6)

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What's working in music: Having a ball

In the supposedly benighted music business, a lot of things are making money(42)

African music: Funky choices

Some vital African music(0)

Airplane music: A concert in a 747

I hope everyone likes Mozart(7)

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Pop culture in the Muslim world: Five Things: The Sheikh's Batmobile

A tour through 17 Muslim countries in search of local interpretations of American culture(8)

Haiti's presidential election: Clef fallen

SCORE one for the rule of law in Haiti. Late Friday night, Haiti’s electoral council deemed Wyclef Jean, the Haitian-born hip-hop star, ineligible to run for the presidency. Presumably, the council acted on a straightforward interpretation of the Haitian constitution, which requires presidential aspirants to have lived in the country for the five years preceding the date of the election, November 28th. Mr Jean lives in the United States.(9)

Wyclef Jean's candidacy: To the rescue?