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Billy Joel Returning to Grammys 30 Years After Midsong Protest

Billy Joel is scheduled to perform at the Grammys for the first time in more than 20 years on Feb. 4.The last time Joel appeared on the Grammy stage was in 2002, where he performed "New York State of Mind" with Tony Bennett. Eight years before that, Joel, who was nominated for multiple awards, performed the title track to his then most recent album, River of Dreams. But with a twist.Before Joel […]

todayJanuary 25, 2024

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20 Protest Songs That Changed History

Songs don't have to be popular to be important. Still, as the following look at 20 Protest Songs That Changed History so clearly shows, they often are. Mainstream America has embraced anthems that spoke to rising or initially unpopular ideas, forming a rallying cry for counterrevolutions against everything from war to racism. In some cases, the songs became synonymous with their moment, inseparable from the times and the fight for […]

todayJanuary 15, 2024 1

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“Companies worth billions of dollars are training generative AI models on creators’ works without permission”: Stable Audio head resigns in protest over “exploitative” practices used in training AI music generator

Ed Newton-Rex, the head of the team responsible for developing Stability AI's AI music generator Stable Audio, has resigned from his post in protest over the company's use of copyrighted material in training its AI models.Stability AI is the company behind two of the most advanced tools in generative AI: Stable Audio, which generates music based on instructions provided by the user, and Stable Diffusion, which generates images in the same […]

todayNovember 16, 2023 2

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South Africa to pull diplomats from Israel to protest war

The South African government said on Monday it would recall all its diplomats from Israel to signal its concern over the situation in Gaza. Pretoria also said the position of the Israeli ambassador to the country was becoming “more and more untenable,” accusing the diplomat of having made “disparaging remarks” about people criticizing Israel. “The South African government has decided to withdraw all its diplomats in Tel Aviv for consultation,” […]

todayNovember 6, 2023 2

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Women, life, freedom! Iranian electronic musicians reflect on a year of protest | Music

In September 2022, Mahsa Zhina Amini died after being arrested by Iran’s “morality police”, for allegedly wearing her hijab improperly. Authorities claimed she had a heart attack and brain seizure, but witnesses to her arrest said she was a victim of police brutality. The uprising sparked by her death was the largest Iranian civil rights movement since the revolution in 1979, as thousands took the streets and were often met […]

todayOctober 26, 2023 3

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Music and protest in the Muslim world

Seen from one angle, Mark LeVine is a respected professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of California, Irvine, not far from Los Angeles. The author of a thesis on Jaffa and Tel Aviv before 1948, which has become a reference work, he has since written or directed numerous academic publications on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and popular culture in the Muslim world. But LeVine is also a rock guitarist […]

todaySeptember 4, 2023 7

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