Featured series 
Tag: Music
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Campus & Community
Healing through music
Grant Jones incorporated love of meditation and listening to R&B, hip-hop into dissertation on mindfulness interventions
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Arts & Culture
Talking about music doesn’t have to be difficult
Yeats poem inspires 3 songs and deep listening, discussion at Mahindra event
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Arts & Culture
Science Center Plaza is alive with the sound of music
Harvard Arts Fest brings artmaking and creativity to campus
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Arts & Culture
Discoveries on a musical path
From Benin to Cuba to the Americas, Yosvany Terry sees how tradition safeguards culture and identity
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Arts & Culture
Becky G gets real at Cultural Rhythms
Artist of the Year applauds student performers for ‘leaning into authenticity’
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Arts & Culture
How to dance like somebody’s watching
Choreographer offers tips on finding release: ‘Ain’t nobody concerned if you look good’
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Arts & Culture
‘Singin’ in the Rain’ this isn’t
But palliative-care specialist who advised on ‘Night Side Songs’ says new musical about cancer patient is rich, moving
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Campus & Community
A ride on the Marrakesh Express
‘Postcard from Morocco’ brings opera back to Lowell House
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Campus & Community
Getting into the swing of things
Students plan concert with saxophonist and composer Ted Nash that ends with enlightening dinner conversation
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Arts & Culture
Showing that Black lives matter — everywhere
In a new book, music professor considers race in all its facets
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Arts & Culture
‘A voice that must be heard’
Grammy winner, Mexican classical composer Gabriela Ortiz on taking inspiration from folk music, ‘Glitter Revolution’ protests
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Nation & World
What jazz teaches about necessity of civil discourse
Musician, composer Wynton Marsalis visits campus to help launch Culture and Civil Society Initiative
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Arts & Culture
Voice of a generation? Dylan’s is much more than that.
Classics professor who wrote ‘Why Bob Dylan Matters’ on the challenge of capturing a master of creative evasion
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Arts & Culture
Making art as process of reclamation
Singer Davóne Tines ’09 and violinist Jennifer Koh discuss ‘Everything Rises,’ their work about race, complex ties to white world of classical music
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Arts & Culture
In Harry Smith exhibit, Carpenter Center captures a life that defies categorization
Artist’s eclectic, connected body of work explores his wide interests — and influence
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Campus & Community
His country restricted music. Suddenly he was a target.
Between Taliban regimes, Scholar at Risk gained stardom singing on Afghan TV show
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Arts & Culture
Is Beyoncé’s new album country?
Release ignites hot talk about genre’s less-discussed Black roots, what constitutes authenticity
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Campus & Community
Parrot tale
‘Beyond Words’ dramatizes story of former Harvard researcher and famous bird
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Arts & Culture
Taylor Swift, the Wordsworth of our time?
New English course studies pop star’s lyrics alongside classic literature
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Nation & World
Who cares what Taylor Swift thinks?
Lots of people! But that doesn’t mean she can sway an election.
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Arts & Culture
It’s a man’s world? Definitely not this year.
Artists such as Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and others dominated pop music. But it may not mark a watershed in heavily male-dominated business.
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Campus & Community
How hip-hop got to Harvard
Colleagues, artists, friends gather to celebrate Marcyliena Morgan, founding director of University’s Archive & Research Institute
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Arts & Culture
In stutter, artist finds voice
Poet and musician embraces onetime “curse” in compositions inspired by nature and Blackness.
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Arts & Culture
How music powers protest
The struggle for racial justice has always had a soundtrack. Charrise Barron explores its evolution from gospel to hip-hop.
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Arts & Culture
Playwright Michael R. Jackson urges students to heed ‘tickle’ of muse
Students talk lyrics, character conflict, listening to the muse with Pulitzer, Tony-winning playwright Michael R. Jackson at CompFest.
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Campus & Community
No stranger to improvisation
Bass player, composer, vocalist Devon Gates merges anthropology, music in Harvard-Berklee program.
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Arts & Culture
Keeping up with the Joneses 2.0
Author and Harvard alum W. David Marx digs into how social aspirations underlie all our choices.
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Health
Can music improve our health and quality of life?
New research shows the use of music interventions — listening to music, singing, and music therapy — can create significant improvements in mental health, and smaller improvements in physical health-related quality of life.
