The TikTok effect
Songs regularly go viral on the social media platform. But is it good for music?
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Beethoven and the Romantic spirit
The composer’s Third Cello Sonata, an underrated masterwork, cuts up the musical form and reassembles it anew.
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The Nabokovian genius of Taylor Swift
A new poetry anthology further entwines the singer's private life into the literary canon
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The martyring of Elliott Smith
The indie-rock artist’s posthumous status as a “torment saint” is an ill-fitting reputation.
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At Hyde Park, Stevie Nicks is a powerful presence
The Fleetwood Mac singer is 76 years old – but she doesn’t sound it.
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Discovering the real Modest Mussorgsky
Sweetened arrangements of his works ensured the Russian composer’s afterlife – but left him hiding in plain sight.
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Pop’s gay revolution
How stars from Little Richard to David Bowie used their sexuality to set popular culture free.
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The young prole rebels of Dexys Midnight Runners
Denied an audience with frontman Kevin Rowland, the author Nige Tassell asks the band’s army of musicians to tell its…
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