Ancient poems were accompanied by a musical instrument called the lyre – from which we get the word ‘lyric’. ‘Literature’ and ‘poetry’ are categories of our own making - so moving beyond them in a major award seems long overdue.
The best love songs strive to keep things as simple as possible.
The allusive artist continues to fascinate as a series of new productions try to understand the man behind the work.
Ruth Mackenzie’s Adelaide Festival of Arts has two heavyweights, performance artist Marina Abramović and avant-garde artist and musician Laurie Anderson.
It’s not been a long year for arts and culture – at least, not on The Conversation. We launched the section on October 28, sneaking in at the end of festival season like someone who sneaks in at the end…
Elton John has called it ‘one of the greatest musical experiences’ of his life.
By looking back at my dad’s music collection I understand more clearly that the music I listened to as a child shaped my personality, destiny and view of the world.
John Lennon’s Revolution was panned by the radical media as a ‘petty bourgeois cry of fear’ in 1968. Then, in 1987 it was claimed by Nike to be the controversial soundtrack of its most seminal advert.
A new five-disc box-set explores Bowie’s metamorphosis into the glam rock hero from outer space.
From The Smiths to Kendrick Lamar, Conversation readers tell us their favourite albums.
