Mary Austin opens the trunks that held Freddie Mercury's lyrics
Mary Austin packed Freddie Mercury's handwritten lyrics into four trunks in the 1980s. In the week he'd have turned 80, she is publishing them.
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Spotify pays rights holders by their share of a stream pool
Spotify pools its monthly subscription and ad revenue, keeps close to a third, and splits the rest by streaming share, so no play has a fixed price.
Afghanistan's instrument bonfires: how the Taliban hushed music
Since 2021 the Taliban have burned instruments, shut music stations and driven Afghanistan's singers into hiding or exile. This is how they did it.
Bulgaria's women's choirs sing from an open throat
Bulgaria's state women's choir built its sound on open-throat singing, a drone and clashing close intervals. The choral form dates to the Soviet era.
China's Peking opera roles: one character type for a lifetime
Peking opera casts every story from fixed role types, such as the sheng and the hualian. Performers train for years, then keep one type for life.