music history

A Cultural Symphony: Windows 95 and Minecraft in the National Sound Recording Registry Few sounds in modern tech culture have the nostalgic pull of the Windows 95 startup chime or the ambient magic of Minecraft’s sonic landscapes. Recently enshrined in the National Recording Registry, these two...

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I have been invited to create a video music history lecture discussing several composers - the video made via my Windows 10 Camera app. Problem #1: how to momentarily replace my video image with a photo each time a composer being discussed (but with the lecture audio still sounding). Problem...

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[emoji41] Sent from my 8063 using Windows Forums mobile app

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He was a foremost Finnish protest singer, might be called our Bob Dylan, lived 1943-1991, his songs were highly forbidden from public broadcast in 60's, when we had Kekkonen in power and Finlandization humming. Anyway, a great type. I've tried to translate one of his songs, about his "drink and...

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Whitney Houston Dead in 2012: A Look Back At the Singer That Defined a Generation :(

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Mick Jagger aka "Brenda" tries to join the Beatles after having a fight with Keith Richards. In this rare clip Mick can be seen trying to fill in for John Lennon. Later, Ringo can be heard making a call to Keith begging him to take Mick back. :p

One man's trash is another man's treasure, and for Dallas-based music historian Bucks Burnett, his treasure is 8-tracks. Burnett, a lifelong music collector, has been hunting and gathering 8-track tapes since 1988, which just happens to be the year they were finally phased out of use...